Is It Time to Swing Back Into Global Trusts? ; As Returns Drift, These Long-Established Funds Say They Are Squaring Up to New Challenges to Reward Investors

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She is not the kind to shirk a challenge.

So when Elizabeth Hartnett was widowed eight years ago, she signed up for lessons in personal finance to learn how to make the most of the pension and modest amount of capital she was left.

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Is It Time to Swing Back Into Global Trusts? ; As Returns Drift, These Long-Established Funds Say They Are Squaring Up to New Challenges to Reward Investors

Elizabeth, a part-time lecturer in computing with the Open University, says: 'The tutor on the course started talking about global investment trusts and I decided I wanted to investigate further.'

These trusts, many of them more than a century old, spread shareholders' money over a wide range of companies throughout the world, providing investors with a c...

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