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Geiger Counter Limited – New managers, renewed focus
26 Oct2026
Geiger Counter Limited – New managers, renewed focus
26 Oct2026
Geiger Counter Limited – New managers, renewed focus
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Mercantile – Tomorrow’s UK market leaders
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Mercantile – Tomorrow’s UK market leaders
AVI Japan Opportunity (AJOT) has reported a second tender offer for a top 10 holding in two months. Last week Japanese private equity firm NSSK announced an offer for Broadmedia saying it intended to take private AJOT’s seventh-largest holding accounting for 6.1% of its portfolio. The offer was priced at 49% above Broadmedia’s share price […]
Golden Prospect Precious Metals (GPM) has been through quite a transformation over the past few months. What began with the unexpected resignation of the former portfolio managers has developed into an effective relaunch of the investment company, with a new management team, a more attractive fee structure, a substantially enhanced dividend policy and a move […]
Neuberger Private Equity Partners (NBPE), the £562m co-investor in unquoted companies, has announced $146.5m (£109m) of disposals just over two weeks after activist Saba Capital disclosed a 5% stake in its heavily discounted shares. Three full and two partial sales of investments in September and October generated proceeds of $81m, 7% below their valuation at […]
In March 2025, we wrote about Japan’s corporate governance transformation through the lens of Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa. The metaphor felt appropriate. A powerful wave of change was breaking over Japan’s corporate landscape, driven by regulatory reform, pressure from investors and a growing recognition among companies themselves that capital could no longer […]
Golden Prospect Precious Metals (GPM), the £76m mining fund where Baker Steel fund managers Mark Burridge and Trevor Steel took charge this month, has reminded shareholders of their annual right to subscribe for one new share for every five they own at 30 November. This year the price of the new shares is 101.35p. The […]
Four Global X covered-call exchange-traded funds (ETFs) go ex-dividend today (29 October 2026). The funds show why strategies with large cash distributions are becoming more popular, and why investors need to tell income apart from total return. The latest monthly distributions, announced on 22 October and payable on 6 November, are: ETF Ticker Distribution per […]
City Natural Resources Growth & Income (CYN) has published a stunning annual return of 87% with its fund managers upbeat about prospects after reuniting with the £156m investment trust after a six-month absence. Keith Watson and Robert Crayfourd’s defection from CQS Manulife in March and their arrival at Tufton in September prompted the trust to […]
Oakley Capital Investments (OCI) is to sell £272m (€313m) of stakes in five Oakley Capital private equity funds while its fund manager is in early talks to sell Phenna, the UK testing group that accounts for 13% of the investment company’s assets. The sale of interests in Oakley Capital Funds IV, V, VI, Oakley Capital […]
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