It’s no secret that the past year has been a choppy one at best on the economic front.
As COVID-19 struck, the equities markets tumbled; then soared to reach record highs. The residential real estate market seemed impervious to pandemic shocks.
Yet joblessness is also up; and interest rates have held at historic lows—good for homebuyers but a drag on the investment portfolios of those with blocks of long-term risk. Life insurers, stymied by the low rates to back up the obligations on their books, have been on a multi-year hunt for yield.
Volta Finance Limited (LON:VTA) is a closed-ended limited liability company registered in Guernsey. Volta’s investment objectives are to seek to preserve capital across the credit cycle and to provide a stable stream of income to its Shareholders through dividends that it expects to distribute on a quarterly basis.