Overview
Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust aims to deliver measurable positive social impact as well as long term capital growth and income, through investing in a diversified portfolio of private market impact funds, co-investments alongside impact investors and direct investments in order to gain exposure to private market social impact investments.
The company aims to provide a Net Asset Value total return of CPI plus 2 per cent. per annum (once the portfolio is fully invested and averaged over a rolling three- to five-year period, net of fees) with low correlation to traditional quoted markets while helping to address significant social issues in the UK.
“Social impact” is the improvement of the life outcomes of beneficiaries in a specific target group or groups. After years of investing in social impact, early pioneers such as Big Society Capital have identified models which are at a point where they require significant capital to scale. Big Society Capital is one of the UK’s leading social impact investors, with a track-record in delivering sustainable financial returns and positive impact on people’s lives in the UK.
You can access the fund’s website here
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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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03 Nov 2022 50 min read
QuotedData’s Economic and Political Monthly Roundup November 2022
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01 Jul 2022 1 min read
Interview with Andrew Beal of Schroder BSC Social Impact
In this week’s show, James Carthew talked to Andrew Beal of Schroder BSC Social Impact. 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 prefer to […]
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04 Sep 2025 3 min read
Morning briefing: Novo Nordisk crash knocks Fidelity European; CMA probes PHP-Assura merger; plus AUSC, INPP, BRWM, PEY, SBSI, APAX, JEMA
Fidelity European, International Public Partnerships and BlackRock World Mining report half-year results; Abrdn UK Smaller Companies publishes annual results and a plan to change its name to Aberdeen; and the Competition and Markets Authority looks into the merger of Primary Health Properties and Assura. Fidelity European (FEV) underperformed by 4.7% in the first half of […]
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02 Jul 2025 1 min read
Schroder BSC Social Impact is considering its future
Schroder BSC Social Impact is considering its future after becoming frustrated with an inability to expand. The trust was launched in 2020 but a wide discount has prevented it from issuing more shares. The board says all strategic options to enhance value for the company’s shareholders are being considered, which could include a managed wind […]
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26 Jun 2025 3 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 June 2025 – CYN, CORD, SERE, RGL, SRE, SBSI
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02 Dec 2024 4 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 December 2024 – SBSI, GSEO/ENRG, TRY, SBO, FP., BERI, DNE, IGET, ARR/ATS, INPP
Schroder BSC Social Impact (SBSI) has adopted the “Sustainability Impact” label and will continue to be considered an “impact fund” under the FCA’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and investment labelling regime. VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities has changed its name to VH Global Energy Infrastructure with effect from today, and its ticker will be changed to […]
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24 Oct 2024 2 min read
Schroder BSC Social Impact working to secure sustainability impact label
Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust’s results for the 12 month period ended 30 June 2024 show a modest 1.5% NAV return for the period, below the 2.8% per annum return achieved since launch in December 2020. The share price traded at a 16.7% discount to NAV at the period end, and as of 22 October […]
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09 Jul 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 9 July 2024 – SBSI, PRSR
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 9 July 2024: Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust (SBSI) released its annual impact report. The report demonstrates that the portfolio has positively impacted 400,000 people since inception, provided decent, affordable homes for 35,000 disadvantaged, vulnerable and lower-income people; and delivered £217m in benefits for the public, through savings to government and […]
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29 Apr 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 April 2024 – BOOK, DGI9, SBSI
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 April 2024: Literacy Capital (BOOK) has announced its Q1 2024 NAV as well as providing a quarterly trading update. It generated a NAV total return of 2.0%, an uplift of £6.0m (10.0p per share), bringing its NAV per share to 510.4p, or total NAV of £306.2m. BOOK had cash inflows […]
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05 Apr 2024 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 April 2024 – SBSI, TMI
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 April 2024: Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust (SBSI) plc has made a £5m commitment to Savills IM Simply Affordable Homes Limited Partnership. The Fund is focused on delivering affordable homes across the UK, by using its established strategic partnerships with high quality Housing Associations, developers, and housebuilders, through a mix […]
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30 Oct 2023 2 min read
SBSI continues to marry NAV and income growth with its promised social benefits
Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust (SBSI) has released its results for the period ending 30 June 2023. Over this 12 month period SBSI reported a NAV total return of 0.8%. Since its inception on 22 December 2020 SBSI has returned a NAV total return of 8.6%. Key drivers of performance were an increase in returns […]
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29 Jun 2023 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 June 2023
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 June 2023: Secured Income Fund (SSIF) will make a seventh return of capital amounting to £3,159,621 by issuing B shares to ordinary shareholders and then redeeming them. To be eligible, shareholders must be on the register on 6 July. The money should be paid around 17 July. This takes the […]
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24 Oct 2022 1 min read
Positive NAV increase for Schroder BSC Social Impact
For its financial year ending 30 June 2022, Schroder BSC Social Impact (SBSI) reported a NAV return of 1.6%, with a 7.8% NAV return since inception (5.1% annualised) on 22 December 2020. The three largest drivers behind SBSI’s NAV performance were its Charity Bond portfolio, an uplift in valuation of its holding in Community Investment […]
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17 Feb 2022 2 min read
Schroder BSC Social Impact fully committed
Schroder BSC Social Impact fully committed – Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust says that the net proceeds of its IPO as well as the placing of shares last November are now fully committed. The company has made three new commitments: The Community Investment Fund A new investment in the Debt for Social Enterprises asset class […]
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18 Nov 2021 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 18 November 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 18 November 2021: Octopus Renewables (ORIT) says that construction has started at its Cumberhead wind farm. The Cumberhead project, which is expected to be fully operational by Q4 2022, is a 50MW onshore wind farm located in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, and will consist of 12 Nordex N133 turbines and have an […]
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12 Nov 2021 2 min read
QD view – Feel-good investing
About a year ago, ahead of last year’s ESG conference, I wrote an article about a fund that was looking to launch – Schroder BSC Social Impact (SBSI). In the event, it made it across the finishing line and IPO’d with assets of £75m, short of its £100m target but a reasonable size, nonetheless. I […]
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02 Nov 2021 2 min read
Schroder BSC targets £26m fundraise
Schroder BSC targets £26m fundraise – Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust announced on 28 August 2021 that it intended to consult with investors regarding the potential for an equity issue. The board is now announcing that it is proposing to issue up to 25m new ordinary shares by way of a placing at 105p per […]
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26 Oct 2021 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 October 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 October 2021: Schroder BSC Social Impact (SBSI)’s first results, covering the period from launch to 30 June 2021, show an NAV return of 6.09%. There’s a first dividend of 0.57p per share. All of the IPO proceeds have been committed and, at 30 June, two-thirds had been deployed into 23 […]
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15 Jul 2021 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 July 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 July 2021: Schroder BSC Social Impact (SBSI) has invested a further £5m into Social and Sustainable Housing LP (SASH), following its first £5m commitment in December 2020. The holding sits in SBSI’s high impact housing allocation of its portfolio. Following this development, the trust’s portfolio is now 97% committed, with 66% […]
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21 Jan 2021 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 January 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 January 2021: Schroder BSC Social impact says it has committed over 80% and invested over 55% of the net proceeds of its IPO. Most of the money went into buying seven investments that were listed in the prospectus. It has also bought £2.5m of bonds issued by Triodos Bank. Triodos lends to […]
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