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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
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust: 1 director bought
A director at Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust bought 10,000 shares at 179p and the significance rating of the trade was 68/100. 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 ...
- James Carthew
Knit one, purl one
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust’s (SIGT’s) UK-biased value style and mid-cap exposure suffered heavily as markets collapsed during the first quarter of 2020. However, the manager used the rout to take advantage of deep value opportunities, while adding risk to the portfolio, and SIGT has benefitted during both recovery phases. While small-mid caps have recovered relative to larger stocks, though, and sterling has shown some appreciation, value remains deeply unloved by most investors. SIGT’s...
- James Carthew
Knit one, purl one
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust’s (SIGT’s) UK-biased value style and mid-cap exposure suffered heavily as markets collapsed during the first quarter of 2020. However, the manager used the rout to take advantage of deep value opportunities, while adding risk to the portfolio, and SIGT has benefitted during both recovery phases. While small-mid caps have recovered relative to larger stocks, though, and sterling has shown some appreciation, value remains deeply unloved. Seneca IM says that it i...
- James Carthew
On the rebound
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust’s (SIGT’s) UK-biased value style and mid-cap exposure suffered heavily during the first quarter of 2020 as markets collapsed – its net asset value (NAV) fell by some 30.4%. However, the manager used the rout to take advantage of deep value opportunities and SIGT has benefitted as markets have rebounded – up 16.5% during the second quarter. The manager believes there is much more to come.
- James Carthew
On the rebound
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust’s (SIGT’s) UK-biased value style and mid-cap exposure suffered heavily during the first quarter of 2020 as markets collapsed – its NAV fell by some 30.4%. However, the manager used the rout to take advantage of deep value opportunities (increasing exposure to UK equities, for example) and SIGT has benefitted as markets have rebounded – up 16.5% during Q2. The manager believes there is much more to come.
- Pedro Fonseca
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust - Finding opportunities following ...
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust (SIGT) is managed by a four-strong team at Seneca Investment Managers, seeking undervalued securities across multiple asset classes in order to diversify the trust’s risk and return drivers. Its UK equity portfolio was particularly negatively affected by the coronavirus-led market sell-off in March, given its focus on domestic, mid-cap value stocks, which performed relatively poorly. However, these holdings could stand SIGT in good stead during an economic r...
- Matthew Read
Triple whammy but standing by the dividend
The outbreak of covid-19 has taken the wind out of global markets and Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust (SIGT) has not been immune to this; its NAV has fallen 30.4% during the first quarter of 2020 (23.6% in March – all in total return terms). It has suffered a triple whammy from its UK-biased value style, its mid cap exposure and the correlation of alternative asset fund prices to equity markets, but its board has said that it intends to maintain the quarterly dividend rate at 1.68p for the t...
- James Carthew
Triple whammy but standing by the dividend
The outbreak of covid-19 has taken the wind out of global markets and Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust (SIGT) has not been immune to this; its net asset value (NAV) has fallen 30.4% during the first quarter of 2020 (23.6% in March – all in total return terms). It has suffered a triple whammy from its UK-biased value style, its mid cap exposure and the correlation of alternative asset fund prices to equity markets, but its board has said that it intends to maintain the quarterly dividend rate ...
- Pedro Fonseca
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust - Keeping a cool head in a tough m...
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust (SIGT) has an overriding focus on value, which the team at Seneca Investment Managers believes offers compelling long-term investment opportunities. They employ a multi-asset approach in order to diversify the trust’s risk and its return drivers. While stock market volatility has spiked due to the coronavirus outbreak, SIGT’s managers are remaining calm. They are continuing to collect income and are topping up the trust’s positions that they consider are...
- Pedro Fonseca
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust - Finding opportunities in a polar...
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust (SIGT) has a multi-asset investment strategy, with an overriding focus on value. The team at Seneca Investment Managers aims to generate average total returns of at least CPI +6% pa over the course of a typical investment cycle. It believes that there is significant latent value within SIGT’s portfolio, and due to wide disparities in the market, there are opportunities to recycle capital. The managers are reducing exposure to positions that have done relativ...
- Pedro Fonseca
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust - Executive interview
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust (LSE:SIGT) was launched in 2005 and adopts a ‘multi-asset value investing’ approach, aiming to generate income and capital growth with low volatility by investing in a multi-asset portfolio of equities, fixed income and specialist assets. Since July 2017, SIGT’s performance has been benchmarked against CPI +6%. Annual dividends have increased each year since 2013. On 1 August 2016, SIGT adopted a discount control mechanism aiming to ensure that its share...
- Matthew Read
Pausing on equity reductions
Over the last couple of years, Seneca Investment Managers (Seneca IM), the manager of Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust (SIGT), has been reducing the trust’s equity weighting, in advance of a global recession that it now expects in 2021. Consistent with this view, the manager has increased SIGT’s weighting to gold and reduced net gearing (3.3% as at the end of September). Whilst it may make further equity reductions, we are now much closer to the point where these will cease (see page 10), and...
- Matthew Read
Pausing on equity reductions
Over the last couple of years, Seneca Investment Managers (Seneca IM), the manager of Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust (SIGT), has been reducing the trust’s equity weighting, in advance of a global recession that it now expects in 2021. Consistent with this view, the manager has increased SIGT’s weighting to gold and reduced net gearing (3.3% as at the end of September). Whilst it may make further equity reductions, we are now much closer to the point where these will cease, and it has decide...
- James Carthew
Going for gold!
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust’s (SIGT’s) manager, Seneca Investment Managers (Seneca IM), has continued to reduce the trust’s equity weighting, in advance of a global recession it now expects in late 2020/ early 2021. Consistent with its view, SIGT has made its first allocation into gold (through a gold ETF and a fund of gold mining companies).
- Matthew Read
Going for gold!
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust’s (SIGT’s) manager, Seneca Investment Managers (Seneca IM), has continued to reduce SIGT’s equity weighting, in advance of a global recession it now expects in late 2020/ early 2021. Consistent with its view, SIGT hasmade its first allocation into gold (through a gold exchange traded fund (ETF) and a fund of gold mining companies).
- Mel Jenner
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust - Significant contribution from ho...
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust (SIGT) has a value-biased, multi-asset investment strategy. It aims to generate average total returns of at least CPI +6% pa over the course of a typical investment cycle. Recent performance has been significantly enhanced by the holding in financial platform AJ Bell, whose shares have nearly trebled since listing in December 2018. This has more than offset the negative effects from SIGT’s lack of exposure to US equities and safe-haven government bonds, whic...
- Matthew Read
Holding steady as cycle turns
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust’s (SIGT’s) manager, Seneca Investment Managers (Seneca IM), has continued to reduce the trust’s equity weighting, in advance of a global recession it expects in late 2020/early 2021. Consistent with its view, the yield curve has all but inverted (as at 22 March, the gap between three-month and 10-year US treasuries was just 3bp) and the manager says that in the past, on average, an economic recession has commenced 311 days later.
- Matthew Read
Holding steady as cycle turns
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust’s (SIGT’s) manager, Seneca Investment Managers (Seneca IM), has continued to reduce the trust’s equity weighting, in advance of a global recession it expects in late 2020/early 2021. Consistent with its view, the yield curve has all but inverted (as at 22 March, the gap between three-month and 10-year US treasury bonds was just 3 basis points) and the manager says that in the past, on average, an economic recession has commenced 311 days later. SIGT has recent...
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