Real Assets
Guinness Global Real Assets
Overview
The Guinness Global Real Assets strategy seeks capital growth and income by investing in listed infrastructure and real estate companies worldwide.
Real assets can play a vital and hard-to-replicate role in traditional portfolios, providing defensive stocks characteristics through performance, growing income and inflation protection.
By investing in real estate investment trusts (REITs) and listed infrastructure companies through a real assets fund, investors can access the differentiation they provide while maintaining liquidity.
The Guinness Global Real Assets Fund invests in a diversified mix of real asset stocks with a focus on high-quality companies generating persistent returns on capital.
Real asset companies often operate the indispensable components of daily life and economic growth. This often comes with high barriers to entry, regulated returns and comparatively low sensitivity to market volatility and economic growth.
In addition, real assets are benefiting from powerful structural tailwinds. Significant long-term investment is going into sectors with substantial footprints such as electricity generation, grid renewal, data centres, telecommunications, logistics and healthcare.
Why invest in real assets?
- Distinctive exposure – Real assets benefit from long-term contractual cash flows, inflation linkage, stable and growing dividends and reduced correlation to the wider equity market.
- Liquidity and diversification – The listed market has grown and offers a variety of sectors, on top of its liquidity advantage over private structures. Being listed can also offer valuation opportunities.
- Quality approach – The Fund targets companies with a demonstrated track record of persistent cash returns and dividend growth combined with a positive outlook for capital deployment.
- Value discipline – The Fund’s bottom-up, valuation-driven stock selection is aided by a lack of thematic constraints which could lead to exposure to over-valued themes.
- Sector overlay – Top-down analysis of real asset sectors drives the assessment of risk and opportunity, maintaining a balance between infrastructure and real estate exposure.
- High conviction – The Fund invests in 35 broadly equally weighted companies, balancing the benefits of diversification with the ability of each holding to contribute meaningfully to performance.
The Guinness Global Real Assets Fund could be suitable for investors looking for exposure to companies with defensive business models, for differentiated sources of return, or for a history of stable or growing dividends.
Fund Facts
- Launch Date
- 07.07.2025
- Fund Managers (start date)
- Mark Brennan (07.07.2025)
- Benchmark
- MSCI World Core Infrastructure
- IA Sector
- IA Infrastructure
- ISIN
- IE000LHQB790
- SEDOL
- BTHZ5B6
- BLOOMBERG
- GGRAYGD ID
- Underlying currency
- USD
- Pricing
- Daily, forwards
- Valuation
- 23:00 Dublin time
- Administrator
- Waystone Administration Solutions (IE) Limited
- UK Reporting Fund Status
- Yes
- ISA Eligible
- Yes
0.77%
None
Fund Registration
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Commentary
October Commentary
This is a marketing communication. Please refer to the prospectus, supplement, KIDs and KIIDs for the Funds (available on this website), which contain detailed information on their characteristics and objectives and full information on the risks, before making any final investment decisions.
Real asset equities had a challenging Q3 2026 in both absolute and relative terms. The MSCI World Core Infrastructure Index returned -5.6% (USD), behind the MSCI World Index, which rose 1.9%. Higher energy costs prompted major central banks, including the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank, to raise rates again in September, and a global bond sell-off pushed yields to multi-decade highs. Utilities and more highly leveraged real estate bore the brunt of rising yields, while water utilities held up well. HALO: from re-rating to earnings The longstanding valuation discount of capital-intensive companies to capital-light companies has largely closed this year, with the two groups now trading on around 15x and 16x forward earnings respectively. From here, continued performance is likely to depend less on further multiple expansion and more on the delivery of earnings and cashflow growth. Starlink and the outlook for tower companies After the quarter end, SpaceX bought US wireless spectrum licences (the government-issued rights to use specific radio frequencies), advancing its plans to become a rival mobile operator. Telco carriers fell c.10% on the news while tower companies rallied. SpaceX is reportedly in talks to lease space at c.80,000 tower sites, and if it becomes a customer rather than a competitor, the sector could see a further recovery after a tough couple of years. In this quarter’s commentary, we review Q3 performance, current portfolio positioning and key news from our portfolio holdings.
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Guinness Global Real Assets Fund - October Commentary
October 2026
Performance
Income
Distribution history
2026
Interim
Total paid this fund financial year
0.2171 GBP
Source: Guinness Global Investors. Distribution is per share.
Portfolio
Top 10 Holdings
As at 30 Oct 2026
Source: Guinness Global Investors. Holdings and exposures may be subject to change
Top 10 Holdings
As at 30 Oct 2026
Source: Guinness Global Investors. Holdings and exposures may be subject to change
Literature
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The power of real assets in an unstable market environment
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