Overview
Smithson Investment Trust : SSON
With the Smithson Investment Trust, Fundsmith aims to provide investors with a similar investment experience to the Fundsmith Equity Fund, an open-ended mutual fund. Smithson Investment Trust’s investment policy is to invest in shares issued by small and mid sized companies with a market capitalisation (at the time of investment) of between £500 million to £15 billion (although the company expects that the average market capitalisation of the companies in which it invests to be approximately £7 billion) on a long-term, global basis.The company’s approach is to be a long-term investor in its chosen stocks. It will not adopt short-term trading strategies. It will pursue its investment policy by investing in approximately 25 to 40 companies.
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SSON : Smithson Investment Trust :SSON
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17 Oct 2023 14 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Quarterly Review – Third Quarter 2023
Third quarter of 2023 Investment Companies | Quarterly roundup | October 2023 Kindly sponsored by abrdn ‘Uncomfortable’ Following a fast start to the first half of the year, globally equities took a breather in Q3, as markets assessed the implications of the worst bond sell-off in a generation. Yields on 10-year US treasuries and UK […]
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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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09 Feb 2023 40 min read
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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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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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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16 Oct 2020 11 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Quarterly Review – Third Quarter 2020
Investment Companies Quarterly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents In this issue Performance data Positive movers Negative movers Discounts and premiums Getting more expensive Getting cheaper Money in and out Money in Money out Major news stories Upcoming Events New research Guide The legal bit Stubborn resistance The end […]
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07 Apr 2020 5 min read
QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – April 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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10 Mar 2020 7 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – March 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents New research In this issue Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Major news stories Income Events Guide New research Here is a list of research we published over February: An initiation note on Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Trust (MTU) […]
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24 Jan 2020 20 min read
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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06 Dec 2019 6 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – December 2019
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford Table of contents New research In this issue Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Income Events New research Here is a list of research we published over November: An initiation note on Henderson High Income “We have initiated coverage on Henderson High Income (HHI). Since […]
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08 May 2019 3 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – May 2019
Investment Companies Roundup New research Over April, we published notes on Henderson Diversified Income, Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure, Jupiter Emerging and Frontier Income, Seneca Global Income & Growth and Polar Capital Global Financials Trust. You can read all these notes by clicking on the links above or by visiting www.quoteddata.com. In this issue Performance data – it was […]
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15 Apr 2019 6 min read
Quarterly Investment Companies Roundup – First Quarter 2019
Quarterly Investment Companies Roundup – First Quarter 2019 QuotedData news Through the first quarter of 2019, global equities largely clawed back the losses suffered over the final weeks of 2018. How much longer this ten-year bull market can sustain itself is the subject of much debate. US interest rate rises have stalled, reflecting growing cautiousness. Elsewhere, […]
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18 Jan 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – January 2019
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – January 2019 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 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Extract from money raised and returned in December The only new issue […]
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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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06 Mar 2025 5 min read
Smithson bids to turn performance around with focus on smaller end of its universe
Smithson Investment Trust has published results covering the 12 month period ended 31 December 2024. It was another poor year for returns as the NAV total return of 2.1% fell some way short of the 11.5% return generated by the MSCI World SMID Index. The discount narrowed a bit from 11.5% to 9.1% and that […]
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27 Jan 2025 5 min read
Smithson letter tells shareholders of “mediocre” performance
Smithson (SSON) has published its letter to shareholders that is also its investment manger’s review for 2024. Simon Barnard, SSON’s investment manager, says that after a strong market sell-off in the last few days of the year, SSON’s final performance for 2024 can only be described as mediocre. He notes that it will also be […]
