{"id":458,"date":"2014-02-14T08:09:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T08:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=458"},"modified":"2014-02-14T08:09:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T08:09:23","slug":"fund-focus-the-city-of-london-investment-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Fund Focus : The City of London Investment Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of London Investment Trust, is a <strong>\u00a31 Billion<\/strong> listed investment vehicle that a member of the <strong>FTSE-250<\/strong> Index founded in 1891.<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"City of London Investment Trust PLC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=11465&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=City of London investment\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=11465&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=City of London investment<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Managed by the London investment house, Henderson Investors, shareholders are getting a generous dividend of <strong>3.8% yield<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"Henderson Investors\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henderson.com\/ukpi\/fund\/169\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.henderson.com\/ukpi\/fund\/169<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>This top 10 holdings are:<\/p>\n<p>1 HSBC 5.70%<br \/>\n2 British American Tobacco 5.28%<br \/>\n3 GlaxoSmithKline 5.13%<br \/>\n4 Royal Dutch Shell 5.11%<br \/>\n5 Vodafone 4.91%<br \/>\n6 Diageo\u00a04.23%<br \/>\n7 BP 3.52%<br \/>\n8 Unilever 2.94%<br \/>\n9 Scottish &amp; Southern Energy 2.23%<br \/>\n10 Centrica 2.22%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 10 investments make up = 41.27%<\/strong> of the fund and the 40 largest investments represent 74.42% of the whole portfolio. Mainly investing in large cap companies, that provide stable returns.<br \/>\nThe single largest shareholder in The City of London Investment Trust is <strong>Legal and General Investment Management, who hold 3.12% of the shares<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of London Investment Trust, is a \u00a31 Billion listed investment vehicle that a member of the FTSE-250 Index founded in 1891. [http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=11465&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=City of London investment] Managed by the London investment house, Henderson Investors, shareholders are getting a generous dividend of 3.8% yield. [https:\/\/www.henderson.com\/ukpi\/fund\/169] This top 10 holdings are: 1 HSBC 5.70% 2 British [&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-458","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\/458","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=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}