Overview
Hansa Investment Company is the investment vehicle for the Salomon family. It invests in a portfolio of special situations. Individual holdings or specific sectors may constitute a significant proportion of the portfolio or that of the equity of the companies concerned. They warn that this investment approach may produce returns which are not replicated by movements in any market index.
The company was created in August 2019 when Hansa Trust moved its domicile to Bermuda from the UK.
Hansa Trust is unusual in that it also has non-voting shares – see HANA
you can access the company’s website here
Fundamentals
Price
Research History
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10 Jan 2020 8 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – January 2020
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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05 Jul 2019 6 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – July 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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04 Apr 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – April 2019
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – April 2019 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 March 2019. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. JPMorgan Indian, India Capital Growth, Aberdeen New India and Ashoka India Equity Investment […]
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15 Aug 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – August 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – August 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 July 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Money raised and returned in July Tritax EuroBox raised its maximum target of £300 million in an […]
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11 Jul 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s Economic round up – July 2018
QuotedData’s Economic round up – July 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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13 Mar 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – March 2018
QuotedData investment companies roundup – March 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 February 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Equity markets continued to run up in early February, supported by strong corporate earnings […]
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07 Dec 2016 1 min read
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
News
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25 Oct 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 25th October 2024
Thank you to everyone that listened in today on our YouTube channel. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: Hansa Trust (0:20) GCP Infrastructure (6:28) PRS REIT (9:06) This week’s interview was with Helen Steers from Pantheon International – watch it again here.
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21 Oct 2024 1 min read
Good news for Hansa as Ocean Wilsons sells Brazilian business
Ocean Wilsons Holdings Limited says its wholly-owned subsidiary, OW Overseas (Investments) Limited has agreed to sell its 56.47% interest in Wilson Sons S.A. to SAS Shipping Agencies Services Sàrl, a wholly-owned subsidiary of MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA, for R$4.352bn ($768m) or R$17.50 per share. After Brazilian withholding tax, the net proceeds should be about […]
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06 Sep 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 6th September 2024
Thank you to everyone that listened in today on our YouTube channel. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: PRS REIT (0:41) SEGRO / Tritax EuroBox (4:02) Balanced Commercial Property Trust (6:41) Artemis Alpha / Aurora (8:10) JPMorgan Core Real Assets (10:33) Digital 9 Infrastructure (11:51) Andrew McHattie covered: Major rises over the […]
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27 Jun 2023 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 June 2023
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 June 2023: RTW Venture Fund has changed its name to RTW Biotech Opportunities. The Guernsey registry has confirmed the name change, effective 22 June 2023. The ticker remains the same (RTW). Seed Innovation’s (SEED) results show [deep within the text] that its NAV fell from £20.461m to £16.032m, or 9.62p […]
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16 Jun 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 16th June 2023
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • Personal Assets (0:33) • Hansa Investment Company (8:26) • Custodian Property Income REIT (12:49) This week’s interview was with Matthias Siller from Barings Emerging […]
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13 Jun 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 June 2023
Atrato Onsite Energy (ROOF) announced its interim results for the six month period ended 31 march 2023. The company’s performance was generally positive with a modest improvement in NAV, which was up around 1%, while revenue growth came in 9% ahead of budget. Dividends were flat. Still, shares fell 14% during the period dragging the […]
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25 Jun 2020 3 min read
Brazilian exposure depresses Hansa’s returns
Brazilian exposure depresses Hansa’s returns – Hansa Investment Company has published its first set of results since redomiciling to Bermuda in August 2019 ( “as a result of increasing concerns over the political climate in the UK and the instability and uncertainty this created for Hansa Trust“). It was not a great year for Hansa shareholders. […]
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07 Aug 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 7 August 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 7 August 2019 – Hansa Trust will be kicked out of UK indices on liquidity grounds (free float too small) when it redomiciles to Bermuda, putting some selling pressure on the stock. Effective date 29 August 2019. FastForward may have to sell its stake in Cryptologic after that company said it would […]
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28 Nov 2016 5 min read
Hansa – recent improved performance fails to offset lacklustre earlier returns
Hansa says its net asset value produced a total return of c. 17% over the six months ended 30 September 2016 in comparison to a total return of c. 2% from its benchmark. The ordinary shares rose 20.2% and the A ordinary shares by 13.0%, after the payment of an 8.0p dividend paid in May. They point […]
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23 Jun 2016 3 min read
Brazil’s woes knock Hansa
Hansa Trust, which has published results for the year ended 31 March 2016, says it has had a challenging year, particularly due to its exposure to the Brazilian market and the economic woes that Brazil continues to face. However, there have been a number of bright spots within the portfolio. The NAV has fallen from 1138.6p […]
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09 Dec 2015 4 min read
Hansa Trust impacted by fall in Ocean Wilson Holdings
Hansa Trust has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the trusts NAV fell 4.1% on a total return basis. The company says that, excluding the Brazil-focused Ocean Wilsons Holdings, the Company’s NAV fell 3.6%. This compares to a return of 1.7% for the benchmark, which is absolute […]
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24 Jun 2015 1 min read
Hansa hurt by Brazilian exposure
Over the year to the end of March 2015, Hansa Trust’s net asset value fell by 4.9% and the A share price fell by 5.7%, leaving them trading on a 27.3% discount. The dividend was maintained at 16p. By contrast, the MSCI World Index rose by 16.8% in Sterling terms over that period. Hansa though reports only on […]
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21 Nov 2014 2 min read
Hansa Trust says portfolio changes almost complete
HAN / HANA : Hansa Trust says portfolio changes almost complete Hansa Trust has published figures for the half year to end September 2014 that show its net asset value total return was 1.0% – marginally behind the 1.6% return on its benchmark. Breaking down that total return figure, the capital value of the fund […]
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24 Jun 2014 1 min read
Hansa Trust :HAN, HANA – annual results
Hansa Trust has published its annual results for the year that ended on 31 March 2014. It announced a the results of a strategic review in April that will, over time, change the way that the company is managed in the future. Over the year Hansa’s net asset value rose by 12.3% while the FTSE All-Share Index […]
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22 Apr 2014 1 min read
Hansa Trust : HAN and Hansa Trust A : HANA – strategic update
Hansa Trust (which has two classes of shares – voting shares HAN and non-voting shares HANA) has announced that it is broadening its investment approach. Where, to date, it has mostly invested in UK equities and also has a stake in holding company, Ocean Wilsons, it will now also invest in other asset classes – […]
