The Brunner Investment Trust.

The Brunner Investment Trust was formed from the Brunner family’s interest in the sale of Brunner, Mond & Co, the largest of the four companies which came to form ICI in 1926.
ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries), demerged to form Zeneca (which is now the AstraZeneca plc), and the remaining part was slimmed down ICI that moved from bulk chemicals to speciality chemicals, that then was acquired by the Dutch Akzo Nobel.

http://www.brunner.co.uk/

The Top Ten Holdings are:

3.4% Royal Dutch Shell “B” Shares
3.0% HSBC
2.5% GlaxoSmithKline
2.4% BP
2.2% Microsoft
2.1% Vodafone
1.9% Roche
1.8% Monsanto
1.7% AbbVie
1.7% Xchanging

Top Ten equates to 22.7% of the total investment.

The Trust has been managed since inception by Kleinwort Benson which is now Allianz Global Investors. Investors in the Brunner Investment Trust who have not only received 42 years of dividend payments, but have enjoyed a rising dividend over the same period.

[http://www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk/shareshop/security.cgi?username=&ac=&csi=11174&record_search=1&search_phrase=bru]

A yield of 2.7%

 

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