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13 Jun 2024
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 June 2024 – RTW, FAIR, FSFL, DGI9

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 June 2024: RTW Biotech Opportunities (RTW) says its largest (13.4% of the portfolio) holding, Avidity Biosciences Inc. has announced positive initial data from its Phase 1/2 trial of AOC 1020, an investigational therapy that targets DUX4, the root cause of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). AOC 1020 demonstrated unprecedented and consistent […]

12 Jun 2024
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Impax Environmental Markets on addressing PFAS – Solutions to the forever challenge

Impax believes the urgent need to detect, treat and destroy ‘forever chemicals’ in the world’s water is creating investment opportunities that are broader and more valuable than many appreciate Executive summary Understanding of the potentially grave and lasting threats to public health and biodiversity posed by ‘forever chemicals’ is driving public pressure, regulation and litigation […]

07 Jun 2024

We must put our trust in Labour

QD view: feet dragging by the current administration on an issue of considerable importance to the investment companies industry means that a new Labour government offers our best hope for a solution If you have been following the cost disclosure issue story on our website, you will know that one of the strands that the […]

04 Jun 2024

Pershing Square’s manager pulls in $1bn of external money

There was an announcement from Pershing Square Holdings yesterday saying that its manager Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P is now 100% owned by a new limited partnership and that 10% of that limited partnership had been sold to external investors for $1.05bn. The largest shareholder of the new LP is Bill Ackman. The consortium of […]

04 Jun 2024

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust launches £10m buyback, rethinks debt

In 2023, Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust launched a capital recycling programme. In December 2023 the trust completed the sale of the Krzecin and Kuslin wind farms (totalling 59MW) in Poland, realising net proceeds of about £92m (7% of the total value of all investments as at 30 September 2023) – a 21% premium over the […]

04 Jun 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 June 2024 – ROOF, CRS, HOME, LMP, SMIF, GABI

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 June 2024: Atrato Onsite Energy  (ROOF) has bought a solar portfolio for £9.3m, using money from its revolving credit facility. The portfolio includes three solar assets with a total capacity of 13MW and comprises: 7.7MW of solar PV systems situated on residential rooftops owned by three different UK housing associations […]

30 May 2024

Special Opportunities REIT IPO prospectus published

Special Opportunities REIT is a new internally-managed REIT seeking to capitalise on the recent dislocation in UK real estate capital markets to deliver highly attractive total returns. It has published a prospectus. If successful, the shares would be admitted to the Official List (standard listing) of the FCA and to trading on the standard segment […]

30 May 2024

GCP Asset Backed ends all offer talks, will start handing back cash

Since GCP Asset Backed Income announced a strategic review on 13 December 2023, the board received several approaches from third parties to acquire the company. The board gave several of them access to detailed due diligence information. None of the potential offerors made a proposal at a level which, in the board’s opinion and taking […]

30 May 2024

No dividends from Harmony this year as it looks for buyers for some or all of its assets

Harmony Energy Income says its has cancelled the (previously postponed) first FY2024 quarterly dividend and does not anticipate being in a position to declare a dividend in line with the new policy for the remainder of the current financial year, although based upon current market forecasts it is anticipated that a covered dividend will be […]

30 May 2024

HarbourVest hopes to hand back $150m to $250m to investors

HarbourVest Global Private Equity has published results for the 12 months ended 31 January 2024. The NAV ended the year 4% higher at $50.47 per share, lagging the return on global listed equity indices (the All World Index returned 15.3%). Ed Warner (the chairman) states that the trust’s relative underperformance is not surprising, and is […]

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