If you're looking for a top-performing investment trust, you could do worse than the Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust (EWI). The Baillie Gifford-run trustis "one of thebest performing Global sector investment trusts", says Leonora Walters in the Investors Chronicle, and has significantly outperformed its benchmark, the MSCI All Countries World Index.
Over five years it delivered a 221% return nearly twice its benchmark's. It returned 61.6% over three years and 36.4% over one year.
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