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Marwyn Value offers 2026 realisation shares but says no asset sales planned for next one-to-two years

Marwyn Value Investors (MVI), the Cayman Islands fund that employs a private equity style “buy and build” strategy to UK smaller companies, has published a circular detailing its 2026 realisation share offer. This is the third such offer since the investment company started giving shareholders five-yearly opportunities to switch from the MVI ordinary shares into […]

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Morning briefing: FCA supports SFO’s Home REIT investigation; TRIG completes £150m buyback programme, will do more; Helical secures “major letting”; Unite sells London academy school for £40.7m

The Financial Conduct Authority has said that its decision to close its inquiry into the Home REIT (HOME) scandal represented its view that it was better to divert its resources to helping the Serious Fraud Office in the criminal investigation that saw police make six arrests earlier this year. “We have carefully considered the case […]

22 Oct 2026

Tech giants force rethink of growth and value ETF benchmarks

FTSE Russell is considering a major overhaul of its US growth and value indices, as the increasing dominance of a handful of technology giants threatens to undermine the distinction between the two investment styles. Since their introduction in 1987, the Russell indices have divided the market capitalisation of their parent indices equally between growth and […]

22 Oct 2026

HarbourVest Global Private Equity launches “unprecedented” $400m tender offer at 10% discount

HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE) has launched the $400m (£298m) tender offer that enabled it to comfortably pass its first continuation vote with the support of activists Saba and Asset Value Investors in July. The £2.2bn investment company said the “unprecedented” return of capital, the largest by a London-listed private equity fund, would enable shareholders […]

22 Oct 2026

Morning briefing: Aberdeen Asia Focus delivers 22.3% return; Aberdeen UK Smaller shows why it sought JUGI merger; Rising charter rates strengthen Tufton’s raised dividend; Golden Prospect moves to London listing

Aberdeen Asia Focus (AAS), the top-performing Asia smaller companies trust, delivered a 22.3% investment return in the year to 31 July. The leap in net asset value (NAV) underpinned a 23.9% for shareholders and beat the 9.5% rise in the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Small Cap index. The strong annual result under Aberdeen managers […]

21 Oct 2026

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 […]

21 Oct 2026

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 […]

21 Oct 2026

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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