HL SELECT UK INCOME SHARES
UK Income Shares - What happens next?
Managers' thoughts
HL SELECT UK INCOME SHARES
Managers' thoughts
Steve Clayton - Fund Manager
1 March 2017
The launch of the HL Select UK Income Shares fund has seen HL clients investing over £250m into the fund. Thank you to all of our investors, moving forward we will be keeping you in regular touch with how your money is invested and what drives the decisions we take.
Our task now is to turn this pool of cash into a portfolio of investments. All chosen with the aim of delivering an above average level of portfolio income, with longer term growth potential in both the fund’s dividends and each unit’s capital value.
We know the stocks we want to buy, our challenge is to get the best possible prices, with the lowest possible dealing costs. The order sizes will be in the £ millions for each stock and we have our own dedicated dealer for the HL Select funds. Lennie Shaw has 20 years of experience in dealing for large institutional clients, so is well used to handling these large orders.
We’ll use programme trades, whereby brokers bid their best rates to trade for us, to buy the most liquid of shares. This allows us to minimise the dealing fees, whilst investing many millions of pounds. Lennie’s skill is achieving this, without disturbing the prices of the stocks we are buying.
We have access to technology platforms that allow us to anonymously contact potential sellers of the stocks we are looking for. That can be a great way of discreetly picking up stock in large amounts. In other cases, we will use traditional stock brokers where we know they have a good market feel for individual shares. It’s all about matching the right methods to the right stocks.
We don’t expect to be able to buy everything we want at the drop of a hat. Some of the shares we like best just don’t trade often enough for us to complete our positions that quickly. So we may use Exchange Traded Funds and other methods to keep monies in the fund working in the stock market, rather than sitting in the bank earning little return, while we wait for the right shares to become available.
We anticipate being able to show many of our positions and explain why we’ve taken them on Friday 10 March. We leave a short delay before showing holdings to create a smokescreen around Lennie’s dealings in the market. He’ll get better prices when trading for the HL Select UK Income Shares fund if he can operate without the market knowing where he’s heading. For this reason too, we’ll only reveal holdings once we’re happy our trading is finished.
Right now, we’re a one-way dealing desk, just buying, not selling, because we’re investing the money that was raised. But the delay in publishing holdings will also allow us to sell things, further down the line, without the market immediately spotting what we’re up to.
So the portfolio breakdown page will start off like a shaken Christmas snow globe, taking time to settle and become perfectly clear, but as it does, we’ll be explaining why we’ve chosen all those newly revealed positions.
As with all investments, the value of the fund and any income can fall as well as rise, so investors could get back less than they invest.
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