In an investing world where global funds often involving heavily backing the US stock market and Magnificent Seven giants, Regnam Sustainable Water and Waste offers something totally different.
The fund invests companies around the world that work in two essential parts of modern day life, providing water and dealing with waste.
On this episode of the Investing Show Simon Lambert interviews Regnam Water and Waste fund co-manager Bertrand Lecourt, who explains how it can be a strong portfolio diversifier with a growth driver from global urbanisation.
He says companies providing good services in water and waste can deliver steady and reliable profits and adds that the fund can even be a way for investors to hedge against their own rising bills.
Regnam Sustainable Water and Waste has delivered a 29 per cent return over three years and has ongoing charges of 0.95 per cent.
Regnam Water and Waste holds about 45 companies and targets only those companies with a major focus on its two core activities. For investors worried about the travails of British water firms, such as Thames Water, Lecourt has some assurances, explaining that it does not invest in private companies.
Among the stocks it holds are Veolia, the French giant whose global business interests include emptying many Briton's bins and dealing with their waste and recycling, American Water, which provides drinking and clean water in the US, and Mueller Industries, which manufactures and sells brass, copper, plastic, and aluminum products.
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