Edinburgh trust offers first performance fees to capture Woodford

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Edinburgh investment trust, the £1bn UK Growth and Income vehicle, is offering the first performance fees in its 150-year-history as Neil Woodford becomes lead manager.

The Invesco Perpetual star manager takes over the trust after six years of Fidelity management. Under the agreement, Invesco Perpetual will be paid a management fee and a performance fee. Management fees will be 0.6% of the market cap of the fund - currently equivalent to about 0.45% of total assets. The trust and Invesco Perpetual have also agreed a target that the NAV (with debt at par) should outperform the FTSE All-Share Index (Total Return) by 1.25% per annum on a three year rolling basis. If this target is achieved, Invesco will additionally receive a performance fee of 15% of...

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