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- James Carthew
Economic and Political Monthly Roundup 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 you to buy or sell any of the companies mentioned.
STS SECURITIES TRUST OF SCOTLAND PLC
SIGT SENECA GLOBAL INCOME & GROWTH TRUST
ABD ABERDEEN NEW DAWN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
SDP SCHRODER ASIA PACIFIC FUND PLC
FCSS FIDELITY CHINA SPECIAL SITUATIONS PLC
GCP GCP INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS LTD GBP
JII JPMORGAN INDIAN INV TRUST
ADIG ABERDEEN DIVERSIFIED INCOME AND GROWTH TRUST
JFJ JPMORGAN JAPANESE INV. TRUST
PCT POLAR CAPITAL TECHNOLOGY TRUST PLC
ANII ABERDEEN NEW INDIA INVESTMENT TRUST
SHRS SHIRES INCOME PLC
BEMO BARING EMERGING EUROPE PLC
EGL ECOFIN GLOBAL UTILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE TRUST
CSH CIVITAS SOCIAL HOUSING PLC
GSF GORE STREET ENERGY STORAGE FUND
EBOX TRITAX EUROBOX GBP
MLI INDUSTRIALS REIT LTD
SONG HIPGNOSIS SONGS FUND LTD
- James Carthew
Economic and Political Monthly Roundup 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 you to buy or sell any of the companies mentioned.
STS SECURITIES TRUST OF SCOTLAND PLC
SIGT SENECA GLOBAL INCOME & GROWTH TRUST
ABD ABERDEEN NEW DAWN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
SDP SCHRODER ASIA PACIFIC FUND PLC
FCSS FIDELITY CHINA SPECIAL SITUATIONS PLC
GCP GCP INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS LTD GBP
JII JPMORGAN INDIAN INV TRUST
ADIG ABERDEEN DIVERSIFIED INCOME AND GROWTH TRUST
JFJ JPMORGAN JAPANESE INV. TRUST
PCT POLAR CAPITAL TECHNOLOGY TRUST PLC
ANII ABERDEEN NEW INDIA INVESTMENT TRUST
SHRS SHIRES INCOME PLC
BEMO BARING EMERGING EUROPE PLC
EGL ECOFIN GLOBAL UTILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE TRUST
CSH CIVITAS SOCIAL HOUSING PLC
GSF GORE STREET ENERGY STORAGE FUND
EBOX TRITAX EUROBOX GBP
MLI INDUSTRIALS REIT LTD
SONG HIPGNOSIS SONGS FUND LTD
- Pedro Fonseca
Securities Trust of Scotland - Termination of coverage
Edison Investment Research is terminating coverage on Riber (ALRIB), Gemfields Group (GEM), Securities Trust of Scotland PLC (STS), Gresham House Strategic (GHS), La Doria (LD) and Studio Retail Group (STU). Please note you should no longer rely on any previous research or estimates for this company. All forecasts should now be considered redundant. Previously published reports can still be accessed via our website.
- Pedro Fonseca
Securities Trust of Scotland - Compounding over time
Securities Trust of Scotland (STS) has been managed by James Harries and Tomasz Boniek of Troy Asset Management (Troy AM) since November 2020, when the board passed this mandate to Troy AM. The fund is structured and managed to produce consistent compounded returns with below average market volatility throughout the cycle. Troy AM’s cautious approach has resulted in a steady mid-term performance. Since launch in November 2016, the Trojan Global Income Fund (STS’s strategy, launched and run by Ja...
- Pedro Fonseca
Securities Trust of Scotland - Compounding over time
Securities Trust of Scotland (STS) has been managed by James Harries and Tomasz Boniek of Troy Asset Management (Troy AM) since November 2020, when the board passed this mandate to Troy AM. The fund is structured and managed to produce consistent compounded returns with below average market volatility throughout the cycle. Troy AM’s cautious approach has resulted in a steady mid-term performance. Since launch in November 2016, the Trojan Global Income Fund (STS’s strategy, launched and run by Ja...
Securities Trust of Scotland: 1 director
A director at Securities Trust of Scotland bought 100,000 shares at 213p and the significance rating of the trade was 75/100. Is that information sufficient for you to make an investment decision? This report gives details of those trades and adds context and analysis to them such that you can judge whether these trading decisions are ones worth following. Included in the report is a detailed share price chart which plots discretionary trades by all the company's directors over the last two ye...
Securities Trust of Scotland (STS): The Trojan horse
Edison Investment Research Limited Securities Trust of Scotland (STS): The Trojan horse 03-Dec-2020 / 08:00 GMT/BST London, UK, 3 December 2020 Securities Trust of Scotland (STS): The Trojan horse Securities Trust of Scotland (STS) has had an eventful 2020. Following a competitive selection process, the board appointed Troy Asset Management (Troy AM) as investment manager in September, having served protective notice on Martin Currie in June, following the resignation of former manager Mark Whitehead. The trust is retaining its combined income and long-term capital growth inves...
- Pedro Fonseca
Securities Trust of Scotland - High-conviction portfolio of quality co...
Securities Trust of Scotland (STS) aims to generate income and long-term capital growth through a bottom-up approach to investing in global equities. The manager, Mark Whitehead, focuses on quality companies with an ability to sustain dividend growth, to build a relatively concentrated portfolio of 35–55 high-conviction stocks. In his view, this approach is naturally aligned with selecting companies that score highly on ESG issues. Since Whitehead’s appointment, and the adoption of the manda...
