Overview
AVI Global Trust (formerly British Empire Trust : BTEM) has an objective to achieve capital growth through a focused global portfolio of investments, particularly in companies whose share prices stand at a discount to estimated underlying net asset value. The latter point means it tends to favour companies with significant asset backing like investment companies, property and family holding companies.
The fund’s website can be found here.
Fundamentals
Price
Research History
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06 Jun 2024
AVI Global Trust - Thriving under pressure
Thriving under pressure The AVI Global Trust (AGT) has gone from strength to strength as its managers identify a wealth of opportunities. A share price total return of over 30% in the past year highlights the value of the company’s strategy of targeting high-quality companies whose shares are trading at a discount to their intrinsic […]
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06 Jun 2024
AVI Global Trust - Thriving under pressure
Thriving under pressure AVI Global Trust (AGT) has gone from strength to strength as its managers identify a wealth of opportunities. A share price total return of over 30% in the past year highlights the value of the company’s strategy of targeting high-quality companies whose shares are trading at a discount to their intrinsic value. […]
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06 Jun 2024
AVI Global Trust - Thriving under pressure?
Thriving under pressure? AVI Global Trust (AGT) appears to have gone from strength to strength as its managers say that they have identified a wealth of opportunities. A share price total return of over 30% in the past year could be said to highlight the attraction of the company’s strategy of targeting high-quality companies whose […]
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21 Nov 2023
AVI Global Trust - An historic opportunity
AVI Global Trust Investment companies | Annual overview | 21 November 2023 An historic opportunity AVI Global Trust (AGT) has been performing well recently. Where it can, the manager seeks to engage with investee companies behind the scenes, working with them to unlock value for the benefit of all shareholders. Lately, AGT has also been involved […]
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21 Nov 2023
AVI Global Trust - An historic opportunity
AVI Global Trust Investment companies | Annual overview | 21 November 2023 An historic opportunity? As the data on page 13 shows, AVI Global Trust (AGT) has been outperforming recently. Where it can, the manager seeks to engage with investee companies behind the scenes, working with them with the aim of unlocking value for the benefit […]
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21 Nov 2023
AVI Global Trust - An historic opportunity
AVI Global Trust Investment companies | Annual overview | 22 November 2023 An historic opportunity As we show on page 14 of this note, AVI Global Trust (AGT) has been performing well recently. Where it can, AGT’s manager seeks to engage with investee companies behind the scenes, working with them to unlock the value that […]
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17 Nov 2023
Interview with Joe Bauernfreund from AVI Global Trust.
In this week’s show, James Carthew spoke to Joe Bauernfreund from AVI Global Trust. If you were looking for the first part of QuotedData’s show, focused on the roundup of the week’s news, click here. If there is a guest speaker you’d particularly like to hear from, please email us on [email protected]. Additionally, if you would prefer […]
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08 Mar 2023
AVI Global Trust - Doubly blessed
AVI Global Trust Investment companies | Update | 8 March 2023 Doubly blessed AVI Global Trust (AGT) offers investors a unique opportunity to access a distinctive portfolio of good-quality investments that are selected because the managers believe that they are trading at a discount to their intrinsic value. Thanks to recent market movements, AGT’s ‘double […]
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08 Mar 2023
AVI Global Trust - Doubly blessed
AVI Global Trust Investment companies | Update | 8 March 2023 Doubly blessed AVI Global Trust (AGT) offers investors a unique opportunity to access an idiosyncratic portfolio of good-quality investments trading at a discount to their intrinsic value. Thanks to recent market movements, AGT’s ‘double discount’ – the share price discount to NAV plus the […]
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08 Mar 2023
AVI Global Trust - Doubly blessed
AVI Global Trust Investment companies | Update | 8 March 2023 Doubly blessed AVI Global Trust (AGT) offers investors an opportunity to access a portfolio of what the manager feels are good-quality investments trading at a discount to their intrinsic value. Thanks to recent market movements, AGT’s ‘double discount’ – the share price discount to […]
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09 Sep 2022
Interview with Joe Bauernfreund from AVI Global Trust
In this week’s show, James Carthew talked to Joe Bauernfreund from AVI Global Trust. If you were looking for the first part of QuotedData’s show, focused on the roundup of the week’s news, click here. If there is a guest speaker you’d particularly like to hear from, please email us. Additionally, if you would prefer to watch […]
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20 May 2022
AVI Global Trust - Bargain hunting
Bargain hunting After a strong run of both absolute and relative performance (see page 16), AVI Global Trust (AGT) faces twin headwinds of widening discounts within its underlying portfolio – as holdings’ share prices move further below their underlying net asset value – and a widening discount on its own shares. The manager has been […]
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20 May 2022
AVI Global Trust - Bargain hunting
Bargain hunting After a strong run of both absolute and relative performance, AVI Global Trust (AGT) faces twin headwinds of widening discounts within its underlying portfolio and a widening discount on its own shares. The manager has been cautious on markets, eliminating the trust’s gearing at the end of 2021. That gives it firepower to […]
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20 May 2022
AVI Global Trust - Bargain hunting
Bargain hunting After a strong run of both absolute and relative performance, AVI Global Trust (AGT) faces twin headwinds of widening discounts within its underlying portfolio and a widening discount on its own shares. The manager has been cautious on markets, eliminating the trust’s gearing at the end of 2021. That gives it the firepower […]
