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26 Sep 2024

Downing Renewables will sell Swedish wind farm

Downing Renewables & Infrastructure Trust says it has entered into exclusive discussions in relation to the sale of its entire interest in Gabrielsberget wind farm in Sweden. The offer price is at a small premium to the carrying value as at 30 June 2024 and the transaction is anticipated to complete in Q4 2024, turning […]

26 Sep 2024
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 September 2024 – RMII, CGL, RNEW, RTW, LABS, PSDL

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 September 2024: RM Infrastructure Income (RMII) says its latest tender was taken up in full – 19,738,338 shares will be bought back at the tender price of 88.59p (equivalent to the NAV as at 30 August 2024). The money should be in your account on Monday. Iona Star LP, the […]

19 Sep 2024

Government announces changes to cost disclosure rules

This morning, HM Treasury, the FCA, and Tulip Siddiq (Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister) announced plans to reform UK retail disclosure rules. They also said that, in the meantime, investment trusts will be temporarily exempted from assimilated EU law requirements (i.e. compliance with EU-inherited Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs) Regulations). […]

17 Sep 2024

Weak China and not enough TSMC hold back Pacific Horizon 

Pacific Horizon has published annual results for the 12 months ended 31 July 2024. Over the period, the NAV total return was 4.8% and the share price total return was 5.1% compared with a total return of 6.8% for the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index. [This puts a small dent in some very […]

17 Sep 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 September 2024 – AJOT, NAVF, LAND, HWG, CREI

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 September 2024: AVI Japan Opportunity (AJOT) made good progress over the first half of 2024, generating a return of 7.7% in NAV terms, well-ahead of the -0.2% return generated by MSCI Japan Small Cap and ahead of rival Nippon Active Value (NAVF) which also announced interims today and posted a […]

16 Sep 2024

Menhaden reviewing options ahead of continuation vote

In its interim accounts, covering the six-month period ended 30 June 2024, Menhaden Resource Efficiency reported an NAV per share total return of 7.2%. The share price over the same period rose from 100.8p per share to 102.5p, giving a share price total return of 2.6%. The trust uses a benchmark of RPI +3%. The […]

12 Sep 2024

Oakley Capital Investments makes solid progress in busy first half of 2024

Oakley Capital Investments has published results for the six-months ended 30 June 2024. The NAV has been out for a while but we now have more detail on the drivers of returns (26p or 4% return on NAV, would have been 6% but for adverse currency movements). The return to shareholders over the first half […]

12 Sep 2024

Aquila European preps ground for managed wind-down

Aquila European Renewables says that the board has consulted extensively with shareholders and believes that it would lose a continuation vote. It is now publishing a circular to convene a meeting at which shareholders will be asked to approve a managed wind-down of the company. Background A continuation vote in 2023 was built into the […]

12 Sep 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 September 2024 – HEIT, HWG, BCPT, SERE, NRR

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 September 2024: Harmony Energy Income (HEIT) says its 99.8 MWh / 49.9 MW Hawthorn Pit project (located in County Durham) and its 66 MWh / 33 MW Wormald Green project (located in Yorkshire) have been successfully energised and are expected to be fully operational in the coming weeks. Its portfolio […]

09 Sep 2024

Keystone Positive Change proposes unitisation

Keystone Positive Change’s board has identified a need for some kind of corporate action that addresses the size of the company, the low liquidity in its shares and the discount. It also wants to enable shareholders to retain exposure to a global impact strategy. The board will consult more widely with shareholders and to explore […]