Invesco Bond Income Plus delieved an NAV return of 11.7% over 2023 and a 10.5% return to shareholders. The 11.7% NAV return was slightly below the 13.8% achieved by the ICE Bank of America Merrill Lynch European High Yield Index. Dividends totalled 11.5p (up marginally from 2022’s 11.25p) and these were covered by earnings of […]
Temple Bar posted a decent set of results for 2023. NAV and shareholder returns were 12.3% and 12.5% respectively, both well-ahead of the 7.9% return generated by the All-Share Index. The dividend grew by 2.7% to 9.6p. This was not quite covered by earnings, which were 9.3p, but the company still has over £12m of […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 April 2024: Manulife’s acquisition of CQS is now complete. There are no planned changes to the management teams of Golden Prospect (GPM), Geiger Counter (GCL), CQS New City High Yield (NCYF), and CQS Natural Resources Growth & Income (CYN). The manager’s business will be rebranded as Manulife | CQS Investment […]
Since February, two institutional shareholders, who were supportive of Downing Strategic’s managed wind-down, and who had voted in favour of adopting that investment policy, sold their holdings to Milkwood, an investor opposed to the managed wind-down. Milkwood now has a 28% stake in the company. Downing Strategic was planning to return cash to shareholders via […]
Henderson High Income says its NAV total return for 2023 was +9.8% compared with the benchmark return of +8.1%, an outperformance of +1.7%. Unfortunately, the emergence of a discount meant that the share price total return was +0.9%, with the share price ending the year at a discount to NAV of 7.7% having started 2023 […]
RTW Biotech Opportunities had a great year in 2023, returning 23.5% in NAV terms and 16.0% in share price terms, both well ahead of the 10.6% return posted by the Russell 2000 Biotech index and even further ahead of the 3.7% return generated by the Nasdaq Biotech Index. Some highligts: During the year ended 31 […]
VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities has agreed to acquire and build two fully-permitted solar PV sites with co-located battery energy storage systems in New South Wales, Australia for a total consideration of £16.9m. This investment is part of the Australian solar PV and storage investment programme that was announced on 2 August 2021. With this […]
Schroder Capital Global Innovation reports an 11.2% fall in its NAV over 2023, but is encouraged by the positive NAV move in the final quarter of the year. The share price fell by 5.3% as the discount narrowed, helped by buying back 45.1m shares. The negative performance during the first three quarters of the year […]
India Capital Growth Fund reports NAV growth of 28.6% and share price growth of 34.1% for 2023. However, the benchmark S&P BSE Midcap Total Return Index rose by 38.4% The share price discount to NAV narrowed over the year to just over 3.9% at the year end. The board intends to continue to repurchase shares […]
International Public Partnerships says that over 2023 its NAV fell by 4.1% to 152.6p [like BBGI, it doesn’t say what the NAV total return was, it was 1.0%, and while there is room to say that the share price correlation with the All-Share is just 0.4, there wasn’t room to say that the return to […]
