Overview
Gulf Investment Fund : GIF, formerly Qatar Investment Fund QIF, aims to capture the opportunities for growth offered by the expanding GCC (Gulf Co-operation Council) economies by investing in listed companies on one of the GCC exchanges or companies soon to be listed on one of the GCC exchanges. The company may also invest in listed companies, or pre-IPO companies, in other GCC countries. The company applies a top-down screening process to identify those sectors which should most benefit from sectoral growth trends. Fundamental industry and company analysis, rather than benchmarking, forms the basis of both stock selection and portfolio construction.
The company’s primary investment objective is to achieve capital growth. However, the company has instituted an annual dividend policy to return to shareholders distributions at least equal to reported income for each reporting period. Shareholders should note that this cannot be guaranteed and the level of distributions for any period remains a matter to be determined at the discretion of the board.
The GCC comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
We have written some notes that seek to explain the workings of the fund:
In good hands was published on 23 January 2024
On the gulf of a new economy, was published on 18 April 2023
Much more than just oil and gas, was our initiation note published on 18 August 2022
The fund’s website can be found here.
Research History
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27 Sep 2024 15 min read
Gulf Investment Fund – Please don’t go
Please don’t go Following its recent tender offer, Gulf Investment Fund’s (GIF) future is at risk as the board is proposing a windup of the trust. GIF has outperformed its peers and global indices over the longer-term and offers exposure that can be difficult for some investors, particularly smaller ones, to access. Because of this, […]
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16 min read
Gulf Investment Fund – Please don’t go
Please don’t go Following its recent tender offer, Gulf Investment Fund’s (GIF) future is at risk as the board is proposing a windup of the trust. We believe a strategy as successful and distinctive as GIF’s merits continuation. Details of the proposed windup measures and our opinions can be read on page 3. The GCC […]
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16 min read
Gulf Investment Fund – Please don’t go
Please don’t go Following its recent tender offer, Gulf Investment Fund’s (GIF) future is at risk as the board is proposing a windup of the fund (a sale of the trust’s assets with the proceeds returned to shareholders after the costs of liquidating the fund have been deducted). We believe a strategy as successful and […]
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23 Jan 2024 17 min read
Gulf Investment Fund – In good hands
Gulf Investment Fund Investment companies | Annual overview | 23 January 2024 In good hands In terms of both its alpha generation and NAV returns, Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has been one of the best-performing strategies focusing on the Gulf region. The management team has recently increased exposure to the healthcare sector, which it believes […]
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18 min read
Gulf Investment Fund – In good hands
Gulf Investment Fund Investment companies | Annual overview | 23 January 2024 In good hands Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has demonstrated an ability to be one of the best-performing strategies focusing on the Gulf region, as illustrated by its net asset value (NAV) outperformance and its ability to generate sector-leading alpha (a measurement of manager […]
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17 min read
Gulf Investment Fund – In good hands
Gulf Investment Fund Investment companies | Annual overview | 23 January 2024 In good hands Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has demonstrated an ability to be one of the best-performing strategies focusing on the Gulf region, as illustrated by its ability to generate sector-leading alpha. The team has recently expanded into the healthcare sector, which has […]
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13 Oct 2023 10 min read
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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17 Apr 2023 15 min read
Gulf Investment Fund – On the gulf of a new economy
Gulf Investment Fund Investment companies | Update | 17 April 2023 On the gulf of a new economy The team behind the Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has more than proven its worth as an active manager, having negotiated the turbulent markets of 2022 to deliver truly impressive outperformance of both GIF’s peers and its benchmark. […]
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15 min read
Gulf Investment Fund – On the gulf of a new economy
Gulf Investment Fund Investment companies | Update | 17 April 2023 On the gulf of a new economy The team behind the Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has more than proven its worth as an active manager, having negotiated the turbulent markets of 2022 to deliver truly impressive outperformance of both GIF’s peers and its benchmark. […]
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14 min read
Gulf Investment Fund – On the gulf of a new economy
Gulf Investment Fund Investment companies | Update | 17 April 2023 On the gulf of a new economy The team behind the Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has negotiated the turbulent markets of 2022 to deliver significant outperformance of both GIF’s peers and its benchmark. In particular, in recent trading activity, it has eschewed some of […]
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09 Mar 2023 64 min read
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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05 Jan 2023 9 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – January 2023
December 2022 Monthly roundup | Investment companies Winners and losers in December 2022 The Financials sector only has two constituents, one of these – Trian Investors 1 – has seen its discount narrow since it promised to return cash to investors by next June, and it has also benefited from underlying NAV appreciation. Last month’s […]
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07 Dec 2022 8 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – December 2022
Investment Companies Monthly Roundup Kindly sponsored by abrdn December 2022 Monthly | Investment companies Winners and losers in November 2022 As discussed in this month’s economic and political roundup, lower US inflation triggered a fall in the US dollar and drove equity markets higher over November. The big surprise was the resurgence of Chinese markets […]
