Overview
Pacific Assets has an investment objective of achieving long-term capital growth through investment in selected companies in the Asia Pacific region and the Indian sub-continent, excluding Japan, Australia and New Zealand (the ‘Asia Pacific Region’). Up to a maximum of 20% of the Company’s total assets (at the time of investment) may be invested in companies incorporated and/or listed outside the Asia Pacific Region including Japan, Australia and New Zealand, but whose economic activities are predominantly within the Asia Pacific Region.
Pacific Assets invests in companies which the manager believes will be able to generate long term growth for shareholders. The manager’s investment approach requires that all investments are sustainable. This does not mean ‘green’, ‘ethical’ or ‘clean-tech’, but rather that companies have strong management and a robust business model in terms of earnings, corporate governance and codes of conduct. They are not seeking to promote uneconomic investment in socially acceptable propositions. Instead, they believe that companies which have carefully considered the sustainability of their business models are more likely to provide superior long-term returns for shareholders.
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06 Oct 2022 111 min read
QuotedData’s Economic and Political Monthly Roundup October 2022
Economic and Political Monthly Roundup Investment companies | Monthly | October 2022 A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairs and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to […]
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12 Nov 2020 5 min read
QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – November 2020
Economic and Political Monthly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Allianz A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or […]
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07 May 2020 4 min read
QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – May 2020
Economic & Political Roundup Kindly sponsored by Allianz A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell […]
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24 Jan 2020 20 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Annual Review – 2019
In this issue The sector at the end of 2019 Performance data Performance by sector and fund Money in and out of the sector Money in and out of existing funds Money coming into existing funds Money going out of existing funds Liquidations, de-listings and trading cancellations Significant rating changes Major news stories Outlook for […]
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12 Nov 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – November 2019
Economic & Political Roundup
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08 May 2019 4 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – May 2019
Economic & Political Roundup A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell any of the […]
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19 Dec 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – December 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – December 2018 is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of November 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Extract from ‘winners and losers’ The Californian wildfires took their toll on CatCo Reinsurance as it […]
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13 Nov 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – November 2018
QuotedData’s economic roundup – November 2018 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell any […]
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11 May 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s Economic round up – May 2018
QuotedData’s economic round up – May 2018 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or […]
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18 Apr 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s Economic round up – April 2018
QuotedData’s economic round up – April 2018 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell […]
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18 Jan 2018 1 min read
QuotedData – 2017 review of the year
QuotedData – 2017 review of the year – Many commentators, including us, were wary going into 2017. In the event, economic growth and markets surprised on the upside: US markets hit new highs despite three interest rate rises. Perceived low/no growth areas such as Europe and Japan burst into life. Asia’s technology stocks surged. India’s […]
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10 Nov 2017 2 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – November 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – November 2017 – is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or […]
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16 May 2017 2 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – May 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup: Our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of April 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Money in: The only new launch in April was EJF Investments, a £69m fund trying to take advantage of […]
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QuotedData’s economic round up – May 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – May 2017 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell […]
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13 Oct 2016 1 min read
QuotedData’s round up of views on the global economy – October 2016
QuotedData’s collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from comments made by chairman and managers of investment companies. october-economic-and-political-roundup
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10 Oct 2016 1 min read
Pacific Horizon – Brave new world
Marten & Co published an update on the company entitled Pacific Horizon – Brave new world The company’s performance has started to improve over the past few months, yet Baillie Gifford’s Ewan Markson-Brown and Roderick Snell, thinks that there is still considerable potential for the portfolio. He believes that some of the themes that he […]
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23 Jul 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 July 2024 – DGI9, PAC, WHR
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 July 2024: Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) announced the appointment of Mr Philip Braun as an independent non-executive director of the company with effect from 22 July 2024. Further to the company’s announcement on 12 June 2024 and following Mr Philip Braun’s appointment to the board of DGI9, Mr Aaron Le […]
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03 May 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 3rd May 2024
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • Aberforth Split Level Income (0:33) • Chrysalis (6:24) Andrew McHattie highlighted a number of funds that were looking unusually cheap or expensive (10:24). This week’s interview […]
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20 Oct 2023 3 min read
QD view – Back an alpha hero
Calling the direction of global markets is not an easy task. Be it the whims of central bankers, the next hottest thing in tech up-ending the market, or the seemingly constant stream of geopolitical crises – what we once thought was the calm after the COVID-19 storm may have only been the eye, as today […]
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10 May 2022 4 min read
