Winning by not losing
We prioritise preserving your capital, because avoiding losses is the first step toward long-term success. By focusing on risk management today, we create the conditions for your investment to grow steadily over time.
Why Personal Assets?
Personal Assets Trust provides you with a solution to the challenges of making choices in a market which is crowded by products and conflicting marketing messages.
We take the decisions on your behalf, whether to have more risk by buying more equities, or less risk by having more cash and bonds. We analyse the economic and market news for you, and constantly review and if necessary change your exposure to different types of assets.
Quarterly Report
In our latest Quarterly Report, we discuss the complex macro backdrop and its impact on Personal Assets Trust, including our views on the accelerating AI capital expenditure cycle and what it means for our portfolio, and why we believe the Japanese yen, at its cheapest in over 35 years, continues to offer diversification.
Latest Insights
Personal Assets Trust – Annual Report 2026
Over the year to 30 April 2026, the net asset value total return per share of Personal Assets Trust (‘PAT’) rose by 6.3% while our traditional comparator, the FTSE All-Share Index total return was 25.2%.
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Annual Report
Find our latest Annual Report to year ending 30 April 2026.
The net asset value per share of Personal Assets Trust rose by +6.3%.
Sebastian is Troy’s Founder and is responsible for Troy’s Multi-Asset Strategy. He is the Co-Manager of the Trojan Fund and Personal Assets Trust.
Sebastian began his career in 1989 at Singer & Friedlander Investment Management. Joining Stanhope Investment Management (the management company for the GEC Pension Fund) in 1995, he jointly managed the £2 billion equity portfolio and the Fund’s asset allocation. He was appointed Director in 1999, and in 2000 he left to establish Troy. Gaining his BSc in Politics from Southampton University, Sebastian holds the ASIP qualification and is an Associate Member of the CFA Society of the UK.
Charlotte is the Co-Manager of the Trojan Fund and Personal Assets Trust and Fund Manager of the Trojan Ethical Fund.
She joined Troy in 2013 from Ruffer Investment Management, where she worked as an Investment Associate. She graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MA in Modern Languages, and holds the CISI Diploma. Charlotte is also a CFA Charterholder.
Charlotte is also a Co-Founder of GAIN (Girls Are INvestors), a charity established to inform and inspire the next generation of young women to enter the investment management industry in the UK.
