Jupiter Green Investment Trust
Growing opportunity set drives higher income
14 March 2019
Jupiter Green Investment Trust (JGC) is continuing to benefit from the greater public interest in green issues, which is driving demand growth for companies delivering solutions to environmental challenges. Manager Charlie Thomas and his team run a globally diversified portfolio of c 60 companies, invested across a wide variety of areas, broadly grouped into themes of resource efficiency, demographics and infrastructure. The growing maturity of the investment universe is leading to a larger number of companies paying attractive dividends, enabling JGC to enhance its own dividend policy, with a higher yield (now c 1.3%, from c 0.7%) and semi-annual payouts. As the highest-yielding, closed-ended ‘green’ equity fund, JGC could see greater demand for its shares, which could help to narrow the currently wider-than-average discount to NAV. MORE »
Finding opportunities in emerging eco-trends
2 May 2018
Jupiter Green Investment Trust (JGC) focuses on companies that are providing innovative solutions to environmental challenges, and as such is benefiting from the high level of public interest in issues such as reducing waste from single-use plastics. Fund manager Charlie Thomas reports, for instance, that plastic recycling specialist Tomra Systems – JGC’s second-largest holding – has seen its share price rise over 45% in the past year as it wins new contracts around the world. JGC’s portfolio is diversified by geography and industry, and includes companies grouped under three broad themes of resource efficiency, infrastructure and demographics. The managers note that the environmental challenges – and hence the solutions to them – are increasingly complex and interlinked, which arguably plays to the strengths of a team that has been specialising in ‘green’ investment since the launch of the Jupiter Ecology Fund in 1988. MORE »
Finding opportunities in emerging eco-trends
2 May 2018
Jupiter Green Investment Trust (JGC) focuses on companies that are providing innovative solutions to environmental challenges, and as such is benefiting from the high level of public interest in issues such as reducing waste from single-use plastics. Fund manager Charlie Thomas reports, for instance, that plastic recycling specialist Tomra Systems – JGC’s second-largest holding – has seen its share price rise over 45% in the past year as it wins new contracts around the world. JGC’s portfolio is diversified by geography and industry, and includes companies grouped under three broad themes of resource efficiency, infrastructure and demographics. The managers note that the environmental challenges – and hence the solutions to them – are increasingly complex and interlinked, which arguably plays to the strengths of a team that has been specialising in ‘green’ investment since the launch of the Jupiter Ecology Fund in 1988. MORE »
Quality growth through environmental solutions
29 August 2017
Jupiter Green Investment Trust (JGC) invests in companies around the world that are providing solutions to environmental challenges. It aims for capital growth from a portfolio of c 60 companies, chosen through a disciplined, bottom-up investment process with a focus on quality and valuation. The trust is managed by a team at Jupiter Asset Management who also run the UK’s first environmentally focused collective investment fund, Jupiter Ecology. The managers report that their investment universe has expanded considerably as environmental issues have become more mainstream and technological advances have made companies in areas such as renewable energy more competitive. JGC’s small size and closed-end structure allow the managers more flexibility to invest in smaller, less liquid and potentially higher-growth companies than in their larger open-ended mandates, including up to 5% in unlisted stocks. MORE »
Seeking solutions to environmental challenges
2 February 2017
Jupiter Green Investment Trust (JGC) seeks to achieve capital growth by investing in companies that provide solutions to environmental challenges. It is managed by members of the environmental and sustainability team at Jupiter, which launched the UK’s first environmental fund, Jupiter Ecology, in 1988. The portfolio is global and multi-cap, although because of a tilt towards smaller companies it uses the MSCI World Small Cap Index as a performance benchmark. Absolute returns have been positive over all periods from one month to 10 years (annualised for periods longer than one year), and an active discount control mechanism aims to keep the shares trading close to NAV. MORE »
