Overview
BlackRock Greater Europe aims to achieve capital growth through investment in a focused portfolio constructed from a combination of the securities of large, mid and small capitalisation European companies with some investment in the developing markets of Europe. BlackRock Greater Europe has the flexibility to invest in any country included in the FTSE World Europe ex UK Index, as well as the freedom to invest in developing countries not included in the Index but considered by the Manager and the Directors as part of greater Europe. The policy is that the portfolio should consist of approximately 30-70 securities and the majority of the portfolio will be invested in larger capitalisation companies, being companies with a market capitalisation of over €5 billion
Fundamentals
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Research History
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13 Oct 2023
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – October 2023
October 2023 Monthly roundup | Investment companies Kindly sponsored by abrdn Winners and losers in September 2023 September was defined by the ongoing US bond selloff, with global markets trending down in sympathy. Investment trust returns were negative on average for the month, although several sectors still achieved positive returns. The Royalties sector was the […]
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09 Mar 2023
QuotedData's Economic and Political Monthly Roundup March 2023
Economic and Political Monthly Roundup Investment companies | Monthly | March 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
QuotedData’s Economic and Political Monthly Roundup February 2023
Economic and Political Monthly Roundup Investment companies | Monthly | February 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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07 Dec 2022
QuotedData’s Economic and Political Monthly Roundup December 2022
Economic and Political Monthly Roundup Investment companies | Monthly | December 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 encourage […]
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07 May 2020
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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24 Jan 2020
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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12 Nov 2019
QuotedData’s economic roundup – November 2019
Economic & Political Roundup
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05 Jul 2019
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – July 2019
Investment Companies Roundup New research Over June, we published notes on CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income, Standard Life Private Equity and Shires Income. You can read all these notes by clicking on the links above or by visiting www.quoteddata.com. In this issue Performance data – there was a greater appetite for risk in June as […]
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13 Nov 2018
QuotedData's economic roundup - November 2018
QuotedData’s economic roundup – November 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 any […]
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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 […]
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11 May 2018
QuotedData's Economic round up – May 2018
QuotedData’s economic round up – May 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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18 Apr 2018
QuotedData's Economic round up – April 2018
QuotedData’s economic round up – April 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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18 Jan 2018
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 Jan 2018
QuotedData investment companies roundup – January 2018
QuotedData investment companies roundup – January 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 December 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. January Investment Companies Roundup Winners and losers in December Infrastructure India’s share price […]
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10 Nov 2017
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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10 Nov 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – November 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – November 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 October 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. November Investment Companies Roundup Globalworth Real Estate’s discount was eliminated after it announced […]
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12 Jul 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – July 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – July 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 June 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. July Investment Companies Roundup Money raised in July Newly launched in June were […]
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16 May 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – May 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – May 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 sell […]
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08 Nov 2016
QuotedData’s round up of views on the global economy – November 2016
QuotedData’s collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from comments made by chairman and managers of investment companies. november-economic-and-political-roundup
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08 Nov 2016
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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16 Dec 2013
Quoted Fund weekly issues and repurchases
Each week we’ll let you know which funds are growing and which are shrinking – please see the attached pdf: 131216-issues-and-repurchases
News
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26 Oct 2018
BlackRock Greater Europe has a great year
BlackRock Greater Europe has a great year – BlackRock Greater Europe Investment Trust has announced results for the year ended 31 August 2018. The NAV increased by 11.8%, well ahead of a rise of 1.4% in the World Europe ex UK Index. The share price rose by 12.5% over the same period. The revenue return per share amounted to 5.95p per […]
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18 Dec 2017
Investment Trust Insider on Biotech
Investment Trust Insider on Biotech – inspired by the launch of our biotech news service on QuotedData, I wrote something for Citywire that looks at some of the exciting stories that have been published just in the last couple of weeks. James Carthew: biotech boom boosts generalist trusts This week I am returning to the […]
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23 Oct 2017
BlackRock Greater European exploring South African listing
BlackRock Greater European exploring South African listing – BlackRock Greater European says that, during the year to 31 August 2017, its net asset value per share increased by 23.0%, compared with a rise of 26.0% in the World Europe ex UK Index. The share price rose by 22.9% over the same period. The chairman’s statement says that […]
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20 Jun 2017
Stefan Gries appointed co-manager of BlackRock Greater Europe
BlackRock Greater Europe has announced that it has been informed that Vincent Devlin, co-portfolio manager of the Company, will be stepping down as portfolio manager. Stefan Gries, a senior Director within the BlackRock’s European Active Equity team has been appointed co-portfolio manager alongside Sam Vecht, who retains principal responsibility for the Company’s emerging European portfolio. […]
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07 Feb 2017
All trust sectors bar one made money in ’16
UK Smaller Companies was the only investment sector to lose money in 2016 despite a turbulent political and economic landscape, new research has revealed. See more here
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20 Oct 2016
BlackRock Greater European beats benchmark
Over the twelve months to 31 August 2016, BlackRock Greater European’s net asset value per share increased by 16.9%, compared with a rise of 15.4% in the FTSE World Europe ex UK Index. The share price rose by 13.8% over the same period. The Board is proposing the payment of a final dividend of 3.65p […]
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20 Apr 2016
BlackRock Greater European subscription share exercise on knife edge
BlackRock Greater European says its undiluted net asset value per share increased by 2.1%, compared with a decrease of 0.8% in the FTSE World Europe ex UK Index. Over the same period, the Company’s share price rose by 3.2% (all percentages calculated in sterling terms with income reinvested). Since the period end to 18 April 2016, the […]
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21 Dec 2015
Henderson Alternative Strategies sees performance pick up in second half
Henderson Alternative Strategies Trust has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the Company delivered a NAV total return of -5.0% compared with a 0.8% rise in its FTSE World Total Return Index global equity benchmark. However, the board say that they are very encouraged to see that […]
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23 Oct 2015
BlackRock Greater Europe outperforms aided by Ryanair
BlackRock Greater Europe has announced results for the year ended 31 August 2015. The total return on net assets was 7.3% and the return to shareholders 6.8% both of which compare favourably with the 1.3% return on the FTSE World Europe ex UK Index. The dividend was upped from 4.7p to 5p. The manager’s report […]
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22 May 2015
Henderson value trust underperformance masks portfolio developments
Henderson Value Trust interim results for the half-year ended 31 March 2015 show a NAV total return of 0.4% which compares against a 12.4% rise in its FTSE World Index benchmark. However, the managers that this this masks some encouraging developments within the investment portfolio. They say that new investments made by Henderson, which were in […]
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24 Apr 2015
BlackRock Greater European scraps performance fee
BlackRock Greater European’s interim results for the six months ended 28 February 2015 show that, during the six month period, the Company’s undiluted net asset value (NAV) per share returned +8.1%, compared with a return of +6.0% in the FTSE World Europe ex UK Index. At the same time, the discount widened somewhat, with the result […]
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21 Oct 2014
BlackRock Greater Europe suffers in second half
BRGE : BlackRock Greater Europe suffers in second half BlackRock Greater Europe has announced results for the year that ended on 31 August 2014 that show its net asset value delivered a total return of 4.5% over the year – the fund underperformed the FTSE World Europe ex UK Index which returned 10.4% and unfortunately […]
