Overview
Pacific Horizon aims to achieve capital growth through investment in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) and the Indian Sub-continent.. The company may also invest in companies based in the region and in investment funds specialising in the region or particular countries or sectors within it even if they are listed elsewhere. The maximum permitted investment in such companies is 15% of gross assets.
The portfolio contains companies which the manager has identified as offering the potential for long term capital appreciation, irrespective of whether they comprise part of any index. The portfolio is actively managed and will normally consist entirely of quoted equity securities although unlisted companies, fixed interest holdings, or other non equity investments, may be held. The company is also permitted to invest in other pooled vehicles (general, country and sector specific) that invest in the markets of the region.
You can access the manager’s website here
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Research History
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19 Mar 2025 28 min read
Pacific Horizon – Inflection point approaching?
Inflection point approaching? With Trump now re-installed as US President, we are starting to see how his much talked about policy agenda is shaping up. He is moving quickly, but higher uncertainty is the new norm. Although, there are signs that his threat of stringent US tariffs on Asian and particularly Chinese imports, which had […]
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26 min read
Pacific Horizon – Inflection point approaching?
Inflection point approaching? With Trump now re-installed as US President, we are starting to see how his much talked about policy agenda is shaping up. He is moving quickly, but higher uncertainty seems to be the new norm. Although, there are signs that his threat of stringent US tariffs on Asian and particularly Chinese imports, […]
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28 min read
Pacific Horizon – Inflection point approaching?
Inflection point approaching? With Trump now re-installed as US President, we are starting to see how his much talked about policy agenda is shaping up. He is moving quickly, but higher uncertainty is the new norm. Although, there are signs that his threat of stringent US tariffs on Asian and particularly Chinese imports, which had […]
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06 Dec 2023 27 min read
Pacific Horizon – Consistent growth and quality bias
Pacific Horizon Investment companies | Annual overview | 6 December 2023 Consistent growth and quality bias Despite the significant headwinds that have faced both Asia and growth strategies during the last 12 months, Pacific Horizon’s (PHI’s) net asset value (NAV) has held up so that its long-term track record of outperformance versus peers (see pages […]
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27 min read
Pacific Horizon – Consistent growth and quality bias
Pacific Horizon Investment companies | Annual Overview | 6 December 2023 Consistent growth and quality bias Despite the significant headwinds that have faced both Asia and growth strategies during the last 12 months, Pacific Horizon’s (PHI’s) NAV has held up so that its long-term (five- and 10-year) track record of outperformance versus peers (see page […]
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27 min read
Pacific Horizon – Consistent growth and quality bias
Pacific Horizon Investment companies | Annual overview | 6 December 2023 Consistent growth and quality bias Despite the significant headwinds that have faced both Asia and growth strategies during the last 12 months, Pacific Horizon’s (PHI’s) NAV has held up so that its long-term (five- and 10-year) track record of outperformance versus peers (see pages […]
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06 Apr 2023 82 min read
QuotedData’s Economic and Political Monthly Roundup April 2023
Economic and Political Monthly Roundup Investment companies | Monthly | April 2023 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 encourage […]
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09 Feb 2023 9 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – February 2023
February 2023 Monthly roundup | Investment companies Winners and losers in January 2023 In a month where winners far outweighed losers, once again Chinese funds feature amongst the best-performing investment companies over the month, taking many of the top slots. China has barrelled ahead with the reopening of its economy following the lifting of COVID-related […]
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08 Dec 2022 34 min read
Pacific Horizon – Convergence opportunity
Pacific Horizon Investment companies | Annual overview | 8 December 2022 Convergence opportunity Pacific Horizon (PHI) appears to have, in 2022, found itself at a convergence of both negative sentiment towards Asia and growth stocks more generally (seemingly a function of lockdowns in China, a slowing global economy and rising interest rates). While there has […]
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34 min read
Pacific Horizon – Convergence opportunity
Pacific Horizon Investment companies | Annual overview | 8 December 2022 Convergence opportunity Pacific Horizon (PHI) has in 2022 found itself at a convergence of both negative sentiment towards Asia and growth stocks more generally (a function of lockdowns in China, a slowing global economy and rising interest rates). While this has dented its performance […]
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34 min read
Pacific Horizon – Convergence opportunity
Pacific Horizon Investment companies | Annual overview | 8 December 2022 Convergence opportunity Pacific Horizon (PHI) has in 2022 found itself at a convergence of both negative sentiment towards Asia and growth stocks more generally (a function of lockdowns in China, a slowing global economy and rising interest rates). While this has dented its performance […]
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13 Oct 2022 14 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Quarterly Review – Third Quarter 2022
Third quarter of 2022 Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Piling on the misery In the face of rising inflation, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, central bankers have condemned for their relative inaction. However, in the third quarter of 2022, they stepped up a gear. Last month’s economic and political roundup […]
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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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25 Nov 2021 31 min read
Pacific Horizon – Blistering performance
Since we last published in January of this year, Pacific Horizon (PHI) has continued with its trend of significant outperformance of both its peer group (where it is comfortably the top-performing trust) and the various indices that it benchmarks itself against. PHI, with its strong focus on growth, benefitted from a high allocation to technology […]
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31 min read
