Review: Sector specialist continues to outperform
Worldwide Healthcare Trust (WWH) offers broad exposure to the global healthcare sector, including investments in healthcare services and medical devices alongside the more mainstream areas of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Healthcare has performed strongly in recent years, and WWH has outperformed its benchmark, the MSCI World Health Care Index, in three of the past four years to 30 June, particularly so in the last two years. While such strong performance may spark fears that a rerating is overdue, the manager points to continued favourable fundamentals for the sector, with the pace of drug discovery and an accommodative regulatory backdrop providing support.Worldwide Healthcare Trust is an investment trust. Co. invest in the global healthcare sector particularly in pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and related securities in the healthcare sector. In addition, Co. invests in medical device technologies, life science tools and healthcare services. A maximum of 20% of the portfolio, at the time of acquisition, may be invested in companies in each of the following sectors: healthcare equipment and supplies; healthcare technology; and healthcare providers and services. Co.'s investment portfolio at Mar 31 2017, principally comprised listed equity investments, OTC swaps and unquoted debt investments and totalled £1,192,881,000.
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