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Investment Trusts Workshop

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Category: Investment Funds

Course Level: Introductory to Intermediate

Duration: 3 hours

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This 3-hour workshop provides a broad-based understanding of closed-ended investment trusts. It will cover the regulations, valuation and promotional restrictions.

Case studies form an integral part of the course to enable delegates to consolidate the information and provide the basis for group discussions. All the case studies will focus on the firm’s fund range of investment trusts, using fund fact sheets, pricing data and marketing literature.

Objectives:

By the end of this workshop, delegates will have a more complete understanding of:

  • the structure of closed-ended funds in the UK market
  • capital structure
  • the regulatory environment and marketing restrictions for investment trusts
  • the listing regime
  • NAV calculation vs market price
  • statutory reporting requirements

Course Content:

  • Introduction
  • What is an investment trust?
  • Constitution of investment trusts
  • Capital classes and gearing
  • Fund distribution
  • Fund pricing
  • Fund accounting

This course would be suitable for:

  • Client services and call centres
  • HR and training
  • Investment administration and operations
  • IT and software developers
  • Legal & Compliance
  • Sales and marketing