Category: LICs

LICs are a great way to achieve market diversification or invest conservatively for those investors without the expertise or inclination to invest directly in other ASX listed companies. LICs in Australia primarily invest in Australian or international shares and offer investors exposure to the same universe of assets that can be accessed through many unlisted managed funds. LICs are bought and sold on the market just like an ordinary share and investors can decide whether the investment style and underlying investment portfolio of a particular LIC suits their own investment objective

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The War of WAM on ASX! Wilson’s New LIC Hits the Share Market

The founder of WAM in charge of WAM Strategic Value is Geoff Wilson, assures investors in WAM Strategic Value’s ASX WAR prospectus that the company will focus on “finding and investing in $1 of assets for 80 cents.

The LIC intends to accomplish this by grabbing the opportunity of market mispricing like securities trading at discounts to assets or NTA (net tangible assets), corporate transactions, and dividend yield arbitrages with franking credit benefits.

WAM Strategic Value will largely be in the business of purchasing assets from other LICs and Listed Investment Trusts (LITs) for less than their true value. After all, with its $200 million+ funding, it’s likely invested in quite a bit so far. Back then, their units were trading at a 12.2 percent discount to their NTA value.

(Source: msn.com)

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