Investment trusts outperform sister funds over 75% of the time - AJ Bell

Over a ten-year period, investment companies have beaten funds run by the same investment management team 77% of the time, outperforming over one year 74% of the time. In some cases, investors could have made almost twice as much cash over ten years by investing into the close-ended version of a strategy than the open-ended version. In addition, the trust was the cheaper way to access the strategy 31% of the time, with the fund being cheaper 15% of the time. However, for some investors, caution would be warranted, as 89% of the time the investment trust option was the more volatile...