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Mercantile Investment Trust

Mercantile Investment Trust

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Search complete. 3 mentions across 1 episode found for "Mercantile Investment Trust".

Sep 18, 2026

John BarronHOST
25:17
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.
John BarronHOST
25:37
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.
John BarronHOST
25:52
So you're right, you've got reasonable discounts, although they've narrowed in a little bit, but they're still attractive.
John HughmanHOST
25:57
long-term.
John HughmanHOST
26:45
Any particular companies that we hold that actually sort of deliver this? What are we like?
John BarronHOST
26:53
Well, I mean, if we're talking smaller companies, I cited three, I think, in the column.
John BarronHOST
26:57
One was the Mercantile Trust.
John BarronHOST
26:59
The other one was Montanaro UK Smaller Companies.

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