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29 Jul 2024 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 July 2024 – SSON, BOOK, HGT, BCPT, WKP
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 July 2024: Smithson (SSON) has published interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2024, during which it provided an NAV total return if -1.8%, underperforming the MSCI World SMID Index which returned 3.4%. Its chairman, Diana Dyer Bartlett, says this is frustrating, noting that the last two and […]
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26 Jan 2024 7 min read
Smithson outperforms but hopes for greater absolute performance in the future
Smithson (SSON) has published its manager’s review for the year ended 31 December 2023, during which its net asset value per share (NAV) increased by 13.3% and its share price increased by 8.2%. In comparison, the MSCI World Small and Mid-Cap Index (‘SMID’), SSON’s reference index, increased by 9.1% during the same period. 2023 saw […]
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28 Feb 2023 5 min read
Smithson’s significant underperformance driven by growth sell off
Smithson (SSON) has published its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2022. It is the company’s fourth set of annual results and the first in which it has reported a decline in NAV and while the drop is significant and SSON has underperformed its benchmark, it comes a against a backdrop of a […]
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15 Mar 2022 5 min read
Smithson beat its benchmark in 2021
Smithson beat its benchmark in 2021 – Over the course of 2021, Smithson generated a return on NAV of 18.9% and a return to shareholders of 18.1%, both a little ahead of the 17.8% return on the trust’s benchmark, the MSCI World SMID (small and mid cap) Index. There is no dividend (the fund is not […]
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16 Feb 2022 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 16 February 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 16 February 2022: The board of Smithson (SSON) has announced that its chair, Mark Pacitti, will retire on 28 February 2022. Diana Dyer Bartlett will become chair of the board and Lord St John of Bletso will replace Diana as chair of the audit committee. Meanwhile, Jeremy Attard-Manche has been appointed […]
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09 Aug 2021 3 min read
Smithson lags benchmark during first half of 2021 but reminds investors of long-term growth
Smithson lags benchmark during first half of 2021 but reminds investors of long-term growth – Smithson (SSON) has published its interim results for the six months to 30 June 2021. During this time, its NAV return was 5.9% while its share price total return was 4.1%. This compares with a 12.4% return from its benchmark MSCI […]
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07 May 2021 3 min read
QD view – how the top 10 trusts have changed
I was playing with the QuotedData data pages this week – looking at factors such as widest discounts and highest yields – then I alighted on the 10-largest funds by market cap and I have to admit that some names on that list were a surprise to me. Fortunately, I had some old data from […]
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16 Mar 2021 3 min read
Smithson supporters stock up
Smithson supporters stock up – money floods into investment trust on back of second year of strong performance. Smithson Investment Trust has published results for the year ended 31 December 2020. It was a year of strong growth for the trust as it generated a return on NAV of 31.4% and a share price return of […]
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29 Jul 2020 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 July 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 July 2020: Primary Health Properties (PHP) reported interim results to 30 June 2020, with performance highlights that include: Adjusted EPRA earnings per share increased by 7.1%; Average uplift of 2.2% per annum on rent reviews completed in the period (FY 2019: 1.9%; FY 2018: 1.4%); Additional annualised rental income on a […]
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30 Mar 2020 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 March 2020
EasyJet has grounded its entire fleet on a morning that has also seen the price of crude oil fall below $20 (an 18-year low). Jupiter UK Growth (JUKG) reported interim results to 31 December 2019, with the total return NAV increasing by 7.8%. The focus is of course on covid-19. Chairman, Tom Bartlam, said: “In […]
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27 Feb 2020 6 min read
Smithson powers on
Smithson powers on – 2019 was a great year for Smithson Investment Trust and its results, which cover the period from the launch of the trust in October 2018 to the end of December 2019, show the trust generating an NAV return of 25.5% and a share price return of 29.8% against an 11.8% return […]
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13 Aug 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 13 August 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 13 August 2019 The global smaller companies fund, Smithson (SSON), has reported interim results covering the period from its incorporation in August 2018 to 30 June 2019. From the date of the company’s launch on 19 October 2018 to 30 June 2019, NAV per share total return was 20.3% compared with the MSCI […]
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17 Oct 2018 2 min read
New investment trust Smithson raises £822m
New investment trust Smithson raises £822m – Smithson Investment Trust (SSON), a newly established investment trust has successfully raised a total of £822.5 million as a result of its IPO. It is believed to be the largest recorded UK-listed investment trust launch. Smithson announces successful capital raising Applications have been received under the Initial Issue for 82,250,956 Ordinary […]
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25 Apr 2024 1 min read
Fundsmith or Baillie Gifford: Which should you pick for small-cap exposure?
