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A Beginner’s Guide to Investment Trusts

Learn how investment trusts work, how their closed-end structure sets them apart from mutual funds and ETFs, and what beginners should know before they buy in.

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Duration: 1 Min

Date: 07 Aug 2026

Discover how investment trusts work, what makes them different from mutual funds and ETFs, and the key concepts every investor should understand before investing.

 

Investment trusts have been helping investors access professionally managed portfolios for more than a century, yet their structure remains unfamiliar to many. Created in partnership with Finimize, this beginner-friendly guide explains the essentials, from how investment trusts are structured to why they can trade at a discount or premium to the value of their underlying assets.

 

*This is a third-party guide. You will leave Aberdeen's website and enter Finimize's to view.

 

https://finimize.com/content/a-beginners-guide-to-investment-trusts-with-aberdeen-investment-trusts 

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