Pacific Horizon – Blistering performance
Since we last published in January of this year, Pacific Horizon (PHI) has continued with its trend of exceptional outperformance of both its peer group (where it is comfortably the top-performing trust) and the various indices that it benchmarks itself against. PHI, with its strong focus on growth, benefitted from a high allocation to technology […]
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31 min read
Pacific Horizon – Blistering performance
Since we last published in January of this year, Pacific Horizon (PHI) has continued with its trend of exceptional outperformance of both its Asia Pacific peer group (where it is comfortably the top-performing trust) and the various indices that it benchmarks itself against. PHI, with its strong focus on growth, benefitted from a high allocation […]
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20 Jan 2021 33 min read
Pacific Horizon – Powered by technology
Pacific Horizon (PHI) generated a sizeable uplift in its NAV over the course of 2020. This appears to reflect its focus on growth, and technology and biotech stocks in particular. These performed well as the world attempted to adjust to life under the pandemic, thereby accelerating a number of structural trends. PHI provided an NAV […]
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33 min read
Pacific Horizon – Powered by technology
Pacific Horizon (PHI) generated a very impressive uplift in its NAV over the course of 2020. This reflects its focus on growth, and technology and biotech stocks in particular. These performed well as we attempted to adjust to life under the pandemic, thereby accelerating a number of structural trends. PHI provided an NAV total return […]
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33 min read
Pacific Horizon – Powered by technology
Pacific Horizon (PHI) generated a very impressive uplift in its NAV over the course of 2020. This reflects its focus on growth, and technology and biotechnology stocks in particular. These performed well as we attempted to adjust to life under the pandemic, thereby accelerating a number of structural trends. PHI provided an NAV total return […]
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12 Nov 2020 7 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – November 2020
Investment Companies Monthly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents New research Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Major news stories Events Guide Legal New research Here is a list of research we published over October: Herald Investment Trust – Hot chips “Reflecting its focus on technology, […]
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16 Oct 2020 11 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Quarterly Review – Third Quarter 2020
Investment Companies Quarterly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents In this issue Performance data Positive movers Negative movers Discounts and premiums Getting more expensive Getting cheaper Money in and out Money in Money out Major news stories Upcoming Events New research Guide The legal bit Stubborn resistance The end […]
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09 Oct 2020 7 min read
QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – October 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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14 Jul 2020 9 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Quarterly Review – Second Quarter 2020
Investment Companies Quarterly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents In this issue Performance data Positive movers Negative movers Discounts and premiums Getting more expensive Getting cheaper Money in and out Money in Money out Major news stories Upcoming Events New research Guide The legal bit When the going gets […]
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07 Jul 2020 7 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – July 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents New research Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Major news stories Income Events Guide Appendix – Performance by sector full list New research Here is a list of research we published over June: CQS New City High Yield – […]
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08 Jun 2020 7 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – June 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents New research In this issue Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Major news stories Income Events Guide Appendix – Performance by sector full list New research Here is a list of research we published over May: GCP Infrastructure – […]
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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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08 Nov 2019 20 min read
Pacific Horizon – 2018 re-calibration paying off
2018 re-calibration paying off Moves by Pacific Horizon’s (PHI) manager Ewan Markson-Brown to re-position the portfolio by lowering its allocation to technology stocks, and excellent returns to-date from stock picks made in 2018, are paying off. PHI is the best-performing Asia Pacific fund in net asset value (NAV) terms over the year-to-date. Following a poor […]
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20 min read
Pacific Horizon – 2018 re-calibration paying off
2018 re-calibration paying off Moves by Pacific Horizon’s (PHI) manager Ewan Markson-Brown to re-position the portfolio by lowering the allocation to technology, and excellent returns to-date from stock picks made in 2018, are paying off. PHI is the best-performing Asia Pacific fund in net asset value (NAV) terms over the year-to-date. Coming off a poor […]
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07 Oct 2019 6 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – October 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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22 Mar 2019 2 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – March 2019
QuotedData’s economic roundup – March 2019 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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1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – March 2019
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – March 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 February 2019. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. JPMorgan Chinese, Fidelity China and Pacific Horizon benefited from a booming Chinese market in […]
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25 Jan 2019 1 min read
QuotedData review of 2018 – Annual report investment companies
QuotedData review of 2018 – Annual report investment companies 2018 – the return of volatility A trade war, Brexit, US interest rate rises, slowing Chinese growth, a US government shutdown, a dispute over Italy’s budget, the Skripal poisonings, numerous elections – there was plenty to worry about in 2018. A last-minute dive left the US […]
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08 Nov 2018 1 min read
Pacific Horizon – Pause for breath?