Pacific Assets has a better year
Pacific Assets Trust has published results for the 12 months ended 31 January 2022 and the figures are much improved on previous years when it suffered from relatively low exposure to China, although unfortunately still behind its performance objective. The net asset value per share total return of 9.1% compares with the return of the […]
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30 Apr 2021 2 min read
Pacific Assets benefits from resurgence in out of favour holdings
Pacific Assets (PAC) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2021, during which it has benefited from a resurgence in some out of favour holdings. During the year, PAC provided NAV and share price total returns of 22.3% and 25.8% respectively. In comparison, the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index […]
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01 Oct 2019 3 min read
Pacific Assets shares return +12.3% over H1
Pacific Assets shares return +12.3% over H1 – Pacific Assets (PAC) has announced results covering the six-month period to 31 July 2019.. NAV total returns amounted to +10.5% over the period, which the company framed by comparing to an annualised return of +12.2% over the last five years, and of +11.9% over the nine-year period. The […]
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03 Apr 2019 2 min read
Pacific Assets outperforms benchmark in a turbulent 2018
Pacific Assets outperforms benchmark in a turbulent 2018 – Pacific Assets Trust has announced its results for the year ended 31 January 2019. The trust was able to outperform the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index. NAV total return was +4.7%, with the benchmark returning -7.7%. NAV total return was down 8.1% from the year […]
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03 Apr 2018 2 min read
Bias towards transparent companies behind Pacific Assets’ underperformance
Bias towards transparent companies behind Pacific Assets’ underperformance – Pacific Assets Trust (PAC) delivered an NAV per share total return of +12.8% in the year to 31 January 2018. It lagged the Benchmark MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index’s return of +27.0%. The average share price discount to the NAV per share during the year was 2.4% which […]
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05 Apr 2017 2 min read
Pacific Assets seeks to broaden mandate
After a year where the fund lagged its benchmark by some distance, Pacific Assets is seeking to broaden its mandate. The net asset value per share total return was +27.0% over the year ended 31 January 2017. By comparison, the benchmark, the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index measured on a comparable basis, rose […]
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29 Sep 2016 1 min read
Pacific Assets underperforms in first half
Over the six months ended 31 July, Pacific Assets’ net asset value per share total return was +21.0%. The Asia Pacific benchmark rose by 23.9%. The largest contributions to performance came from Marico, TSMC, Chroma Ate, Ayala Corp and Airtac International – between them adding 6.8% to the NAV. The largest detractors were MTR, Bata […]
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03 Apr 2016 1 min read
Pacific Assets outperforms falling market
Pacific Assets say that, during the year ended 31 January 2016, the company’s net asset value per share total return was -6.6%. For comparison, the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index, measured on a total return, sterling adjusted basis, fell by 13.1%. A narrowing of the discount of the company’s share price to its net […]
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24 Sep 2015 1 min read
Pacific Assets tops the performance tables
Pacific Assets’ interim results for the six months ended 31 July 2015 show the total return on net assets was -3.9% which was better than the -7.1% return posted by The MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index for the period and the best performing fund in its peer group. Shareholders will be pleased that the share […]
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30 Mar 2015 2 min read
Pacific Assets reports on profitable 2014
Final results for Pacific Assets were released on Friday. Over the year to the end of January 2015 the fund generated a return on net assets of 32.6% and a return to shareholders of 37% both well ahead of the 24.1% return on the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index. The dividend was maintained […]
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29 Jan 2015 1 min read
Pacific Assets changes fee arrangements
The Board of Pacific Assets Trust has announced that, with effect from 1 February 2015, the management fee will be changed to 0.9% of net assets and there will no longer be a performance fee. Previously the fee was 0.75% plus a 12.5% performance fee of 12.5% on outperformance of MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index plus a hurdle of 1.75% over a […]
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18 Nov 2024 1 min read
It’s time to bag an investment trust bargain – our experts reveal the ones they’d pick right now
By ROSIE MURRAY-WEST, Mail on Sunday, 17 November 2024: Everybody loves a good discount and that’s exactly what is being offered to buyers of investment trusts. These stock market-listed investment companies offer access to a world of tempting portfolios, from handpicked selections of UK shares to clusters of shares in income-generating renewable energy firms. Investment […]
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16 Nov 2020 1 min read
Engines of growth: Investment trusts for responsible investing
Engines of growth: Investment trusts for responsible investing By Mary McDougall, Investors Chronicle, 12 November 2020 Appetite for investment products with strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials has boomed this year as the pandemic has put the need for a sustainable world under the spotlight. Enthusiasm has been helped by sustainable funds broadly outperforming their conventional peers […]
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28 Jan 2020 1 min read
Investment Trust sackings deliver mixed results
Investment Trust sackings deliver mixed results By Kyle Caldwell, Money Observer’s quarterly trust magazine Kyle Caldwell analyses whether investment trust sackings stretching back over the past 15 years have resulted in improved performance for shareholders James Carthew is quoted in an article looking at changes in investment trust manager (including mergers) which have been on […]
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14 May 2019 2 min read
Investment trust insider on India
Investment trust insider on India – James Carthew: ignore India’s polls and pick a stock picker India is going to the polls and results from the general election will be declared on 23 May. It looks as though the National Democratic Alliance, the coalition of the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) and various regional parties, will be […]
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07 Feb 2019 1 min read
Investment Trust Insider on the past decade
Investment Trust Insider on the past decade – James Carthew: the constant evolution of investment trusts A decade ago, when we were emerging from the global financial crisis, I was managing Advance UK Trust and Citywire was just 10 years old. All of this seems like a long time ago now. Recently, I found a Winterflood […]
