The Scottish Investment Trust (SCIN), founded in 1887, is a self-managed global equity investment trust. It has recently taken steps to modernise and streamline its operations, and in October 2015 put in place a focused, contrarian investment process under a new management team. It aims to exploit the behavioural biases of market participants by identifying three types of company: the very out-of-favour; those where improvements have not been appreciated by the consensus; and good companies t
18 Nov 2016
Contrarian approach begins to reap rewards
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Contrarian approach begins to reap rewards
- Published:
18 Nov 2016 -
Author:
Sarah Godfrey -
Pages:
12
The Scottish Investment Trust (SCIN), founded in 1887, is a self-managed global equity investment trust. It has recently taken steps to modernise and streamline its operations, and in October 2015 put in place a focused, contrarian investment process under a new management team. It aims to exploit the behavioural biases of market participants by identifying three types of company: the very out-of-favour; those where improvements have not been appreciated by the consensus; and good companies t