Ecofin US Renewables (RNEW) has announced that, given the wide discounts impacting RNEW and other alternatives investment trusts, and the unfavourable short-term prospects to raise new equity as a result, the board has decided to undertake a review of RNEW’s strategy, which will centre on a sale of the company’s assets. If a sale proceeds […]
The Romanian Ministry of Finance, which has a 5.96% stake in Fondul Proprietatea, has added a few extra resolutions for investors to consider at its upcoming shareholder meeting on 25 September 2023. First is a resolution that Franklin Templeton’s contract is renewed for just one year (1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025). Second a […]
Real estate quarterly report Kindly sponsored by abrdn Discounted indiscriminately Stubbornly high inflation in the UK has raised the prospect of higher for longer interest rates, with the base rate hitting 5.0% in the UK dashing any hopes of a recovery in commercial property values for the foreseeable future. This negative outlook was reflected in […]
Second quarter of 2023 Investment Companies | Quarterly roundup | July 2023 Kindly sponsored by abrdn Calm like a bomb As we wave goodbye to the first half of 2023, we can reflect on what may well go down as one of the most bizarre periods in recent market history. The dominant assumption to begin […]
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Shires Income reports that for the year ended 31 March 2023, it generated an NAV total return of -2.2% and a share price return of -5.5% (as the shares moved from a 0.3% premium to a 3.1% discount), which compares with a +2.9% return for its benchmark. The dividend was upped by 2.9% to 14.2p, […]
Real estate quarterly report Kindly sponsored by abrdn Headwinds mount up The headwinds facing commercial real estate continued to mount up in the first quarter of 2023, reflected in an 8.9% average share price fall across the sector. Already reeling from the impact of higher interest rates on valuations, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank […]
First quarter of 2023 Investment Companies | Quarterly roundup | April 2023 Kindly sponsored by abrdn Into the unknown The first quarter of 2023 serves as a good reminder that things are never quite as predictable or certain as the consensus may lead you to believe. Having seemingly come around to the prospect of ‘higher […]
abrdn Smaller Companies Income Trust says that, while it continues to deliver upon its investment objective (providing a high and growing dividend and capital growth from a portfolio invested principally in UK smaller companies and UK fixed income securities) its shares have continued to trade at a material discount to their net asset value for […]
Review 2022 Annual roundup | Investment companies | January 2023 Kindly sponsored by abrdn A year to forget? Any optimism that investors felt going into 2022 was dashed in February with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Resultant jumps in energy and food prices helped entrench inflation, requiring more aggressive interest rate hikes from central banks. Investments […]
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