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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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18 Aug 2022 19 min read
Gulf Investment Fund – Much more than just oil & gas
Much more than just oil & gas Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has built up an attractive track record of both absolute performance and outperformance of its benchmark. Recent higher energy prices have bolstered sentiment toward the region. Governments are using the revenue windfall to fund vast infrastructure projects aimed at diversifying their economies. We think […]
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18 min read
Gulf Investment Fund – Much more than just oil & gas
Much more than just oil & gas Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has built up an attractive track record of both absolute performance and outperformance of its benchmark. Recent higher energy prices appear to have bolstered sentiment toward the region. Governments are using the revenue windfall to fund vast infrastructure projects aimed at diversifying their economies. […]
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19 min read
Gulf Investment Fund – Much more than just oil & gas
Much more than just oil & gas Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has built up an attractive track record of both absolute performance and outperformance of its index benchmark. For example, as we show on page 18, GIF outperforms competing open-ended funds over most time periods. Recent higher energy prices have bolstered sentiment toward the countries […]
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09 Oct 2020 7 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – October 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 Events Guide Appendix – Performance by sector full list New research Here is a list of research we published over September: Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust – […]
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10 Mar 2020 6 min read
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 […]
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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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07 Aug 2019 3 min read
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 […]
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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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13 Nov 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – November 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – November 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 October 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Winners and losers in October In what was generally a miserable month for equity markets, Brazil shone […]
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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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13 Mar 2018 1 min read
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 […]
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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 Nov 2017 1 min read
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 Oct 2017 1 min read
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 […]
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14 Sep 2017 1 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – September 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – September 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 August 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. September Investment Companies Roundup Winners and losers in August Ashmore Global’s […]
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03 Aug 2017 1 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – August 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – August 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 July 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. August Investment Companies Roundup Monthly NAV/Price moves: A couple of themes stand out […]
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12 Jul 2017 2 min read
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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15 Mar 2017 1 min read
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 […]
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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
News
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29 Oct 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 October 2024 – MUT, GPE, THRL, GIF
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 October 2024: Murray Income Trust (MUT) has a new, £30m (extendable to £50m) unsecured, three year multi-currency revolving credit facility with The Royal Bank of Scotland which will expire on 22 October 2027. CHF363,000, USD2.4m, EUR4.05m, NOK4.275m and DKK2.75m (equivalent to £6.1m in aggregate) has already been drawn down and […]
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17 Oct 2024 1 min read
Gulf bows out with another good set of results
Over the 12 months ended 30 June 2024, Gulf Investment Fund generated a NAV return of 10.2%, well-ahead of the 2.6% return on its benchmark (S&P GCC Composite Index). Since the mandate widened from Qatari-focused to Gulf-wide in December 2017, NAV has risen 198.7% (dividend adjusted), as against the 85.3% returns recorded by S&P GCC […]
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04 Oct 2024 2 min read
Gulf Investment Fund wind up now a certainty
Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has published a circular and notice of extraordinary general meeting, proposing a vote on the members’ voluntary liquidation of the company, which follows GIF announcement on 9 September in relation to its tender offer that has triggered this continuation vote (if the tender had proceeded, it would have pushed the number […]
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13 Sep 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 13th September 2024
Thank you to everyone that listened in today on our YouTube channel. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: Aquila European Renewables (0:19) Gulf Investment Fund (3:35) Keystone Positive Change (6:47) JPMorgan Emerging EMEA Securities (9:47) This week’s interview was with Jon Forster from Impax Environmental Markets – watch it again here.
