Overview
Impax Environmental Markets’ objective is to enable investors to benefit from growth in the markets for cleaner or more efficient delivery of basic services of energy, water and waste. Investments are made predominantly in quoted companies which provide, utilise, implement or advise upon technology-based systems, products or services in environmental markets, particularly those of alternative energy and energy efficiency, water infrastructure and technologies and pollution control, and waste management and technologies and environmental support services.
The fund’s website can be found here
Fundamentals
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Research History
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13 Sep 2024 1 min read
Interview with Jon Forster from Impax Environmental Markets
In this week’s show, James Carthew spoke to Jon Forster from Impax Environmental Markets. 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 Aiman. Additionally, if you would prefer […]
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03 Jun 2024 22 min read
Impax Environmental Markets – Sustainable long-term growth
Sustainable long-term growth Impax Environmental Markets (IEM) invests in good-quality, fast-growing companies that are providing innovative solutions to environmental challenges or improving resource efficiency. The pace of change may be slower in some countries than others and, overall, slower than many of us would like, but it is inexorable, which underpins an attractive long-term outlook […]
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22 min read
Impax Environmental Markets – Sustainable long-term growth
Sustainable long-term growth Impax Environmental Markets (IEM) invests in good-quality, fast-growing companies that are providing innovative solutions to environmental challenges or improving resource efficiency. The pace of change may be slower in some countries than others and, overall, slower than many of us would like, but it is inexorable, which underpins an attractive long-term outlook […]
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21 min read
Impax Environmental Markets – Sustainable long-term growth
Sustainable long-term growth Impax Environmental Markets (IEM) aims to invest in good-quality, fast-growing companies that are providing innovative solutions to environmental challenges or improving resource efficiency. The pace of change may be slower in some countries than others and, overall, slower than many of us would like, but IEM’s managers believe that it is inexorable, […]
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14 Sep 2023 41 min read
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 […]
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04 Aug 2023 1 min read
Interview with Fotis Chatzimichalakis from Impax Environmental Markets
In this week’s show, James Carthew spoke to Fotis Chatzimichalakis from Impax Asset Management, a portfolio manager of Impax Environmental Markets. 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 […]
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07 May 2020 4 min read
QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – May 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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17 Apr 2020 8 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Quarterly Review – First 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 The legal bit Unprecedented times We have knitted […]
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07 Feb 2020 7 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – February 2020
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 Major news stories Income Events Guide New research Here is a list of research we published over January: An annual overview note on Shires Income (SHRS) “Shires Income (SHRS) will […]
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11 Sep 2019 3 min read
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 […]
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08 May 2019 4 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – May 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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15 Aug 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s Economic round up – August 2018
QuotedData’s Economic round up – August 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 […]
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10 Apr 2017 1 min read
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 1 min read
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
News
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20 Nov 2024 1 min read
Impax Environmental Markets adopts ‘Sustainability Impact’ label
The UK financial regulator – the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) – has introduced a product labelling scheme aimed at preventing “greenwashing” – passing off funds as having ESG benefits that they don’t actually have. Impax Environmental Markets, which is the UK’s largest investment trust focused on environmental solutions and resource efficiency, has announced that it […]
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01 Nov 2024 8 min read
AI’s double-edged role in the sustainability revolution
AI’s rapid development and uptake pose a growing resource challenge. However, companies creating the solutions to tackle that challenge offer a growing opportunity for investors, even as the technology itself can help shape environmental markets. Executive Summary AI is already proving invaluable in enabling climate solutions, for example in energy efficiency, environmental technologies and forecasting. […]
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23 Aug 2024 4 min read
Heineken trusts: reaching the parts that other trusts can’t
QD view – four idiosyncratic investment options that provide a differentiated and diversifying addition to a portfolio Part of the joy of investment trusts is that they allow fund managers more room to explore. It doesn’t matter too much if a strategy is highly cyclical, goes through periods of unpopularity, or is illiquid, because managers […]
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12 Aug 2024 2 min read
Challenging start to the year but optimism remains for Impax Environmental Markets
