Investment Companies Research

19 May 2022

Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust – Resilient income in uncertain times

Resilient income in uncertain times Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust’s (SLI’s) portfolio has performed strongly over the past year, posting a net asset value (NAV) total return of 30.7%. It is reaping the rewards of its manager pivoting the portfolio’s focus onto the well-performing industrial and logistics sector many years ago (it now makes […]

17 May 2022

CQS New City High Yield – Interest rate rises maybe too little, too late

Interest rate rises maybe too little, too late Ian Francis, the manager of CQS New City High Yield Fund (NCYF), has observed the marked shifts in central banks’ policy towards raising interest rates this year. He feels that, while recent rises are a move in the right direction, central banks’ caution – driven by concerns […]

17 May 2022

CQS New City High Yield – Interest rate rises maybe too little, too late

Interest rate rises maybe too little, too late Ian Francis, the manager of CQS New City High Yield Fund (NCYF), has observed the marked shifts in central banks’ policy towards raising interest rates this year. He feels that, while recent rises are a move in the right direction, central banks’ caution – driven by concerns […]

17 May 2022

CQS New City High Yield – Interest rate rises maybe too little, too late

Interest rate rises maybe too little, too late Ian Francis, the manager of CQS New City High Yield Fund (NCYF), has observed the marked shifts in central banks’ policy towards raising interest rates this year. He feels that, while recent rises are a move in the right direction, central banks’ caution – driven by concerns […]

13 May 2022

Interview with Richard Sem of Pantheon Infrastructure

In this week’s show, James Carthew talked to Richard Sem of Pantheon 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. Additionally, if you would prefer to […]

10 May 2022

Polar Capital Technology – Eyes on the prize

Eyes on the prize Heightened downside risk and disappointing earnings updates have seen the technology sector give back some of its considerable long-term outperformance of the wider market. As investors retreated to the sector titans (stocks such as Microsoft and Apple), Polar Capital Technology’s (PCT’s) underweight position in these companies has seen it underperform its […]

10 May 2022

Polar Capital Technology – Eyes on the prize

Eyes on the prize Heightened downside risk and disappointing earnings updates have seen the technology sector give back some of its considerable long-term outperformance of the wider market. As investors appeared to retreat to the sector titans (stocks such as Microsoft and Apple), Polar Capital Technology’s (PCT’s) underweight position in these companies has seen it […]

10 May 2022

Polar Capital Technology – Eyes on the prize

Eyes on the prize Heightened downside risk and disappointing earnings updates have seen the technology sector give back some of its considerable long-term outperformance of the wider market. As investors retreated to the sector titans (stocks such as Microsoft and Apple), Polar Capital Technology’s (PCT’s) underweight position in these companies has seen it underperform its […]

06 May 2022

Interview with Gary Moglione of Momentum Multi Asset Value Trust

In this week’s show, James Carthew talked to Gary Moglione of Momentum Multi Asset Value Trust. 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 […]

06 May 2022
06 May 2022

QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – May 2022

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 […]

06 May 2022

QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – May 2022

Investment Companies Monthly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and abrdn Performance After an already difficult first quarter to the year, April proved no different as the war in Ukraine, Covid-induced lockdowns in China and the prospect of a tighter monetary policy in the US all weighed on sentiment. In terms of performance within the […]

29 Apr 2022

Interview with Robert Guest from Foresight Sustainable Forestry

In this week’s show, James Carthew talked to Robert Guest from Foresight Sustainable Forestry. 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 […]

26 Apr 2022

Henderson High Income – Last man standing

Last man standing Henderson High Income (HHI) appears to have enjoyed something of a UK revival for a year now, boosted by the pandemic recovery and a game of catch-up among dividend-paying companies, which manager David Smith believes still have further to go. Concerns around inflation, and now the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, linger – but the […]

26 Apr 2022

Henderson High Income – Last man standing

Last man standing Henderson High Income (HHI) has enjoyed something of a UK revival for a year now, boosted by a recovery from the pandemic and a game of catch-up among dividend-paying companies, which manager David Smith says still have further to go. Concerns around inflation, and now the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, linger – but the […]

26 Apr 2022

Henderson High Income – Last man standing

Last man standing Henderson High Income (HHI) has enjoyed something of a UK revival for a year now, boosted by the pandemic recovery and a game of catch-up among dividend-paying companies, which manager David Smith says still have further to go. Concerns around inflation, and now the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, linger – but the trust’s focus […]

