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Wellcome Trust investment chief plays the long game Business. For a large endowment fund with a seemingly conservative approach to investing, the returns generated by the 1. Wellcome Trust are extraordinary. The gain for the past financial year 1. Over the past six years since the financial crisis, the trust has generated 8. That equates to 1. Since the start of the investment portfolio in 1. Its clearly no fluke. Whats the secretOne short answer is long investment horizons. We are an asset owner not a fund manager, says Danny Truell, chief investment officer. We buy businesses, we dont buy share prices. When we buy a business we enter into, and we maintain, a targeted return over the next decade and we are indifferent to short term mark to market movements. Buku Kesehatan Lingkungan Pdf To Excel. Two remarkable statistics illustrate the point. First, Wellcome Trusts 3. 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Wellcome Trust has never sold a share in a flotation. Thus stakes in Alibaba, the Chinese e commerce giant, and Twitter acquired when those firms were smaller and private remain in the portfolio. Can anybody invest like this Or do you have to be part of an organisation that dates back to 1. Henry Wellcomes creation of the Wellcome Group, owner of the drug company that eventually created the first 1bn drug Zovirax in 1. Glaxo in 1. 99. 5I think is predominately a mindset, says Truell. Wellcome Trust Grants' title='Wellcome Trust Grants' />Wellcome Trust JobsIt is a mindset that believes that compounding cash flows over time is the most effective form of investment. It is partly also the mindset of the organisation. I have a board that consists mainly of very eminent scientists who are very empathetic to the view that you make progress over years and decades, not over the next quarter. The endowment exists to fund medical research. Grants last year totalled 6. Thanks to the recent strong investment performance, the trust now expects its charitable spending to be 4bn in the next half decade, up from 3bn over the past five years. Investment style. If the investment style is so successful, why dont more pension fund trustees, who by rights should also be looking to the long term, copy itThe pension fund trustees may wish to think long term but when they are investing through managers who they are judging on a short term view thats where there can be a breakdown between the intent and the outcome, says Truell. Truell also chairs the World Economic Forums long term investor council, which comprises some of the worlds largest sovereign wealth funds and state pension funds. I think it is fair to say that all are moving in the direction of how to be genuinely long term investors and how they also get more control over their own destiny by doing things directly rather than through third parties, he says. The Wellcome Trust itself is managing a greater portion of its assets directly but still uses up to 5. Asia. There are skills that we have and there are skills that we dont have, and we are fairly hard nosed about identifying them, says Truell. The early investments in Facebook, Twitter and Alibaba came via contacts at such partners. WellcomeThe Wellcome Trust used The Last of Us to invite scientists, a philosopher, and a game critic to talk about the science behind a zombie scenario. We work with games developers and publishers to help make entertaining digital games. Today, we launched High Tea, a new game to accompany our High Society exhibition. Its a strategy game based on the British opium trade in the Chinese Pearl Delta. Open Broadcaster Software is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your. Wellcome Trust, London. A live walkthrough and interviews with scientists and games developers at the DevBeyond indie games showcase at Wellcome HQ. The valuations of some of those firms strike many people as stratospheric but Truell is sanguine. The share prices of Twitter and Alibaba ran a bit too hard after IPO and he thinks short sellers in the hedge fund world have done a good job in spotting froth You saw in March this year there was a bit of a bubble and, actually, the hedge funds did a good job in pushing prices down to more realistic levels. He argues that Facebook and Twitter where Wellcomes holdings were worth 1. September are very different businesses. Facebook is a platform. Its got that global penetration. Twitter is about content, which if it works, is more valuable than platform. What it must not do is downplay the quality of its content. ChallengesThe world is working through the question, Is it about the number of people who tweet, or is it about the quality of what is tweeted There was a period when it was about the former, and I think it is moving towards the latter. Though, clearly, as you have seen in 2. Facebook has done well and Twitter has not done well. There are always going to be challenges to these businesses but, if they get it right, potential valuations are by no means demanding. At Alibaba a 1. Truell suggests part of his confidence stems from having been invested in Alibaba since 2. We would say that no company can say it is absolutely free of governance issues but the fact is that they are at least cognisant of them. The bulk of the mega cap portfolio is concentrated in longer established names. UK listed companies include Marks Spencer, HSBC, Shell, Vodafone, BP, Unilever, Glaxo. Smith. Kline, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. Tobacco companies are the only ones excluded on ethical grounds. Some environmental campaigners would also like to see oil companies deemed off limits by socially minded investors. Truell, however, starts from the premise that energy is essential to the global economy and argues that engagement is better than disengagement. As far as we are concerned, it is not realistic that we can dispense with fossil fuels. If I look today at a company like Shell, which has argued in favour of the carbon tax, is making major investments into carbon capture, and whose revenues now come predominately from gas rather than oil, it is very important that we engage with companies to ensure that they are being realistic about the changes in the nature of the energy market. In what circumstances does Wellcome Trust sell an investmentIt does not happen very often but essentially if we feel that a business model is challenged and the company is not responding. Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia was an example. It had produced very popular products and then it just lost its way and it got into internal turmoil about producing new products. And, unfortunately, in a sector like technology the failure to produce the right products is something that can be severely damaging very quickly. Fortunately we realised that in time and we exited the investment. Strong returns. Despite the trusts strong returns since the great financial crash of 2. Truell suggests that the going is likely to get harder from here. Valuations since then have moved from being depressed to being fairly to fully valued, hence returns from here will be driven by organic growth rather than revaluation, he says. For the time being Wellcome Trust will retain its bias towards the US, which accounts for 6. He says it is still unclear how Japan will respond to aggressive quantitative easing. Europe is still far away from resolving its structural problems. In many countries, including the UK, France, Spain and Italy, populist politics appear to have largely derailed progress in driving public sector supply side reforms to restore fiscal balance through greater efficiencies, he wrote in the trusts annual report. Thus both the euro and sterling are vulnerable to further falls against the dollar, he thinks. The Russian crisis developed after the Wellcome Trusts year end, but Truell is gloomy about prospects there. I think it is quite difficult to see what they are going to do, and I dont think we can rule out the imposition of capital controls. Jobs. Current vacancies, listed below, open in an online application system. If youre an applicantĀ from outside the European Economic Area EEA or Switzerland, please be aware that were bound by legal restrictions that affect our ability to employ non EEA nationals in the UK. 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