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Guinness European Equity Income Fund

The Guinness European Equity Income strategy targets income and capital growth and provides exposure to dividend-paying companies in Europe (excluding UK).

Overview

The Guinness European Equity Income strategy targets income and capital growth and provides exposure to dividend-paying companies in Europe (excluding UK).

The European region includes a diversified mix of developed, high-income economies and is home to around 700m people. Europe has been close to the centre of all aspects of globalisation and has world-leading companies in almost all sectors of the market. Europe also has a large proportion of high-quality companies; businesses that can generate persistently high returns and that have demonstrated they can weather a variety of economic storms – and it is companies with these characteristics that are best placed to pay consistent and growing dividends.

Dividend-paying companies are well known to outperform the market in the long term, and companies that grow their dividend year-on-year even more so. Rising dividend payments can also protect against inflation over long periods.

In Europe, there is a well-established dividend paying culture going back to the 17th century, when the Dutch East India Company became the first company to pay a dividend. Companies have been committed to distributing profits to shareholders in this way ever since, reflecting not just history but also good capital discipline on the part of management teams.

Investment Team

High quality funds are run by high quality people.

We pride ourselves of having a collegial culture, with teams across the business successfully working together to achieve positive outcomes for our investors.

Nick Edwards

Nick Edwards

Portfolio Manager, Global Team

How to Invest

We aim to make it simple to invest in our funds. All our funds are open to direct investment via an application form. They are widely available on investment platforms and are eligible for UK investors’ ISAs and SIPPs.

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Investment Case

Although the Fund is designed to invest in dividend-paying companies, our starting point in selecting our investment universe is to identify companies with consistently high return on capital. Specifically, we look at companies that have a return on capital of greater than 8% in each of the previous eight years. Our analysis shows that such companies are highly likely to continue to do so in the future – meaning they will continue to create shareholder value. On average, only 3% of European listed companies achieve our criteria, and we then exclude those less than $0.5 billion in size or with weak balance sheets. This gives us a pool of around 200 companies from which to build our portfolio.

In-depth proprietary modelling of a company’s cash flow, capital budgeting and potential for dividend growth is combined with a subjective analysis of its business model to identify candidates for inclusion in the final portfolio. By selecting companies from a broad range of industries, countries, and market capitalisation we aim to create a well-diversified portfolio which can provide a reasonable dividend yield and growing income stream at an attractive valuation relative to the broad market.

The portfolio is concentrated, with 30 equally weighted holdings. This structure ensures limited stock-specific risk, sell discipline and independence from any benchmark. It also precludes a long tail of small holdings and keeps the portfolio focused on our best ideas.

Why invest in the European Equity Income Fund?

The Fund is designed to provide investors with exposure to global equities through a high conviction, low turnover portfolio of consistently profitable dividend-paying companies.
 

Focus on consistent high return on capital

Consistent high return on capital is a good indication of a company’s ability to pay healthy dividends. The Fund invests in companies that are unusually consistent in generating returns on capital above their cost of capital.

Growth and income

Our approach to dividend investing is to focus on companies that can sustainably grow their dividend into the future, rather than simply looking for companies with a high dividend yield.
 

High conviction

The Fund typically invests in just 30 companies, with each company having an equal weighting. This provides a good balance between the benefits of diversification while also allowing each company to add meaningfully to performance. We don’t have a long tail of small positions and by definition we can never just ‘hug’ the benchmark index. Please see our white paper on this topic for more information.
 

Fundamentally driven

We focus on ‘bottom-up’ stock selection rather than trying to make decisions based on an expected outlook for the world economy. We like to invest in good companies that have, in the short term, fallen out of favour, but that have previously shown an ability to weather most economic environments over time.
 

Low turnover

We prefer to invest over the long term. We also recognise the increased costs of trading in and out of companies unnecessarily. Typically we will hold a company in the portfolio for between 3 and 5 years.
 

Repeatable and independent

Our team have developed an investment process that is clear, robust, transparent, and scalable. Their approach filters out much of the noise and hype that surrounds companies to focus on the true signals that drive company valuations. By performing their own company research and analysis, using their own proprietary modelling systems, the managers try to avoid some of the behavioural biases associated with being unduly influenced by market sentiment.

The case for a European equity income fund

"Dividends make a gradual but potent contribution to long-term returns."

