It's that time of year again for a Phileas-Fogg inspired voyage around the world of investment trusts. One of the great joys of investment trusts is their ability to give investors instant and easy access to exotic markets with an experienced fund manager as an investment guide.
The return from last year's Around-the-World portfolio of eight trusts was decent but much of this was down to strong markets. That said, there was some outperformance, too, and six out of the eight trust did better relavent indices. Arguably, things would have been better without some Brexit-related damage done to the UK generalist pick (see table).
2015 PERFORMANCE