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In its first set of annual results since listing, Terry Smith’s fledgling investment trust Smithson has significantly outperformed its benchmark.
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Never one to care much what the rest of the world thinks of him, Terry Smith has contentedly ploughed his own furrow since setting up his own investment management firm nine years ago. With a distinctive, selective, long-term investment style, Fundsmith made its name with the unlisted £18 billion Equity Fund, which was launched in 2010.
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A year ago Smithson became the largest ever investment trust launch, raising £822.5m to invest in quality small to mid-cap companies. Investors lapped up the shares in the hope they would deliver similar success to its sister fund, Fundsmith Equity. Their faith has been rewarded with Smithson having achieved 18.8% return...
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Smithson Investment Trust PLC said Tuesday it outperformed its comparative index for the period from its London listing on October 19 last year to the end of June, amid improved market conditions.
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Last month, star manager Terry Smith announced he was throwing £25m of his own money behind a new investment trust, Smithson. Ahead of its launch, Money Marketing editor Justin Cash sat down with Simon Barnard and Will Morgan, the fund’s managers, to talk strategy, as well as their thoughts on some of the hottest topics in investments.
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City star Terry Smith has revealed plans for a new investment trust focused on global small and mid-sized companies. Smith's self-titled firm Fundsmith will roll out the Smithson Investment Trust with the aim of finding and investing in 25 to 40 of the world's best small and medium-sized companies.
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FT article on the launch of Smithson Investment Trust
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If you are wondering how to put together a portfolio of equity investments, you could do worse than visit the website for Fundsmith and download lots of relevant documents. These will give you an insight in a particular type of equity investing that I will caricature as ‘Buffett Mk 2.0’.