Ruffer Investment Share Price (RICA)

Share Name	Share Symbol	Market	Type	Share ISIN	Share Description
Ruffer Investment Company Ltd	LSE:RICA	London	Ordinary Share	GB00B018CS46	RED PTG PREF SHS 0.01P

	Price Change	% Change	Share Price	Shares Traded	Last Trade
	0.00	0.00%	216.00	234,503	16:35:27

Bid Price		Offer Price	High Price	Low Price	Open Price
216.00		219.00	218.00	218.00	218.00

Industry Sector	Turnover (m)	Profit (m)	EPS - Basic	PE Ratio	Market Cap (m)
Equity Investment Instruments		3.59	1.83	118.0	389.0

Last Trade Time	Trade Type	Trade Size	Trade Price	Currency
16:35:27	UT	18	216.00	GBX

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Date	Time	Source	Headline
11/7/2019	16:26	UKREG	Ruffer Investment Company Limited Fund Manager Share Purchase
10/7/2019	15:18	UKREG	Ruffer Investment Company Limited Net Asset Value(s)
08/7/2019	14:30	UKREG	Ruffer Investment Company Limited Monthly Investment Report - June 2019
03/7/2019	15:41	UKREG	Ruffer Investment Company Limited Net Asset Value(s)
01/7/2019	16:06	UKREG	Ruffer Investment Company Limited Net Asset Value(s)
26/6/2019	15:42	UKREG	Ruffer Investment Company Limited Net Asset Value(s)
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12/6/2019	15:30	UKREG	Ruffer Investment Company Limited Net Asset Value(s)
10/6/2019	11:05	UKREG	Ruffer Investment Company Limited Monthly Investment Report - May 2019
05/6/2019	15:15	UKREG	Ruffer Investment Company Limited Net Asset Value(s)

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Ruffer Investment (RICA) Most Recent Trades

Trade Time	Trade Price	Trade Size	Trade Value	Trade Type
2019-07-15 15:35:26	216.00	18	38.88	UT
2019-07-15 15:17:14	216.36	680	1,471.25	O
2019-07-15 15:15:31	216.89	3,250	7,048.93	O
2019-07-15 15:08:27	216.36	1,135	2,455.69	O
2019-07-15 15:06:43	216.36	15,000	32,454.00	O

