Phil 2;255905 wrote:Pinch, punch first of the month.
Any guesses what the 31st Dec NAV might look like? Looks like this will be announced Friday ish?
I’m assuming no dramatic change other than maybe a modest uptick compared to the month previous followed by better reading around 15th Feb reflecting the better January across most of its mysterious holdings.
Any reason to expect anything else?
sell the rumour - buy the fact
RCP sold off on the back of a broker report highlighting the growing % of AUM that was made up of private equity (which the year previously had been the major driver of its success) and repeating the concerns that broker has about the delay in PE NAV reporting and the expectation n that NAV's need to fall in line due to the lower multiples seen and to keep in line with the moves in public markets. All of which combined - in their opinion - to make Rit more risky. Sadly the broker should have been banging the drum three years earlier when they were OK owning it at a large premium to NAV and maybe its a bit of the horse has already bolted in terms of needing a discount to provide some reassurance for the supposed higher volatility.
In PE world this year III and OCI have both reported excellent growth in NAVs - because the companies they are invested in have been growing earnings and these have led to higher valuations... the results from APEO a few days ago said the same thing... PE is invested in higher growing companies... and so long as they keep executing on their plan - and so long as the economy is supportive of this growth - then valuations are justified.
Has there been a recession yet? Not as far as I have seen
Have interest rates knocked the underlying companies off their growth trajectory - not as far I I have seen - I spoke with a friend a couple of months ago who works for a PE company and his job if to try and find companies for them to invest in - and he said that the rate rises we have seen were all anticipated in the funding models of the PE investors (ie rates would need to go a lot higher until the investment thesis would be negatively impacted).
PE listed investments are generally decent higher over the last few months.
Growth capital - eg CHRY and GROW are also a long way off their lows from a couple of months ago.
At the same time - moving away from private equity - the appeal of Rit had always been the diversity of its investments - yes PE has grown to be a higher overall percentage (last 41%) but they also have a decent gig in rates, credit, hedge funds etc... they also actively manage overall market beta - this worked very well for beta shorters last year and I have no reason to expect that Rit have lost their skills here.
Oh - and China - which (as I have repeated up thread) they cited in their last NAV - "Chinese domestic funds, recovering from October lows to significantly outperform;'
and if you are following the moves in china (FCSS is up 50%+ over three months) then this should have added a decent positive impulse into their Dec and Jan month end NAVs...
SO - I am expecting an unexciting small positive Dec valuation (maybe some downward moves on PE but decent up moves from China, rates, credit and general positive market beta) and then in a couple of weeks the Jan month end valuation will be a step higher on the back of January's strong upward movements in most sections..
Do I expect Rit to rally 20% to get back to parity with NAV any time soon? absolutely not... I think they have hurt their long term loyal investors... they were trading at a 5% to 10% premium three years ago and now at an almost 20% discount this has been a massive share price underperformance -looking backwards.
looking forwards - for a long term diversified decent low volatility NAV performance at a decent discount it seems good value and should be a good safe long term workhorse for my portfolio... I can't hope to have the same trading fun with it over the next year but I do expect it to continue to do what it says on the tin in terms of its NAV performance.
good luck... following on from small additions by me up to yesterday I have 20% of my AUM in RIT so take all of the above as me talking my own book...