Schroder Income Growth (SCF), a £225m “dividend hero”, has urged shareholders to give the investment trust another five years at next month’s continuation vote but has not ruled out accepting a merger offer if one materialises during the consolidation trend sweeping the listed funds market. Chair Ewan Cameron Watt said the board was “not blind to the argument that […]
AVI Japan Opportunity secures bulk of Fidelity Japan’s assets in their merger; 3i Infrastructure posts good half-year results; high-yielding Henderson Far East Income continues to turn around, its annual report shows; stable mate Henderson Smaller appoints Cassie Herlihy from Gresham House; and HgCapital announces a new software investment. AVI Japan Opportunity (AJOT), the £230m smaller […]
Greencoat UK Wind (UKW) and NextEnergy Solar (NESF) have revealed the hit they face from the government’s controversial proposals to change the inflation link in renewable incentives, setting out the arguments they intend to use with officials. UK Wind, the £2.1bn Schroders Greencoat listed fund, the largest in the renewables infrastructure sector, estimates the Department […]
Foresight Solar (FSFL) fund manager Ross Driver is to leave Foresight Group at the end of the year as the £394m renewables fund grapples with a 37% share price discount and government proposals to cut incentive payments to clean energy generators. The company said Driver, who joined Foresight in 2021 after seven years at InfraRed […]
Literacy Capital (BOOK), the £227m UK private equity fund, will make its first capital distribution this month, returning £6m to shareholders under the shareholder-approved B-share scheme. Plans for the distribution were announced in July when the investment company booked a 52% uplift in the valuation of its then second biggest holding Velociti Solutions and sold […]
Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR) has entered the convenience store sector for the first time after announcing £40.9m of acquisitions which mean it has deployed half of the £200m raised from a joint venture with Blue Owl Capital in April. It has bought 10 Sainsbury’s convenience stores for £15.3m on a net initial yield of 6.1% […]
Bluefield Solar Income (BSIF), the £445m renewables fund that put up for sale itself and its fund manager this week, has disclosed the biggest potential hit if the government pursues its most radical proposal for replacing the inflation measure used in ROC and FIT incentives. The Department of Energy’s first option of a simple switch from RPI to CP would knock 2p, or 2%, […]
Half-year results from Scottish Mortgage Trust (SMT) show the £12.5bn Baillie Gifford flagship has recorded its best period of recovery since the 2022 growth crash humbled its shares. In the six months to 30 September, the net asset value (NAV) of SMT’s investments rose 22.9%, beating the 15.4% gain in the FTSE All-World index with the half year neatly coinciding with a […]
International Biotechnology Trust (IBT) expressed its optimism for the future after emerging from a highly volatile year to 31 August with an underlying investment return of just 0.7%. Kate Cornish-Bowden, chair of the £267m investment trust, said the flat net asset value (NAV) result, which underpinned a 3.5% total shareholder return, belied a sharp fall […]
The £439m JPMorgan Global Emerging Markets Income Trust (JEMI) reported strong results for the year to 31 July with an underlying net asset value (NAV) total return of 14.1%, outperforming its MSCI Emerging Markets index benchmark, which returned 13.7% in sterling terms, and underpinned a total shareholder return of 16.8%. The trust stands on a […]
