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Research History

• 14 Sep 2023

  QuotedData's Economic and Political Monthly Roundup September 2023

  Economic and Political Monthly Roundup Investment companies | Monthly | September 2023 August was a moderately volatile month for markets as the economic picture in China worsened. Developed markets held up better than emerging markets. Yields on US government debt rose. Oil prices edged up, but the big jump was in natural gas prices as […]

• 06 Apr 2023

  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 […]

• 13 Oct 2022

  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 […]

• 06 Oct 2022

  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 […]

• 09 Oct 2020

  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 […]

• 10 Mar 2020

  QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – March 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 […]

• 06 Dec 2019

  QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – December 2019

  Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford  Table of contents  New research In this issue Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Income Events  New research  Here is a list of research we published over November: An initiation note on Henderson High Income “We have initiated coverage on Henderson High Income (HHI). Since […]

• 11 Sep 2019

  QuotedData’s economic roundup – September 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 […]

• 07 Aug 2019

  QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – August 2019

  Investment Companies Roundup  New research Over July, we published notes on CQS New City High Yield, BlackRock Throgmorton, Strategic Equity Capital, Seneca Global Income & Growth, CG Asset Management, Standard Life Investments Property Income and Aberdeen New Dawn. You can read all these notes by clicking on the links above or by visiting www.quoteddata.com.  In this issue Performance data – appetite […]

• 08 May 2019

  QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – May 2019

  Investment Companies Roundup  New research Over April, we published notes on Henderson Diversified Income, Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure, Jupiter Emerging and Frontier Income, Seneca Global Income & Growth and Polar Capital Global Financials Trust. You can read all these notes by clicking on the links above or by visiting www.quoteddata.com.  In this issue Performance data – it was […]

• 22 Mar 2019

  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 […]

• 16 Oct 2018

  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 […]

• 14 Sep 2018

  QuotedData’s Economic round up – September 2018

  QuotedData’s Economic round up – September 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 […]

• 14 Sep 2018

  QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – September 2018

  QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – September 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 August GRIT Real Estate Income floated on the UK Stock Exchange in […]

• 18 Jul 2018

  Quarterly Investment Companies Roundup – Second Quarter 2018

  QUARTERLY INVESTMENT COMPANIES ROUNDUP – SECOND QUARTER 2018 Global equities markets rose in the second quarter of 2018, Markets were volatile, as positive economic data and encouraging company performances played off against geopolitical concerns. Yields from bond markets rose early in the quarter but fell back as investors turned to ‘safer’ investments. The threat of […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 13 Mar 2018

  QuotedData's Economic round up - March 2018

  QuotedData’s economic round up – March 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 […]

• 11 Dec 2017

  QuotedData investment companies roundup – December 2017

  QuotedData investment companies roundup – December 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 November 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. December Investment Companies Roundup Money raised and returned in November There were no […]

• 12 Oct 2017

  QuotedData’s economic round up – October 2017

  QuotedData’s economic round up – October 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 […]

• 15 Mar 2017

  QuotedData’s round up of views on the global economy – March 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 […]

• 13 Oct 2016

  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  

• 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

• 24 Aug 2018

  Standard Life UK Smaller Companies - outperformance, merger and lower fees

  Standard Life UK Smaller Companies – outperformance, merger and lower fees – the NAV of Standard Life UK Smaller Companies (SLS) delivers a total return of 24.8%, compared with the total return of 8.5% of it’s reference index, the Numis Smaller Companies plus AIM (excluding Investment Companies) Index. Outperformance The company’s performance was good throughout the year in question with a particularly […]

• 19 Jul 2018

  Investment Trust Insider on how to grow trusts

  Investment Trust Insider on how to grow trusts James Carthew: imponderable questions in quest for scale Last week I addressed the uphill battle Ashoka India Equity (AIE) faces if it wants to expand, having raised just £46.5 million in its flotation. It is by no means the smallest fund out there, however. Many of the very smallest funds […]

• 28 Feb 2018

  Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust changes its reference benchmark

  Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust changes its reference benchmark – In the company’s half year statement published at the end of February 2018, it was announced that, with effect from 1st January 2018, the performance of SLS will be measured against the Numis Smaller Companies plus AIM (ex Investment Companies) index. The previous index had […]

