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30 Mar 2023

Disposals and new rentals bolster the attractions of Warehouse REIT

Warehouse REIT has recently concluded the sale of two distribution estates totalling 269,000 per sq ft, for £29.5m, generating an ungeared IRR of 9%. The disposals comprise: 12 Exeter Way, Theale, a vacant 92,000 sq ft warehouse with a high office component, acquired by an owner occupier for £15.0m; and Temple House, Harlow, for £14.5m, […]

30 Mar 2023
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Chelverton wins battle for The Investment Company

The board of The Investment Company says that, following a thorough review of available opportunities, the company has entered into discussions to: appoint Chelverton Asset Management Limited to act as its investment manager, with a new investment strategy of investing primarily in quoted equities of UK small and mid-cap quoted companies to achieve long-term capital […]

30 Mar 2023

Foresight Sustainable Forestry spent £10m in March

Foresight Sustainable Forestrymade three acquisitions during March 2023. The company deployed a further £9.9m into three properties in Scotland: Newnoth Farm: This asset has strong afforestation potential and is directly adjacent to Newnoth Forest, an existing mature forestry property within the portfolio. Together, these properties create a combined area of circa 234 hectares. Balnagowan: Neighbouring […]

30 Mar 2023

International Public Partnership shareholders hit as moves to discount

International Public Partnerships has published results for 2022. The highlights are: A total NAV return of c.12.5% for the year to 31 December 2022. NAV per share increase of 7.3% to 159.1p from 148.2p driven by, among other factors, the positive impact of the portfolio’s inflation-linkage. Full-year dividend growth of about 2.5% to 7.74p supported […]

30 Mar 2023

BBGI hit by discount widening

BBGI Global Infrastructure has published results for the year ended 31 December 2022. Over that period the fund generated an NAV return of 9.1%. [Bizarrely, in what is otherwise a lengthy and detailed report, the statement makes no mention of BBGI’s share price, which we can tell you fell from 175.6p to 156.6p over the […]

30 Mar 2023

QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 March 2023

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 March 2023: RTW Venture Fund (RTW) was part of a consortium of funds managed by the same manager that participated in a $125m funding for Milestone Pharmaceuticals. Milestone is a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, which is shepherding etripamil, its lead investigational product, through Phase 3 clinical trials for paroxysmal supraventricular […]

23 Mar 2023

Royal Mail woes hold back Temple Bar

Temple Bar has published results for the year ended 31 December 2022. Unfortunately, the trust underperformed the All-Share over the year, returning -2.0% in NAV terms versus +0.3% for the index. The share price did a bit better with a return of +3.6%, however, helped by a narrower discount. The chairman notes that, since Redwheel […]

23 Mar 2023

Foresight Solar secures Spanish solar development rights

Foresight Solar Fund has secured a pipeline of development-stage solar farms with a total potential capacity of 467MWp. The entire project rights have been secured from Grupo Cuerva, a renewable energy company and distribution network operator, and another Spanish developer. This strategic investment – codenamed “Project Lynx” – is located across the south and east […]

23 Mar 2023

QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 March 2023

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 March 2023: Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has launched its latest 100% tender offer. Shares that are tendered will be put into a realisatin pool on 12 April, the pool liquidated and the proceeds (less about $100,000 of expected tender offer costs) returned to shareholders. There is a minimum size threshold […]

21 Mar 2023

Is EJF Investments a casualty of the SVB collapse?

Following on from the wipeout of Silicon Valley Bank that David discussed in Friday’s QD view, the collapse of Credit Suisse and its eventual takeover by UBS have been hitting headlines in recent days. We have kept you in touch with the blogposts from the team at Polar Capital Global Financials Trust. As a major […]

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