Overview
Download factsheetA fully invested equity strategy that aims to provide investors with growing levels of income with resilient capital growth by investing at least 80% of the Fund in UK-listed companies.
What does the fund do?
We manage a concentrated portfolio of 30-50 high-quality, cash-generative companies that are capable of consistent dividend growth. At least 80% of the Fund is invested in UK equities, with the possibility of selectively owning the shares of overseas companies in the remainder.
Our long-term approach and focus on reasonably valued, high-quality, cash generative companies leads to low portfolio turnover.
Why this fund?
Troy’s UK Income Strategy has been managed in Troy’s distinctive investment style since 2004. We believe our approach to income investing is differentiated through; our conservative quality-orientated approach, our focus on total return and our prioritisation of dividend growth above high yield. We seek a sensible balance between capital and income return in order to deliver above average returns with below average volatility.
The strategy has no explicit yield target and instead we emphasise real growth and long-term sustainability of the income stream above producing the highest dividend yield today. In so doing, we aim to deliver investors a growing yield on their initial investment.
The Fund integrates ESG and stewardship in accordance with Troy’s Responsible Investment & Stewardship Policy and also adheres to Troy’s Climate Change Mitigation Policy, in accordance with article 8 of SFDR.
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The team
Key facts
Fund Manager
Blake Hutchins
Assistant Fund Manager
Fergus McCorkell
Inception date
15/04/2013
Currency
Sterling
US Dollar
Euro
Singapore Dollar
Available share classes
O GBP Acc and Inc
O EUR Acc and Inc
O USD Acc and Inc
O SGD Acc and Inc
X GBP Acc and Inc
X EUR Acc and Inc
X USD Acc and Inc
X SGD Acc and Inc
ISIN (O GBP)
IE00B943NN14 (GBP Inc)
IE00B8255S12 (GBP Acc)
Bloomberg (O GBP)
TJIFOGI (GBP Inc)
TJIFOGA (GBP Acc)
Sedol (O GBP)
B943NN1 (GBP Inc)
B8255S1 (GBP Acc)
Ongoing Charges
‘O’ (ordinary) shares: 1.26%
‘X’ (platform) shares: 1.11%
‘O’ ACC SHARE CLASS as at 30/10/2024
£1.141
Fund size as at 31/07/2025
£12m
‘O’ INC SHARE CLASS as at 30/10/2024
£1.1337
Performance
Source: Lipper.
15/04/2013 | 31/07/2020 | 31/07/2022 | 31/07/2024 | 31/01/2025 | |
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Since Launch | 5 Years | 3 Years | 1 Year | 6 Months | |
FTSE All-Share TR | 131.0 | 80.4 | 35.0 | 12.1 | 7.5 |
Trojan Income (Ireland) O GBP Acc | 77.1 | 22.1 | 11.4 | 5.9 | -0.8 |
Trojan Income (Ireland) O USD Acc | 86.9 | 23.9 | 12.6 | 6.0 | -0.7 |
Trojan Income (Ireland) O EUR Acc | 52.4 | 11.7 | 4.1 | 2.3 | -3.3 |
Discrete Calendar Annual Returns (%) | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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Trojan Income (Ireland) O GBP Acc | 6.3 | 9.7 | 10.5 | 9.9 | 6.1 | -7.2 | 20 | -10 | 15.4 | -12.8 | 4.7 | 6.1 | 5.2 |
Trojan Income (Ireland) O USD Acc | 5.8 | 9.3 | 10 | 10.6 | 6.8 | -5.7 | 21.7 | -9.2 | 15.5 | -12 | 5.1 | 6.2 | 5.2 |
Trojan Income (Ireland) O EUR Acc | 5.8 | 9.4 | 9.9 | 9.2 | 4.8 | -8.4 | 18.2 | -10.4 | 14.4 | -14.2 | 2.9 | 4.5 | 2.3 |
Non GBP share classes are hedged. Differences in interest rates may contribute to differences in performance between share classes. Source: Lipper. Past performance is not a guide to future performance. Performance is calculated on a total return basis, net of fees. Since Launch (15/04/2013) to 31 July 2025.
Risk and Volatility since launch
Source: Lipper.
Risk Analysis Since Launch (15/04/2013) | Trojan Income (Ireland) O GBP Acc | FTSE All-Share TR |
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Total Return | 77.1 | 131.0 |
Max Drawdown | -28.2 | -35.3 |
Best Month | 7.5 | 12.7 |
Worst Month | -10.9 | -15.1 |
Positive Months | 57.1 | 59.9 |
Annualised Volatility | 10.4 | 11.8 |
Maximum Drawdown measures the worst investment period. Annualised Volatility is measured by the annualised standard deviation of the monthly returns. Source: Lipper. Past performance is not a guide to future performance. Performance is calculated on a total return basis, net of fees. As at 31 July 2025.
Asset allocation
Top 10 holdings | Fund % |
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RELX | 4.9971558700689 |
Compass | 4.46134985078903 |
Unilever | 4.29432323881227 |
Diageo | 4.10652564562162 |
Reckitt Benckiser | 3.97140710112918 |
LSEG | 3.96789368464958 |
Experian | 3.85529046908474 |
Amadeus | 3.56080272967809 |
BAT | 3.32298701929219 |
Spirax | 3.30142588934532 |
Total Top 10 | 39.8391614984709 |
26 Other Equity holdings | 58.8389081159012 |
Cash | 1.32193038562785 |
Total | 100 |
Asset allocation and holdings subject to change. As at 31 July 2025.
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Commentary
July 2025
Your Fund returned +2.5% during the month, compared to +4.0% for the FTSE All-Share Index (TR).
Consumer staple company Reckitt was the top contributor, rising +14.5% in July. Reckitt has three separate businesses: Core Reckitt – a collection of globally leading consumer health and hygiene brands including Dettol, Durex and Nurofen. Essential Home – a long tail of lower growth homecare brands including Air Wick, Mortein and Cillit Bang. Mead Johnson – the US infant formula business. Our view is that Essential Home and Mead Johnson are comparatively weaker businesses that hold back the valuation of the Core Reckitt business. Two pieces of newsflow encouraged investors in the month.
Firstly, Reckitt announced the planned divestiture of the Essential Home business to private equity firm Advent International for up to $4.8bn. Whilst hardly a knockout price, representing a multiple of c.8x historical operating profit, this is an important and necessary step in refocusing the business on Core Reckitt. While Essential Home makes up <10% of Reckitt’s enterprise value, we suspect it has used up a disproportionate amount of management time. Sensibly (we think), Reckitt intends to return most of the disposal proceeds by way of special dividend and share buyback, rather than redeploying the capital into M&A.
The second piece of newsflow was the company’s solid half-year results. Within these, Core Reckitt delivered better-than-expected growth and strong margin progression, led by strength in Emerging Markets. Focus now turns to a potential disposal of Mead Johnson and sustaining strong delivery for Core Reckitt.
Following a share price rise of more than 30% over the past year, we used recent strength to trim the Fund’s holding in the company.