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Temple Bar Investment Trust PLC GBP — Temple Bar Investment Trust — Fact Sheet (March 2015)
5 slides from Temple Bar Investment Trust PLC GBP's fact sheet, Mar 31, 2015
Slide 1: Monthly update 31 March 2015: Trust Facts and Performance
\ tem ple a bar Investment Trust PLC — Monthly update 31 March 2015 Trust Facts Launch date: 1926 Wind-up date: None Year end: 31 December Dividends paid: Quarterly in March, June, September and December AGM: March Benchmark: FTSE All-Share ISA status: May be held in an ISA Capital Structure: Share
Slide 2: Manager's Commentary
tem ple im bar Investment Trust PLC — Monthly update 31 March 2015 Manager’s Commentary As value investors we are often asked how we spot companies in structural decline — the ‘cheap for a reason’ stocks. We have written before on this topic and clearly while there is no fool proof method to guarant
Slide 3: Manager's Commentary (continued)
tem ple im bar Investment Trust PLC — Monthly update 31 March 2015 Management convinced themselves they would have first-mover advantage in new markets and that this would intimidate others from competing, but Best Buy’s model was proving superior to Circuit City’s and by moving second they were abl
Slide 4: Manager's Commentary (continued)
tem ple im bar Investment Trust PLC — Monthly update 31 March 2015 Management also decided to make an acquisition in 2005. InterTAN was a 970-store consumer electronics chain based in Canada. Although ‘only’ costing $300 million, this proved both a waste of money and an unnecessary distraction for m
Slide 5: Circuit City's share price history and contact details
temple a bar Investment Trust PLC — Monthly update 31 March 2015 Circuit City’s share price history 45 yell . \ —— \ 1980-1984 1985-1989 1990-1994 yes1999 «=| 000-2004 zous200g | 2010- 211 Source: Bloomberg (CIRCUIT CITY "The company auditors are in reception sir" The yield information has been calc
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