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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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% |
March was the second down month in a row pulling the fund into negative territory for the full quarter and the year.
Technology broadly continued to do well in the quarter. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) set an all-time high in March after breaking through the 2000 high (yes, 18 years ago) in January. The memory stocks in the US such as Micron, Western Digital and Seagate led the way. We had exited our large memory holdings late in 2017 and early this year and therefore no longer participated in this melt-up.
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.