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Planning for retirement? Start here – The City of London Investment Trust

What if your investments could aim to provide a regular income, and grow it year after year? The City of London Investment Trust (CTY) has increased its dividend every year since 1966, making it the longest record of any UK-listed investment trust.

20 Aug 2025
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Discrete year performance (%) Share price (total return) NAV (total return)
30/06/2024 to 30/06/2025 21.8 16.8
30/06/2023 to 30/06/2024 11.3 15.6
30/06/2022 to 30/06/2023 4.1 4.5
30/06/2021 to 30/06/2022 7.7 7.5
30/06/2020 to 30/06/2021 21.3 20.0

All performance, cumulative growth and annual growth data is sourced from Morningstar.

Source: at 30/06/25. © 2025 Morningstar, Inc. All rights reserved. The information contained herein: (1) is proprietary to Morningstar and/or its content providers; (2) may not be copied or distributed; and (3) is not warranted to be accurate, complete, or timely. Neither Morningstar nor its content providers are responsible for any damages or losses arising from any use of this information. Past performance does not predict future returns.

Dividend

A variable discretionary payment made by a company to its shareholders.

As you near retirement, planning your income is crucial.

You’ve spent most of your life saving money. Now, you need to consider how to spend it, sensibly.

But, achieving a steady income via your investments can be tricky. Companies can change how much they pay in dividends based on changing markets. Keeping on top of these changes can be a lot of work.

The City of London Investment Trust aims to do this work for you. Investing in a range of companies helps the trust spread its risk out. Its expert managers monitor these companies, so you don’t have to.

And because it is an investment trust, City of London can keep some money back every year to keep its dividend topped up in difficult years. So far, this has worked; the trust has increased its dividend every year since 1966.

We aim to use our years of knowledge to give you the freedom to live well.