Overview
Schroder Asian Total Return : ATR’s objective is to provide a high rate of total return primarily through investment in equity and equity related securities in Asia Pacific Companies (excluding Japan). The Company will seek to offer a degree of capital preservation through tactical use, where appropriate, of derivative instruments.
The Company’s portfolio is jointly managed from Hong Kong and Singapore. You can access the manager’s website here.
You can view our interviews with the company’s Fund Managers below:
17th September 2021: Robin Parbrook – Weekly Show
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Research History
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06 Apr 2023 82 min read
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 […]
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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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17 Sep 2021 1 min read
Interview with Robin Parbrook from Schroder Asia Total Return
In this week’s show, James Carthew talked to Robin Parbrook from Schroder Asia Total Return 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. Additionally, if you would […]
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09 Oct 2020 7 min read
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 […]
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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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05 Apr 2019 4 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – April 2019
Kindly sponsored by Polar Capital 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 […]
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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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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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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
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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
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10 Sep 2024 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 September 2024 – ESO, ATR, RGL, CAL, NRR
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 September 2024: EPE Special Opportunities (ESO) announced its interim report for the six months to 31 July 2024. The company’s NAV total return was down 2%, while shares increased 2%. The share price represents a discount of 47% to the NAV per share. The company has cash balances of £18.4m, […]
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14 Mar 2024 5 min read
Great stockpicking boosts Schroder Asia Total Return
Schroder Asian Total Return has published its final results for the year ended 31 December 2023. Returns were good, with a NAV total return of 8.8% coming in well ahead of the 1.3% return posted by the MSCI All Countries Asia ex Japan Index. Shareholders got a return of 10.3%, helped by a narrowing discount. […]
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16 Mar 2023 4 min read
Disappointing results from Schroder Asian Total Return
Schroder Asian Total Return has published what it describes as a disappointing set of results for the year ended 31 December 2022. The NAV total return was -12.7%, underperforming its performance benchmark which fell by 7.1%. The share price total return was -17.4%, as the shares moved from trading at a premium to NAV at […]
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04 Apr 2022 3 min read
Schroder Asian Total Return outperforms during tough 2021
Schroder Asian Total Return outperforms during tough 2021 – Schroder Asian Total Return (ATR) has published its final results for the year to 31 December 2021. During the period under review, its NAV returned 7.4% while its share price returned 4.9%. This compares with a -2.0% return from the reference index. ATR also outperformed the […]
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25 Mar 2021 2 min read
Schroder Asia Total Return posts very healthy returns
Schroder Asia Total Return posts very healthy returns – Schroder Asian Total Return has published results for 2020 and they are good. A net asset value total return of 33.7% was significantly ahead of the benchmark, which returned 18.7%. The company also beat its peer group, which produced an average total return of 30.9%. Returns to […]
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11 Sep 2020 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 September 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 September 2020: Schroder Asian Total Return has published its interim results for the half year ended 30 June 2020. The chairman, Sarah MacAulay, says that, the trust provided a NAV total return of 6.1% in the period, outperforming both the return of the reference Index of 0.7% and of the peer group […]
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15 Apr 2020 8 min read
Schroder Asian Total Return not expecting major stimulus from China
Over Schroder Asian Total Return’s (ATR) annual results period to 31 December 2019, it delivered a total NAV return of 15.7% (by comparison, the reference index increased by 14.6%). Clearly, the landscape has changed monumentally since the period-end. In what is his final note to investors as chairman, David Brief, said: “The sudden outbreak of […]
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28 Mar 2018 2 min read
Strong performance helps Schroder Asian TR’s NAV move to a premium
Strong performance helps Schroder Asian TR’s NAV move to a premium – The NAV of Schroder Asian TR (ATR) rose by 34.8% on a total return basis for the 12 month reporting period to 31 December 2017. Being a total return fund, the manager is agnostic towards the performance and the make up of market indices. However, so […]
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23 Sep 2016 1 min read
Schroder Asian Total Return wants to reissue treasury shares at a discount
Schroder Asian Total Return has published a circular to convene a meeting at which shareholders will be asked, amongst other things, to approve the reissue of treasury shares at a discount. The special resolution would give the directors the authority to reissue up to 7,294,914 ordinary shares from treasury (representing approximately 10 per cent of the […]
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22 Sep 2016 2 min read
Schroder Asian Total Return benefits from technology exposure
During the six months to 30 June 2016, Schroder Asian Total Return produced a net asset value total return of 15.8%, outperforming both the MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex-Japan Index, which produced a total return of 12.9%, and the peer group average NAV total return of 14.5%. If this level of performance continues, a performance fee will […]
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30 Mar 2016 2 min read
Asia Total Return delivers positive return in falling market
Asian Total Return says, during the year ended 31 December 2015, it produced a net asset value total return of 2.9%, compared to a total return of -4.1% by the Reference Index and a total return of -1.8% from the average peer group NAV. The Board has declared a final dividend of 3.80p per share for the […]
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23 Dec 2021 1 min read
Bargain Hunter: three trusts shaking things up to tackle their big discounts
7th December 2021 by Kyle Caldwell from interactive investor There are various tools a board can use in an attempt to boost demand for shares. Here are some examples. When an investment trust is persistently out of favour, its board can spring into action in an attempt to tackle its discount… Change at the top In a […]
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04 Oct 2021 1 min read
Investment trust insider on Schroder Asia Total Return
Investment trust insider on Schroder Asia Total Return – James Carthew: China is not uninvestable, just high risk Recently, I interviewed Robin Parbrook, co-manager of Schroder Asian Total Return (ATR) after its half-year results. Very few funds investing in Asia trade on premiums above net asset value (NAV) – in the AIC’s Asia Pacific sector, […]
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01 Oct 2019 1 min read
Investment trust insider on Schroder Asia Total Return
Investment trust insider on Schroder Asia Total Return – James Carthew: I’ll happily target Asia Pacific ex the pain Investors are nervous and perhaps with good reason. Where can they turn, given that traditional safe havens such as cash and government bonds offer little or no reward? Steady income generators, like the renewable energy and infrastructure […]