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26 Nov 2021
QuotedData’s ESG Webinar – Governance Day Playback
On the 18th November QuotedData hosted the last of our three ESG focused webinars. This Governance webinar highligthed managers who actively engage with investee companies to ensure best practices are introduced and maintained and the shareholders are a key consideration in the management of businesses. We would like to thank all our speakers and our […]
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05 Aug 2021
AVI Global Trust - Focused high conviction portfolio
Focused high conviction portfolio AVI Global Trust (AGT) has had a strong run of performance since last November. Its manager, Asset Value Investors (AVI) has been realising substantial profits from a number of positions where discounts have narrowed significantly or have been eliminated altogether. As we describe on page 8 onwards, the proceeds are being […]
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05 Aug 2021
AVI Global Trust - Focused high conviction portfolio
Focused high conviction portfolio AVI Global Trust (AGT) has had a strong run of performance since last November. Its manager, Asset Value Investors (AVI) has been realising substantial profits from a number of positions where the discounts that these companies have traded at in the market, relative to their underlying net asset values, have narrowed […]
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05 Aug 2021
AVI Global Trust - Focused high conviction portfolio
Focused high conviction portfolio AVI Global Trust (AGT) has had a strong run of performance since last November. Its manager, Asset Value Investors (AVI) has been realising substantial profits from a number of positions where discounts have narrowed significantly or have been eliminated altogether. As we describe on page 8 onwards, the proceeds are being […]
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25 Jan 2021
AVI Global Trust - Double discount on quality-focused portfolio
Double-discount on quality-focused portfolio AVI Global Trust (AGT) offers a genuinely different investment approach to those of competing trusts. It also has a good track record of beating its performance benchmark. The manager believes that some well-timed trades and a willingness to look through the current COVID-19 disruption affecting some businesses have helped drive strong […]
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25 Jan 2021
AVI Global Trust - Double discount on quality-focused portfolio
Double discount on quality-focused portfolio AVI Global Trust (AGT) offers a genuinely different investment approach to those of competing trusts. It also has a good track record of beating its performance benchmark. Some well-timed trades and a willingness to look through the current COVID-19 disruption affecting some businesses have helped drive strong performance from AGT […]
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25 Jan 2021
AVI Global Trust - Double discount on quality-focused portfolio
Double discount on quality-focused portfolio AVI Global Trust (AGT) offers a genuinely different investment approach to those of competing trusts in the AIC’s global sector. It also has a good track record of beating its performance benchmark, the MSCI All Countries World ex the United States Index, with dividends reinvested and translated back into pounds. […]
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06 Aug 2020
Covid - 19 Impact on Markets webinar playback
On the 20th July QuotedData hosted a webinar entitled “Covid-19 – Impact on Markets”. The webinar provided both professional and private investors access to 3 investment company managers covering either specific geographic regions or investment sectors. The managers discussed their funds and shared their views on the potential changes for their investment area following the pandemic […]
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08 Jun 2020
QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – June 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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06 Dec 2019
QuotedData’s economic roundup – December 2019
Economic & Political Roundup Kindly sponsored by Polar Capital and 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 […]
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07 Jun 2019
QuotedData’s economic roundup – June 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
QuotedData's economic roundup - December 2018
QuotedData’s economic roundup – December 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 Jul 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – July 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – July 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 June 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. July Investment Companies Roundup Money raised and returned in June Newcomer to the market, Yew Grove […]
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11 Jun 2018
QuotedData's Economic round up – June 2018
QuotedData’s Economic round up – June 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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25 Apr 2018
Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018
Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018 Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018 – Global equity markets declined in the first quarter of 2018. Concerns about US interest rate rises were the feature of the first half of the quarter. However, worries about global trade took over in the second part, particularly […]
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19 Oct 2017
Quarterly investment companies roundup – Third quarter 2017
Quarterly investment companies roundup – Third quarter 2017 – Markets moved up a little over the course of the three months ended 30 September 2017. Regionally, emerging markets did well. The pound strengthened a bit relative to the US dollar but was flat against the euro. The oil price rose by more than 20%. In […]
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03 Aug 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – August 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – August 2017 – 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 July 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. August Investment Companies Roundup Monthly NAV/Price moves: A couple of themes stand out […]
