Best 5 investment trusts for retirement

TCA

Linton wrote: »

It might be interesting to run that lot through the morningstar portfolio Xray tool to see what the overall allocation is and the duplications in the holdings.

The version of the x-ray tool I use below only allows 10 holdings. Which is annoying when wanting to try out larger permutations. If anyone uses a different (free) analysis tool that can accommodate more, it would be great to know.

http://tools.morningstar.co.uk/uk/xray/editholdings.aspx?LanguageId=en-GB

frugal90

How about some of these model portfolios?



http://www.iii.co.uk/investing/model-portfolios#table4

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ColdIron

frugal90 wrote: »

How about some of these model portfolios

They are standard fund portfolios, in your OP you were interested in ideas and opinions for ITs

Thrugelmir

ffacoffipawb wrote: »

I'm probably the other extreme. I have 24 Investment Trusts in my Hargreaves Lansdown ISA:-

Aberdeen Asian Income Fund Ltd.
Bankers Inv Trust
BlackRock Income Strategies Trust
City of London Inv Trust
Dunedin Income Growth Inv Trust
Edinburgh Inv Trust
European Assets Trust
F&C Capital & Income Inv Trust
Henderson Far East Income Ltd.
Invesco Income Growth Trust
JPMorgan European Investment Trust
JPM Global Mkts Emerging Income Trust
JPMorgan Claverhouse Inv Trust
Law Debenture Corp.
Lowland Investment Co.
Mercantile Inv Trust
Merchants Trust
Murray Income Trust
Murray International Trust
Perpetual Income & Growth Inv Trust
Schroder Income Growth Fund
Schroder Oriental Income Fund
Scottish American Inv Company
Temple Bar Inv Trust

That list may give dunstonh a fit!

I'm similar in quantity. Though far more diverse in nature.

ffacoffipawb

Thrugelmir wrote: »

I'm similar in quantity. Though far more diverse in nature.

Can you share (sic) your portfolio with us? 😄

Zippeh

ffacoffipawb wrote: »

Can you share (sic) your portfolio with us? 😄

Licior enw!

ffacoffipawb

Zippeh wrote: »

Licior enw!

Mae'n dda yn tydi! 😄

TCA

ffacoffipawb wrote: »

I'm probably the other extreme. I have 24 Investment Trusts in my Hargreaves Lansdown ISA

I hold 6 of those you listed in my "income portfolio" and would like to add perhaps 4 others from your list.

Although it's relatively low maintenance, in the back of my mind I still wonder if I'd be better just sussing out a global tracker fund or ETF with a decent yield which distributes quarterly income.