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09 Sep 2024 2 min read
Gulf Investment Fund to liquidate as tender breaches minimum size condition
Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has announced that its 100% tender offer, which was launched on 21 August 2024 (click here to see our coverage), has received irrevocable commitments that would push it below its minimum size condition (this being that GIF must retain a post tender offer share capital of not less than 38m Shares). […]
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21 Aug 2024 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 August 2024 – TMPL, RSE, GIF
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 August 2024: Temple Bar Investment Trust (TMPL) posted a NAV total return of 13.1% for the six month period to 30 June 2024, outperforming the FTSE All-Share Index of +7.4%, as market conditions for value investing improved. The share price total return was +11.0%. Particularly strong returns from portfolio companies […]
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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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11 Jul 2024 2 min read
Modest outperformance from Gulf Investment Fund
Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has published its second quarterly report for the year (for the 3 months to 30th June 2024). GIF’s NAV fell 3.6% during the quarter, outperforming its benchmark – the S&P GCC Index – which was down 3.9%. Positive performance came from Qatar Navigation (up 8.9%), The Mediterranean and Gulf Insurance Reinsurance […]
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15 May 2024 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 May – RTW, GIF, NESF, IHR
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 May 2024: RTW Biotech Opportunities (RTW) portfolio company, Lycia Therapeutics, announced the completion of a $106.6m Series C financing round. The company, alongside other investment vehicles managed by RTW Investments LP, participated in the financing round with other life science investment firms. Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) announced that it has […]
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30 Apr 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 April 2024 – GIF, APEO, PPET, RMMC,
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 April 2024: Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) says that the 1,157,160 shares that were tendered last month were valued at $2.5088 each or $2,903,083. Those investors that sold will get paid around 15 May 2024. Now that the sale of abrdn’s European private equity business to Patria Investments is complete, abrdn […]
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12 Apr 2024 1 min read
Gulf Investment Fund continues to meet its minimum size condition after tender
Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has announced the results of its tender offer, which closed on 11 April 2024. 1,157,160 shares were tendered, equal to 2.89% of its issued share capital meaning that, post the tender, GIF’s share capital will be 38,946,044 shares, which is above the minimum size condition of 38,000,000 shares set by its […]
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09 Apr 2024 1 min read
Solid start to the year for Gulf Investment Fund
The Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) announced a quarterly update for the period ending 31 March 2023. NAV growth for the period was 4.4%, ahead of the benchmark index return of 2.3%. Positive performance came from Saudi Ground Services (up 43.3 per cent), Arabian Centres Limited (up 19.8 per cent) and Arab National Bank (up 15.4 […]
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21 Mar 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 March 2024 – GIF, HEIT
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 March 2024: Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) is holding its regular 100% tender offer. Shareholders holding shares at the close of markets on 26 March have until 1pm on 11 April to say if they want to tender their shares. Provided that the fund won’t shrink too much (less than 38m […]
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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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29 Sep 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news update 29th September 2023
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: • Gulf Investments (0:34) • Digital 9 Infrastructure (6:20) • HICL Infrastructure (13:32) • Hipgnosis (14:58) This week’s interview was with Carlos Hardenberg from Mobius […]
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25 Sep 2023 2 min read
Gulf Investment Fund generates very impressive outperformance
Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has released its annual results for the period ending 30 June 2023. Over the 12 month period GIF has generated substantial outperformance relative to its benchmark, the S&P GCC Composite Index. GIF generated a NAV total return of 20.4% and share price return of 18.8%, compared the the negative (1.3%) return […]
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21 Sep 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 September 2023 – JARA, GIF, NAVF
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 September 2023: JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets (JARA) has provided a quarterly NAV valuation. As of 31 August 2023 the NAV per share of the trust was 95.37p per share, reflecting a negative total return of (2.0%) for the quarter and (8.0%) for the 12 month period. Gulf Investment Fund […]
