Scottish Mortgage Trust (SMT) has published strong annual results just as shares in the Baillie Gifford flagship complete their 30-month recovery from the 2022 growth crash. News that SMT shares gained 26.8% in the year to 31 March, beating the FTSE World’s 18% gain, came as the shares hovered below their November 2021 peak of […]
CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income (CYN) has decided to follow portfolio managers Keith Watson and Robert Crayfourd to Tufton Investment Management, appointing the latter as its new fund manager in place of Manulife where the pair handed in their notice in March. Having conducted a beauty parade of Tufton, Manulife and other investment groups, Christopher […]
Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID) has formed a strategic partnership with Summit Transition Partners (STP), a joint venture between Sumitomo Corporation of Japan and TPK Holdings, a Taiwanese touchscreen and supply chain management provider. STP will buy a 25% stake in the battery fund’s first three development projects on which it completed debt financing yesterday. These […]
Impax Environmental Markets (IEM) has urged its reduced band of shareholders to vote against the new board of directors that activist hedge Saba Capital wants to impose. Acknowledging that New York-based Saba was in a strong position with a 31.4% stake in the company following this month’s 80% exit tender offer, chair Glen Suarez said […]
Oakley Capital, manager of Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), has bought a majority stake in XTEL, a Belgian business software as a service (SaaS) provider. The size of the investment was not disclosed but OCI, an £816m investment company that invests in Oakley’s private equity funds, is investing £33m through the Oakley Capital Fund VI. This […]
Pershing Square (PSH) fund manager Bill Ackman has sold most of his position in Alphabet and switched it into a new $2.1bn holding in rival “Magnificent Seven” stock Microsoft. A US regulatory filing on Friday by his firm Pershing Square Capital Management showed it had bought around 5.65m Microsoft shares in the first quarter. This […]
Update: Glenstone, the largest shareholder in Alternative Income REIT (AIRE), has launched a bid approach for the £56m real estate investment trust with a view to selling most of the company’s assets and winding it down. Shares in AIRE, the smallest London-listed commercial property fund, rose 3.9%, or 2.7p, to 72.4p on Friday after Glenstone, […]
BlackRock Smaller Companies (BRSC) chair Ronald Gould says the investment trust is looking forward to delivering “better shareholder value”, improved returns and lower costs after last month’s merger with BlackRock Throgmorton lifted its assets by £303m to £886m. However, annual results to the 28 February showed the portfolio underperformed with an 11.2% underlying investment return […]
Joe Faraday, the new fund manager of Baillie Gifford European Growth (BGEU), has moved quickly to overhaul the severely underperforming investment trust by replacing nearly a third of its stocks with big additions in defence, financials and energy. Faraday, who officially replaced Baillie Gifford colleagues Stephen Paice and Chris Davies on 1 April, listed 21 […]
Impax Environmental Markets (IEM) will buy back shares sold in the £738m exit tender offer last month at 494.76p each. The investment trust, whose board activist hedge fund Saba is seeking to replace, said all 148.2m shares validly tendered would be accepted and bought by its broker Winterflood next Tuesday. Payments and cheques will be […]
