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  • 25 Mar 19

Bankers Investment Trust (The) - Global ‘best ideas’ fund with distinguished record

The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR) has re-established its trend of long-term outperformance of its benchmark, after a slightly disappointing H218. While the portfolio retains a cyclical tilt, manager Alex Crooke at Janus Henderson Investors has overseen a gradual shift toward more defensive market areas in recent months. The trust’s regional sub-portfolio managers focus on finding well-managed, cash-generative companies whose growing dividends can support BNKR’s own impressive 52-year record of dividend growth. Crooke recognises the delicate balance between positive and negative factors in the global macro picture, and over the past year has taken some profits in highly rated technology names and kept gearing low at c 2–3%. He expects greater clarity on the macro outlook in the second half of 2019, but in the meantime is taking advantage of more attractive equity valuations resulting from the Q418 market sell-off.

Companies: Bankers Investment Trust
  • 29 May 18

Outperforming benchmarks old and new

The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR) is celebrating its 130th anniversary with a 51st consecutive year of annual dividend growth, and a new FTSE World index benchmark that better reflects its investment approach. Recent performance has been strong, buoyed by good returns from the US portfolio and eye-catching outperformance in China, while dividends grew ahead of forecasts in FY17. Manager Alex Crooke cautions that recent sterling strength could be a headwind for overseas dividend income in the current period, although the trust’s large revenue reserve (1.8x the FY17 dividend) and focus on stocks with attractive dividend growth should help to ensure that BNKR’s long record of year-on-year growth is maintained. Crooke has recently been appointed co-head of equities at Janus Henderson Investors, but remains committed to overseeing BNKR.

Companies: Bankers Investment Trust
  • 02 Oct 17

Stock selection drives positive performance

The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR) invests globally, with the aim of generating higher long-term total returns for its largely UK investor base than it could have achieved in its home market. Share price and NAV returns are ahead of the benchmark FTSE All-Share Index over both the short and longer term, with annualised NAV total returns of more than 15% pa over five years. BNKR also aims to grow its dividend ahead of inflation, and has the second-longest record of unbroken dividend growth of any investment company, on track for a 51st year in FY17. Lead manager Alex Crooke, at the helm since 2003, has slightly reduced the North America allocation as leading economic indicators begin to look less favourable, diverting resources to European portfolio manager Tim Stevenson, who is finding good value opportunities particularly among financial stocks.

Companies: Bankers Investment Trust
  • 14 Mar 17

50 years of growing dividends

The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR) aims to reward investors who take the additional risk of investing overseas with total returns in excess of those they could have achieved at home (as measured by the FTSE All-Share Index). The trust has a diversified approach, with lead manager Alex Crooke setting the geographical allocation, and regional sub-portfolios managed by specialists at Henderson Global Investors. Value and income are key tenets of the investment process, and the trust has recently achieved a record 50th year of annual dividend growth. BNKR has a long-term record of outperformance versus its benchmark. In the past year it has simplified its fee structure and acted as one of two rollover vehicles for investors in Henderson Global Trust, boosting assets under management by c £60m.

Companies: Bankers Investment Trust
  • 14 Mar 16

Global portfolio with 49 years of dividend growth

The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR) is a long-established, globally invested fund with a focus on achieving long-term capital growth greater than that of the FTSE All-Share index, and above-inflation dividend growth. Lead manager Alex Crooke makes use of the substantial resources of Henderson Global Investors, delegating ex-UK stock selection to regional specialists. BNKR has recently achieved its 49th consecutive annual dividend increase, the joint-longest record in the investment company sector. A proposal to merge its stablemate Henderson Global Trust with Henderson International Income Trust could see BNKR – which will be offered as a rollover option to investors who wish to retain a global growth mandate – receive a boost to its assets under management.

Companies: Bankers Investment Trust
  • 13 Jul 15

Global growth with growing income

The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR) is a global investment trust that aims to deliver capital growth in excess of the return on the FTSE All-Share index, as well as growing its dividend by more than the rate of UK inflation. Lead manager Alex Crooke looks after UK stock selection (c 38% of the portfolio) and sets the geographical asset allocation; regional portfolios are run by specialists from Henderson Global Investors’ well resourced fund management team. While there is no overall ‘house style’, all the managers are focused on not overpaying for growth. 12-month returns to 30 June have been particularly strong versus the benchmark and the trust is on track to grow its dividend for a 49th successive year.

Companies: Bankers Investment Trust

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  • 14 Aug 19

Cenkos: Duke Royalty Ltd - Revenues and profits coming through

Duke's FY19E pre-close update highlights a step change in YoY financial performance, anticipated by our FY19E forecasts. The royalties from all 12 partners are beginning to come through, met with a stabilising cost base, producing operationally geared profit growth. As royalties from partners annualise over FY20E, we see another large profit uplift ahead.

Companies: Duke Royalty
  • 13 Aug 19

LIBERUM: Plus500* - 11% user growth, low churn, buyback

Full details on H1 reveal a quality Q2 with very low churn, lower customer acquisition costs as competition reduces, and strong new customer numbers even though it was hardly a high newsflow quarter. Then we have a $50m buyback and a change in policy such that half of the core 60% payout can now be buybacks.

