{"id":1206,"date":"2015-07-29T09:50:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T09:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2015-07-29T09:50:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T09:50:06","slug":"the-investment-expertise-of-the-wellcome-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"The Investment Expertise of The Wellcome Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to improving health by supporting bright minds in science, the humanities and social sciences, and public engagement.<\/p>\n

www.wellcome.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936), was the founder of the The Wellcome Trust. Today, its annual spend on research increased from an average of \u00a328 million in the 1980s to \u00a3650 million in 2007.<\/p>\n

Total public equities \u00a39,546m
\nLong\/short hedge funds \u00a31,073m
\nCash \u00a3639m
\nAbsolute return & buy-out \u00a32,532m
\nGrowth & venture \u00a33,579m
\nProperty & infrastructure \u00a32,011m<\/p>\n

The Trust’s \u00a318.0 billion investment portfolio<\/strong> provides the income for its funding. In 2014 Trust\u2019s spend on medical and scientific research was \u00a3674 million based on its investment income. Long-termism is fundamental to the thinking of the Wellcome Trust. Directly held investments now account for 42% of its investment portfolio. A landmark transaction this year was the purchase of Farmcare from the Cooperative Group Ltd, which at a stroke made it the largest lowland arable farmer in the UK.<\/p>\n

It holds \u00a32 billion in property investments, of which\u00a0 is made up of residential interests of \u00a31.2 billion, focused in super-prime London, such as the South Kensington estate. They hold 1,720 apartments in South Kensington<\/strong>, which is generating a “a nice little earner from the rent”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to improving health by supporting bright minds in science, the humanities and social sciences, and public engagement. www.wellcome.ac.uk Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936), was the founder of the The Wellcome Trust. Today, its annual spend on research increased from an average of \u00a328 million in the 1980s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}