- The Atlas High Income Property Fund gained by +1.7% during August in a month where all of the Trusts held by the portfolio reported their profit results for the first six months of 2019. Due to our positioning towards higher-yielding rent collectors with recurring income and away from Trusts relying on development profits, the August reporting season provided few surprises.
- Over the past year, a new source of volatility has crept into the market – outrageous Trump tweets, often designed to influence ongoing trade negotiations. Atlas believes that trying to manage a portfolio based on expected Trump tweets would surely result in poor outcomes for investors. What we can control is building a portfolio with trusts that are growing their dividends at a rate both greater than inflation. We were pleased to see that the companies owned by the Fund on average grew distributions by 3% compared with the first six months of 2018.
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