In this episode, our director of content, investment trusts Milosz Papst discusses the interim results of HgT, which invests in leading, profitable, unquoted European mid-market businesses with an international footprint, offering mission-critical, low-spend software solutions to SMEs. He talks about the trust’s solid NAV total return performance (driven by earnings growth across its portfolio) and solid realisations which were carried out at an uplift to previous carrying value. He highlights HgT’s recent new investments, and also elaborates on the recent portfolio debt refinancing and the associated interest expense savings and maturity extensions. Finally, he comments on HgT’s holding-level liquidity and commitment coverage ratio.***********************************************************About ‘Uncovering Trusts’'Uncovering Trusts': is a podcast run by Edison analysts released every two weeks. Subscribe to hear analyst interviews on how investment trusts maximise returns while managing risks for investors.About Edison:Edison is a content-led IR business. We believe quality investment content should inform all investors, not just brokers. Our mission: engage and build bigger, better-informed investor audiences for our clients.Edison covers 50+ investment trusts, read about them here: https://www.edisongroup.com/equities/investment-companies/

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