Overview
Monks Investment Trust aims for long-term capital gain, principally from an internationally diversified equity portfolio. It is prepared to move freely between markets and adjust investment style as opportunities arise, but capital growth takes priority over income. Equities are selected for their inclusion within the portfolio solely on the basis of the strength of the investment case and index weights are not take into account.
When investing, the Company is prepared to move freely between different markets as opportunities arise. There are no limits to geographical or sector exposures, but these are reported to, and monitored by, the Board in order to ensure that adequate diversification is achieved. The number of holdings in equities and funds will typically be between 70 and 200.
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Research History
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10 Jan 2020 10 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – January 2020
Economic & Political Roundup Kindly sponsored by Polar Capital and Allianz 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 […]
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05 Jul 2019 8 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – July 2019
Economic & Political Roundup 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 […]
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18 Jul 2018 2 min read
Quarterly Investment Companies Roundup – Second Quarter 2018
QUARTERLY INVESTMENT COMPANIES ROUNDUP – SECOND QUARTER 2018 Global equities markets rose in the second quarter of 2018, Markets were volatile, as positive economic data and encouraging company performances played off against geopolitical concerns. Yields from bond markets rose early in the quarter but fell back as investors turned to ‘safer’ investments. The threat of […]
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11 Jul 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – July 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – July 2018 is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of June 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. July Investment Companies Roundup Money raised and returned in June Newcomer to the market, Yew Grove […]
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2 min read
QuotedData’s Economic round up – July 2018
QuotedData’s Economic round up – July 2018 is 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 […]
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11 Jun 2018 2 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – June 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – June 2018 – is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of May 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. The premium of biotech company, Syncona, rose on positive news on two of its […]
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25 Apr 2018 2 min read
Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018
Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018 Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018 – Global equity markets declined in the first quarter of 2018. Concerns about US interest rate rises were the feature of the first half of the quarter. However, worries about global trade took over in the second part, particularly […]
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12 Jul 2017 3 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – July 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – July 2017 – is 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 […]
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10 Apr 2017 1 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – April 2017
Our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of February 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. April Investment Companies Roundup
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16 Dec 2015 1 min read
Henderson Global Trust – Searching for change
Henderson Global Trust is one of the smaller members of the AIC’s global sector, which gives its manager the option to look further down the market cap scale. Its more moderate size hasn’t inflated overall costs. The trust, which pays quarterly dividends, offers one of the highest yields in its peer group, whilst trading at […]
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06 Aug 2020 3 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 6 August 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 6 August 2020: VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity has completed its sale of its stake in International Dairy Products. The fund shares $45.4m with its co-investment partner Daiwa PI Partners. All in, this deal added 14 cents to the NAV but this is already in the NAV (has been reflected there since 10 July). […]
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17 Jun 2020 3 min read
E-commerce and tech-enabled holdings carry the baton for Monks
Over the year to 30 April 2020, global growth trust, Monks (MNKS), delivered an NAV total return of 3.4% compared , which compares with (1.0%) for the FTSE World Index. The market return for the same period was 3.7%. Over the year, MNKS used its premium to NAV valuation to grow the fund, with an issuance equivalent […]
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12 Jun 2019 5 min read
Monks outperforms again as Douglas McDougall bows out
Monks outperforms again as Douglas McDougall bows out – Monks beat its benchmark over the year to the end of April 2019, returning 12.0% in NAV terms against 11.7% for the World Index. The share price total return for the same period was 12.7%. A single final dividend of 1.85p is being recommended, compared to 1.40p last year. […]
