Tantallon Asia Impact Fund Report, February 2025
The Tantallon Asia Impact Fund closed up +1.68% in February as the shifting narratives on the Trump ‘re-set’ on geo-politics and global trade continues to suck the oxygen out of the room. All risk-markets are struggling to come to terms with heightened geo-political, tariff, and global growth/recession related uncertainty, with elevated risk premiums calling in question consensus frameworks on growth, valuations, and risk/reward as policymakers keep moving the goalposts. We are working hard to stay detached from emotional headlines and profound prognostication. Instead, we have stayed centered on first principles, trying to identify fundamentally resilient, long-duration investment thematics delivering scalable business opportunities, competitive moats, sustainable conversion of revenue opportunities into free cash flow, credible self-help efforts and improving capital discipline. We are in a brave new world!