Pacific Horizon – Pause for breath? After two years of strong performance, Pacific Horizon (PHI) has suffered a reversal of fortune over the last three months. Sentiment swung against both China and the technology sector (both significant portfolio weights for PHI), with savage share price falls in some areas. However, it is possible that this reversal of […]
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1 min read
Pacific Horizon – Pause for breath?
After two years of strong performance, Pacific Horizon (PHI) has suffered a reversal of fortune over the last three months. Sentiment swung against both China and the technology sector, with savage share price falls in some areas. However, this reversal of fortune may prove to be short-lived if China and the US can agree a […]
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16 Oct 2018 2 min read
Quarterly Investment Companies Roundup – Third Quarter 2018
Quarterly Investment Companies Roundup – Third Quarter 2018 Global equities delivered positive returns over the third quarter of 2018. This was principally because of strength in the US market. Political uncertainty and concerns about global trade held back other regions. Generally, government bond yields rose over the quarter. The UK equity market fell as the Bank of […]
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12 Oct 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s Economic round up – October 2018
QuotedData’s Economic round up – October 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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QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – October 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – October 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 August 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Money raised and returned in September Trian Investors 1 is a new fund that will adopt […]
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11 May 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – May 2018
QuotedData investment companies roundup – May 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 April 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. India Capital Growth has experience a rebound in performance in the past month, as […]
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25 Apr 2018 1 min read
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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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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30 Oct 2017 1 min read
Pacific Horizon – Top of the Pops!
Pacific Horizon – Top of the Pops! – Pacific Horizon (PHI) has benefitted strongly as both the Asia ex Japan region and technology stocks, to which PHI has a significant exposure, have rallied. This has seen it move up the competitor peer-group rankings so that it is first and second, in terms of NAV total return, over […]
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1 min read
Pacific Horizon – Top of the Pops!
