{"id":2572,"date":"2018-05-21T01:23:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T01:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2018-04-30T13:24:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T13:24:21","slug":"the-foreign-and-colonial-investment-trust-150-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=2572","title":{"rendered":"The Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust: 150 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Launched in 1868,\u00a0The Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust is a highly regarding investment trust.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fandc.com\/investment-trust-150-years\/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIitXrxIni2gIVL5PtCh0upwLYEAAYASAAEgJQjfD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.fandc.com\/investment-trust-150-years\/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIitXrxIni2gIVL5PtCh0upwLYEAAYASAAEgJQjfD_BwE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Philip Rose founded F&amp;C Investment Trust alongside barrister Samuel Laing, and Samuel Laing\u2019s business partner James Thompson Mackenzie, who was also Deputy Chairman of the East Bengal Railway. With the backing of influential politician Lord Westbury, F&amp;C Investment Trust was launched on Thursday 19 March 1868. Today F&amp;C Investment Trust has total assets of \u00a34 billion (as at 31 December 2017), diversified across global holdings from over 30 different countries.<\/p>\n<p>It has grown its dividend every year for the past 47 years<\/p>\n<p>Foreign &amp; Colonial Investment top 50 holdings:-<\/p>\n<p>AMAZON.COM INC<br \/>\nMICROSOFT CORP<br \/>\nUNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC<br \/>\nFACEBOOK INC A<br \/>\nANTHEM INC<br \/>\nUTILICO EMERGING MARKETS LTD<br \/>\nALPHABET INC CL C<br \/>\nJPMORGAN CHASE + CO<br \/>\nPANTHEON EUROPE V A LP<br \/>\nALIBABA GROUP HOLDING SP ADR<br \/>\nINTESA SANPAOLO<br \/>\nCITIGROUP INC<br \/>\nSTATE STREET CORP<br \/>\nPRICELINE GROUP INC\/THE<br \/>\nLOWE S COS INC<br \/>\nARTEMIS US EXTENDED ALPHA FUND<br \/>\nAPPLE INC<br \/>\nCONVENTUM LYRICAL FUND<br \/>\nROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC B SHS<br \/>\nBOEING CO\/THE<br \/>\nVISA INC CLASS A SHARES<br \/>\nUBS GROUP AG REG<br \/>\nPFIZER INC<br \/>\nBANK MANDIRI PERSERO TBK PT<br \/>\nISHARES CORE MSCI EM IMI UCITS<br \/>\nNOVO NORDISK A\/S B<br \/>\nING GROEP NV<br \/>\nCHEVRON CORP<br \/>\nCANON INC<br \/>\nSYNCONA LTD<br \/>\nCVS HEALTH CORP<br \/>\nDOWDUPONT INC<br \/>\nWELLS FARGO + CO<br \/>\nCOMCAST CORP CLASS A<br \/>\nSANDS CHINA LTD<br \/>\nORACLE CORP<br \/>\nHARBOURVEST PART. VIII BUYOUT<br \/>\nASML HOLDING NV<br \/>\nBP PLC SPONS ADR<br \/>\nMASTERCARD INC A<br \/>\nFINDLAY PARK AMERICAN FUND<br \/>\nBAYER AG REG<br \/>\nPHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL<br \/>\nQUALCOMM INC<br \/>\nSAP SE<br \/>\nMORGAN STANLEY<br \/>\nALLIANZ SE REG<br \/>\nHARBOURVEST PART VIII VENTURE<br \/>\nWALMART DE MEXICO SAB DE CV<br \/>\nPANTHEON ASIA FUND V<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=10192&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=foreign\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=10192&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=foreign<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launched in 1868,\u00a0The Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust is a highly regarding investment trust. https:\/\/www.fandc.com\/investment-trust-150-years\/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIitXrxIni2gIVL5PtCh0upwLYEAAYASAAEgJQjfD_BwE Philip Rose founded F&amp;C Investment Trust alongside barrister Samuel Laing, and Samuel Laing\u2019s business partner James Thompson Mackenzie, who was also Deputy Chairman of the East Bengal Railway. With the backing of influential politician Lord Westbury, F&amp;C Investment Trust was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}