- Pedro Fonseca
Securities Trust of Scotland - Focused on quality, income and capital ...
Securities Trust of Scotland (STS) aims to deliver both income and capital growth to shareholders over the long term. Since June 2016, STS has employed an investment mandate that is not constrained by index considerations. The manager, Mark Whitehead, follows a rigorous bottom-up approach to construct a relatively concentrated portfolio of 35–55 high quality, large-cap companies with sustainable earnings and dividend growth. Since the change in the trust’s benchmark on 1 June 2016, STS has d...
- Helena Coles
Securities Trust of Scotland - High-conviction global equity income po...
Securities Trust of Scotland (STS) aims to achieve long-term income and capital growth through a fundamental approach to global equity investment. The manager, Mark Whitehead, is not constrained by index considerations and focuses on finding 35–55 high-quality companies with sustainable business models and financial resilience, in which to invest for a three- to five-year horizon. He also utilises the trust’s ability to employ options strategies in a controlled manner to generate additional ...
- Helena Coles
Securities Trust of Scotland - Focused on global growth and quality st...
Securities Trust of Scotland (STS) aims to provide long-term growth in income and capital through investing in global equities. The current manager, Mark Whitehead, was appointed in May 2016 and adopted an unconstrained, bottom-up approach to identify high-quality companies that can be long-term structural winners. The portfolio holds a relatively concentrated number of high-conviction stocks, which the manager believes gives the portfolio both defensive characteristics, as well as delivering su...
- Helena Coles
Securities Trust of Scotland - Investing globally for sustainable divi...
Securities Trust of Scotland (STS) aims to generate rising income and long-term capital growth through investment in quality companies across the globe, with sustainable dividends supported by robust earnings growth. STS appointed a new lead manager in May 2016 and adopted an unconstrained investment approach, allowing the portfolio to reflect the manager’s highest-conviction stock picks in a relatively concentrated portfolio of 35-55 holdings. STS’s performance has since been positive relat...
- Mel Jenner
New manager driving improved performance
Securities Trust of Scotland (STS) aims to generate rising income and long-term capital growth from a relatively concentrated portfolio of 35 to 55 global equities. Since May 2016, the trust has been managed by Mark Whitehead, who heads up Martin Currie’s income team. A new unconstrained, high-conviction investment approach was adopted on 1 June 2016, with performance measured against a peer group comprising both closed- and open-ended funds. STS has outperformed the peer group since the change ...
- Matthew Read
More opportunities to focus on dividend growth
”‹Mark Whitehead became manager of STS’s portfolio on 11 May 2016. Under his direction, the trust has moved to an unconstrained, benchmark agnostic approach. Removing the benchmark constraints has expanded the trust’s opportunity set significantly. Mark’s income strategy has a strong growth focus and his team now looks further down the market cap scale in search of opportunities, with the aim of identifying companies with strong capacity to grow dividends (dividend growth rather than yield is th...
- Matthew Read
More opportunities to focus on dividend growth
”‹Mark Whitehead became manager of STS’s portfolio on 11 May 2016. Under his direction, the trust has moved to an unconstrained, benchmark agnostic approach (the portfolio is constructed without reference to any equity index). Mark says that this has expanded the trust’s opportunity-set significantly. Mark’s income strategy has a strong growth focus and his team now looks further down the market cap scale in search of opportunities, with the aim of identifying companies with strong capacity to g...
- Mel Jenner
Unconstrained approach driving outperformance
Securities Trust of Scotland (STS) aims to achieve rising income and long-term capital growth from a concentrated portfolio of large- and mid-cap global equities. Following the move to a higher-yielding and progressive dividend policy in May 2015, from 1 June 2016 STS adopted a new unconstrained, high-conviction investment approach under new manager Mark Whitehead. Performance is now measured versus a peer group of both open and closed-ended funds and in September 2016 gearing was increased from...
Ford Equity International Rating and Forecast Report
Ford Equity International Research Reports cover 60 countries with over 30,000 stocks traded on international exchanges. A proprietary quantitative system compares each company to its peers on proven measures of business value, growth characteristics, and investor behavior. Ford's three recommendation ratings buy, hold and sell, represent each stock’s return potential relative to its own country market.. The rating reports which are generated each week, include the fundamental details behind...
Review: New manager and newly unconstrained approach
Securities Trust of Scotland (STS) has revamped its investment approach, appointing Martin Currie’s income team head Mark Whitehead as lead manager and adopting an unconstrained and high-conviction strategy to meet its objective of producing real growth in capital and income, rather than measuring performance against a backward-looking market index. The more flexible mandate will allow the limited use of options and the gearing facility will be increased. These changes build on a new dividend ...
Review: Global investment in income and growth
Securities Trust of Scotland (STS) aims to achieve a combination of rising income and long-term capital growth from a concentrated portfolio of global large- and mid-cap stocks. The board’s revised dividend policy, announced in May 2015, enables the company to deliver more of its returns to shareholders in dividends, while maintaining the investment approach and avoiding a potentially risky move towards higher-yielding stocks; STS now offers a 4.4% yield. Manager Martin Currie has a commitment...
Review: Growth and income from a concentrated portfolio
Securities Trust of Scotland (STS) seeks a combination of rising income and long-term capital growth from a concentrated (currently 46 stocks) global portfolio of mainly larger companies. Stocks are chosen for attributes including yield and dividend growth, financial strength and valuation. A new policy to enhance the yield, together with the potential for better underlying performance, could see the shares re-rate to a level closer to peers. The shares had moved to a discount to NAV following a...
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