The discount-to-NAV wrapper is one of the oldest structures in investing and one of the least written about: about six book-length treatments, mostly academic, plus UK yearbooks. The central explanation is still Lee, Shleifer and Thaler's investor-sentiment paper rather than any book.
How closed-end fund discounts and premiums work, and how to pick funds.
The UK trust sector's own blow-up: gearing, cross-holdings and collapse.
A yearly survey of UK investment trusts: research, opinion and data.
Academic study of how discounts and premiums behave over time.
Doctoral treatment of the discount anomaly; narrow but the real literature.
Academic review of the discount puzzle and related structures.