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The Mercantile Investment Trust PLC is a United Kingdom-based investment trust company. The Company's objective is to achieve long term capital growth from a portfolio of United Kingdom medium and smaller companies. The Company's investment policy includes to emphasize capital growth from medium and smaller companies; to achieve long term dividend growth at least in line with inflation; to use long term gearing to increase potential returns to shareholders, and to invest no more than 15% of gross assets in other United Kingdom listed closed-ended investment funds (including investment trusts). The Company's investment includes sectors, such as industrials, financials, technology, telecommunications, health care, basic materials, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, energy, real estate and utilities.