 

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The European region includes a diversified mix of developed, high-income economies, and is home to around 700m people. Europe has gone through a turbulent time since the 2008/09 banking crisis, both politically and economically. However, due to its diversity, size and exposure to the global market, Europe has navigated this period better than some less developed regions.

The European region includes a diversified mix of developed, high-income economies, and is home to around 700m people. Europe has gone through a turbulent time since the 2008/09 banking crisis, both politically and economically. However, due to its diversity, size and exposure to the global market, Europe has navigated this period better than some less developed regions.

Europe has been close to the centre of all aspects of globalisation and has world-leading companies in almost all sectors of the market. Europe also has a large proportion of high quality companies; businesses that can generate persistently high returns and that have demonstrated they can weather a variety of economic storms – and it is companies with these characteristics that are best placed to pay consistent and growing dividends.

Dividend-paying companies are well known to outperform the market in the long term, and companies that grow their dividend year-on-year even more so. Rising dividend payments can also protect against inflation over long periods.

In Europe, there is a well-established dividend paying culture going back to the 17th century, when the Dutch East India Company became the first company to pay a dividend. Companies have been committed to distributing profits to shareholders in this way ever since, reflecting not just history but also good capital discipline on the part of management teams.

"There is a long-term investment opportunity in Europe. But opportunity and risk in this region are inseparable, for better or for worse. The key is identifying proven companies and constructing a portfolio best positioned to take advantage of that opportunity."

 

Factsheets

 

 

 

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KIIDS

 

 

Fund Class ISIN English French German Spanish Italian Swedish Finnish
Guinness European Equity Income Fund C EUR Acc IE00BGHQDW50
Guinness European Equity Income Fund C EUR Dist IE000AHX6WT2
Guinness European Equity Income Fund C GBP Acc IE00BVYPNS63
Guinness European Equity Income Fund C GBP Dist IE000N9K9CQ4
Guinness European Equity Income Fund C USD Acc IE00BVYPNT70
Guinness European Equity Income Fund C USD Dist IE000RAMYLN7
Guinness European Equity Income Fund I USD Acc IE00BMYPN382
Guinness European Equity Income Fund I USD Dist IE00BMYPN499
Guinness European Equity Income Fund Y EUR Acc IE00BYVHW019
Guinness European Equity Income Fund Y EUR Dist IE00BYVHW126
Guinness European Equity Income Fund Y GBP Acc IE00BYVHVZ98
Guinness European Equity Income Fund Y GBP Dist IE00BYVHWJ06
Guinness European Equity Income Fund Y USD Acc IE00BYVHW233
Guinness European Equity Income Fund Y USD Dist IE00BYVHW340
Guinness European Equity Income Fund Z GBP Dist IE00BGHQF300

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Fund Class ISIN English French German Spanish Italian Swedish Finnish
Guinness European Equity Income Fund C EUR Acc IE00BGHQDW50
Guinness European Equity Income Fund Y EUR Dist IE00BYVHW126
Guinness European Equity Income Fund Y EUR Acc IE00BYVHW019
Guinness European Equity Income Fund C EUR Dist IE000AHX6WT2
Guinness European Equity Income Fund C GBP Dist IE000N9K9CQ4
Guinness European Equity Income Fund C USD Dist IE000RAMYLN7
Guinness European Equity Income Fund Z GBP Dist IE00BGHQF300
Guinness European Equity Income Fund I USD Acc IE00BMYPN382
Guinness European Equity Income Fund I USD Dist IE00BMYPN499
Guinness European Equity Income Fund C GBP Acc IE00BVYPNS63
Guinness European Equity Income Fund C USD Acc IE00BVYPNT70
Guinness European Equity Income Fund Y GBP Acc IE00BYVHVZ98
Guinness European Equity Income Fund Y USD Acc IE00BYVHW233
Guinness European Equity Income Fund Y USD Dist IE00BYVHW340

Documents

 

 

 

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Guinness Asset Management Funds plc - UK Reporting Fund Status 2022

European Equity Income Fund – SFDR Pre-contractual Disclosures

European Equity Income Fund - Approach to Responsible Investment and ESG

Guinness Asset Management Funds plc - Prospectus

Fund Supplement

Guinness Asset Management Funds plc - Application Form

Guinness Asset Management Funds plc - Target Market Assessment

Fund Facts

For information on the Fund’s current investments, please see the latest fact sheet available on the literature tab above.

The Guinness European Equity Income strategy is also available to UK investors as a UK-domiciled vehicle denominated in GBP: the TB Guinness European Equity Income Fund.
 

