Performance review The share price return of 17.0% and the NAV return of 13.5% for the calendar year 2020 marks two consecutive years of good returns for shareholders (+23% in NAV performance over 2019 and 2020) following a lean period in the two years before that. For the six months to 31 December 2020 the NAV return was 6.4%. What most people will find surprising about 2020 is that through a severe global recession, most assets ended up making money. This is hard to reconcile with the lived experience of 2020. Despite the rise in asset prices, the portfolio objective of preserving shareholder capital was thoroughly tested as we experienced the broadest possible range of market and economic environments. We often describe the Ruffer investment approach as all-weather and there was certainly a wide variety of investment weather to deal with.
Comptroller DiNapoli divesting from oil stocks
Will sell off by 2025 if they can t adapt to carbon-free future, says comptroller
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ALBANY State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli on Wednesday said he will likely sell off many of the state’s Common Retirement Fund fossil fuel holdings by 2025 in a move that has pleased environmentalists and could potentially disrupt the oil and gas industry’s finances going forward.
“Investing for the low-carbon future is essential to protect the fund’s long-term value,” DiNapoli said in announcing the plan.
Fossil fuel firms that want to remain in the pension fund will have to meet what the comptroller says is a set of “minimum standards’’ in which companies show they can thrive in the transition to a low carbon or carbon-free economy to fight global warming.