Robeco Digital Innovations I USD
- Invests in a number of structural growth trends on the production side of the economy, e.g. Robotics and Automation, Digital Enablers, Secure Digital Infrastructure.
- Top-down trend selection and bottom-up stock selection using proprietary valuation models
- Risk limitation through diversification over multiple trends with different drivers and risk characteristics
About this fund
Price development
Performance
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Performances are gross of fees and based on closing values. In reality, costs (such as management fees and other costs) are charged. These have a negative effect on the returns shown.
Performances are net of fees and based on transaction prices.
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Market development
{{'fund.detail.general.perDate' | labelize:[ fundDate(fund.fundInvestmentExplanations.date,'llll') ]}}Global equities advanced 4.9% in August as measured by the MSCI AC World Index. In other words, they sustained the rally that has run since 23 March on the back of a persistent improvement in global growth, which in some areas is clearly surprising on the upside. Next to that, Fed Chair Powell committed to effectively maintain the Fed funds rate at zero over an extended period of time, which helped equities but at the same time resulted in a further weakening of the USD versus the euro. Despite the further weakening of the USD in August, emerging markets failed to capitalize on this in contrast to what they have done historically, underperforming developed markets by a sizeable margin. The latter were led by the US, with the S&P posting the strongest earnings beat in Q2 since 2000 and all indices reaching new all-time highs. Japan also did well, with monthly earnings revisions bouncing off the lows. Europe slightly lagged the global index but was up significantly nevertheless. China was an exception among emerging markets, racing ahead as the economic recovery gathered pace across both the manufacturing and services industries.
Fund allocation
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Currency policy
The fund can engage in currency hedging transactions. Typically currency hedging is not applied.
Dividend policy
The fund does not distribute dividend. The fund retains any income that is earned, and so its entire performance is reflected in the price.
ESG Integration policy
Robeco Digital Innovations integrates ESG factors into its investment process by analyzing the impact of financially material ESG factors to a company’s competitive position and value drivers. We believe that this enhances our ability to understand existing and potential (long-term) risks and opportunities of a company. The impact of material ESG factors can be positive or negative, reflecting risks or opportunities, that ensue from a company’s ESG analysis. If ESG risks and opportunities are significant, the ESG analysis could impact a stock’s fair value and the portfolio allocation decision. In addition to ESG integration, Robeco also has an exclusion policy and conducts proxy voting and engagement activities focused on specific themes, such as climate change, aiming to improve a company’s sustainability profile.
Investment policy
Robeco Digital Innovations invests in companies all over the world which benefit from the structural growth trends within the production side of the economy, for example robotics, digital manufacturing, energy transition and cybersecurity. Companies will primarily be selected on their exposure to the selected trends but will then be subjected to a rigorous analysis of the competitive positioning, strength of the management team and historical track record of sales, margins and earnings. Robeco Digital Innovations holds a concentrated portfolio of equities for which the fund manager expects above-average performance in the long term.
Risk policy
Risk management is fully integrated into the investment process to ensure that positions always meet predefined guidelines.
Expectation of fund manager
{{'fund.detail.general.perDate' | labelize:[ fundDate(fund.fundFacts.date,'llll') ]}}The business world is continually looking for improvements in productivity, efficiency and flexibility. The combination and confluence of increasing connectivity, digitization of products and services and digitization of business processes is providing abundant opportunities to make tremendous progress in these respects across virtually every industry. We continue to believe that the secular trends outlined above remain valid and will be reinforced by the current corona crisis. Having said that, recession is now the base case and the question is: how deep will it be and how long will it last? While the long-run prospects are very bright, the short-run outlook is more uncertain. Easing of the lockdown restrictions is clearly having a positive effect on economic activity, but the very realistic risk of a resurgence of Covid-19 infections is casting some shadows. In addition, markets have already pushed the valuations of companies that are expected to benefit from the longer-term fallout of the crisis to very high levels. Consequently, the risk-reward has clearly deteriorated compared to a few months ago.
Marco van Lent, Steef Bergakker
Marco van Lent is a member of the Robeco Trends Investing Equity team since December 2010 and since November 2013 portfolio manager of Robeco MegaTrends/Rolinco and since June 2017 portfolio manager of Robeco Digital Innovations. Before that he was portfolio manager of Robeco Infrastructure Equities. He joined Robeco in October 2007 to co-manage two European equity funds. He started his investment career in 1985 as a sell-side analyst/strategist. In 1996, he became a portfolio manager at Van Spaendonck Asset Management. This was followed by a position as senior portfolio manager European equities at Philips Investment Management in 1999. Using the high-conviction investment strategy which he had co-developed at Philips Investment Management, he moved on to Van Lanschot Asset Management to manage the Van Lanschot European Equity Fund. After the acquisition of Kempen Capital Management by Van Lanschot, he worked at Kempen Capital Management for 6 months to manage European equity mandates. Marco holds a Master’s degree in Business Economics and Finance from Tilburg University. Steef Bergakker is a member of the Robeco Trends Investing team and portfolio manager of Robeco Hollands Bezit. Before he was the portfolio manager of Robeco Infrastructure Equities. Prior to rejoining Robeco in 2008, Steef held different functions at IRIS (Institute for Research and Investment Services), the former research joint venture of Robeco and Rabobank. From 1998 through 2008 he served as head of IRIS Equity Research, and before that he worked as equity analyst for 8 years. Steef started his career in the investment industry at Robeco in 1990, as a junior analyst. He holds a Master¿s degree in Monetary Economics and Finance and Investments from Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
Details
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| ISIN | LU1629880771 |
| Bloomberg | ROGIIIU LX |
| Valoren | 37082831 |
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| 1st quotation date | 1497484800000 |
| Close financial year | 31-12 |
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Fiscal product treatment
The fund is established in Luxembourg and is subject to the Luxembourg tax laws and regulations. The fund is not liable to pay any corporation, income, dividend or capital gains tax in Luxembourg. The fund is subject to an annual subscription tax ('tax d'abonnement') in Luxembourg, which amounts to 0.01% of the net asset value of the fund. This tax is included in the net asset value of the fund. The fund can in principle use the Luxembourg treaty network to partially recover any withholding tax on its income.
Fiscal treatment of investor
Investors who are not subject to (exempt from) Dutch corporate-income tax (e.g. pension funds) are not taxed on the achieved result. Investors who are subject to Dutch corporate-income tax can be taxed for the result achieved on their investment in the fund. Dutch bodies that are subject to corporate-income tax are obligated to declare interest and dividend income, as well as capital gains in their tax return. Investors residing outside the Netherlands are subject to their respective national tax regime applying to foreign investment funds. We advise individual investors to consult their financial or tax adviser about the tax consequences of an investment in this fund in their specific circumstances before deciding to invest in the fund.