Pacific Horizon – Top of the Pops! – Pacific Horizon (PHI) has benefitted strongly as both the Asia ex Japan region and technology stocks, to which PHI has a significant exposure, have rallied. This has seen it move up the competitor peer-group rankings so that it is first and second, in terms of NAV total […]
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10 Apr 2017 1 min read
QuotedData’s round up of views on the global economy – April 2017
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 companies mentioned. Kindly sponsored […]
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31 Jan 2017 1 min read
QuotedData – 2016 review of the year
Our review of 2016 includes performance data, significant moves in discounts and premiums, money raised and money handed back, major news stories and links to the research we have published including our guide to investment companies. 2016 Annual roundup
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07 Dec 2016 1 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – December 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 November 2016. december-investment-companies-roundup
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08 Nov 2016 1 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – November 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 October 2016. november-investment-companies-roundup-2
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27 Oct 2016 1 min read
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 1 min read
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
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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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1 min read
Pacific Horizon – Brave new world
Pacific Horizon’s (PHI)’s performance has started to improve over the past few months, yet the manager thinks that there is still considerable potential for the portfolio. He believes that some of the themes that he is focusing on could radically alter all our lives and that many Asian companies will be at the forefront of […]
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21 Mar 2016 1 min read
Pacific Horizon – investor in Asian growth
Pacific Horizon – investor in Asian growth Marten and Co publishes its first initiation of coverage note on Pacific Horizon (PHI) The company is unashamedly a growth fund and its Asia-focused portfolio has significant overweight exposures to technology and biotechnology. However, it would appear that, investors are shying away from Asia because of weak Chinese growth and […]
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1 min read
Pacific Horizon – investor in Asian growth
Please click on the link above to access our initiation note on Pacific Horizon. Pacific Horizon (PHI) is unashamedly a growth fund and its Asia-focused portfolio has significant overweight exposures to technology and biotechnology. However, it would appear that, investors are shying away from Asia because of weak Chinese growth and are seeking safety in […]
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23 May 2025 12 min read
An opportunity for reflection and discussion: Inside Baillie Gifford’s Investment Trust Conference
This time last week I was at Baillie Gifford’s Investment Trust Conference in Edinburgh – a two-day event, held every three years, that sees Baillie Gifford playing host to around 250 professionals from the world of investment companies. The event provides a useful forum to discuss the latest developments in the sector. However, we also […]
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16 Apr 2025 2 min read
Pacific Horizon introduces conditional tender linked to five-year performance
Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (PHI) has announced plans to introduce a performance-linked conditional tender offer that could see up to 25% of its issued share capital (excluding treasury shares) repurchased, depending on how the trust performs over the next five years. The proposed tender offer, due to be assessed at the end of a performance […]
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12 Mar 2025 2 min read
Challenging start to the year for Pacific Horizon as volatility rises
Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (PHI) announced its interim report for the six months to 31 January 2025. During the first half of the financial year, the company produced a NAV total return of 3.0% compared to 6.7% for the benchmark MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index. The share price total return over the period […]
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03 Jan 2025 8 min read
QuotedData’s analysts’ picks for 2025
As we begin another year, here at QuotedData, we thought we’d have some fun and challenge our analysts, once again, to come up with some ideas for investment companies that they like and think could do well over the course of the coming year but first, we’re also going to take a look back and […]
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04 Oct 2024 3 min read
Lift off in China
Long suffering Chinese investors finally have something to cheer about. The CSI 300, the broad-based index of China’s largest companies, is now up an astonishing 27% off its mid-September lows as the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) and politburo announced an array of measures and fiscal rhetoric to support equity markets and the broader economy. […]
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17 Sep 2024 3 min read
Weak China and not enough TSMC hold back Pacific Horizon
Pacific Horizon has published annual results for the 12 months ended 31 July 2024. Over the period, the NAV total return was 4.8% and the share price total return was 5.1% compared with a total return of 6.8% for the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index. [This puts a small dent in some very […]
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26 Jul 2024 5 min read
Western worries, eastern opportunities: funds to capitalise on the unsung opportunities in Asia and the Middle East
This week seems to have been the grand finale of an eventful month for Western politics, culminating with the sudden withdrawal of Biden and the rise of Kamala Harris, which appears to have reinvigorated that contest. Biden’s exit followed an attempt on Trump’s life, the discord resulting from the French election, and the Labour Party […]
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05 Jul 2024 8 min read
An update on our analysts’ top picks for 2024
