BlackRock Throgmorton Trust : THRG

Overview

BlackRock Throgmorton Trust aims to provide shareholders with capital growth and an attractive total return through investment primarily in UK smaller and mid-capitalisation companies listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange.

In addition to holding a conventional long only portfolio of UK smaller and mid-capitalisation equities, the company will hold approximately 30 per cent. of its net assets in a portfolio of contracts for difference (“CFD”) and/or comparable equity derivatives which provide both long and short exposure. Under normal circumstances, the long only portfolio is expected to comprise 100 per cent. of the company’s net assets. Therefore, the company can have gross exposure of 130 per cent. of net assets, albeit that some of this exposure represents short positions.

We have published a number of notes on the company:

• Get it while the price is good, published 11 June 2024, suggested that the current discount on the trust might represent a buying opportunity
• Throgmorton’s fuse is lit, published on 20 March 2024, was a flash note issued after the trust’s AGM
• Growth in all things, published on 22 November 2023
• The strong have only gotten cheaper, published in November 2022, looked at the state of the portfolio in the wake of the growth selloff
• Powering on, published in December 2021, was focused on the good progress of the companies within the portfolio
• Confidence rewarded, published in September 2021, discussed the impressive performance of the trust since we last wrote
• Infectious enthusiasm, published in December 2020, tried to convey the sense of optimism that the manager has about the future of the trust
• Separating the wheat from the chaff published in June 2020 highlighted how well the trust had held up in the wake of the COVID-19 panic in markets
• Look past the short-term noise published in December 2019 suggested that in an uncertain world, investors should focus on stocks
• Impressive run continues published in July 2019 looked at the trust’s peer group beating performance
• Throg’s shorts shine published in January 2019 discussed the benefits of shorting some shares in a market where investors seem increasingly nervous
• Vision, execution and adaptability published in September 2018 was our detailed initiation note on the company

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