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07 Sep 2023 1 min read
Gulf Investment Fund changes its manager
Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) announced this week that its current portfolio manager, Jubin Jose, intends to step down at the end of December 2023. He will be replaced as portfolio manager by Bijoy Joy who is currently assistant portfolio manager of GIF, and who has been involved with Jubin in the day-to-day management of the […]
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21 Apr 2023 4 min read
QD view – Jury out on latest IPO
A brave WhiteOak Capital Management is trying to prop up the entire UK investment company IPO market almost single handed (although we are still waiting for the result of the AT85 Infrastructure IPO). The team behind Ashoka India Equity is looking to be the first to bring an investment company to market in over 18 […]
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14 Apr 2023 1 min read
Little appetite for Gulf Investment’s tender
As we had expected, given its strong track record and relatively small discount, there was little appetite for Gulf Investment Fund’s latest tender offer. The tender pool determination date was set at 11 April 2023. As at that date the final tender offer asset value was $492,144.60, giving a tender price of $1.9555 per share. […]
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23 Mar 2023 3 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 March 2023
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 March 2023: Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has launched its latest 100% tender offer. Shares that are tendered will be put into a realisatin pool on 12 April, the pool liquidated and the proceeds (less about $100,000 of expected tender offer costs) returned to shareholders. There is a minimum size threshold […]
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23 Feb 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 February 2023
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 February 2023: Six months into its accounting year (which ends on 30 June 2023), Gulf Investments (GIF) had given up some ground with an NAV return of -1.8%. However, that compares well with a return of -7.1% on its benchmark. Unfortunately, the discount widened leaving investors with a return of […]
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17 Jan 2023 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 January 2023
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 January 2023: Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) reports that over the final quarter of 2022, its NAV fell by 3.8%, outperforming the S&P GCC Index, which fell by 6.1%. In fact, 4Q 2022 was one of the worst quarters for Qatar and Saudi Arabia in past 10 years. Qatar fell 15.9% […]
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03 Oct 2022 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 October 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 October 2022: Jasmine Yeo has been made co-manager of Ruffer Investment Company (RICA). She joins Duncan MacInnes who has co-managed the company since October 2016. Jasmine graduated from Warwick Business School with a degree in international business with Spanish, and joined Ruffer’s UK private client team in 2017. She became […]
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16 Sep 2022 2 min read
QD view – if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em?
Within the investment companies sector there has been a fair bit happening this week, with another couple of new funds looking to launch – The Sustainable Farmland Trust and Independent Living REIT; Fundsmith Emerging Equities throwing in the towel; and some exciting portfolio developments for a couple of our clients – JLEN’s glasshouse investment and […]
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14 Sep 2022 2 min read
Gulf Investment Fund enjoys positive results
Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has posted its annual results for the 12 months to 30 June 2022. During the period under review, its share price increased by 22% while its NAV rose by 15.4%. Over the year, GIF paid 4.93 cents of dividends which equates to 4% of the NAV at 30 June 2021. This […]
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02 Sep 2022 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 September 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 September 2022: ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT) has announced that it has made a US$20m commitment to Green Equity Investors IX, managed by Leonard Green & Partners (LGP). This is the first commitment by ICGT to a fund managed by LGP. Founded in 1989, LGP is a private equity investment manager […]
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29 Apr 2022 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 April 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 April 2022: Gulf Investment Fund says that all assets in its tender pool have been sold. As at 27 April 2022, the final tender offer asset value was $11,284,711, giving a tender price of $2.1639. The 5,214,956 tendered shares will be cancelled. It is expected that the proceeds payable to […]
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17 Mar 2022 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 March 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 March 2022: Gulf Investment has published details of the 100% tender offer that it promised investors late last year. Shareholders will need to be on the share register at 5:30pm on 21 March and tender forms must be submitted by 1pm on 31 March. The fund will be valued as […]