 

Launch Date
Fund managers (start date)
Nick Edwards (30/09/2020)
Benchmark
MSCI Europe ex UK
IA sector
IA Europe ex UK
Structure
OEIC (UCITS)
Domicile
Ireland
Underlying currency
US Dollar
Pricing
Daily, forwards
Valuation
2300 Dublin time
Deal cut off time
1500 Dublin time
Administrator
Link Fund Administrators (Ireland) Ltd
Custodian
Brown Brothers Harriman
UK Reporting Fund status
Yes
ISA Eligible
Yes

Share Classes

For full information on the share classes available for investment please refer to the Key Investor Information document.

 

Share Prices

The Funds are priced every working day at 23.00 Dublin time and updated here the following day.

 

Fund name Isin Fund price (+/-) Date
TB GUINNESS ASIAN EQUITY INCOME FUND Y INCOME GBP GB00BMFKG774 89.87 0.26 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS ASIAN EQUITY INCOME FUND Y ACCUMULATION GBP GB00BMFKG667 99.23 0.3 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS EUROPEAN EQUITY INCOME FUND Y INCOME GBP GB00BP5J6N11 105.21 1.92 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS EUROPEAN EQUITY INCOME FUND Y ACCUMULATION GBP GB00BP5J6M04 108.03 1.97 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS EUROPEAN EQUITY INCOME FUND Z INCOME GBP GB00BP5J6Q42 105.56 1.92 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS EUROPEAN EQUITY INCOME FUND Z ACCUMULATION GBP GB00BP5J6P35 108.47 1.98 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS GLOBAL EQUITY INCOME FUND Y INCOME GBP GB00BNGFN669 130.82 0.77 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS GLOBAL EQUITY INCOME FUND Y ACCUMULATION GBP GB00BNGFN776 139.76 0.81 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS GLOBAL INNOVATORS FUND Y ACCUMULATION GBP GB00BP5J5Y50 120.78 1.01 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FUND Y ACCUMULATION GBP GB00BP5J6198 89.96 0.87 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FUND Z ACCUMULATION GBP GB00BP5J6206 90.1 0.87 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL EQUITY FUND Y ACCUMULATION GBP GB00BP5J7C70 101.91 1.39 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL EQUITY FUND Z ACCUMULATION GBP GB00BP5J7D87 102.27 1.39 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS UK EQUITY INCOME FUND O OVERSEAS INCOME GB00BYX94G55 69.26 1.21 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS UK EQUITY INCOME FUND O OVERSEAS ACCUMULATION GB00BYX94F49 89.18 1.54 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS UK EQUITY INCOME FUND Y CLEAN INCOME GB00BYX94J86 74.66 1.3 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS UK EQUITY INCOME FUND Y CLEAN ACCUMULATION GB00BYX94H62 95.58 1.67 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS UK EQUITY INCOME FUND Z EARLY INVESTOR INCOME GB00BYX94L09 75.49 1.31 29/09/2023
TB GUINNESS UK EQUITY INCOME FUND Z EARLY INVESTOR ACCUMULATION GB00BYX94K91 96.83 1.69 29/09/2023
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Rising rates bolster European small caps

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2022 Investor Conference - Why Europe for Quality Equity Income

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24 January 2022

Guinness European Equity Income - Webcast - Covering Q4 2021

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6 October 2021

Guinness European Equity Income - Webcast - Covering Q3 2021

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11 April 2021

Guinness’ Edwards: Europe looking attractive for sustainable income

Guinness European Equity Income manager Nick Edwards examines the case for equity income investing…
7 September 2017

Some thoughts on equally-weighted portfolios

Matthew Page explores the reasons behind running a concentrated, equally-weighted portfolio.

 

Guinness European Equity Income Fund is an equity fund. Investors should be willing and able to assume the risks of equity investing. The value of an investment and the income from it can fall as well as rise as a result of market and currency movement; you may not get back the amount originally invested. Further details on the risk factors are included in the Fund’s documentation, available on our website.​

Source: FE fundinfo. Investors should note that fees and expenses are charged to the capital of the Fund. This reduces the return on your investment by an amount equivalent to the Ongoing Charges Figure (OCF). The current OCF for the share class used for the fund performance returns is 0.89%. Returns for share classes with a different OCF will vary accordingly. Transaction costs also apply and are incurred when a fund buys or sells holdings. The performance returns do not reflect any initial charge; any such charge will also reduce the return.