Scottish Mortgage Trust (SMT) is seeking shareholder approval for an extra £250m capacity to invest in unquoted companies after SpaceX’s doubling in value late last year and share buybacks pushed its private equity holdings to 37% last month, well above a 30% cap. The additional capacity, equivalent to 1.7% of the £15.2bn total assets held […]
Martin Gilbert’s River Global (RVRG) fund manager agrees to a £9.7m all-share acquisition by Liontrust Asset Management (LIO), with its £2.7bn assets under management set to lift Liontrust’s to £24.4bn. The deal will expand Liontrust’s investment company range with India Capital Growth (IGC), River UK Micro Cap (RMMC) and European Opportunities Trust (EOT) joining the […]
Fidelity Emerging Markets (FEML) is on a roll with a half-year total underlying return of 35.5% that smashed its benchmark and extends the three years of outperformance it reported at annual results in October. For the six months to 31 December, shareholders enjoyed a 38.9% total return as the shares narrowed their gap, or discount, […]
AVI Japan Opportunity Trust (AJOT) fund manager Joe Bauernfreund is looking forward to another busy year of pushing for change at some of the country’s cash-laden small caps after using funds from the merger with Fidelity Japan last November to strengthen its activist positions. Last year was a “transformative” one for the seven-year-old investment trust […]
Tetragon Financial Group (TFG), the £1.2bn hedge fund and alternative investments platform stuck on a massive 65% discount, has launched a $50m tender offer for its non-voting shares which have slid 19% this year. As with previous TFG tenders, this will be a “modified Dutch auction” in which shareholders can tender their shares at prices […]
Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), an £841m private equity fund focused on technology, education, consumer and business services in Europe, believes it will be a “net beneficiary” of artificial intelligence. Seeking to distance itself from rival HgCapital (HGT), which is solely invested in business software providers and has seen its shares fall heavily on fears of […]
River UK Micro Cap (RMMC) saw 21.7% of votes cast against the re-election of Serena Tremlett at its annual general meeting. Tremlett, a founder of Morgan Sharpe Administration, joined the board as a non-executive director two years ago. Just over 22% of votes were also opposed to increasing the limit on the aggregate of shares […]
CQS Natural Resources Growth & Income (CYN) fund managers Keith Watson and Robert Crayfourd have responded to the Iran war by hiking energy holdings to 34% from 24% and cutting gold and silver miners to 37% from 49% at 31 January. No reference was made to their imminent departure announced this week in the update. […]
Update: Annual results from Law Debenture (LWDB) underline why the £1.5bn UK equity income trust won QuotedData’s long-term income award last year. The company today declared a final dividend of 10.375p per share to take the 2025 total to 35.5p, an above inflation rise of 6%, covered by revenues per share of 37.26p up more […]
NextEnergy Solar (NESF) has concluded its strategic review, deciding to go for a “reset” rather than a possibly value-destructive sale, with the 16%-yielder cutting its 8.4p dividend to 4p-4.6p per share to free up capital to repay debt, invest in growth and lift battery storage to 30% of gross assets. The shares slid 13% or […]