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12 Mar 2018 1 min read
Monks tinkers with management fee
Monks tinkers with management fee – The Board of The Monks Investment Trust has announced a change in the calculation of the company’s management fee, with the introduction of a further stepped tier at GBP1.75bn of total assets*. With effect from 1 May 2018 the annual management fee payable to the Company’s Investment Managers and Secretaries, […]
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31 Jul 2017 4 min read
Better year for Growth pool in F&C Managed Portfolio
Better year for Growth pool in F&C Managed Portfolio – F&C Managed Portfolio has published results for the year ended 31 May 2017. The NAV total return (i.e. adding dividends paid to capital performance) was 24.5% for the Income shares and 26.4% for the Growth shares. This compares with the 24.5% total return for the All-Share […]
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26 Jun 2017 4 min read
Great year for Monks as seven holdings more than double
Great year for Monks as seven holdings more than double. Over the year to 30 April 2017, Monks’ net asset value total return was 40.0% compared to a total return of 31.0% for the World Index (in sterling terms). The share price total return for the same period was 53.9%, with the discount narrowing to 0.6%. The one […]
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27 Mar 2017 1 min read
Monks adopts tiered fee
The Board of The Monks Investment Trust has announced a change in the calculation of its management fee, with the introduction of a second tier and the calculation to be based on total assets (the total value of all assets held less all liabilities, other than any liability in the form of debt intended for investment […]
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07 Dec 2016 1 min read
Monks performance improvement continues
Over the six months to the end of October 2016, Monks’ net asset value total return was 25.3%, beating the World Index which returned 23.6%. The share price total return for the same period was 27.5%, with the discount to NAV* narrowing to 8.0%. They say that the biggest positive contributors to performance were technology stocks: US […]
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08 Jun 2016 1 min read
Monks lags its benchmark
Monks lagged its benchmark a little over the year to 30 April 2016 – the first year that a new investment team, led by Charles Plowden, has been in charge of the portfolio. Monks’ net asset value total return was minus 0.4% compared to a total return of 0.5% for the FTSE World Index (in sterling […]
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02 Dec 2015 3 min read
Monks mild outperformance driven by a diverse range of stocks
Monks Investment Trust has announced its interim results for the six months ended 31 October 2015. Over the period, the company’s NAV lost 3.5% in total return terms, modestly outperforming the FTSE World Index which lost 4.3% (all in sterling terms). Reflecting a modest widening of the discount during the period, the share price total […]
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04 Jun 2015 1 min read
Monks’ performance disappoints but new portfolio now in place
Monks has published results for the 12 months ended 30 April 2015. In the year to 30 April 2015, the net asset value total return, with borrowings at fair value, was 13.0% and the share price total return was 18.8% as the discount narrowed. The total return of the FTSE World Index in sterling terms […]
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27 Mar 2015 2 min read
Gerald Smith replaced as manager of Monks
The Board of Monks has announced changes to the management of that fund. Gerald Smith is being replaced by Charles Plowden and he will be assisted by Spencer Adair and Malcolm MacColl as new deputy managers. The announcement says the change takes place with immediate effect. The Trust will now be managed from Baillie Gifford’s […]
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03 Dec 2014 2 min read
Monks too light in US
MNKS : Monks too light in US Monks has published its interim results covering the six month period to the end of October 2014. Over this time the fund generated a return on net assets of 4.9% and a return to shareholders of 5.3% – lagging the return on the FTSE World Index of 8.0% […]
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11 Jun 2014 1 min read
Monks Investment Trust : MNKS – final results
Monks Investment Trust has published its results for the year that ended 30 April 2014. Over the year the fund delivered a total return on net assets of 5.2% which compares to a return on the fund’s benchmark index, the FTSE World Index, of 6.8%. The return to shareholders 5.4%. Dividends for the year were unchanged […]
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31 Mar 2020 2 min read
Investment trust insider bargain hunting in the crash
Investment trust insider bargain hunting in the crash – James Carthew: three trusts I bought in the Covid-19 crash Many investors, especially those reliant on the income from their portfolios, will have been looking on nervously as markets see-saw and the economy grinds to a halt. For most of the past few weeks I have sat […]
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03 Jan 2019 1 min read
Investment Trust Insider on Monks Investment Trust
Investment Trust Insider on Monks Investment Trust – James Carthew: I’m made up by Monks’ makeover It is three years since I last wrote about Monks (MNKS) investment trust. Back then, the triumvirate of Charles Plowden, Spencer Adair and Malcom MacColl had only recently taken on responsibility for the trust and started running it in-line with […]