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25 Feb 2022 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 25 February 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 25 February 2022: Gulf Investment Fund (GIF )has published its interim report for the six months ended 31 December 2021. During the period, GIF’s NAV rose 7.6%, versus an increase in its benchmark of 7.4%, and its share price rose 5.4%. GIF has declared a final dividend of 2.47c, to be paid […]
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23 Sep 2021 3 min read
Better year for Gulf Investments but tender offer looms
Better year for Gulf Investments but tender offer looms For the year ended 30 June 2021, Gulf Investment Fund generated an NAV return of 42.4%, very marginally less than the return on its benchmark S&P GCC Composite Index of 45.2%. A small narrowing of its discount meant that shareholders’ returns matched those of the index. […]
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20 Apr 2021 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 20 April 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 20 April 2021: Octopus Renewables (ORIT) has secured debt finance for the construction, commissioning, operation and maintenance of a wind farm in Cerisou, France. The new €43.2m debt facility is provided by Société Générale. Construction at Cerisou is on schedule to begin in H2 2021, with the project expected to be fully operational in […]
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15 Dec 2020 1 min read
Gulf Investments survives tender offer
Gulf Investments survives tender offer – 40,643,418 shares were tendered, equal to 43.96% of the shares in issue. The post tender offer share capital will therefore be 51,817,824 shares, above the minimum size condition set out in the tender offer circular to shareholders. The directors will allocate the assets and liabilities of the company between a […]
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28 Sep 2020 4 min read
Gulf Investment Fund sees regional recovery gaining a foothold
Over Gulf Investment Fund’s (GIF) full-year results (to 30 June 2020) saw the NAV decline by (8.7%) in total return terms. This compares with a (17.2%) decline in the benchmark. The shares fared slightly better, declining by (5.4%). At the year-end, GIF’s shares were trading at a discount of (7.5%) of NAV, which was ahead […]
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26 Feb 2020 2 min read
Gulf Investment Fund discusses outlook following excellent year for Bahrain and Kuwait bourses
Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has delivered a total NAV return of +3.4% over its six-month interim period to end-December 2019, compared with a fall of 1.4% in the S&P GCC Composite Index. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index rose by 5.7% in the same period. The shares rose by 5.0%. Global equity markets ended 2019 near record highs. […]
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05 Nov 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 5 November
In QuotedData’s other news 5 November – Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has renewed its investment management agreement with its investment manager, Epicure Managers Qatar Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qatar Insurance Company S.A.Q., for a three-year period effective from 1 November 2019. We also have interim results from Warehouse REIT
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22 Oct 2019 3 min read
Gulf Investment Fund outperforms on lower Saudi exposure
Gulf Investment Fund outperforms on lower Saudi exposure – Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has released a report covering its third quarter period to 30 September 2019. The NAV was up 1%, compared to a 5.5% decline in the benchmark S&P GCC Index. Year-to-date, GIF’s NAV is up 17.9% (benchmark is up 3.7%). The funds outperformance during […]
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18 Sep 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 18 September 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 18 September 2019 – Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust (SLI) has announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2019. During the period, SLI’s NAV total return was 2.7% for the period ended 30 June 2019, which was generated by like for like portfolio growth combined with profits […]
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10 min read
Gulf Investment Fund outperforms
Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2019. During the year, GIF’s NAV per share rose by 12.7% to US$1.3504 which compares with a gain of 8.2% in the S&P GCC composite index and a fall of -1.40% in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Following a narrowing […]
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25 Sep 2018 2 min read
Gulf Investment Fund’s new strategy is in place
Gulf Investment Fund’s new strategy is in place – During the 12 months period to 30 June 2018, Gulf Investment Fund (GIF)‘s NAV per share rose by 7.8%. The S&P GCC composite index and the MSCI Emerging Markets index returned 8.6% and 5.8% respectively. Following a narrowing of the discount to NAV, the shares rose by 13.0%. The report goes into […]
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10 Nov 2017 1 min read
Qatar Investment Fund announces details of 10% tender offer
