Weekly Investment Trusts Podcast - with Alastair Laing (15 Jul 2023)

In this week's edition of the Weekly Investment Trust Podcast, Jonathan Davis, editor of the Investment Trusts Handbook, talks to Alastair Laing, CEO of CG Asset Management. Section Timestamps: 00:29 - Review of the week 03:38 - This week's guest 05:57 - Money Makers Circle 06:33 - Coming next week 07:02 - News and announcements 11:18 - Summary of results 14:40 - Q&A with Alastair Laing 15:07 - Reasons for poor performance 17:50 - Index linked performance 23:39 - The equity market 30:52 - Rising bond yields and the extent of derating 38:04 - Commercial property 41:05 - Consolidation in the alternatives sector 42:49 - Opportunities to bring in a discount 52:02 - Summarising CGT's position 54:14 - Close Trusts mentioned this week (with tickers): Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Seraphim Space (SSIT), LXi REIT (LXI), Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), Capital Gearing Trust (CGT), ThomasLloyd Energy Impact (TLEI), US Solar Fund (USF), RM Infrastructure Income (RMII), Hipgnosis Songs Fund (SONG), Artemis Alpha (ATS), Miton UK Microcap (MINI), Jupiter Green (JGC), Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT), Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9), CT Property Trust (CTPT), Ediston Property Investment Company (EPIC), Civitas Social Housing (CSH). If you enjoy the weekly podcast, you may also find value in joining The Money Makers circle. This is a membership scheme that offers listeners to the podcast an opportunity, in return for a modest monthly or annual subscription, to receive additional premium content, including interviews, performance data, market/portfolio reviews and regular extracts from the editor's notebook. This week, as well as the regular features, the Circle features a profile of Riverstone Energy (RSE). Jonathan has also posted a series of charts that summarise the performance of markets and investment trusts so far this year, and his quarterly video review of some individual trust performance will be coming soon. For more information about the Money Makers circle, please visit money-makers.co/membership-join. Membership helps to cover the cost of producing the weekly investment trust podcast, which will continue to be free. We are very grateful for your continued support and the enthusiastic response to our nearly 170 podcasts since launch. You can find more information, including relevant disclosures, at www.money-makers.co. Please note that this podcast is provided for educational purposes only and nothing you hear should be considered as investment advice. Our podcasts are also available on the Association of Investment Companies website, www.theaic.co.uk. Produced by Ben Gamblin.