Ten of the best investment trusts for a bull market

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Investment bank Canaccord Genuity has named its ten top investment trusts to thrive in bull market conditions.

Alan Brierley, investment trust analyst at the firm, said trusts on the list tend to have underlying portfolios featuring quality companies with higher beta characteristics. Familiar mainstream investment trust names can be found on the ‘risk-on' list, with the likes of £2.2bn Scottish Mortgage, headed up by James Anderson, securing its place due to its top quartile returns over the past decade. Other popular portfolios among the intermediary community, such as James Henderson's Lowland; Templeton Emerging, managed by Mark Mobius; Aberdeen's Edinburgh Dragon; and Ben Rogoff's Polar Ca...

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