JP Morgan European Smaller Companies Trust (LSE: JESC), formerly the JP Morgan European Fledgling Investment Trust, is a large British investment trust dedicated to investments in European companies. It was established in 1990. The Chairman is Liz Airey.
Famous quotes containing the words european, fledgling, investment and/or trust:
“What is the first thing that savage tribes accept from Europeans nowadays? Brandy and Christianity, the European narcotics.—And what is it that most rapidly leads to their destruction?—The European narcotics.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“If in a shimmering room the babies came,
Drawn close by dreams of fledgling wing,
It was because night nursed them in its fold.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city’s whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
—Aesop (6th century B.C.)