 | Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust PLC (Foreign & Colonial) has been investing money on behalf of its shareholders for over a century and today, remains the oldest and one of the largest global growth investment trust in the world. The Trust's philosophy is simple - it wants to make your money grow. Over the past 140 years it has matured into a well-known and solid brand, with a reputation for delivering its objective over the very long-term in a responsible, prudent and effective way. The objective of the Trust is to secure long term growth in capital and income through a policy of investing primarily in an internationally diversified portfolio of publicly listed equities as well as unlisted securities and private equity, with use of gearing. The investment performance of Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust is benchmarked against a combination of 40% FTSE Allshare and 60% FTSE WI World ex UK indices, as well as a group pf its closest peer investment trust companies*. This section is designed to give you a more in-depth look at our largest and oldest Investment Trust: *This 'close peer group' of companies consists of Alliance trust, The Bankers Investment Trust, Scottish Investment Trust, Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust and Witan Investment Trust |  
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