
Mercantile Investment Trust
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Sep 18, 2026
The Two Johns: Trade of the Decade - half-time report
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25:17John BarronHOST
And something else, John, because being closed-ended, in other words, you trade the shares, not the asset, like any other company, like a Shell or a Glaxo, they can gear and they can borrow to buy more of a portfolio, knowing that those assets are not going to be redeemed because it's an open-ended fund.
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25:37John BarronHOST
I don't want to get into that conversation here, but for example, there are good smaller company funds like Mercantile, JP Morgan's Mercantile, which I think I'm right in saying is about 10% geared at the moment towards the top end of this.
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25:52John BarronHOST
So you're right, you've got reasonable discounts, although they've narrowed in a little bit, but they're still attractive.
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25:57John HughmanHOST
long-term.
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26:45John HughmanHOST
Any particular companies that we hold that actually sort of deliver this? What are we like?
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26:53John BarronHOST
Well, I mean, if we're talking smaller companies, I cited three, I think, in the column.
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26:57John BarronHOST
One was the Mercantile Trust.
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26:59John BarronHOST
The other one was Montanaro UK Smaller Companies.