22 Apr 2022

Interview with Viktor Szabó from abrdn Latin American Income Fund

In this week’s show, James Carthew talked to Viktor Szabó from abrdn Latin American Income Fund. 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 […]

12 Apr 2022

QuotedData’s Real Estate Quarterly Review – First Quarter 2022

Real Estate Quarterly Review Kindly sponsored by Abrdn Value to be found in topsy-turvy market The first three months of 2022 have been full of significant events. Investor caution followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and put paid to a London-listed property company with a portfolio of Russian assets (see page 6 for details). The cost-of-living crisis […]

12 Apr 2022

QuotedData’s Investment Companies Quarterly Review – First Quarter 2022

Investment Companies Quarterly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments From COVID to conflict 23 March 2022 marked two years since the UK’s nationwide lockdown was implemented in response to the outbreak of COVID-19. While cases and lockdowns are still occurring across the globe to varying degrees, it appears we are over the […]

08 Apr 2022

Interview with Yoojeong Oh from abrdn Asian Income Fund

In this week’s show, Jayna Rana talked to Yoojeong Oh from abrdn Asian Income Fund. 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 […]

06 Apr 2022

QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – April 2022

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 […]

06 Apr 2022

QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – April 2022

Investment Companies Monthly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and abrdn Performance The Russo-Ukrainian conflict, which began at the end of February, worsened over March which, unsurprisingly, caused further volatility in global markets and a significant impact on energy, metals, and wheat prices. That has been good news for commodity exporting regions such as Latin […]

06 Apr 2022

QuotedData’s Real Estate Roundup – April 2022

Real Estate Roundup Kindly sponsored by abrdn Performance data March’s biggest movers in price terms are shown in the charts below. Property stocks generally rallied in March, perhaps due to the relative inflation hedge they can provide. There were two outliers in Dublin office specialist Hibernia REIT and small-cap South East of England landlord McKay […]

05 Apr 2022

Polar Capital Global Financials Trust – Riding out the storm

Riding out the storm Polar Capital Global Financials Trust (PCFT) has been a beneficiary of renewed interest in the financials sector, as economies reopen and interest rates begin to edge up (higher rates should feed into higher margins for banks). Incredibly, the sector is yet to make up the ground it lost relative to the […]

05 Apr 2022

Polar Capital Global Financials Trust – Riding out the storm

Riding out the storm Polar Capital Global Financials Trust (PCFT) has been a beneficiary of renewed interest in the financials sector, as economies reopen from the effects of lockdowns and interest rates begin to edge up (as we explain in this note, higher rates should feed into higher margins for banks). Incredibly, the sector is […]

05 Apr 2022

Polar Capital Global Financials Trust – Riding out the storm

Riding out the storm Polar Capital Global Financials Trust (PCFT) has been a beneficiary of renewed interest in the financials sector, as economies reopen and interest rates begin to edge up (higher rates should feed into higher margins for banks). Incredibly, the sector is yet to make up the ground it lost relative to the […]

01 Apr 2022

Interview with Ian Lance from Temple Bar Investment Trust

In this week’s show, James Carthew talked to Ian Lance from Temple Bar Investment Trust. 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 […]

29 Mar 2022

JLEN Environmental Assets – It’s all about renewables

It’s all about renewables The energy sector has reportedly been buoyant over the past 18 months, and the manager of JLEN Environmental Assets (JLEN) thinks that the trust is well-positioned to benefit. Initiatives such as COP26, incoming TCFD regulations and the Russo-Ukrainian crisis, combined with rising inflation and power prices, appear to have heightened the […]

29 Mar 2022

JLEN Environmental Assets – It’s all about renewables

It’s all about renewables The energy sector has been particularly buoyant over the past 18 months, and JLEN Environmental Assets (JLEN) is well-positioned to benefit. Initiatives such as COP26, incoming TCFD regulations and the Russo-Ukrainian crisis, combined with rising inflation and power prices, have only heightened the attractions of renewable energy. The managers have identified […]

29 Mar 2022

JLEN Environmental Assets – It’s all about renewables

It’s all about renewables The renewable energy sector has been particularly buoyant over the past 18 months, and JLEN Environmental Assets (JLEN) is well-positioned to benefit. Initiatives such as the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), new regulations on climate related financial disclosure – TCFD – and the Russo-Ukrainian crisis, combined with rising inflation and […]

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