Impax Environmental Markets (IEM) has released its interim report for the six months to 30 June 2024. The company’s NAV total return was -0.5% while shares fell 2.3%, trailing the benchmark index which delivered a return of 12.2%. The net revenue return for the period was £8.6m, compared with £9.1m earned in the same period […]
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10 Jul 2024 5 min read
The green arc of steel’s transition
Emerging technologies are poised to reduce the steel industry’s environmental impact, creating compelling investment opportunities in the sector. Executive summary Steel remains a vital component of many products solving environmental challenges and improving resource efficiency, from wind turbines to waste collection. This makes lowering the carbon intensity of its production and aligning the industry with […]
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12 Jun 2024 1 min read
Impax Environmental Markets on addressing PFAS – Solutions to the forever challenge
Impax believes the urgent need to detect, treat and destroy ‘forever chemicals’ in the world’s water is creating investment opportunities that are broader and more valuable than many appreciate Executive summary Understanding of the potentially grave and lasting threats to public health and biodiversity posed by ‘forever chemicals’ is driving public pressure, regulation and litigation […]
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10 May 2024 3 min read
QD view – Growth utilities
It would be fair to say that, traditionally, utility companies have not been viewed as the most exciting investments on the planet, with the sector consisting mostly of publicly owned or heavily regulated suppliers of basic amenities like water, gas and power. Nevertheless, as funds such as Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure (EGL) have demonstrated, […]
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03 May 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 3rd May 2024
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • Aberforth Split Level Income (0:33) • Chrysalis (6:24) Andrew McHattie highlighted a number of funds that were looking unusually cheap or expensive (10:24). This week’s interview […]
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11 Apr 2024 4 min read
Impax Environmental Markets says underlying earnings remain robust
Impax Environmental Markets (IEM) says its NAV total return for 2023 was 4.5% and, as its discount widened, the return to shareholders was -3.7%. [There is no good benchmark for the portfolio, but we would use the MSCI All Countries World Index, which returned 15.3% in a year where the market’s focus was on very […]
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05 Dec 2023 3 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 December 2023 – PNL, IEM, LTI, PCTN, HLCL, HOME, TOWN, SHC
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 December 2023: Personal Assets Trust (PNL) announced its interm report for the six months to 31 October 2023. The company’s NAV fell by 2.7% while shares fell 4.5% with shares falling to a discount of around 1%. The company continues to be positioned defensively with almost 40% of the fund […]
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07 Sep 2023 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 7 September 2023 – GRID, IEM, SWEF, SOHO, HOME
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 7 September 2023: Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID) reports a fall in its NAV and a -3.5% return for the six months ended 30 June 2023. Most of the negative impact comes from lower revenue forecasts (these took 15.5p off the NAV). The discount rate used to value the portfolio has […]
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20 Jul 2023 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 20 July 2023
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 20 July 2023: Bellevue Healthcare (BBH) is operating an annual redemption facility as usual this year. However, to be eligible to take part in November/December, you must be holding shares at 2 September 2023. This is to give the company the chance to get the paperwork done for what it fears […]
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12 Apr 2023 3 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 April 2023
Impax Environmental Markets (IEM) announced the appointment of Guy Walker as an independent non-executive director of the company with effect from 17 May 2023. Guy is currently senior independent director at JPMorgan European Growth & Income plc, having joined them in 2021. He was previously managing director UK & European Equities at UBS Asset Management […]
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03 Apr 2023 2 min read
IEM struggles with the growth rotation
Impax Environmental Markets (IEM) has announced its annual results for the year ending 31 December 2022. Over the period IEM reported a NAV total return of -15.0%, and a share price total return of -22.8%. This represents an underperformance relative to IEM’s global equity comparator index, the MSCI ACWI, which generated -8.1%. IEM did outperform […]
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05 Apr 2022 2 min read
Good 2021 for Impax as it claws back some of last year’s underperformance
Impax Environmental Markets has published results covering the 12 months ended 31 December 2021. Over the year the trust generated an NAV return of 21.3% and a return to shareholders of 30.1%, both well-ahead of the MSCI AC World Index and the Environmental Technology 100 Index – up 19.6% and 13.1%, respectively. This reflects a […]
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04 Aug 2021 3 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 August 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 August 2021: One of Schroder British Opportunities’s (SBO) private equity holdings, Rapyd, has completed a $300m Series E funding round. The global Fintech as a Service company had recently acquired Valitor, a European payments and card issuing company and also launched a venture arm. The additional funds will enable Rapyd to […]
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09 Apr 2021 2 min read
QD View – Go Green?
