Pantheon Infrastructure Investment companies | Update | 6 March 2024 Compelling opportunity At just over two years old, the Pantheon Infrastructure Trust (PINT) can claim to have seen a lot in its short life. Its positive net asset value (NAV) return over this period, despite increasingly challenging economic conditions, is a testament to the execution […]

February 2024 Monthly | Investment companies  Kindly sponsored by abrdn  Winners and losers in January 2024 As with 2023, markets remained beholden to the trajectory of interest rates and inflation in January. Having steadily drifted downwards over the last month of the year, bond yields rose after an unexpected increase in inflation, with the data […]

GCP Infrastructure Investment companies | Annual overview | 30 January 2024 Don’t look back in anger There is no doubt that 2023 was a challenging year for GCP and the broader infrastructure sector as a confluence of factors weighed on performance, particularly the rapid increase in interest rates. Despite this, the company was still able […]

Economic and Political Roundup Investment companies | Monthly | January 2024 Political turbulence persisted in December, ushering in a new wave of global uncertainty in the build up to the 2024 election cycle. In spite of this, confidence in the US remained high as falling yields precipitated a global rally in risk assets. Market pricing […]

December 2023 Monthly | Investment companies  Kindly sponsored by abrdn  Winners and losers in November 2023 November marked one of the best months of performance in recent memory, with gains felt across multiple asset classes. The catalyst for this was the market’s expectation that we have hit peak interest rates and that we may be […]

Geiger Counter Limited  Investment companies | Annual overview | 28 November 2023  Powered up for growth  Geiger Counter (GCL), which invests in companies involved in the exploration, development and production of uranium, is set to benefit from nuclear power’s colossal role in decarbonising the global electricity supply. Governments around the world are making nuclear energy […]

November 2023 Monthly| Investment companies | October 2023 Kindly sponsored by abrdn  Winners and losers in October 2023 October marked the third consecutive aggregate monthly fall for investment companies, with only four of 48 sectors recording a positive return. All major markets were down as the narrative continued to be driven by the US bond […]

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 […]

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 […]

September 2023 Monthly roundup  |  Investment companies Kindly sponsored by abrdn  Winners and losers in August 2023 Share price total returns for investment companies were generally poor over August, with the best performing sector, Debt – Structured Finance, returning just 2.1%, with only a few sectors managing to eke out a positive total return. Funds […]

In this week’s show, James Carthew spoke to Ed Simpson from GCP Infrastructure. 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 on as@quoteddata.com. Additionally, if you would prefer to […]

GCP Infrastructure Investment companies | Update | 17 August 2023 Merger to unlock compelling value? GCP Infrastructure Investments (GCP) has announced a potential three-way merger between it, GCP Asset Backed Income (GABI), and RM Infrastructure Income (RMII). As we explore in this note, this has the potential to address some of the issues that may […]

August 2023 Monthly roundup  |  Investment companies Kindly sponsored by abrdn  Winners and losers in July 2023 The China / Greater China sector led markets higher over the course of July following a Politburo meeting that outlined a range of measures designed to support the beleaguered economy. While the meeting provided some optimism for investors […]

Economic and Political Monthly Roundup Investment companies | Monthly | July 2023 Picking up from where they left off in May, US markets continued to surge ahead in June, comfortably outperforming their global peers. The return to US dominance has been well documented, particularly regarding index concentration, with the top seven companies on the NASDAQ […]

First quarter of 2023 Investment Companies | Quarterly roundup | April 2023 Kindly sponsored by abrdn Into the unknown The first quarter of 2023 serves as a good reminder that things are never quite as predictable or certain as the consensus may lead you to believe. Having seemingly come around to the prospect of ‘higher […]

Pantheon Infrastructure Investment companies | Initiation | 17 March 2023 Reliable income streams with inflation protection Since its launch in November 2021, Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT) has been busy assembling a diverse portfolio of 11 investments in infrastructure projects, located in developed markets. The majority of these have explicit inflation-linkage built into their structure or implicit […]

March 2023 Monthly roundup  |  Investment companies Winners and losers in February 2023 The environmental sector had a strong month, although noting that this is a relatively small category with only three funds, and its positive returns are more a factor of mean reversion following a period of underperformance. The North American Smaller Companies sector […]

February 2023 Monthly roundup  |  Investment companies Winners and losers in January 2023 In a month where winners far outweighed losers, once again Chinese funds feature amongst the best-performing investment companies over the month, taking many of the top slots. China has barrelled ahead with the reopening of its economy following the lifting of COVID-related […]

GCP Infrastructure Investment companies | Annual overview | 07 February 2023 Green is good GCP Infrastructure (GCP) has seen a dramatic improvement in the tailwinds supporting its investment approach. The rise in UK inflation and power prices has driven a substantial, positive uplift in its net asset value (NAV). This uplift has more than made […]

Review 2022 Annual roundup | Investment companies | January 2023 Kindly sponsored by abrdn A year to forget? Any optimism that investors felt going into 2022 was dashed in February with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Resultant jumps in energy and food prices helped entrench inflation, requiring more aggressive interest rate hikes from central banks. Investments […]

Economic and Political Monthly Roundup Investment companies | Monthly | January 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 […]

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 […]

Investment Companies Monthly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and abrdn Performance August may have been a quiet month in terms of investment company news, but markets have certainly been noisy with fears that we’re heading into a recession (or may already be in one) on top of everyone’s minds. At the start of the […]

Investment Companies Monthly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and abrdn Performance Fears of a recession taking hold later this year have strengthened, while two 0.75% US interest rate rises in quick succession, and a higher-than-expected increase in European interest rates, appear to have convinced investors that inflation will eventually be tamed. After months of […]

In this week’s show, James Carthew talked to Philip Kent of GCP Infrastructure Investments Ltd. 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 […]

Improving outlook and room to grow GCP Infrastructure Investments Limited (GCP) recently published its half-yearly report covering the six months ended 31 March 2022. It was a period that saw GCP’s net asset value (NAV) hit a new high, and the end June NAV is higher still. Record electricity prices and stronger than forecast inflation […]

Investment Companies Quarterly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments It was very much ‘more of the same’ during the second quarter of 2022 as the conflict in Ukraine continued, rising inflation and interest rates created volatility and supply chain woes didn’t seem to ease. Towards the end of the quarter, previously strong-performing […]

Economic and Political Monthly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Allianz 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 you to buy or […]