At the outset of 2024, we challenged our analysts to come up with some ideas for investment companies that they liked, and thought could do well over the course of this year (click here to read the original article which set out our analysts’ thinking and why they liked the stocks). We also promised to […]
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14 Mar 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 14 March 2024 – FCSS, ACIC, TIGT, STS, PHI
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 14 March 2024: Fidelity China (FCSS) is expanding by £126.6m as it issues 59m shares to abrdn China shareholders in connection with the merger of the two companies. Each abrdn China (ACIC) share rolling into Fidelity China will be exchanged for 2.06481 Fidelity China shares (although each shareholder’s total position will […]
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05 Jan 2024 4 min read
QD view – Our analysts’ top picks for 2024
As we begin another year here at QuotedData, we thought we’d have some fun and challenge our analysts to come up with some ideas for investment companies that they like and think could do well over the course of 2024. To keep things interesting, each analyst has been asked to select two ideas – one […]
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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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06 Oct 2023 5 min read
Pacific Horizon – challenging environment for growth but valuations look attractive
Pacific Horizon (PHI) has released its annual results for the year to 31 July 2023, during which it provided an NAV total return of -3.6% and a share price total return of -8.9%, which compares against a total return for the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index of 0.8% (all in sterling terms). PHI’s […]
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03 Mar 2023 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 March 2023
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 March 2023: Pacific Horizon has released its interim results for the six months to 31 January 2023. During the period, PHI’s NAV increased by 0.3%, while the share price increased by 4.1%, compared to the comparative index which rose 4.0% (all figures in sterling total return terms). The weakest performing […]
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10 Jan 2023 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 January 2023
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 January 2023: Ben Durrant has been made deputy portfolio manager of Pacific Horizon (PHI). Ben is an investment manager in Baillie Gifford’s Emerging Markets Equity Team. He joined Baillie Gifford in 2017 having previously worked for RBS in its Group Strategy and Corporate Finance Team. Prior to re-joining the Emerging […]
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20 Sep 2022 3 min read
Pacific Horizon hit by growth selloff
Pacific Horizon has published results for the 12 months ended 31 July 2022. Over the period, the NAV declined by 14.5% compared to a negative total return of 8.2% from the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index in sterling terms. The share price total return for the year was a negative 19.3%, resulting in […]
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04 Mar 2022 3 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 March 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 March 2022: Fidelity International has announced that it is pulling the plug on investment in Russia and Belarus. Its statement reads as follows: Given the seriousness of events in Ukraine, Fidelity International has decided that it will not be investing in Russia and Belarus for the forseeable future. As such, […]
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17 Dec 2021 2 min read
QD view – Pacific Horizon – a premium that’s spicy for a reason?
Discount and premiums have a tendency to mean revert, often quite quickly, and so I’m not given to favouring trusts that are trading at ratings much above their long-term averages, unless I can see a good reason. In the case of Pacific Horizon (which was trading at a premium of 6.3% as at 15 December […]
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22 Sep 2021 7 min read
Another strong year for Pacific Horizon despite departure of long-standing manager
Another strong year for Pacific Horizon despite departure of long-standing manager – Pacific Horizon (PHI) has published its preliminary results for the year to 31 July 2021. The trust’s strong performance from the previous year has continued, with an exceptional NAV return of 61.3% and share price return of 59.2%. This compares with a 12.7% […]
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09 Jul 2021 3 min read
QD view – is football coming home? Plus QuotedData’s Euro 2020 quiz
The last few weeks have given English football fans – and probably non-football fans alike – a much-needed boost of energy and excitement after 18 months of on-and-off staying at home. After Wednesday’s Euro 2020 semi-final against Denmark, which saw England win 2-1 and make history by reaching its first major men’s final since 1966, […]
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11 Jun 2021 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 11 June 2021
QuotedData’s weekly news show 11 June 2021 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: Pacific Horizon’s Markson-Brown departs Baillie Gifford for Crux BB Biotech’s Biogen bet plays out successfully Digital 9 Infrastructure […]
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10 Jun 2021 1 min read
Pacific Horizon’s Markson-Brown departs Baillie Gifford for Crux
Pacific Horizon’s Markson-Brown departs Baillie Gifford for Crux – Ewan Markson-Brown, co-manager of the top-performing Pacific Horizon investment trust has left Baillie Gifford to join Crux Asset Management in September this year. Markson-Brown has co-managed the trust alongside Roderick Snell for the past seven years, in which time it has delivered 360%, significantly ahead of […]
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29 Sep 2020 4 min read
Amazing results from Pacific Horizon
Amazing results from Pacific Horizon – over the year ended 31 July 2020, Pacific Horizon generated returns of 39.9% in NAV terms and 57.5% in share price terms compared to 5.1% from the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index in sterling. There will be a small dividend this year – just 0.25p – the manager […]