QD View – Go Green? Impax Environmental Markets is doing very well but is it too popular? It has been a short week and a quiet week in the investment companies market. Funds continue to report results for 2020, however, and the one that stood out for me this week was Impax Environmental Markets. Shareholders […]
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07 Apr 2021 4 min read
Impax Environmental reflects on a big year as China targets net carbon neutrality by 2060
It was a good year for Impax Environmental (IEM) in absolute terms with its annual results period to 31 December 2020 bringing a total NAV return of 31.0% and a total market return of 28.9%. The shares traded at an average premium to NAV of 4.6% over the period. The NAV return was ahead of the […]
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01 Feb 2021 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 1 February 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 1 February 2021 – BlackRock Income and Growth (BRIG) reported annual results to 31 October 2020. During the year the company’s NAV per share returned -16.7%. At the share price level, the company returned -14.8% over the period. As at 28 January 2021, since the year-end BRIG’s NAV and share price have […]
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20 Nov 2020 3 min read
QD view – Looking after the environment
Over the next few weeks, QuotedData is hosting a series of webinars focused on ESG – environmental, social and governance – aspects of investing that are increasingly important to investors. The first of these, on 24 November, will look at the ‘E’ in ESG. The main thrust of the debate around tackling the environmental issues […]
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21 Jul 2020 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 July 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 July 2020: BioPharma Credit has received a notice of prepayment for its $150 million senior secured loan with Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. As a result, the company is expected to receive on or before 4 August 2020, approximately $156.2 million, comprised of $150 million in principal, $1.2 million in accrued interest and […]
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15 Nov 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 15 November 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 15 November 2019 Princess Private equity has highlighted a press release from Partners Group – Partners Group has agreed to sell its minority equity stake in Action, Europe’s leading non-food discount retailer, on behalf of its clients. The stake will be acquired by Hellman & Friedman, a leading private equity investment firm. Partners […]
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28 Jul 2016 6 min read
F&C Managed Portfolio beats benchmark despite widening discounts
F&C Managed Portfolio reports that, for the company’s financial year to 31 May 2016, the NAV total return (i.e. adding dividends paid to capital performance) was -4.8% for the Income shares and -4.5% for the Growth shares which represented outperformance against the -6.3% total return for the FTSE All-Share Index, the benchmark index for both […]
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In The Press
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28 May 2024 1 min read
Investment trust insider on biodiversity
Investment trust insider on biodiversity – James Carthew: Governments are finally taking biodiversity seriously Government action to address falling wildlife numbers is creating opportunities for some businesses, with tradeable biodiversity credits one incentive. Last week, 22 May was the International Day for Biodiversity. There are ‘days’ for just about anything that you can think of […]
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19 Feb 2024 1 min read
How the 10 funds to buy and hold forever have fared over the past five years
by Jennifer Hill from interactive investor, 19th February 2024: Markets have had to digest more than usual over the past five years. The period has seen the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as soaring inflation and sharp reversals in monetary policy from quantitative easing and rock-bottom interest rates to a sustained […]
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13 Nov 2023 2 min read
Revisiting Renewables
Cherry Reynard, AIC Compass Magazine, 10 Nov 2023: World leaders gathering in the UAE for the COP 28 at the end of November are likely to reach the now-familiar conclusion that countries ‘could do better’ on net zero targets. A cursory glance at the recent returns of renewable energy and environmental trusts – and their […]
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15 Nov 2021 2 min read
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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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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17 Dec 2020 1 min read
Shape the things to come
SHAPE THE THINGS TO COME Portfolio Adviser IT Guide, 16 December 2020 James Carthew, Director QuotedData Shareholders in investment companies have a significant edge over their open-ended counterparts when it comes to seeking out ESG-oriented investments The investment world has a big role to play in shaping the future of the planet for the benefit […]
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16 Nov 2020 1 min read
Engines of growth: Investment trusts for responsible investing
Engines of growth: Investment trusts for responsible investing By Mary McDougall, Investors Chronicle, 12 November 2020 Appetite for investment products with strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials has boomed this year as the pandemic has put the need for a sustainable world under the spotlight. Enthusiasm has been helped by sustainable funds broadly outperforming their conventional peers […]
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13 Oct 2020 1 min read
Investment trust insider on Impax Environmental Markets
Investment trust insider on Impax Environmental Markets – James Carthew: why no environmental rival for Impax? A couple of weeks ago I highlighted the attractions of Home (HOME) real estate investment. I was pleased to see it raised £240m in its flotation and I hope it will end up being a lot bigger in a few years’ time. Shares in Home Reit started […]
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29 Jul 2020 2 min read
Investment trust insider on ESG
Investment trust insider on ESG – James Carthew: ESG? Riverstone, you’re having a laugh Riverstone Energy (RSE) has just announced a deal whereby it, and other funds managed or advised by its investment manager, will refinance Enviva, a leading player in the manufacture of wood pellets. The pellets are burnt in power stations (like the UK’s […]
