Worldwide Healthcare Trust - Managers bullish on healthcare sector outlook
Worldwide Healthcare Trust (WWH) is managed by Sven Borho and Trevor Polischuk at OrbiMed, a major global specialist healthcare investor. They remain constructive on the outlook for the sector, citing strong industry fundamentals, including a ‘golden era’ of innovation, a favourable regulatory environment and undemanding company valuations. There is also the potential for further industry mergers and acquisitions, which should be supportive for the sector’s performance. While WWH suffered a tough period of performance in H218, it maintains a very strong long-term record; over the last five and 10 years, it has generated NAV and share price total returns between 14.6% and 19.2% pa and has outperformed its benchmark over these periods in both NAV and share price terms.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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