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06 Sep 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 6 September 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 6 September 2019 – International Public Partnerships has announced its interim results for the six months ending 30 June 2019. Key financial highlights include: NAV per share growth to 150.3 pence (31 December 2018: 148.1 pence); Interim dividend increase to 3.59 pence per share (30 June 2018: 3.50 pence per share); […]
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4 min read
Pacific Horizon has a better second half
Pacific Horizon (PHI) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 July 2019; it has benefited from a better second half performance. During the year as a whole, PHI saw its fall by 1.9% on a total return basis, compared to a 4.2% rise in the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index […]
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17 Dec 2018 1 min read
Pacific Horizon to pay lower charge on first tier of management fee
Pacific Horizon Investment Trust has announced a change to the first tier of its management fee that is beneficial to shareholders. With effect from 1 January 2019, the annual management fee will be charged at a rate of 0.75% on the first £50m of net assets, at 0.65% on the next £200m of net assets […]
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05 Oct 2018 6 min read
Pacific Horizon reports on positive year
Pacific Horizon reports on positive year – Pacific Horizon Investment Trust reports that, in the year to 31 July 2018, its NAV total return was 13.6%. During the same period the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index total return was 6.0% in sterling terms. The share price total return was 26.9% and the shares ended the […]
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10 Sep 2018 2 min read
Strong stock selection delivers for Pacific Horizon’s shareholders
Pacific Horizon (PHI) – Strong stock selection delivers for Pacific Horizon’s shareholders. The company’s NAV rose by 13.6% on a total return basis. This was an outperformance of 7.6% of the company’s benchmark, the MSCI AC Asia ex-Japan index, which returned 6.0% on the same basis. The share price returned 26.9% (total return), an outperformance of 20.0%. Strong stock selection delivers for Pacific […]
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19 Jan 2018 1 min read
Investment Trust Insider on Scottish Mortgage
Investment Trust Insider on Scottish Mortgage – The investment company industry had a good 2017. Money flooded into the sector; we got a couple of new and potentially fast-growing sub-sectors in the form of social housing and biotech debt; discounts narrowed; and, in general, performance was pretty good. By my reckoning, the average equity-focused investment […]
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09 Oct 2017 6 min read
Stellar year for Pacific Horizon
Stellar year for Pacific Horizon – In the year to 31 July 2017, Pacific Horizon’s NAV total return was 38.5%. During the same period, the total return of the comparative index, the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index, was 28.6% in sterling terms. The share price total return was 42.5%, and the discount narrowed from […]
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01 Mar 2017 3 min read
Pacific Horizon’s biotech positions and Samsung underweight lead to modest underperformance
Pacific Horizon (PHI), managed by Ewan Markson-Brown (pictured), has announced its interim results for the six months ended 31 January 2017. During the period, the Trust’s NAV total return was 9.7%. The share price total return was 8.0% as the discount widened from 10.1% to 11.4%. The Trust says that, over the same period the […]
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09 Sep 2016 2 min read
Pacific Horizon changes tender arrangements
Since its AGM in 2013, Pacific Horizon has asked shareholders each year for authority to implement, at the Board’s discretion, a bi-annual tender offer for up to 5% of its issued share capital (depending on the average level of its discount during the prior six month period). The Board, taking into consideration the need for the fund to have sufficient […]
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21 Apr 2016 1 min read
Top ten risers and fallers in March
http://view.ceros.com/citywire/it-insider-april-2016/p/21 Investors appeared to have a greater appetite for risk during March, with trusts which have invested in Brazil, Latin America, and Russia all featuring in the top 10 risers.
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04 Mar 2016 1 min read
Chinese internet stocks help Pacific Horizon outperform
Pacific Horizon’s interim results for the six months ended 31 January 2016 have been published. These show that its net asset value per share fell 6.1% to 185.64p. The share price fell 11.9% and the discount widened from 8.2% to 13.8%. Over the same period the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index fell 7.4% […]
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10 Sep 2015 1 min read
Pacific Horizon caught by Chinese market falls
Pacific Horizon has published results for the year ended 31 July 2015. Over the year the fund delivered an NAV return of -1.6% a bit behind the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index which decreased by 0.9%. shareholders did better however as the share price increased by 2.2% and the discount narrowed from 11.5% […]
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05 Mar 2015 1 min read
Over half of Pacific Horizon invested in Technology stocks
Over the six months ended 31 January 2015, Pacific Horizon’s net asset value per share rose 7.9% to 216.74p. The share price rose 12.5% and the discount narrowed from 11.5% to 7.7%. Over the same period the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index rose 8.5% in sterling terms. The manager has been increasing the […]
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11 Sep 2014 1 min read
Pacific Horizon growth bias pays off
PHI : Pacific Horizon growth bias pays off Pacific Horizon results for the year ended 31 July 2014 were good. The net asset value return was 10.4%, comfortably ahead of the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index which returned 4% in Sterling terms. Shareholders did even better as the trust’s discount narrowed, leaving them with […]
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18 Mar 2014 1 min read
Pacific Horizon : PHI – change of manager
The Board of Pacific Horizon, led by Jean Matterson (pictured), has appointed Ewan Markson-Brown as its portfolio manager. He will be assisted by Roderick Snell, the current deputy manager. Ewan used to work at PIMCO Europe and before that Newton Investment Management.