By Jean-Baptiste Andrieux, Reporter, Trustnet, 25 April 2024: Fundsmith Equity and Scottish Mortgage rank high on investors’ buy lists due to their impressive performance over the past decade. As a result, fans of the two global large-cap portfolios might also be interested in their small-cap siblings, Smithson and Edinburgh Worldwide. In theory, small-caps should outperform […]
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08 Mar 2024 1 min read
The truly cheap trusts trading on the widest discount relative to their history
By Matteo Anelli, Senior reporter, Trustnet, 07 March 2024: In the investment trusts universe wide discounts are often linked to higher long-term returns – and the data backs up this hypothesis. Since 2018, investing in trusts with a double-digit discount have returned an annualised 13.6% in the following five years, a recent study by the […]
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07 Aug 2023 1 min read
Bargain Hunter: four investment trust discounts not reflecting reality
by Faith Glasgow for interactive investor, 7th August 2023: Most major markets rose in July, as did hopes that a US recession can be averted, while better-than-expected inflation news provided a welcome fillip for interest-rate sensitive sectors of the investment trust world such as infrastructure and growth capital. Investment trust discounts have therefore tended to […]
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10 Jul 2023 1 min read
Investment trust insider on global smaller companies
James Carthew: Smithson and GSCT look sensible options Smaller companies are out of favour as nervous investors prefer liquid mega caps (especially those with an AI angle, however tenuous). Nevertheless, in the global smaller companies sector, both Smithson (SSON) and Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT) have managed to make positive net asset value (NAV) progress […]
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28 Mar 2023 1 min read
Investment trust share buybacks: do they benefit private investors?
by Faith Glasgow from interactive investor, 28th March 2023: Share buybacks are used by investment trust boards to reduce the number of shares in circulation, as a mechanism for controlling the trust’s share price discount to net asset value (NAV)… But how far does that work in practice?.. A recent report by broker Numis notes […]
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16 May 2022 1 min read
Eight star fund managers you can buy on the cheap
Sam Benstead from interactive investor, 11th May 2022: The stock market rout this year has created a rare opportunity to buy shares in investment trusts run by star managers at large discounts to the value of their investments. Headline bargains include a 38% discount on Pershing Square Holdings run by Bill Ackman, a 10% discount […]
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23 Mar 2022 1 min read
Interest rate rises trigger rotation
James Carthew for Investment Week, 17 March 2022: In the run up to the end of 2021 and into the early part of 2022, investors’ attention was focused on the growing threat of interest rate rises as a way of combating inflation. That triggered a sharp rotation out of growth stocks. In the space of […]
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28 Feb 2022 1 min read
Trust Watch: War in Ukraine widens closed-end discounts
Gavin Lumsden, Citywire Investment Trust Insider, 25 Feb, 2022: Discounts widen: Russia’s shocking invasion of Ukraine has caused extreme volatility in stock markets, with the FTSE 100 today recovering 3.7% after plunging a similar amount yesterday. Investment trust share prices fell and leapt in almost equal measure, although the deep uncertainty saw their average share […]
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15 Nov 2021 2 min read
The alternative trusts allowing investors to capture new trends
Investment trusts enjoy record year for fundraising as they back a new wave of innovation November 11, 2021, Investors Chronicle, By Mary McDougall Investment trust fundraising amounted to £11.4bn in the first 10 months of the year, a record for the ancient fund structure which is now financing a new wave of innovation. Most striking is the […]
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06 Sep 2021 1 min read
Why a stocks and shares Isa is the perfect gift for a baby
Violet is five months old — a good age to start investing in the market, says her devoted uncle David Brenchley David Brenchley, Friday September 03 2021, 5.00pm, The Times It’s always exciting when you can welcome a new baby to the family. This was certainly the case with the birth of my niece, Violet, […]
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12 Feb 2021 1 min read
When it is worth paying a premium for an investment trust
When it is worth paying a premium for an investment trust by Jennifer Hill from interactive investor | 10th February 2021 10:06 Positive news on Covid-19 vaccines led to investment trusts re-rating considerably during 2020. The average discount among equity investment trusts narrowed from 4.6% to 2.5% – the tightest level on record – according to Numis Securities. Discounts widened […]
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03 Mar 2020 2 min read
Investment trust insider Smithson versus North Atlantic
Investment trust insider Smithson versus North Atlantic – James Carthew: Smithson is flying, North Atlantic is trying Global smaller companies trust Smithson (SSON) published its inaugural results last week. By most measures, it has had a phenomenal start in life: the largest investment trust launch ever (£822.5m), topped up with another £426m of share issuance, and […]
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20 Dec 2018 1 min read
2018 new issue review
2018 new issue review – QuotedData’s James Carthew talks to Citywire’s Jen Hill about 2018’s clutch of new issues Investors were given an eclectic mix of opportunities within alternatives, in contrast to recent years when high-yielding propositions drove the vast majority of launches. The return of private equity and private equity like strategies – Augmentum […]
