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Chrysalis returns £25m to shareholders after selling Klarna

Chrysalis (CHRY) has announced its first return of capital in its managed wind-down, saying it will return £25m following the £34m sale of its remaining stake in Klarna, the New York-listed credit provider. The money will be paid out tomorrow through a compulsory purchase of Chrysalis shares at 127p. Having fallen 38% this year, Chrysalis […]

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HICL Infrastructure and InfraRed funds buy Hector Rail

HICL Infrastructure (HICL) has unveiled its first “enhancer” investment designed to boost shareholder returns, ploughing £68m into Hector Rail, the largest private rail freight operator in Scandinavia. The £2.5bn investment company is investing some of its cash resources in the Stockholm-based company alongside other InfraRed-managed funds which together will buy 100% of Hector Rail from […]

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Morning briefing: Saba lifts Pantheon Int’l stake to 11.1%; UIL Ltd soars 84% on simplification drive; BlackRock Latin American underperforms again

Saba Capital has raised its stake in Pantheon International (PIN) to 11.1% from 10.5%. The activist hedge fund bought more shares and total return swaps in the £1.4bn private equity investment trust on a 28% discount last Wednesday. The increase comes around two months after PIN indicated in its annual results that it would make […]

27 Sep 2026

Saba’s Boaz Weinstein and former Devon CEO Richard Pavry to join the board of winding-down SDCL Efficiency Income

Saba Capital’s Boaz Weinstein is to join the board of SDCL Efficiency Income (SEIT), along with Richard Pavry, the former right-hand man of European fund manager Alexander Darwall, to oversee its managed wind-down. Pavry, former chief executive of Devon Equity Management, Darwall’s firm before its sale to River Global last October, is being put forward […]

25 Sep 2026

JPMorgan EM Growth & Income trims tech stocks after boom year as market forecasts earnings falls at AI winners

JPMorgan Emerging Markets Growth & Income (JMGI) posted a 54.5% portfolio return for the year to 30 June after the £1.6bn investment trust’s asset class enjoyed its best 12 months in a decade.  In common with other Asia and emerging market funds, JMGI’s unusually strong growth in net asset value (NAV) was driven almost entirely […]

25 Sep 2026

Target Healthcare bucks the property trend

A bruising few years for UK commercial property has meant that the majority of our commentary on the sector has focused on the latest REIT to be taken over or decide to throw in the towel. Frustratingly, just when it looked like conditions might be turning, the macroeconomic backdrop deteriorated again. The bull case for […]

25 Sep 2026

Schiehallion’s Baillie Gifford managers wary of “elevated” AI valuations as they look to reposition after SpaceX and Bending Spoon successes

The flotations of SpaceX and Bending Spoons, the Italian digital retailing platform, powered Schiehallion (MNTN) to a 29.1% investment return in the six months to 31 July. Half-year results show Bending Spoons’ $18.5bn splash provided an even bigger boost for the Baillie Gifford growth capital fund than SpaceX’s record $1.7trn IPO.  From January when it […]

25 Sep 2026

Schroders Capital Global Innovation shareholders rush to secure their piece of the £28m return of capital

Nearly 72% of shareholders in Schroders Capital Global Innovation (INOV) tried to sell their shares in the company’s latest tender offer, demonstrating their interest in seeing the former Woodford Patient Capital Trust wind down and return their capital. The £107m company said it had received applications to sell from 71.97% of shares, a significant oversubscription […]

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