{"id":653,"date":"2014-08-04T06:48:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T06:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=653"},"modified":"2014-08-04T06:48:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T06:48:59","slug":"the-witan-investment-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"The Witan Investment Trust."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Witan Investment Trust is an investment trust company listed on the London FTSE-250 Index.<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"The Witan Investment Trust\" href=\"http:\/\/www.witan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.witan.com\/<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1909, to manage the estate of the first Lord Faringdon Alexander Henderson today it has assets of \u00a31,501 million (<strong>\u00a31.5 Billion<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s top 10 holdings are:-<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>2.0% Reed Elsevier<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>1.6% Diageo<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>1.5% London Stock Exchange<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>1.4% Unilever<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>1.2% Comcast<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>1.2% Daily Mail &amp; General Trust<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>1.2% Pearson<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>1.2% BP<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>1.1% Princess Private Equity<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>1.0% Sage.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The fund is managed by many fund managers:-<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Veritas, Pzena, MFS, Tweedy Browne, Lansdowne Partners, Artemis, Heronbridge, Lindsell Train, Marathon, Trilogy, Matthews and Witan&#8217;s Executive team<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"Witan Financials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=10348&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=witan\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=10348&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=witan<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>2% yield<\/strong> on this fund, that offers exposure to international markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Witan Investment Trust is an investment trust company listed on the London FTSE-250 Index. [http:\/\/www.witan.com\/] Founded in 1909, to manage the estate of the first Lord Faringdon Alexander Henderson today it has assets of \u00a31,501 million (\u00a31.5 Billion) It&#8217;s top 10 holdings are:- 2.0% Reed Elsevier 1.6% Diageo 1.5% London Stock Exchange 1.4% Unilever [&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-653","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\/653","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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}