Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:39British Empire Securities & General Investment Trust was always a safety-first bet – the trust, after all, focuses on shares that trade below their underlying net asset value. And so it has proved. The price has trundled along with a 4 per cent rise, ...

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:49F&C suggests a diversified global investment instead and points to its flagship Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust, but I prefer British Empire Securities and General investment trust (an IC fund tip), in which I have a small holding for my daughters. ...

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:36This week, Church House Investment Management announced the launch of Trade & General Investments plc, a new investment trust that will take a specialist 'deep value' approach. Deep value investing involves buying into companies whose share prices have ...

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:03The first is that it allays fears that BofA will need to raise fresh capital in the future by selling new stock at very low share prices and dilute its shareholders -- just the problem that soured investors on the stock during the crisis. ...

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:49Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Hughes says "the sun is setting on Rupert Murdoch's British empire". In New York, News Corp's shares have risen slightly on the news. The BBC's Laura Trevelyan says investors feared that News Corp would have had to pay too ...