Fund updates - F&C Investment Trust (2024)

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  • Fund facts
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  • Investment risk
  • Holdings
  • Dividend
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Fund Facts and Key Dates

Launched in 1868, the trust was the world’s oldest collective investment fund. A lot has happened in the world over the last 150 years. And investment opportunities have changed, too.

A glance at the companies that the trust invests in today shows how the financial landscape has transformed over the years.

Alongside giants like BP and Unilever sit powerful newcomers like Amazon, Netflix and Facebook, and rising star companies in developing markets.

Paul Niven

Head of Asset Allocation (EMEA) at Columbia Threadneedle Investments

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KEY DATES

Annual general meeting

2 May 2024

Year end

31 December

Dividend payment date(s)

February, May, August, November (Quarterly)

Announcement dates

March (final) July (half yearly)

FUND FACTS

Investment manager

Columbia Threadneedle Investment Business Limited

Benchmark

FTSE All World TR index (Pre 01/01/2013 60% FTSE World ex UK TR Index/40% FTSE All Share TR Index).

AIC Sector

Global

Launch date

1868

Total assets

£5.7 billion (as at 31.01.2024)

Currency

Sterling

ISIN

GB0003466074

SEDOL

346607

Ticker symbol

FCIT

Performance

These tables show you how the fund has performed over the last five years. The fund has achieved positive growth over these periods, but please remember that past performance is not a guide to future results and the value of investments can go down as well as up.

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Performance (%) as at 31.01.2024

Past performance is not a guide to future performance.

Source: Lipper. Basis: share price, percentage growth, bid to bid, net income reinvested. Basis in accordance to the regulations of the Financial Conduct Authority. The discrete annual performance table refers to 12 month periods, ending at the date shown. The cumulative performance table refers to cumulative periods ending 30.11.2023.

Note: The performance figures shown here will differ to those shown in the Key Information Document (KID) as they are based on actual past performance data. The performance information in the KID is presented on a forward-looking basis using economic models based on historical prices and volatility of the product (as prescribed by regulations).

CUMULATIVE PERFORMANCE (%) as at 31.01.24

1 month

YTD

1 year

3 years

5 years

NAV

2.00

2.00

9.13

32.78

67.35

Share price

1.61

1.61

3.84

33.78

57.42

Benchmark

0.69

0.69

10.80

28.93

67.45

DISCRETE ANNUAL PERFORMANCE (%) as at 31.01.24

2024 / 2023

2023 / 2022

2022 / 2021

2021 / 2020

2020 / 2019

NAV

9.13

3.61

17.43

12.09

12.44

Share price

3.84

11.89

15.15

4.82

12.26

Benchmark

10.80

0.42

15.88

12.15

15.80

Useful definitions

NAV – Net Asset Value. This is the value of the fund’s assets (e.g. investments, stocks, shares, bonds) less its liabilities (i.e. costs that need to be paid out of the value of the fund)

Benchmark: The FTSE All-World (Total Return) Index

Share price centre

Detailed share price

Regulatory news

Investment Risks

The value of your investments and any income from them can go down as well as up and you may not get back the original amount invested. Changes in rates of exchange may also reduce the value of your investment. Gearing is used for investment purposes to obtain, increase or reduce exposure to an asset, index or investment. The use of gearing can enhance returns to investors in a rising market, but if the market falls the losses may be greater.

F&C INVESTMENT TRUST HOLDINGS

F&C Investment Trust PLC holds stock in over 400 companies. These are the twenty companies we hold most stock in:

Companies

% of portfolio

Microsoft

3.1

Alphabet

2.0

Broadcom

1.7

Nvidia

1.6

Apple

1.4

Companies

% of portfolio

Amazon

1.4

Meta Platforms

1.0

Mastercard

1.0

Eli Lilly

0.9

Lowe’s Companies

0.9

Companies

% of portfolio

Taiwan SemiconductorManufacturing Company

0.9

Comcast

0.9

Novo Nordisk

0.7

Visa

0.6

Vertiv

0.6

Companies

% of portfolio

Wells Fargo

0.6

Morgan Stanley

0.6

KLA

0.6

AbbVie

0.6

Marathon Petroleum

0.6

As at 31st January 2024

Dividend

Our focus is to maintain our record of long-term growth ahead of the rate of inflation.

Definitions for terminology used in table below:

Record Date: This is the date we calculate the dividend you’ll receive.
Ex-dividend: This is the date by which a purchaser must have bought shares in order to receive the dividend. If shares in F&C Investment Trust PLC change hands on or after this date, the seller will receive the dividend rather than the buyer.

investment risk

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FAQs

Is F&C Investment Trust a good investment? ›

F&C is one of those global trusts that investors favour as a diversified “buy and hold” option. Recently it's outpaced rivals like Alliance Trust and Witan and was promoted to the FTSE 100 in September last year. For 2022 the share price and NAV lost ground, but that's in the context of last year's volatility.

What happened to foreign and colonial? ›

In 1891 it changed its name to The Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust: it first started investing in equities in 1925. In 1981, the company launched Graphite Capital, a leading UK private equity firm. The company shortened its name from The Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust to F & C Investment Trust in 2018.

What is the yield of FCIT? ›

Trust Basics
Benchmark:FTSE All World TR GBP
Annual management charge:0.3% of Net Assets
Performance fee:No
Ongoing charge:0.83%
Dividend yield:1.50%
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What is the oldest investment trust? ›

The first investment trust was the Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust, started in 1868 "to give the investor of moderate means the same advantages as the large capitalists in diminishing the risk by spreading the investment over a number of stocks".

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