Over the next few months, I'm going to explore whether I can use short-form video and other forms of new media to explain some of the subjects I encounter through my professional and voluntary life to a much wider audience. Investment trusts will be a major part of that.

If we genuinely believe that listed investment companies have a useful role to play in people's long-term savings and investments, then we need to take that conversation to the places where people actually spend their time – including audiences who have never attended an investment conference and have no intention of doing so.