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HgCapital to co-invest in Anthropic and Hg joint venture to help European businesses make money from AI

Hg, the manager of HgCapital (HGT), the software-focused private equity fund hit by the “SaaSpocalypse” in February, has set up an AI transformation business with Anthropic as it strives to ensure its companies end up as winners from artificial intelligence. Extending collaboration they began in early 2024, Hg and the AI lab have agreed to […]

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International Biotechnology Trust poised to raise dividends by half after M&A frenzy delivers 74% shareholder return

Shareholders in International Biotechnology Trust (IBT) can look forward to a 50% rise in this year’s dividends after an outstanding 12 months of performance. Including its semi-annual dividends, IBT delivered a total return to shareholders of 73.6% in the year to 31 August, smashing the 52.3% from the Nasdaq Biotechnology index, the fifth year in […]

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BlackRock Greater Europe hikes dividends and offers 25% exit amid green shoots of recovery under its new manager

BlackRock Greater Europe (BRGE) is to ramp up dividends, change its name and cut costs as the £488m investment trust strives to pull out of a five-year slump with the help of Benjamin Moore, the lead fund manager appointed earlier this year. The company will also offer a 25% exit in five years’ time with investors able […]

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Amundi undercuts its own global ETF with 0.09% launch

Amundi has launched a new global equity ETF charging just 0.09% annually, despite already offering a fund tracking the same index at five times the price. The Amundi Core MSCI ACWI Swap UCITS ETF (ACW1/WIDE) began trading on the London Stock Exchange on 29 October, with sterling and US dollar trading lines. It tracks the […]

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Morning briefing: Supermarket Income launches £50m share issue; inflation-linked rents lift Target Healthcare

Supermarket Income (SUPR) has launched its second share offer of this year, aiming to raise £50m from a placing to institutions and an offer to retail investors. The £1.1bn company, which owns a £2.2bn portfolio of 140 stores in the UK and France, has six transactions involving 12 assets in its sights. These will cost […]

02 Nov 2026

Gresham House Energy Storage puts itself up for sale after board u-turn

Shares in Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID) jumped over 6% today after the £540m battery fund unexpectedly put itself up for sale, whilst at the same time saying it would continue to “pursue” its growth plan. Just six weeks after formally rejecting a call from activist investor PrimeStone Capital to sell up and claiming a […]

02 Nov 2026

Chrysalis ignores Anne Boden share sale to lift Starling bank to a £3.4bn implied valuation, its only third quarter riser

Chrysalis (CHRY) has dismissed the relevance of a cut-price share sale by former Starling bank boss Anne Boden, adding £47.9m to the valuation of the digital challenger that now accounts for nearly two thirds of the portfolio in wind-down.  Last month Sky News and the Sunday Times said that Starling founder Boden, who left the […]

02 Nov 2026

Morning briefing: JAM co-manager Spence leaves; Home REIT slashes third quarter costs; AVI Japan boosted by private equity bid for Broadmedia; AIC calls for MSCI and S&P indices to include real assets funds

JPMorgan American (JAM) co-portfolio manager Graham Spence will leave JPMorgan Asset Management in the first quarter of next year to pursue a new opportunity, having only joined the £1.9bn investment trust’s team in March last year. JAM’s large-cap value portfolio will continue to be run by Jack Caffrey, who has 24 years’ experience, and its […]

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