Multi-manager guide – Kepler Trust Intelligence

Why a multi-manager strategy means less work for you

Investment trusts are often comprised of investments in a particular asset class. A trust might focus on bonds or stocks, for example, and might further focus on stocks within a single region, country or even industrial theme.

Wind farms, distribution hubs, forests and even tea plantations are among the more niche corners of the market which these single-theme investment trusts offer exposure to, but a key attraction of investment trusts for many people is the fact they can provide very broadly diversified exposure to a portfolio of investments.

Multi-manager investment trusts take this diversification one step further. Either by investing in the shares of other investment trusts or funds, or by allocating portions of their capital to a group of underlying managers, multi-manager funds offer hard to beat combination of diversification and active management – letting ordinary investors hand over the job of identifying the best possible funds to a fund selector, or a team of fund selectors, who have the knowledge and resources to make an informed choice.