Overview
Acencia Debt Strategies’ investment objective is to produce annual returns in excess of 3-month Sterling LIBOR plus 5 per cent over a rolling 3-year period, with annual standard deviation of under 5 per cent.
The Company’s investment policy is to invest in and actively manage a portfolio of predominantly debt orientated hedge funds. The Company does not use leverage other that for short-term working capital needs. In addition, the portfolio has minimal gearing at the underlying fund level. The Company’s foreign exchange exposures are hedged back to sterling. Acencia Debt Strategies’ dividend policy is to pay an annualised dividend equal to 3.5% of Net Asset Value by means of interim and final dividend payments.
The company’s website is accessed here.
Research History
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13 Mar 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – March 2018
QuotedData investment companies roundup – March 2018 – is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of February 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Equity markets continued to run up in early February, supported by strong corporate earnings […]
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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 Jan 2018 2 min read
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 […]
News
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25 Aug 2016 3 min read
Acencia Debt Strategies chairman believes a continuation is in shareholder’s interests
AcenciA Debt Strategies has announced its interim results for the six month ended 30 June 2016. During the period, the company provided an NAV total return of 1.1% but, reflecting a widening of the discount during the period (from 9.3% to 13.9%) its price total return was -3.7%. The company’s chairman, William Scott, says that […]
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28 Apr 2016 1 min read
Acencia Debt Strategies has difficult year
AcenciA Debt Strategies Ltd, which invests in a highly focused portfolio of multi-strategy credit and event-driven funds, with a focus on distressed debt, has announced its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2015. The Net asset value per share at 31 December 2015 decreased by 6.1% to $1.57 and the share price by 9.2% to […]
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24 Aug 2015 3 min read
Busy H1 leaves Acencia’s NAV little changed
Over the six months to the end of June 2015, Acencia Debt Strategies (which is now reporting its results in US dollars for the first time) saw total return on net asset value of 1.8% to US$1.73 (NAV was flat – return is down to dividends paid). Total Shareholder returns were up 0.1% per cent to a share […]
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29 Apr 2015 1 min read
Acencia says managers seeing many attractive opportunities
Acencia Debt Strategies says its net asset value, adjusted for dividends, increased by 4.9% over the course of 2014 and its share price grew by 8.0%. They are paying a dividend of 1.95p for the period. Notable investments include the Lehman estate (which is gradually working its way through liquidation) – they say the process is slow and litigious […]
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22 Aug 2014 1 min read
Acencia Debt Strategies potential for continuation option through to 2017
AcenciA Debt Strategies potential for continuation option through to 2017 AcenciA Debt Strategies provided an NAV total return of 3.5% during the first half of 2014. Its share price beat this with a total return of 9% and, reflecting this, the discount to NAV narrowed from 9.3% to 3.9%. AcenciA has a hard wind up at the end of […]
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01 Apr 2014 1 min read
Acencia Debt Strategies : ACD – final results
Over the year ended 31 December 2013, Acencia Debt Strategies’ net asset value per share increased by 9.7% to 109.75p and the share price by 20.9% to 100.30p
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29 Jan 2014 1 min read
Acencia Debt Strategies : ACD – change to discount control
ACD has been buying back shares, subject to having available liquidity available after paying dividends and maintaining its currency hedging programme, with the aim of keeping its discount at or below a 10% discount. the Board has decided to reduce this target to 7.5%.
