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TB Guinness Sustainable Energy Fund

The TB Guinness Sustainable Energy strategy is managed for capital growth and invests in companies involved in the generation, storage, efficiency and consumption of sustainable energy sources (such as solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biofuels and biomass).

Overview

The Guinness Sustainable Energy strategy is managed for capital growth and invests in companies involved in the generation, storage, efficiency and consumption of sustainable energy sources (such as solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biofuels and biomass).

We believe that over the next twenty years the sustainable energy sector will benefit from the combined effects of:

  • Demand growth - The electrification of transportation and improved energy storage economics brings attractive long-term sustainable energy demand growth
  • Improving Economics - Sustainable energy sources have become cost competitive with power from fossil fuels; we expect the cost of supply to continue to fall
  • Public & Private Support - Both governments and companies are pursuing sustainable energy in order to achieve mandated carbon targets or to improve public perception
  • Low current exposure - Poor profitability and need for subsidies has kept the weight of sustainable energy in global indices and broad global equity funds at a low level

Sustainability Theme - The sustainable energy sector offers ‘green’ credentials that some investors are targeting to help facilitate global de-carbonisation and to reduce carbon intensity of their portfolios

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.
 

Will Riley

Will Riley

Portfolio Manager, Specialist Team

Jonathan Waghorn

Jonathan Waghorn

Portfolio Manager, Specialist Team

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Jamie Melrose

Investment Analyst, Specialist Team

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Dan Hobster

Investment Analyst, Specialist Team

Awards & Ratings

We have a firm commitment to delivering the very best. That commitment is reflected in the awards we have received, some of which are shown below.

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Guinness Sustainable Energy Fund

Responsible A
Square Mile Investment Consulting & Research Limited

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Guinness Sustainable Energy Fund

Best Fund over 10 Years - Equity Theme - Alternative Energy
Refinitiv Europe Lipper Fund Awards 2022

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2023 Investor Conferences

For insights into 2023's uncertain markets and how our portfolio managers approach them, join us for a series of professional investor conferences in the South West of England.

Bringing a range of expertise, the investment team will cover Global Equities, Energy & the energy transition, how to approach Asia & EM, and developments in the tax-advantaged space.

Register today for a rewarding half-day of investment ideas and expert opinions at three congenial locations.

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

The Guinness Sustainable Energy strategy is positioned to benefit from the many opportunities associated with the sustainable energy transition. We identify four sub-sectors and have assembled a proprietary investment universe of around 200 companies with critical mass that are most directly exposed to them:

  • Displacement: displacement or more efficient usage of hydrocarbon-based energy
  • Electrification: the switching of hydrocarbon-based fuel demand towards electricity, especially for electric vehicles
  • Installation: the manufacture of equipment for the generation and consumption of sustainable energy
  • Generation: the production of sustainable energy, either pureplay companies or those transitioning from hydrocarbon-based fuels

We conduct rigorous independent analysis of the fundamental drivers of sustainable energy markets: energy commodity prices; sustainable energy technology research and development; installation and equipment prices; political and economic support for the sector; government and private sector demand. This allows us to form a top-down view, which in turn informs our industry energy sub-sector allocation.

The team operates a disciplined stock screening process. We review our investment universe each week to identify companies which look attractive on return on investment, valuation, earnings sentiment and price momentum. We also use sub-sector specific screens. Ideas generated by screening are then subjected to due diligence centred around detailed financial modelling.

The portfolio comprises around 30 equally weighted positions. This portfolio construction is designed to create a balance between maintaining fund concentration and managing stock-specific risk, and there is no reference to the benchmark. The portfolio is liquid, with 90% of the Fund normally invested in companies with a market capitalisation over US $500 million.

Why invest in the Guinness Sustainable Energy Strategy?

 

 

Concentrated Exposure

The Guinness Sustainable Energy strategy aims to deliver investment returns via equal weighted, concentrated exposure to 30 sustainable energy companies; available in a daily traded UCITS structure.
 

Specialist Team

The Guinness Energy Team has 20 years of experience of running energy investment strategies in a consistent manner and providing insight for investors into the energy markets.
 

Investment Process

The Fund is run using a Top Down and Bottom Up investment process based on an internally created Universe of 179 Sustainable Energy companies with detailed valuation models.
 

