1.   As this century has advanced, so investment trusts have developed to embrace more direct investment in the shares of other companies.

2.   Developers Diversified is a real estate investment trust that acquires, owns and manages shopping and business centers.

3.   John Tyzack provided for his comfortable retirement in Oxford by selling the business to Henderson Administration, the well-known investment trust.

4.   New loans now typically come from large Wall Street investment houses and real estate investment trusts that favor large builders.

5.   Other conservative buys include real estate investment trusts, utility stocks and tax-free municipal bonds.

6.   Sierra has, perfectly legally, targeted underperforming investment trusts.

7.   The profits from capitalism are redistributed to millions of people, not through taxing and public spending but through collective investment trusts.

8.   The real-estate investment trust said it will use the notes to finance property acquisitions and to repay debt.

9.   Being public limited companies, the investment trusts can raise debt capital and gear their portfolios.