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14 Apr 2023

Little appetite for Gulf Investment’s tender

As we had expected, given its strong track record and relatively small discount, there was little appetite for Gulf Investment Fund’s latest tender offer. The tender pool determination date was set at 11 April 2023. As at that date the final tender offer asset value was $492,144.60, giving a tender price of $1.9555 per share. […]

13 Apr 2023

QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 April 2023

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 April 2023: Round Hill Music (RHM) had FTI Consulting produce another independent valuation report on its portfolio. The FTI Report supports the valuation as at 31 December 2022, prepared by the company’s original independent valuer, Citrin Cooperman. FTI comes up with two weighted average discount rates: one assumes the use […]

11 Apr 2023

BioPharma Credit lends to ImmunoGen

BioPharma Credithas announced that it has entered into a definitive senior secured loan agreement with ImmunoGen along with BioPharma Credit Investments V. The company will invest up to $62.5m and BioPharma-V will invest up to an additional $62.5m in parallel. $37.5m was drawn at closing in the first tranche and up to an additional $25.0m […]

06 Apr 2023

Schroder UK Public Private backs Indian AgTech start-up

Schroder UK Public Private Trust is making its first transaction in Asia, with an investment of $8.0m (about £6.6m) in AgroStar (Ulink Agritech Pvt. Ltd.), one of India’s foremost agricultural technology (AgTech) start-ups. You can visit its website here. This investment forms part of a $25m (£20.6m) total investment by Schroders Capital that led the […]

06 Apr 2023

ORIT backs green hydrogen

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust has agreed to invest up to £5m into HYRO Energy Limited, a new joint venture between the trust (co-invested alongside another fund managed by Octopus Energy Generation, Sky (ORI SCSp) and Renewable Energy Systems. HYRO has been established to develop green hydrogen electrolysis projects in England, Scotland and Wales for industrial […]

06 Apr 2023

Dunedin Income Growth lags benchmark ekes out dividend hike

Dunedin Income Growth’s results for the year ened 31 January 2023 show that its NAV increased by 2.4% on a total return basis, underperforming the All-Share Index which produced a total return of 5.2%. The chairman notes that just 23% of companies outperformed the benchmark index. The best performing sectors were energy, defence and mining […]

06 Apr 2023

Gresham House Energy Storage returns boosted by government inaction

Gresham House Energy Storage has announced its audited annual results for the year ended 31 December 2022. 2022 performance highlights NAV total return (TR) of 39.1%, mostly driven by revaluation of new projects and increases in third-party revenue forecasts [Share price total return not disclosed in the report but we think it was 29.1%] EBITDA of […]

06 Apr 2023

Nippon Active Value sitting on big war chest

Nippon Active Value Fund has published results for the year from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. At the end of the year, the NAV 140.5p, +3.5% over the year and the MSCI Japan Small Cap Index returned -1.6% (both in sterling terms). The closing share price on 31 December 2022 was 117.5p, reflecting […]

06 Apr 2023

QuotedData’s morning briefing 6 April 2023

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 6 April 2023: JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ) has a new revolving credit facility of 10bn yen with the capacity to increase this by a further 2bn yen. Diverse Income (DIVI) has reminded shareholders that they can, if they wish, take advantage of its annual redemption facility at the end of May each […]

30 Mar 2023

AVI puts case for better governance around Japanese takeovers

Asset Value Investors (AVI) has submitted its opinions on best practices for takeovers in Japan to the Fair Acquisition Study Group of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). The response was in respect of a request made by METI as a public consultation announced on 22nd February 2023 We reproduce the text of this […]

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