Qatar Investment Fund (QIF) has announced a tender offer to purchase up to 10% of its issued share capital. This follows QIF’s announcement on 16 October that it intends to change its investment policy to become a Gulf Investment Fund, in which the board announced that it would put proposals for a tender offer. Tender […]
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16 Oct 2017 2 min read
Qatar fund to become Gulf Investment Fund
Qatar fund to become Gulf Investment Fund – Qatar Investment Fund intends to change its investment policy from a largely Qatar-focused investment strategy to a broader Gulf Cooperation Council (“GCC”) investment strategy. Currently, the investment policy enables it to invest up to 15% in GCC countries (namely Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman and Bahrain) other than Qatar. The proposed […]
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07 Sep 2017 2 min read
Qatar Investment Fund – trade and travel ban hindered growth
Qatar Investment Fund – trade and travel ban hindered growth – in its results statement for the year ended 30 June 2017, Qatar Investment Fund’s chairman, Nicholas Wilson, said “The year to 30 June 2017 was one of mixed fortunes for Qatar. During the period, the country adjusted well to the realisation that oil prices […]
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23 Sep 2016 1 min read
Qatar Investment Fund cuts fees
Qatar Investment Fund last rejigged its fee arrangements on 1 November 2013. The new arrangement was put in place for three years. The terms were a reduced management fee of 1.05% per annum of the net asset value, calculated monthly and payable quarterly in arrears, with such management fee reducing further to 1.0% from 1 […]
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12 Sep 2016 1 min read
Oil price falls impact Qatar Investment Fund
According to its Chairman’s statement, over the year that ended on 30 June 2016, Qatar Investment Fund’s share price fell 18.2% compared to the Qatar Exchange which fell 18.9% and a fall of 14.21% in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. It says the net asset value of the fund fell 20.8%, underperforming the benchmark. The Board […]
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01 Mar 2016 1 min read
Qatar Investment Fund underperforms in weak H2 2015
Qatar Investment Fund results for the six months ended 31 December 2015 show its net asset value per share fell 16.3% while the Qatar Exchange Index fell 14.5% and MSCI Emerging Markets Index fell 18.6% over the same period. Following a narrowing of the discount, the QIF share price fell 11.1%. They paid a 4 cent dividend […]
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15 Oct 2015 1 min read
Qatar Investment Fund proposes 14% tender offer
The Qatar Investment Fund has announced a proposed tender offer to purchase up to 14% of the company’s issued share capital. The tender price will be a 1% discount to the Formula Asset Value on the 2 December 2015 with the results of the tender offer announced on 7 December 2015. The board says that […]
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14 Sep 2015 1 min read
Qatar Investment Fund outperforms as discontinuation vote looms
Qatar Investment Fund has announced its results for the year ended 30 June 2015. The fund’s net asset value rose by 8.4% compared to 6.2% for the Qatar Exchange and a rise of 4.6% in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Shareholders received a 3.5c per share dividend in January and the Board proposes to pay an increased […]
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13 Apr 2015 1 min read
Qatar Investment Fund discontinuation vote proposals
Qatar Investment Fund has a discontinuation vote scheduled this year. The Board is thinking about conducting a tender offer at a 1% discount to net asset value (less associated expenses) for 10% to 15% of the fund. They are working this out on a sliding scale whereby if the fund trades at an average discount […]
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24 Feb 2015 1 min read
Qatar Investment Fund outperforms
Qatar Investment Fund reported NAV growth of 8.6% for the second half of 2014, compared to a 6.9% increase in the Qatar Exchange Index. They paid a dividend of 3.5 cents per share. the discount widened to 12.1% meaning that the return to shareholders was 5.1%. The Qatar Exchange was the only one in the […]
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21 Feb 2014 1 min read
Qatar Investment Fund : QIF – interims
Over the six months ended 31 December 2013 Qatar Investment Fund’s net asset value rose by 7.2%, underperforming the Qatar Exchange Index which rose by 11.9%
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23 Jan 2014 1 min read
Qatar Investment Fund : QIF – Q4 report
Qatar Investment Fund has released its Q4 2013 report (not its annual results). Over 2013 the NAV rose by 25.5%, just behind the Qatar Exchange Index which rose by 26.2%.
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21 Oct 2024 1 min read
Investment trust insider on annual redemption opportunities
Investment trust insider on annual redemption opportunities – James Carthew: Annual redemptions bring more problems than solutions Yearly redemption opportunities turn trusts into cash cows and don’t even keep discounts narrow, as Bellevue Healthcare has learnt. This week’s focus is on annual redemption opportunities. I made it clear earlier this month, when discussing the demise […]
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17 Sep 2024 1 min read
Four investment trusts closed last week. How many more will go?
