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Richard Williams
- Richard Williams
Foresight Environmental Infrastructure – Strategic refresh
Foresight Environmental Infrastructure (FGEN) has set out its strategic focus over the medium term that will centre on core renewable energy generation assets. This will see it sell its growth assets once operations have ramped up and valuation maximised. This will provide the company with capital allocation flexibility and allow it to invest the sales proceeds into assets that display attractive income characteristics such as visible, stable and secure long-term revenue with inflation linkage (...
James Carthew
- James Carthew
Capital Gearing Trust – Cautiously positioned in volatile markets
In times of market turmoil, it is only natural that investors would look closer at trusts such as Capital Gearing Trust (CGT), which seeks to avoid losing shareholders’ money. As we show on page 3, it has done a great job of achieving this over more than four decades, with just two, low-single-digit “down-years” since 1982. Management view CGT as the most defensive trust in the UK market, just along the risk curve from cash (very low risk, but not completely risk-free like cash, for example a ba...
Richard Williams
- Richard Williams
Geiger Counter Limited – Enriched prospects
A commitment to quadruple nuclear generating capacity in the US, made by President Donald Trump in a series of executive orders signed at the end of May, has provided a significant and much-needed boost to the uranium sector, in which Geiger Counter (GCL) invests. A number of uranium stocks rose by double figures in the days following the pledge to “re-establish the US as a global leader in nuclear energy”. Investor sentiment towards the sector had been waning prior to this, with a number of ...
Richard Williams
- Richard Williams
QuotedData’s Real Estate Monthly Roundup – July 2025
At the halfway point of the year, real estate stocks have performed strongly – up 8.0% on average. In June, the median uplift was 1.9% and was again dominated by merger and acquisition (M&A) news. Warehouse REIT has been the subject of a number of diminishing offers from private equity giant Blackstone over recent months, but was the subject of a merger offer from a listed peer at a healthy premium to the previous recommended bid (see the corporate news section for details). Life Science REIT...
Richard Williams
- Richard Williams
RIT Capital Partners – Riding out the tariff storm
Uncertainty levels have been dialled up across global markets, with Trump’s tariffs throwing up a new dimension of risk. RIT Capital Partners’ (RIT’s) diversified portfolio (across asset classes, sectors and geographies) and stringent risk controls put it in a unique position to weather the storm. Leveraging off its manager’s investment skillset and unparalleled access to specialist fund managers, the trust’s portfolio has been constructed with the aim of performing well across market cycles. ...
Richard Williams
- Richard Williams
Foresight Environmental Infrastructure – Strategic refresh
Foresight Environmental Infrastructure (FGEN) has set out its strategic focus over the medium term that will centre on core renewable energy generation assets. This will see it sell its growth assets once operations have ramped up and valuation maximised. This will provide the company with capital allocation flexibility and allow it to invest the sales proceeds into assets that display attractive income characteristics such as visible, stable and secure long-term revenue with inflation linkage (...
James Carthew
- James Carthew
Capital Gearing Trust – Cautiously positioned in volatile markets
In times of market turmoil, it is only natural that investors would look closer at trusts such as Capital Gearing Trust (CGT), which seeks to avoid losing shareholders’ money. As we show on page 3, it has done a great job of achieving this over more than four decades, with just two, low-single-digit “down-years” since 1982. Management view CGT as the most defensive trust in the UK market, just along the risk curve from cash (very low risk, but not completely risk-free like cash, for example a ba...
Richard Williams
- Richard Williams
Geiger Counter Limited – Enriched prospects
A commitment to quadruple nuclear generating capacity in the US, made by President Donald Trump in a series of executive orders signed at the end of May, has provided a significant and much-needed boost to the uranium sector, in which Geiger Counter (GCL) invests. A number of uranium stocks rose by double figures in the days following the pledge to “re-establish the US as a global leader in nuclear energy”. Investor sentiment towards the sector had been waning prior to this, with a number of ...
Richard Williams
- Richard Williams
QuotedData’s Real Estate Monthly Roundup – July 2025
At the halfway point of the year, real estate stocks have performed strongly – up 8.0% on average. In June, the median uplift was 1.9% and was again dominated by merger and acquisition (M&A) news. Warehouse REIT has been the subject of a number of diminishing offers from private equity giant Blackstone over recent months, but was the subject of a merger offer from a listed peer at a healthy premium to the previous recommended bid (see the corporate news section for details). Life Science REIT...
Richard Williams
- Richard Williams
RIT Capital Partners – Riding out the tariff storm
Uncertainty levels have been dialled up across global markets, with Trump’s tariffs throwing up a new dimension of risk. RIT Capital Partners’ (RIT’s) diversified portfolio (across asset classes, sectors and geographies) and stringent risk controls put it in a unique position to weather the storm. Leveraging off its manager’s investment skillset and unparalleled access to specialist fund managers, the trust’s portfolio has been constructed with the aim of performing well across market cycles. ...
Economic & Political Roundup - March 2016
”‹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 any of the companies mentioned.
Expansion boosts bottom line
”‹Caledonia Mining (Caledonia) produced 23,300oz (23koz) of gold in H1 2016, a 14% increase on H1 2015, indicating that its investment in infrastructure to expand production is already bearing fruit. The company is on schedule to produce around 50koz of gold in 2016 (2015: 43koz).
James Carthew
- James Carthew
Diverse renewables exposure
Since its launch in March 2014, John Laing Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) has built up a diverse portfolio of wind, solar, anaerobic digestion, waste and wastewater projects. It uses most of the revenue from these to pay its dividends (currently a yield of 5.9%) and the balance goes to reinvest in new projects, to help maintain the long-term value of the portfolio when adjusted for inflation. JLEN is targeting an internal rate of return between 7.5% and 8.5% (net of fees and expenses) on its ...
James Carthew
- James Carthew
Quality small cap focus
Strategic Equity Capital (SEC’s) managers believe the current portfolio consists of very high quality smaller companies. The high cash balances that built up in 2016, on the back of events such as the e2v technologies takeover, have, largely, been redeployed. Cash drag and the fund’s focus have held back returns over the past year (see page 12). However, investment activity (detailed on page 10) has generated encouraging initial returns. Longer term, the detailed private equity derived process, ...
Matthew Read
- Matthew Read
Sounding a note of caution
”‹Fidelity Special Values (FSV) is managed with a contrarian style (it focuses on stocks which are out of favour with other investors, yet show potential for change). It benefited from the Trump reflation trade (see page 14), as value stocks (stocks that that tend to trade at low valuations relative to their fundamentals) rallied strongly, but, as the market has reset its expectations, value has moved out of favour as investors have refocused on growth. With market valuations close to all-time h...
Matthew Read
- Matthew Read
Reasons to be cheerful
”‹Fidelity Japanese Values (FJV) has recovered strongly this year as investors have refocused their attention on growth stocks (those that tend to increase in capital value). Japanese corporate earnings have recovered sharply from their low and while yen strengthening, on the back of regional political events, is a potential challenge, FJV’s manager says that an uptick in the global cycle has helped Japan to expand beyond its potential growth rate. The trust’s manager, Nicholas Price, observes t...
Matthew Read
- Matthew Read
Two years on and all is well
”‹Since Nitin Bajaj’s appointment in April 2015, Fidelity Asian Values (FAS) has markedly outperformed its peer group and benchmark. This is despite relative performance suffering this year, as large-cap stocks (which dominate the index and where FAS is underweight) have outperformed smaller companies (FAS’ absolute returns have nonetheless been very strong). Over the long term, Nitin expects this to reverse with the trust benefiting.