The Tantallon Tech & Sustainability Fund is a Cayman Island vehicle that invests in listed equities globally. The fund targets a concentrated portfolio of around 20 names seeking returns from long-term growth companies as well as cyclical opportunities.
(Click on each month's data below to read the monthly pdf report)
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-3.9% |
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2017 Gross Monthly Return |
+0.50% |
+0.40% |
-0.20% |
+4.80% |
+1.30% |
+1.77% |
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2017 Gross Cumulative Return |
+0.50% |
+0.90% |
+1.50% |
+6.40% |
+7.70% |
+9.60% |
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2017 Net Monthly Return |
+0.35% |
+0.34% |
-0.38% |
+4.68% |
+1.06% |
+1.54% |
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2017 Net Cumulative Return |
+0.35% |
+0.69% |
+0.93% |
+5.66% |
+6.78% |
+8.42% |
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2017 Equity Monthly Return |
+5.65% |
+2.91% |
-0.20% |
+7.37% |
+1.64% |
+2.42% |
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2017 Equity Cumulative Return |
+5.65% |
+8.70% |
+10.64% |
+18.79% |
+20.73% |
+23.66% |
The fund fell 2% in August and was slightly ahead of the 2.6% market decline. Our solar holdings in China and Hong Kong were the sole contributors as expectations for solar installations improved.
eMemory disappointed with an unexpectedly weak July revenue number while our EV & battery exposure was marked down as evidence of a rapid deceleration of Chinese shipments appeared in the wake of the anticipated cut in subsidies. We will review our EV scenario in more detail in this monthly.
There is so little information on Iran you cannot even find the Teheran Stock Exchange on Bloomberg. Yet this is an exchange with a market cap of US170billion, turning over up to US150m/day with zero foreign participation, entirely on the back of domestic mutual fund and retail investors.
In Lv’iv on the morning of my departure I attended the funeral of one of the casualties of the “anti-terrorist operation” in Donetsk. Loudspeakers relayed polyphonic chant from impressively hirsute Orthodox clergy to a cluster of old women and an honor guard, smoking furiously and in no mood to be photographed, waiting to transport the hearse the short distance from the altar to a waiting ambulance.