Fund Profile
BlackRock Sustainable American Income 12 January 2018
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Fund History
13 May 2022
Time to reappraise the ‘value’ approach?
After a tough decade, the environment for the value approach is improving, says Lisa Yang, Co-Manager of the BlackRock Sustainable American Income Trust plc. Is it time for investors to take note?
27 Apr 2022
Finding value in a haystack
Non-income value strategies are becoming increasingly scarce, but the holdouts represent attractive near-term opportunities…
25 Mar 2022
Slides and Audio: BlackRock Sustainable American Income
Download the presentation and listen to the audio from our 'Ideas for your ISA' virtual Spring event on 15 March...
23 Mar 2022
Fifteen ideas for your ISA
Slides and audio from our event last week, featuring fund managers running money in every major market in the world...
23 Feb 2022
Regime change
Ahead of our spring conference, we ask whether investors need to junk their portfolios and start again…
17 Feb 2022
Results analysis: BlackRock Sustainable American Income
Reporting results for the year ending 31 October 2021, BRSA has succeeded in combining sustainable investing with an outperforming value-stock bias…
15 Dec 2021
Fund Analysis
BRSA’s new sustainable approach to US value investing represents a highly distinct strategy…
08 Dec 2021
We are the (ESG) champions
Investment trusts tend to be amongst the best-performing ESG strategies in the combined open- and closed-ended universe…
24 Nov 2021
Holding back the tears
While the final text of COP26 fell short of what many had hoped for, the writing is on the wall for fossil fuels and, from an investment perspective, the age of sustainability has only just begun…
17 Nov 2021
How Do You Like Them Apples
Judging whether the US market is expensive is not as easy as many make it out to be…
03 Nov 2021
Don't fear the reaper
With market direction hard to call, we consider the case for taking a long-term view in the investment trust sector…
20 Oct 2021
Board games
Investment trust boards talk a good game about championing shareholders interests - but do they really deliver?
28 Jul 2021
How are the mighty fallen
Dividend culture as we knew it is dead, according to Kepler's David Johnson, but investment trusts offer a solution...
20 Jul 2021
Fund Analysis
Proposed shifts in BRNA’s strategy towards sustainable investing may improve its return profile and be the catalyst for a narrowing discount….
22 Apr 2021
FAANGs for the memories
The massive outperformance of mega-cap tech last year could become a thing of the past if anti-trust legislation and negative sentiment starts to bite...
12 Feb 2021
Results analysis: BlackRock North American Income
With a strong start to the year, BRNA has a number of catalysts to drive performance in 2021 and an attractive yield of 4.7%...
07 Jan 2021
Fund Analysis
BRNA offers a disciplined US value opportunity with superior income attributes…
19 Nov 2020
Hope springs eternal
The US election has given long-suffering value investors new hope of a 'great rotation' in their favour, but that light at the end of the tunnel could in fact be a train…
01 Oct 2020
Alternatives for Income Investors
Slides and audio from our event focused on alternative routes to a reliable income…
30 Sep 2020
Slides and Audio: BlackRock North American Income
View the presentation and listen to the audio from our 'Alternatives for Income Investors' event on 29 September...
20 Aug 2020
Alternatives for income investors
In a world where dividend are under unprecedented pressure, our income focused online event in September should provide serious food for thought…
09 Jul 2020
Fund Analysis
BRNA offers a 5% yield from a portfolio of high quality US companies…
18 Jun 2020
Gimme shelter
As income investors brace for impact we ask which regions and trusts are less likely to cut their dividends in 2020…
27 Apr 2020
What does defensive investing mean today?
As investors reflect on the damage inflicted by the coronavirus outbreak on their portfolios in recent weeks, they may be looking for a way to build in greater resilience... However, traditional defensive investment strategies may not be the answer...
13 Feb 2020
Choose your own adventure
Predicting the future is impossible, but identifying which trends have coincided in the past can give us clues about what may be to come...
31 Dec 2019
Fund Analysis
Since a management change in 2014, BRNA has been one of the great turnaround stories...
12 Dec 2019
Regime change: how manager changes impact performance
Does a change in manager result in improved trust performance?
25 Sep 2019
Where next for the US stock market?
12 Jun 2019
Fund Analysis
In the current volatile environment, this trust appears a stand out candidate for more cautious investors...
13 Nov 2018
Appetite for disruption
How new technology is driving dividends...
31 Oct 2018
The Trump effect
Two years after the shock election of Donald Trump, we take a look at what the Trump administration has really meant for US markets and the trusts that invest in them...
31 Oct 2018
Fund Analysis
A diversified portfolio comprised mainly of US equities, BRNA produced almost double the return in NAV terms of the Russell 1000 Value index in 2017, and has comfortably outperformed the benchmark so far in 2018...
26 Apr 2018
Fund Analysis
A large cap portfolio, focused on high quality companies, positioned for an inflationary environment with significant exposure to banks
26 Apr 2018
The $23.9 trillion dollar question*
Are US equities, which have hit record highs on 71 occasions in the last 12 months, overpriced or are they actually trading at a price worth paying?
12 Jan 2018
Fund Analysis
A large cap portfolio, focused on high quality companies, positioned for an inflationary environment with significant exposure to banks...
23 May 2017
Fund Analysis