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24 Apr 2024
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Nvidia bet pays off for Martin Currie Global Portfolio

Martin Currie Global Portfolio managed to beat the return on the MSCI All Country World Index over the 12 months ended 31 January 2024, returning 11.2% to the index’s 10.9%. A stable discount (the result of its zero dividend discount mechanism) meant that the return to shareholders was 11.1%. The company declared dividends totaling 4.2p […]

24 Apr 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 April 2024 – APAX, ORIT, CAT, CATC, GRID, OCI

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 April 2024: Apax Global Alpha (APAX) is investing about €8m (through its investment in Apax Digital II) into IANS, “a leading provider of tech-enabled research and advisory services in the information security industry”. The transaction is expected to close in Q2 2024. Octopus Renewables Infrastructure (ORIT) has signed a power […]

23 Apr 2024

Temple Bar’s manager speaks out against Royal Mail bid

Ian Lance, co-manager of Temple Bar, had this to say: We note the statement from the Board of IDS confirming that on 9 April 2024 it received a preliminary and conditional non-binding proposal from EP Group regarding a possible cash offer for the entire issued and to be issued share capital of International Distribution Services […]

21 Apr 2024

Blackstone starts bidding war over Hipgnosis

There is no announcement to the stock exchange on this yet, but Sky, the FT and other news outlets have a story that Blackstone is proposing to buy Hipgnosis Songs Fund  for $1.24 in cash (about 99.6p per share), trumping the $1.16 per share offer from Chorus that was announced on Thursday. $1.24 is an […]

18 Apr 2024

Discount ignores good progress at HydrogenOne 

HydrogenOne Capital Growth has published results for the year ended 31 December 2023. We’ll be publishing a note on these shortly, so here is a quick summary: The NAV increased by 5.8% from £125.4m at 31 December 2022 to £132.7m at 31 December 2023 due to valuation uplifts in multiple portfolio companies. The NAV per […]

18 Apr 2024

HydrogenOne announces HH2E restructuring

HydrogenOne Capital Growth has announced a change to the corporate structure of its invetsment in HH2E (the German developer of hydrogen production plants). HH2E is backed by HydrogenOne and Foresight Group (including JLEN Environmental Assets). They have investments in HH2E itself, and separately into project-specific special purpose vehicles (SPVs) managed by HH2E. HydrogenOne has invested […]

18 Apr 2024

JZ Capital proposes follow on investment in Flex Pack and $40m capital return

JZ Capital Partners wants to invest up to about US$20.5m into the Secondary Fund managed by an affiliate of JZCP’s manager. The money would be used to help the Secondary Fund make an investment into a newly incorporated company – Follow-on Flex Pack – that will be a related company of, and incorporated in a […]

18 Apr 2024

Alliance Trust picks ARGA to replace Ben Whitmore

Alliance Trust says that Willis Tower Watson has appointed a new stock picker for its multi-manager global equity portfolio. ARGA Investment Management replaces Jupiter Asset Management, following Ben Whitmore’s decision to leave Jupiter later this year and set up his own business. Craig Baker, WTW’s chief investment officer and chair of the investment committee, said: […]

18 Apr 2024

Hipgnosis gets bid from Alchemy Copyrights

The boards of Conchord Chorus Limited (an entity controlled by Alchemy Copyrights) and Hipgnosis have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash offer for Hipgnosis at US$1.16 in cash for each Hipgnosis share. In addition, if the current investment adviser agrees to terminate the Investment Advisory Agreement with effect from the date that […]

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