Edinburgh Investment Trust is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and invests primarily in UK securities. The fund is managed by Mark Barnett and James Goldstone at Invesco Asset Management.
Its long-term objective is to achieve an increase of the net asset value per share in excess of the growth in the FTSE All-Share Index, and of growing in dividends per share in excess of the rate of UK inflation.
It is currently a constituent of the FTSE 250 and was first listed in 1952.
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