Companies: Plus500
  • 05 Aug 19

Results don’t need to be appealed

Burford has announced its interim results for 1H’19 and has produced another excellent set of figures. After stripping out third-party interests, revenue was up 40% to $287m and earnings grew 36% to $225m. Litigation investment was again the star, with income also increasing 36% to $265m. While this saw some benefit from the recent Petersen transaction, there were strong results beyond that with the rest of the portfolio producing a first-half RoIC of 78%. These brought total recoveries to $1.16bn from 99 investments, with a cumulative RoIC of 98% (from 85% to 31 December 2018) and IRR of 32% (from 30%).

Companies: Burford Capital
  • 16 Aug 19

Cenkos: Equals Group Plc - Adding the fuel for accelerated growth

As Equals broadens its retail and corporate offer beyond its retail FX legacy, the company is transitioning into a global, multi-product, highly profitable e-banking specialist with an integrated supply chain. To drive sales of its promising corporate expense platform, pursue attractively priced payments acquisitions and meet increased collateral requirements, the company is raising £16m (gross) in new equity inclusive of a £2m open offer. We believe these steps will lead to accelerated growth, particularly in FY21E, towards revenues of c£60m.

Companies: Equals Group
  • 12 Aug 19

S&U - Trading update confirms positive trends

S&U’s latest trading update confirms the improving trend in the motor finance business in terms of demand, transactions and indicators for credit quality. Aspen property bridging also continues to make progress although at a slightly slower rate. Our estimates are unchanged and the shares appear conservatively valued with an attractive yield.

Companies: S&U
  • 23 Jul 19

Quarterly Research Outlook - Summer 2019

In January, we provided a list of 11 stocks for 2019 that we believed would perform strongly with attractive catalysts that could lead to material outperformance. In this Quarterly Research Outlook, we revisit these views, analysing what has happened and how the remaining six months of the year could play out.

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  • 08 Aug 19

Inaccurate Burford comparison

Following the speculation and eventual release of a short report by Muddy Waters (“MW”) on Burford yesterday, LCM’s shares have fallen to 77p having troughed at 58p in early trading. We highlight three areas where LCM’s model differs to Burford and therefore where the same criticisms should not apply. Re-iterate Buy and 140p TP.

Companies: Litigation Capital Management
  • 02 Jul 19

Where’s the Value?

Warren Buffett once said that as an investor, it is wise to be ‘fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful’. Fear is not in short supply right now.

Companies: OPM ALU ANCR BLV CONN CRC FDL GATC HAT LEK MMH MCB MWE NXR NTBR NOG PAF PEG RFX SRC TEF TEG TPT VTU WYN XLM

  • 15 Aug 19

LIBERUM: Alternatives Daily: OCI | SONG | JLEN | RCOI

Oakley Capital Investment - £25m investment in Seven MilesHipgnosis Songs Funds - Capital raise targeted in Q3John Laing Environmental Assets - Reduced power price forecasts impact Q2 NAVRiverstone Credit Opportunities Income - 56% of IPO proceeds committed

Companies: Oakley Capital Investments
  • 14 Aug 19

The demerger is confirmed for Q4 19

Prudential announced an operating profit of £2,024m (up 14% like-for-like and 21% as reported) for its continuing operations, excluding M&GPrudential. Even the profitability of the “new” Prudential is driven by Asian operations. The demerger of the group is expected to be completed in Q4 19.

Companies: Prudential
  • 15 Aug 19

Small Cap Feast


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  • 14 Aug 19

LIBERUM: CLS Holdings* - Reaping the benefits of a geographically diverse business model

CLS has delivered strong first half returns, aided by its European diversity and an income focused approach. H1 NAV per share growth of 5% to 325p was c.4% ahead of our forecast, driven by portfolio valuation gains and a £21m (+5.1p) increase in the value of CLS’ shareholding in Catena.

Companies: CLS
  • 01 Aug 19

THE MONTHLY August 2019

The introduction of IFRS 2 in 2004 generated considerable debate about the best approach for handling ‘share-based payments’ (SBP). While it is clearly a cost to shareholders, which should be included in the statutory reporting lines through the P&L account, the question arose as to whetherit should be part of our underlying EBIT calculation.

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  • 08 Aug 19

The decline in Solvency is not a concern

L&G’s operating earnings improved significantly in the H1 19 (5.6% to £1,005m). This performance was better than expected. The insurer will revise its mortality hypothesis in the H2 with an additional £200m on operating earnings by the end of the year. The reduction in the capital position is not particularly a source of concerns and it should recover in the H2. The increased interim dividend to 4.93p/share and the growing business confirm the solidity of the Group.

Companies: Legal & General Group
  • 12 Aug 19

Merger with IMA

S4 Capital has announced the merger of MediaMonks with IMA, the largest full-service influencer marketing agency in Europe. Founded in 2010 by Emilie Tabor and Maddie Raedts, with Anneke Schogt joining as CEO in 2016, IMA has grown to a team of 85 digital experts. The agency has built a strong reputation in the fast-growing discipline of influencer marketing, which is forecast to double in size to $15bn over the next three years, and has established a worldwide network of 40,000 influencers across industries including fashion, retail, consumer electronics, automotive, travel, beauty and lifestyle. IMA has a blue-chip client list including Pernod Ricard, Under Armour, Beiersdiorf, Diesel, Microsoft, Heineken, Samsonite and Booking.com. No financial details on the transaction were released. We believe IMA is a strong strategic fit with MediaMonks and further develops its digital content marketing capability. S4 Capital released a very robust H1 trading update on 29th July which indicated that LFL Gross Profit growth had accelerated from +34% in Q1 to around +40% in H1. The group will report interims on 11th September.

Companies: S4 Capital