• 05 Sep 2017

  Fevertree helps power Standard Life Smaller Companies to another year of outperformance

  Fevertree helps power Standard Life Smaller Companies to another year of outperformance – Standard Life Smaller Companies says that, for the year ended 30 June 2017, its diluted net asset value total return was 35.0%, compared with a total return of 29.1% for the Numis Smaller Companies ex Investment Companies Index. The share price total return, calculated […]

• 20 Jun 2017

  Investment Trust Insider on UK Small Cap

  From an economic standpoint recent news in the UK has been worrying. House prices are falling and so are retail sales. Inflation has exceeded the Bank of England’s target and so the monetary policy committee is edging closer to raising interest rates. We have a hung parliament and we are just about to embark on […]

• 27 Feb 2017

  Mining underweight sees Standard Life UK Smaller Companies modestly underperform

  Standard Life UK Smaller Companies has announced its interim results for the half year ended 31 December 2016. During the period, the company provided an NAV total return of 16.7% and a share price total return of 17.7%, these both modestly underperformed the company’s ‘reference index’, the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding Investment Companies) Index, […]

• 01 Sep 2016

  Standard Life UK Smaller Companies beats benchmark by 10%

  For the year ended 30 June 2016, Standard Life UK Smaller Companies’ diluted net asset value total return was 4.1%, compared with a total return of -6.6% for its benchmark. The Board is recommending a final dividend of 5.20p per share, an increase on last year’s final dividend of 18.2%. If approved, the final dividend, […]

• 22 Feb 2016

  Standard Life UK Smaller posts "remarkable" performance

  Standard Life UK Smaller Companies’ diluted net asset value total return was 15.2% for the six months ended 31 December 2015. This compares with a total return of -1.0% for the Company’s benchmark, the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding Investment Companies). The Board say the outperformance is remarkable given stock markets have proved challenging over the period. The […]

• 28 Jan 2016

  F&C Managed Portfolio beats UK market

  F&C Managed Portfolio Trust has published interim results for the six months ended 30 November 2015, announcing a net asset value total return of -5.1% for the Income shares and -2.4% for the Growth shares compared to the FTSE All-Share Index return of -6.4%. The key drivers of the performance of the Growth Portfolio were […]

• 02 Dec 2015

  Standard life UK Smallers - changes to DCM and fee arrangements

  Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust, managed by Harry Nimmo (pictured), has announced some changes to its managaement fee and discount control policy. The company has agreed with the investment manager that, with effect from 1 January 2016, a tiered management fee will be introduced with the current fee of 0.85% continuing to apply to […]

• 01 Sep 2015

  Standard Life UK Smallers - 'steady if unspectacular out-performance'

  Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust, managed by Harry Nimmo (pictured), has announced its results for the year ended 30 June 2015 during which, the Company’s diluted net asset value total return was 14.2%, beating a total return of 10.4% for the Company’s benchmark. The manager describes the year as being characterised by steady if […]

• 23 Feb 2015

  Good interims from Standard Life UK Smaller Companies

  Standard Life UK Smaller Companies has published interim accounts for the six months ended 31 December 2014. It beat its benchmark over this period, returning 1.6% on net assets as compared to a -1.3% return on the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding Investment Companies) and the FTSE100 Index of the largest UK listed companies fell by […]

• 02 Sep 2014

  Standard Life UK Smallers hit by rate rise fears

  SLS : Standard Life UK Smallers hit by rate rise fears Standard Life UK Smaller Companies has published results for the year ended 30 June 2014 that show it underperforming its benchmark by some margin. Over the year the net asset value total return was 7.7% vs. 20.3% for the Numis Smaller Companies ex Investment […]

• 28 Feb 2014

  Standard Life UK Smaller Companies : SLS - Interims

  Standard Life UK Smaller Companies interim report covering the second half of 2013 shows the fund underperforming its benchmark by some margin (NAV total return 17.6% vs. Numis Smaller Companies ex Investment Companies return of 21.0%). The share price did better than the NAV, returning 19.6%. The manager’s report ascribes the underperformance to lack of […]

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