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12 Jul 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – July 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – July 2017 – 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 June 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. July Investment Companies Roundup Money raised in July Newly launched in June were […]
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10 Apr 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – April 2017
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 February 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. April Investment Companies Roundup
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15 Mar 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – March 2017
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 February 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. March Investment Companies Roundup
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07 Dec 2016
QuotedData’s round up of views on the global economy – December 2016
QuotedData’s collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from comments made by chairman and managers of investment companies. december-economic-and-political-roundup
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27 Oct 2016
Quarterly investment companies roundup – Third quarter 2016
Q3 saw the market adapt to life post the UK’s EU referendum. Sterling continued to fall but most stock markets stabilised and discounts narrowed across most sectors. While the US election is dominating headlines, it does not seem to be having much impact on markets so far. q3-quarterly-roundup
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13 Oct 2016
QuotedData investment companies roundup – October 2016
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 September 2016. october-investment-companies-roundup
News
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12 Nov 2018
British Empire focuses on extracting value from portfolio
British Empire focuses on extracting value from portfolio – British Empire says that, for the year ended 30 September 2018, it generated a net asset value total return of 10.0%, 4.8 percentage points higher than the return of the benchmark, the MSCI All Country World ex-US Index.The total dividend for the year will be 13p, up […]
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13 Nov 2017
British Empire beats its World ex US benchmark
British Empire beats its World ex US benchmark – British Empire achieves an 18.8% return on net assets for the year ended 30 September 2017. 2.5% ahead of the return on its principal benchmark, the MSCI AC World ex US index. The Board has elected to increase the final dividend to 10.0p per share, which […]
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11 Nov 2016
British Empire returns 31.0% beating its benchmark
British Empire Trust has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2016. The company says that, during the period, its NAV total return per share was 31.0%, its benchmark return was 28.0% (the MSCI All Country World ex-US Index), whilst its share price total return was 34.3%, reflecting a narrowing of the […]
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01 Jul 2016
Activist building stake in British Empire
According to an article in the Daily Telegraph (which you can access here), Elliott Advisors (the activist investor in Alliance Trust) has built up a 5% stake in British Empire worth £32m. So far neither side has commented on the story. BTEM : Activist building stake in British Empire
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24 May 2016
British Empire’s value style continues to underperform growth
British Empire Trust (formerly British Empire Securities & General trust) has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 31 March 2016. During the period, the trust provided NAV total return of 5.6% and a share price total return of 4.6% both of which underperformed its lead benchmark index, the MSCI All Country World ex-US […]
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15 Jan 2016
British Empire takes on 20 year debt
British Empire has announced that it is taking on 20 year debt. The company says the Board (headed up by Strone Macpherson – pictured) have agreed to issue 20 year unsecured private placement notes in two tranches. The first tranche is £30m and the second is €30m (equal to £22.6m at the closing exchange rate on 14 January […]
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09 Nov 2015
British Empire hit by oil and commodity exposure
British Empire underperformed its benchmark over the year that ended on 30 September 2015, delivering a total return on net assets of -8.3% against a -5.6% return for the MSCI All Country World ex-US Index. The Morningstar Investment Trust Global Index rose by 3.7% over the period. The discount widened slightly from 10.3% to 11.6% (despite them […]
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30 Sep 2015
British Empire Securities names Joe Bauernfreund as lead manager
British Empire Securities and General Trust has announced that Joe Bauernfreund will become its named portfolio manager from 1 October 2015. This is a low turnover position (the trust has had just three portfolio managers in the last 30 years). Jo has been with the trust’s managers (Asset Value Investors) since 2002 and has worked […]
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28 May 2015
British Empire's Japan underweight proves costly
British Empire, chaired by Strone Macpherson (pictured), has reported total returns of 7.2% on both its net assets and shares for the six months ended 31 March 2015. These numbers are behind the returns on all the indices that British Empire uses to benchmark its performance. The Morgan Stanley Capital International All Country World ex-US Index total return […]
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10 Nov 2014
British Empire hedges yen exposure
BTEM : British Empire hedges yen exposure British Empire Securities delivered a return on net assets of 6.8% over the year to 30 September 2014 – ahead of the 5.1% return on the company’s benchmark (MSCI All Country World ex-US Index). Shareholders also saw the discount narrow resulting in a return to them of 8.9%. […]
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02 Jun 2014
British Empire : BTEM - interims
British Empire’s interim results for the six months that ended 31 March 2014 show the fund generating a total return on net assets of 4.8%, beating its benchmark (the MSCI All Country World ex US Index) which returned 2.4% but lagging the 5.6% return on the MSCI All Country World Index and the 5.5% return on […]
