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PCT.L · Polar Capital Technology Trust Plc
Over the last 15 years (2011-09 to 2026-09), £10,000 invested in PCT.L with dividends reinvested grew to £204,398, 22.15% a year, with a worst peak-to-trough fall of -99.13%. Past performance doesn't predict future results.
All figures on this page are in British pounds (GBP), the currency PCT.L trades in.
Growth of £10,000 · 2011-09 to 2026-09 · dividends reinvested
How PCT.L held up in past market crashes
PCT.L has been through 5 of the market crashes since 2000 in our data. Its deepest price fall was 84.1% in the Dot-com bust, when the S&P 500 fell 49.1%. It took 12.2 years from the bottom to get back to its high. No fund is safe from losses; past falls do not predict future ones.
| Crash | PCT.L deepest fall | S&P 500 (SPY) | Peak to bottom | Back to peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dot-com bust | -84.1% | -49.1% | Sep 2000 to Oct 2002 | 12.2 years |
| 2008 financial crisis | -48.9% | -56.5% | Oct 2007 to Dec 2008 | 10 months |
| 2018 fourth-quarter selloff | -20.6% | -20.2% | Oct 2018 to Dec 2018 | 4 months |
| 2020 COVID crash | -29.4% | -34.1% | Feb 2020 to Mar 2020 | 1 months |
| 2022 bear market | -35.3% | -25.4% | Jan 2022 to Jun 2022 | 20 months |
Price declines in the fund's listing currency, dividends not included, inside each crash's S&P 500 peak-to-bottom window. See how 50 popular ETFs compare in the crash study.
About PCT.L
Polar Capital Technology Trust plc is a closed-ended investment trust launched in 1996, managed by a team of dedicated technology specialists at Polar Capital LLP. Its primary objective is to maximise long-term capital growth for shareholders by investing in a broadly diversified portfolio of quoted technology equities worldwide, spanning regions and sub-sectors to mitigate risk. The trust benchmarks its performance against the Dow Jones World Technology TR GBP index and focuses on high-quality companies benefiting from major trends like artificial intelligence, with recent portfolio shifts toward AI-enabling hardware and power providers alongside traditional leaders. Top holdings as of late 2025 include NVIDIA Corp (10.05%), Broadcom Inc (5.29%), and Microsoft Corp (4.99%), with sector allocations led by technology (68.27%) and significant exposure to the United States (68.26%). As a FTSE 100 constituent domiciled in the United Kingdom, it maintains an ongoing charge of approximately 0.77%, no dividends, and trades at a typical discount to net asset value, underscoring its role as a key vehicle for European investors seeking concentrated yet diversified global technology exposure.
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