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Hold fast

  • 15 Apr 2020

Hold fast


Troy Income & Growth Trust (TIGT:LON), 74.5 | Aberdeen Standard Eqty Inc. Tst (ASEI:LON), 362 | JPMorgan Claverhouse Investment Trst (JCH:LON), 719 | City Of London Investment Trust (CTY:LON), 396 | Dunedin Income Growth Investment Tr (DIG:LON), 306 | Schroder Income Growth Fund (SCF:LON), 304 | Blackrock Income & Growth Invt Trust (BRIG:LON), 185 | Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust (ASL:LON), 1,533

  • Kepler | Trust Intelligence
    • Callum Stokeld

    • 7 pages

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A long, long time ago, I can still remember how, that election had us all talking about sterling (well, some of us). Instead now we are hard put not to talk about mass dividend cuts, with Link Group estimating dividend cuts of 47% or more in the UK equity market. Way back in those distant epochs of early December 2019, we appeared to be approaching a greater degree of certainty about the shape of the future in the UK: an election was in the offing which promised to help resolve the outlook for our relationship with the EU and the rest of the world, and to clarify what kind of environment businesses would face going forward. At the time, GBP looked undervalued on the basis of the Economist’s ‘Big Mac’ index (a way of looking at the relative valuations of various currencies based upon the relative cost of a McDonald’s Big Mac in different countries). With signs that global investors’ positions in UK assets were starting to move towards normality from their previous large underweights, it seemed prudent to highlight that a rising currency could prove a headwind for dividend streams. With UK payout ratios (the proportion of earnings paid out as dividends) very elevated, and in general terms a roughly inverse relationship between UK corporate earnings and the strength of the currency, dividends funded by overseas earnings logically seemed somewhat vulnerable. Sure enough, following the general election we saw the GBPUSD rate move up to c. 1.35 in fairly rapid fashion (having traded below 1.30 since May 2019). Even so GBPUSD remained short of the ‘fair value’ level of c. 1.42 suggested by the ‘Big Mac’ index at the time, but there were certainly positive signals in sentiment surveys that suggested sterling was setting up for a more durable rally.

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Hold fast


Troy Income & Growth Trust (TIGT:LON), 74.5 | Aberdeen Standard Eqty Inc. Tst (ASEI:LON), 362 | JPMorgan Claverhouse Investment Trst (JCH:LON), 719 | City Of London Investment Trust (CTY:LON), 396 | Dunedin Income Growth Investment Tr (DIG:LON), 306 | Schroder Income Growth Fund (SCF:LON), 304 | Blackrock Income & Growth Invt Trust (BRIG:LON), 185 | Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust (ASL:LON), 1,533

  • Published: 15 Apr 2020
  • Author: Callum Stokeld
  • Pages: 7
  • Kepler | Trust Intelligence


A long, long time ago, I can still remember how, that election had us all talking about sterling (well, some of us). Instead now we are hard put not to talk about mass dividend cuts, with Link Group estimating dividend cuts of 47% or more in the UK equity market. Way back in those distant epochs of early December 2019, we appeared to be approaching a greater degree of certainty about the shape of the future in the UK: an election was in the offing which promised to help resolve the outlook for our relationship with the EU and the rest of the world, and to clarify what kind of environment businesses would face going forward. At the time, GBP looked undervalued on the basis of the Economist’s ‘Big Mac’ index (a way of looking at the relative valuations of various currencies based upon the relative cost of a McDonald’s Big Mac in different countries). With signs that global investors’ positions in UK assets were starting to move towards normality from their previous large underweights, it seemed prudent to highlight that a rising currency could prove a headwind for dividend streams. With UK payout ratios (the proportion of earnings paid out as dividends) very elevated, and in general terms a roughly inverse relationship between UK corporate earnings and the strength of the currency, dividends funded by overseas earnings logically seemed somewhat vulnerable. Sure enough, following the general election we saw the GBPUSD rate move up to c. 1.35 in fairly rapid fashion (having traded below 1.30 since May 2019). Even so GBPUSD remained short of the ‘fair value’ level of c. 1.42 suggested by the ‘Big Mac’ index at the time, but there were certainly positive signals in sentiment surveys that suggested sterling was setting up for a more durable rally.

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