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Home REIT says FCA has closed its investigation and “intends to take no further action” against company

Home REIT (HOME) says the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has closed its investigation and intends to take no further action against the company that remains the subject of a Serious Fraud Office probe. The news come more than two-and-a-half years after the City regulator announced in February 2024 that it had begun an investigation into […]

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Duke Capital says it has exited two loss-makers after loan fund’s shares tumble 18% on report of £10.5m Intec loss

Duke Capital (DUKE), the high-yielding AIM-listed business lender, has issued a trading update after its share price fell 18% yesterday. DUKE shares slid 4.8p from 26.3p to 21.5p on Tuesday after a post on bulletin board ADVFN highlighted the latest loss-making 2025 accounts of Intec Business Holdings. This morning they shed 0.5p in early trading […]

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Indonesia fights MSCI downgrade as emerging-market ETFs face forced selling

Indonesia has moved to overhaul its main stock market index after MSCI threatened to remove the country from its emerging-market classification, potentially forcing ETFs tracking its indices to sell billions of dollars of Indonesian shares. The Indonesia Stock Exchange has announced plans to exclude around 80 companies with highly concentrated share ownership from the Jakarta […]

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Morning briefing: Great Portland to redevelop Soho Square; SEGRO looks strong ahead of Prologis takeover; M&G Credit Income share issue raises £1.5m

Great Portland Estates (GPE) plans to redevelop its Soho Square Estate. The 90,000 sq ft development will include 75,000 sq ft of high-quality Grade A offices and 15,000 sq ft of prime retail space fronting Oxford Street. Demolition is expected to commence shortly, with completion targeted for summer 2030. Piers Blewitt, GPE’s director of development […]

20 Oct 2026

River UK Micro Cap gains star fund managers Anthony Cross and Hugh Sergeant in cut-price deal with Liontrust

River UK Micro Cap (RMMC) has reappointed Liontrust as investment manager after securing the services of two of its best-known fund managers, Anthony Cross and Hugh Sergeant, on a sharply reduced fee. RMMC had been expected to follow George Ensor and Mayan Uthayakumar who announced in July they were leaving Liontrust to join Jupiter Asset […]

20 Oct 2026

Shh! Silence Therapeutics is International Biotechnology’s ninth portfolio bid this year after Merck splashes $1.3bn

Silence Therapeutics, one of the few UK-based holdings of International Biotechnology Trust (IBT), has been acquired by German drugs giant Merck for $1.3bn cash. News of the agreed deal yesterday saw Silence’s US Nasdaq-listed shares soar 125%, or $10.90, to $19.58, just below the $20 shareholders will receive when the deal closes early next year. […]

20 Oct 2026

CT UK Capital and Income rebrands as CT Progressive Income to target inflation-beating dividends

CT UK Capital and Income has changed its name to CT Progressive Income (with an unchanged ticker of CTUK) as it looks to raise its profile with a new target of paying dividends ahead of inflation. The £327m, 3.7%-yielding investment trust is an Association of Investment Companies’ “dividend hero” having consistently increased its pay-outs each […]

20 Oct 2026

LondonMetric sells first Picton office as last year’s Urban acquisitions and new lettings lift rental income over 8%

LondonMetric Property (LMP) has exchanged on the sale of the first office it bought in the joint takeover of Picton Property Income with Schroder Real Estate (SREI) last month. The all-share bid brought in £307m of assets for LMP, 83% of which are in its core area of logistics warehouses, and £24m cash. In a […]

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