What is International Biotechnology Trust?

International Biotechnology Trust offers investors access to the fast growing biotechnology sector through an actively managed, diversified fund. Its award winning fund managers at SV Health Investors are scientifically and medically trained with over 60 years of experience in this specialist sector between them. As well as investing in a wide ranging portfolio of global quoted biotechnology stocks, we include a small proportion of otherwise inaccessible carefully selected unquoted investments which have the potential to deliver additional returns over the long term. Excellent management teams, unique innovative products and strong potential for outperformance are the key criteria for inclusion in our diversified portfolio of assets.

For further information about the biotechnology sector investment thesis and the Company please refer to our investor presentation.

Investor Presentation 

Access to growth and income

International Biotechnology Trust offers investors the rare combination of high capital growth and sustainable dividend income. The Lead Investment Manager, Carl Harald Janson is celebrating his five year tenure with strong performance versus the benchmark, significantly outperforming the NBI on both a NAV and share price basis, with outperformances of 10.9% and 43.4% respectively. The NAV has also substantially outperformed the FTSE All-Share Index over the same period, with a return of 142.0% vs the index return of 44.1%.

Unusually for a company in a high growth sector, International Biotechnology Trust’s Board introduced an annual dividend of 4% of the Net Asset Value at each year end, payable in semi-annual instalments. The interim dividend for 2016/17 of 13.5p per share, an increase of 17.4% on the previous year’s dividend of 11.5p per share, was paid to all shareholders on 31 January 2018 and 31 August 2018.