Last week, four separate investment trusts handed in their notice, announcing they would be shuttering.. The number of investment trusts has fallen to its lowest level in years for a number of reasons, including high discounts, pressure on small trusts, and ongoing issues around cost disclosure.. With a total of ten mergers announced so far […]
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16 Sep 2024 1 min read
Investment trust insider on a shrinking sector
Investment trust insider on a shrinking sector – James Carthew: We might regret what’s lost in the trust bloodbath Four more investment companies – Aquila European Renewables, Ecofin US Renewables, Gulf Investment Fund and Keystone Positive Change – are heading for the exit. The bloodbath in the investment companies sector seems to be getting worse. […]
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09 Oct 2023 1 min read
James Carthew: I’ve bought DGI9 but I’m voting against Hipgnosis
James Carthew: I’ve bought DGI9 but I’m voting against Hipgnosis It feels sometimes as though an all-pervading gloom has descended on the investment companies’ sector as share price discounts continue to widen. It does not seem to matter how often you point out the illogicality of share prices (as I did in last week’s article), […]
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20 Apr 2023 1 min read
Delving into the dividend: nine income trusts delivering top total returns
by Kyle Caldwell from interactive investor, 19th April 2023: There are sound reasons to look beyond ‘dividend hero’ investment trusts, as this research shows. Many investors like to buy funds and investment trusts that invest in dividend-paying companies or income-producing bonds… Investors should look beyond the dividend heroes However, investors should not just simply stick […]
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17 Mar 2023 1 min read
Look beyond the dividend heroes
Andrew Courtney, for Investment Week, 15 March 2023: The dividend hero and next generation hero lists published by the AIC are a great marketing tool for the investment companies industry and tend to generate a considerable amount of press attention, despite being a relatively simplistic yardstick (funds that have grown their dividend every year for […]
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16 Jan 2023 1 min read
Investment trust insider on running last year’s winners
James Carthew: Some 2022 winners are worth holding onto this year I’m uneasy about the resilience of the recent stock market rally. Despite this, I think a few of last year’s big gainers could do well again in 2023. Against a difficult backdrop, only about a third of investment companies generated a positive share price […]
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12 Dec 2022 1 min read
Investment trust insider on EMEA
Investment trust insider on EMEA – James Carthew: In emerging market turmoil, ‘eclectic’ EMEA has surprise appeal China still dominates the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, accounting for 30% of the benchmark at the end of November 2022. Its weak markets, largely a product of its zero-Covid policy, have weighed on the returns of global emerging […]
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21 Apr 2022 1 min read
Discover the best and worst performing investment trusts so far in 2022
James Crux, Shares Magazine, 21 April 2022: Rising interest rates since the turn of the year, runaway inflation and Russia’s shocking invasion of Ukraine have shaken the investment kaleidoscope in 2022 and forced many investors to reposition portfolios for an increasingly uncertain world… COMMODITIES TRUSTS IN DEMAND Precipitated by the supply/demand imbalances caused as global […]
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09 Jun 2021 1 min read
Turnover in focus during pandemic
Which trusts manoeuvred during 2020 and which stood their ground? Kathleen Gallagher, Investment Week, 08 June 2021 • 4 min read Several investment trusts overhauled their portfolios during the market volatility of 2020 as managers chose to revamp their holdings and take advantage of depressed markets. However, other managers saw this strategy as counter-productive and […]
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02 Jun 2020 2 min read
Investment trust insider on emerging markets
Investment trust insider on emerging markets – James Carthew: there’s value in emerging markets as investors rush to take cover In uncertain times, it makes sense that investors turn to sectors with defensive earnings, such as utilities and infrastructure. Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure (EGL), which I hold, is trading at asset value and issuing shares. […]
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09 Jan 2019 1 min read
Investment Trust Insider on 2018
Investment Trust Insider on 2018 – Lindsell Train leads best and worst investment trusts of 2018 (NB the headlines are devised by Citywire!!) 2018 is attracting headlines as the worst year for markets since 2008. However, for the investment trust industry, there was much to celebrate. This was certainly the case for the new issue market […]