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12 Jan 2024 2 min read
A compelling comeback play – courtesy of Baillie Gifford
by Dave Baxter, Investors Chronicle, January 11, 2024: By now investors will be familiar with the trials and tribulations of Baillie Gifford’s flagship investment trusts. Scottish Mortgage (SMT) shareholders might feel like they have seen it all – from the enormous gains of the lockdown era to the eye-watering losses, board spats and doubts over […]
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20 Mar 2023 1 min read
Buy and hold versus changing style: which fund approach is best?
by Jennifer Hill from interactive investor, 20 March 2023: Some fund managers stick to their knitting irrespective of the wider macroeconomic backdrop; others have more flexibility to change their strategy to respond to market conditions. But which approach is best? Are investors better sticking with funds that adopt a long-term buy and hold strategy or […]
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13 Jun 2022 2 min read
A dangerous pariah? Or is China a mighty beast investors can’t afford to shun?
By ROSIE MURRAY-WEST, FINANCIAL MAIL ON SUNDAY, 12 June 2022: Investing in emerging markets is often a step too far for investors with an ethical bent. Human rights issues and exploitation of labour put them off. Nowhere in the emerging markets world are these issues currently more prominent than in China, still the engine room […]
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15 Nov 2021 2 min read
Investment trusts rediscover their roots with a 21st century twist
The listed fund vehicles are financing innovation in clean fuels, space and digital infrastructure Mary McDougall, Financial Times, NOVEMBER 12 2021 Investment trusts seem to be coming full circle. For most of the 20th century, they gradually moved away from their origins as entrepreneurial schemes investing in specific targets, often in Britain’s colonies, to running […]
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The alternative trusts allowing investors to capture new trends
Investment trusts enjoy record year for fundraising as they back a new wave of innovation November 11, 2021, Investors Chronicle, By Mary McDougall Investment trust fundraising amounted to £11.4bn in the first 10 months of the year, a record for the ancient fund structure which is now financing a new wave of innovation. Most striking is the […]
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17 May 2021 1 min read
There is more to emerging markets than China
DIY Investor, 6 May 2021 James Carthew, head of investment trusts, QuotedData Markets are trying to get to grips with the long term effects of COVID-19 on the global economy, but the prognosis is hard to call. That has led to some volatility this year, which may be a feature of markets for a while […]
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04 Jan 2021 1 min read
2020’s investment trust winners: time to take profits?
2020’s investment trust winners: time to take profits? December 30, 2020 By Dave Baxter The enormous sell-off that took hold in February and March was swiftly followed by a fierce rally that has come to dominate much of the year. MSCI World index rose by nearly 40 per cent in sterling terms between the start of […]
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22 Dec 2020 2 min read
Moving Apart
Moving Apart Trustnet magazine, Issue 68, December 2020 Cherry Reynard This year saw a stark divide between the winners and losers, but nowhere was this more apparent than the investment trust universe, writes Cherry Reynard This year has been a tumultuous one and the investment trust industry has reflected its highs and lows. Despite the […]
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05 Oct 2020 1 min read
Investment trust insider on Asian technology
Investment trust insider on Asian technology – James Carthew: there’s a lot of Asia tech we’re missing I met Mark Sheppard, the fund manager and leading shareholder of Manchester & London (MNL), last week. He was adamant that it was madness that most UK investors’ portfolios were very underweight US technology stocks and had next to […]
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23 Jul 2020 1 min read
Analysts back move to China mandate
Industry reaction: Baillie Gifford move could give Witan Pacific a ‘new lease of life’ Analysts back move to China mandate David Brenchley Investment Week 23 July 2020 Investment company analysts have backed plans for Baillie Gifford to transition Witan Pacific from a region generalist to a China specific vehicle. Witan Pacific’s board told investors on […]
