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 moved in line with the overall markets on the back of gains in our leading solar and battery investments while our large tech holding moved lower.
The markets were a lot more volatile than the monthly change would indicate as the technology sector initially corrected from its H1 rally and then continued to move to new highs before easing at month’s end.
2019Q2 earnings delivered on reduced expectations, falling about 10% yoy, but a majority of companies improved earnings sequentially and thereby marked 2019Q1 as a bottom. Notable exceptions with sequentially lower earnings were Samsung Semis & Wireless, Apple, Amazon and Tencent.
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.