Valuation Opportunity

The fund selects the most attractive equities in the Universe and it displays growth together with higher return on capital, lower valuation multiple and stronger balance sheets than the MSCI World Index.
 

Sustainability Theme

The Guinness Sustainable Energy Strategy offers ‘green’ credentials that some investors might use to help facilitate.

 

Investment process

We conduct rigorous independent analysis of the fundamental drivers of sustainable energy markets: energy commodity prices; sustainable energy technology research and development; installation and equipment prices; political and economic support for the sector; government and private sector demand. This allows us to analyse likely demand for sustainable energy equipment and services and creates our top-down view, which in turn informs our industry energy sub-sector allocation. Analysis of the key drivers of growth, scarcity, barriers to entry and economics informs our weighting to our internally generated Sustainable Energy subsectors.
 

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Stock Screening

Bottom-up stock screening

The team operates a disciplined stock screening process. We review a universe of around 179 sustainable energy stocks each week to identify companies which look attractive on their return on investment, valuation, earnings sentiment and price momentum. Other sub-sector specific screens are also employed to generate ideas.
 

Stock due diligence

Stock ideas are taken from our screens. We then conduct due diligence to establish whether we have conviction to include the stock in our portfolio. The due diligence centres around detailed financial modelling.

 

Portfolio construction

 

 

Equally-weighted portfolio

The portfolio comprises around 30 equally-weighted positions. Our equally-weighted portfolio construction is designed to create a balance between maintaining fund concentration and managing stock-specific risk. It also imposes a structural sell discipline: an existing position must be sold to purchase a new holding.
 

Sector weights

There is no benchmark adherence in the Fund’s sub-sector weights.

Portfolio Risk Controls

 

Stock specific risk

Stock specific risk in the sustainable energy sector tends to be higher than the broader market. By constructing the fund of 30 equally weighted positions, we avoid significant exposure to any one individual stock.
 

Liquidity

The portfolio is liquid, with 90% of the Fund normally invested in companies with a market capitalisation over US $500 million.
 

Currency

The Fund is not hedged from a currency perspective.

 

Factsheets

 

 

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Updates

 

 

 

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KIIDS

 

 

Fund Class ISIN English French German Spanish Italian Swedish Finnish
TB Guinness Sustainable Energy Fund Y ACC GB00BP5J6198
TB Guinness Sustainable Energy Fund Z ACC GB00BP5J6206

Documents

Document

TB Guinness Funds - Prospectus

TB Guinness Funds - Reports & Accounts and Value Assessment

TB Guinness Funds - Supplementary Information Document

Sustainable Energy Fund - Approach to Responsible Investment and ESG

Sustainable Energy Fund – Exclusion Policy

TB Guinness Investment Funds - Application Form

TB Guinness Funds - 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.
 

Launch Date
Fund managers (start date)
Jonathan Waghorn (30/12/2022)
Will Riley (30/12/2022)
Benchmark
MSCI World Index
IA sector
IA Commodity/Natural Resources
Structure
UK OEIC (UCITS)
Domicile
UK
Underlying currency
Pounds Sterling
Pricing
Daily, forwards
Valuation
1200 UK time
Deal cut off time
1200 UK time
Administrator
T. Bailey Fund Services Limited
Custodian
Northern Trust
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.
 

Class OCF current Max Initial Charge Min Investment ISIN SEDOL Bloomberg
Y GBP ACC 0.67% 0.00% 1,000 GB00BP5J6198 BP5J619 TBGUSQQ LN
Z GBP ACC 0.50% 0.00% 1,000 GB00BP5J6206 BP5J620 TBGUENG LN

Share Prices

The Funds are priced every working day at 12:00 UK time and updated here shortly after.
 

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
30 May 2023

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Guinness Sustainable Energy Fund - Webcast - Covering Q1 2023

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Impact Report 2022

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13 October 2022

Guinness Sustainable Energy Fund - Webcast - Covering Q3 2022

Date: Oct 13, 2022 10:00 AM [GMT+1]Jonathan Waghorn & Will Riley
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Guinness Sustainable Energy Fund receives Square Mile Responsible A rating

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We’ve tried to make investing in our Funds as simple as possible. All of our funds are available to invest directly via an application form, we also have good availability across a number of investment supermarkets whilst being eligible for ISAs & SIPPs.

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