Aberdeen UK Smaller Companies (AUSC) is “engaging closely” with fund managers Abby Glennie and Amanda Yeaman after the investment trust endured a “disappointing” half year of underperformance that saw its market value fall by 20%, mostly due to the high level of share buybacks authorised by the board to support the weak share price. For […]
Bellevue Healthcare (BBH) will be left with around £60.5m as it transfers to Columbia Threadneedle after shareholders sold 40.9%, or just over 29.9m shares, in the 100% tender offer announced last month. At its peak in 2021 under former fund manager Bellevue Asset Management, BBH had £1bn of assets. Ameriprise Financial, the parent company of Columbia […]
We already knew Seraphim Space (SSIT) had a strong fourth quarter from gains in its top four holdings ICEYE, AllSpace, D-Orbit and Hawkeye 360 highlighted last month. Interim results for the six months to 31 December today show net asset value (NAV) jumped 20.1% to 142.3p per share from 118.52p. The half-year results show the […]
Foresight Solar (FSFL) has had to pay more to UK tax authorities to settle historic liabilities, knocking another 5.5p from net asset value per share on top of the 3.6p adjustment made in November. Overall NAV per share fell 2.9p to 99.2p in the fourth quarter a trading update showed, benefiting from a higher production […]
Murray International (MYI) benefited from its genuinely global portfolio in 2025 as gains in Latin America and Asia as well as the US pushed the £2.1bn equity income trust to a total underlying return of 21.9%. Shareholders enjoyed a 36% total return as the shares shed their discount and ended December on a small premium […]
HICL Infrastructure (HICL) has resumed buying back its shares on a 22% discount and is near the end of a consultation with nearly half its shareholders since abandoning a merger with InfraRed stablemate The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) late last year. It will publish its conclusions in May. In a trading update for October to […]
The Financial Conduct Authority has said it will consider how to protect investment company investors from activist shareholders like Saba. Launching a review into its shakeup of UK listing rules two years ago, the FCA said: “As part of this review, we will also conduct targeted work to assess how our rules, in the context of […]
Asia and European stock markets have plunged after Iran threatened to attack ships in the region in response to ongoing air strikes against the country by the US and Israel. The UK’s FTSE 100 slumped 2.7%, or 287 points, to 10,492 as defence and mining stocks joined travel companies and banks in sharp declines at […]
RIT Capital Partners (RCP), the £3bn Rothschild-backed global investment trust, generated a 13.5% underlying return last year, helped by a strong second half recovery in world markets and excellent returns from its private equity investments, including a raised stake in SpaceX. With sentiment towards the multi-asset fund improving following sustained share buybacks and increased transparency […]
Update: Bluefield Solar Income (BSIF) has had “good interest” from potential bidders with a shortlist of parties doing due diligence and the sales process started in November progressing “in line with expectations”. The £460m, 11%-yielding renewables fund also reported good operational performance in the half-year to 31 December despite a 7.5% drop in net asset […]