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15/7/2019 09:20	Ruffer Investment Daily Update: Ruffer Investment Company Ltd is listed in the Equity Investment Instruments sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker RICA. The last closing price for Ruffer Investment was 216p. Ruffer Investment Company Ltd has a 4 week average price of 214p and a 12 week average price of 208p. The 1 year high share price is 238p while the 1 year low share price is currently 202p. There are currently 180,088,416 shares in issue and the average daily traded volume is 257,784 shares. The market capitalisation of Ruffer Investment Company Ltd is £388,990,978.56. Read Full Thread Reply
08/3/2019 18:58	contrarian joe: Is Ruffer Now a Buying Opportunity for Defensive Investors? After a year of poor performance, Ruffer Investment Company has slipped to a rare, sustained discount. Is this a good time to buy this defensive play? David Brenchley 5 March, 2019 \| 2:03PM Last year was tough for investors, with the majority of asset classes seeing steep falls as macro-economic and geo-politics worries came to a head from October onwards. For some funds, market volatility and down years are par for the course. Investing in risk assets comes with the possibility of losing cash in the short term. For others, though, it’s less than ideal. Absolute return funds, in particular, set their stall out to produce positive returns for investors year after year whatever the underlying market conditions. This is a high bar and one many have failed to achieve. While the Morningstar Bronze-rated Ruffer Investment Company (RICA) is not an absolute return fund per se, its objectives are similar. It aims to achieve an annual return after expenses of at least twice the Bank of England base rate. Currently, that means it aims to generate a positive return of at least 1.5%. By and large, it has achieved that. Ruffer has generated positive returns in nine of its 14 full calendar years of existence. Even at the depths of the financial crisis in 2008, when the FTSE All-Share lost almost a third of its value, Ruffer was up 23%. As a result, for most of its life it has rarely traded on anything but a premium to net asset value (NAV). Its 10-year average premium is 2.48%. When it has slipped to a discount, it hasn’t been long until that was rectified. Indeed, only for three periods has Ruffer’s discount been sustained: between October 2008 and January 2009; between June and December 2014; and between January and September 2016. In August 2014, the discount widened to more than 5% – the widest it had traded at prior to 2019. Disappointing Performance However, Ruffer’s fortunes dipped in 2018. At almost 6%, the NAV lost more than it ever has in any calendar year for the past 10 years. The share price followed, losing 11% – almost twice that of the NAV. As a result, Ruffer has been trading at a discount ever since December 22. At one point in early January, that discount reached 7.34%, though it quickly narrowed to around 4%, where it has remained. Today, the discount is 3.86%. “The high level of correlation between asset classes [in 2018] largely rendered allocation to risk-on and risk-off assets redundant,” says Morningstar analyst David Holder. “In this environment [Ruffer] failed to deliver an absolute return. “Ruffer make the point that the portfolio is designed to protect against cliff edge falls of 15%+, but I have no doubt that Ruffer will be disappointed with the returns and it looks like some investors voted with their feet.” Peter Hewitt has held Ruffer for more than five years in his BMO Managed Portfolio Growth (BMPG) as part of his protection to cushion potential downside from his more aggressive holdings like Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Polar Capital Technology (PCT) and Worldwide Healthcare (WWH). In the protection bucket, which currently accounts for between 12-15% of his portfolio, he also has exposure to RIT Capital (RCP), Personal Assets (PNL), BH Macro (BHMG) and Capital Gearing (CGT). “It’s not a perfect defence against a bear market – far from it. But, as we saw in the fourth quarter, when the market does go down, say, 10%, your Scottish Mortgage-type trust will go down by 15-20%. “I wanted to try and cushion the blow of that. That’s the main reason for holding a Ruffer – it’s for defensive reasons.” Ruffer is at the riskier end of this bucket, Hewitt explains. As a result, it was by far the worst performing of the quintet last year – the second worst, Personal Assets, lost 3%. That said, while it was clearly a disappointing year, and one management were hurt by, “in the grand scheme of things it wasn’t a disaster”. Is Ruffer a Bargain? Hewitt thinks last year’s poor performance was a stock selection issue. The equity portfolios of the likes of Personal Assets and Capital Gearing would be made up of conventional defensive stocks like Unilever (ULVR), Diageo (DGE) and British American Tobacco (BATS). Hewitt says Ruffer thinks these stocks look expensive, so a lot of their UK and US holdings are more cyclical in nature. That decision probably cost them a few points of performance in 2018, as cyclicals didn’t do well amidst fears over global trade. That trade may play to their advantage over the longer term, though. If we do hit a proper bear market, it could be hoped their stocks would be able to at least hold their value, if not outperform the wider market, as happened in 2008. “If they get it wrong and the markets don’t fall substantially then hopefully their cyclical stocks should perform in a better environment because a lot of them are genuinely quite cheap,” adds Hewitt. In addition to performance, Holder notes that the company has issued 3.6 million new shares over the past six months, so “there is clearly non-equilibrium in supply and demand”. Whether this is temporary or not remains to be seen. Both Holder and Hewitt do feel the current discount offers investors a “reasonable entry point”. Further, continues Holder, as mentioned previously, periods of extended discount tend to be short lived. Indeed, for investors looking for some defensive holdings, Ruffer has a great long-term record of preserving value and growing the NAV, says Hewitt. As a comparison, RIT Capital, Personal Assets and Capital Gearing are trading on premiums of 8.38%, 0.94%, 0.47% and 2.73% respectively. Holder adds: “I would view RICA as a hedge against substantial and extended periods of market weakness and down side volatility.” As at January 31, Ruffer had around a third of its portfolio invested in equities, which is lower than ever before. Regionally, it has a decent slug in Japanese equities. Elsewhere, 42% of the fund is invested in index-linked bonds both in the UK and elsewhere. One thing to be aware of, with Brexit uncertainty continuing to weigh on sentiment towards UK assets, is that Ruffer is currently heavily exposed to sterling – around 70-75% according to Hewitt. As a result, should we get some kind of deal and sterling re-rates, a large chunk of Ruffer’s portfolio should do well. If, on the other hand, there’s a negative outcome to negotiations in the form of a no-deal Brexit then Ruffer would be impacted on the downside. The information contained within is for educational and informational purposes ONLY. It is not intended nor should it be considered an invitation or inducement to buy or sell a security or securities noted within nor should it be viewed as a communication intended to persuade or incite you to buy or sell security or securities noted within. Any commentary provided is the opinion of the author and should not be considered a personalised recommendation. The information contained within should not be a person's sole basis for making an investment decision. Please contact your financial professional before making an investment decision. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
05/3/2019 02:00	pvb: Half yearly report, with explanations and including a statement by the chairman: https://uk.advfn.com/stock-market/london/ruffer-RICA/share-news/Ruffer-Investment-Co-Half-yearly-Financial-Report/79387447 Read Full Thread Follow Reply
12/2/2019 13:28	getscenic: Shame the share price has not been so stable, down 19% of 26 week period. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
03/1/2019 15:43	bpdon: @Edwardt, its nearer 40% but yup that's a fair point. RICA is now trading at its biggest ever discount (I think) and the share price is also not a million miles away from its biggest ever draw down. With share price performance (circa -14%) since last summer not hugely better than some of the main indices, I can understand why holders would be falling out of love with the trust. However, in the current climate, I find it even harder to disagree with the defensive philosophies in the portfolios construction. I decided to double my RICA holding today with cash released last autumn. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
02/3/2017 23:25	pvb: Cut in dividend doesn't seem to have harmed the share price. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
19/9/2016 20:02	pvb: http://uk.advfn.com/stock-market/london/ruffer-investment-company-RICA/share-news/Ruffer-Investment-Co-Annual-Financial-Report/72448377 Read Full Thread Follow Reply
20/8/2014 16:20	lambeater: From iii: "US dollar weakness was a major factor in the 3.6% fall in Ruffer Investment Company's (RICA) NAV total returns. Nearly a quarter of Ruffer's portfolio is dollar-denominated, and its managers did not hedge that exposure. Gains on other fronts did not compensate for the fall in the dollar/sterling exchange rate, and the downturn in Ruffer's NAV led to a worse fall in the share price because the trust lost its premium rating." Read Full Thread Follow Reply

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