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29 May 2025
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Cobalt Holdings IPO is underway and there is a RetailBook offer available

Colbalt Holdings published its prospectus on 27 May 2025 – you can access it through its website here. It is aiming to raise $230m, after fees, it would use most of the net proceeds to buy about 6,000 tonnes of cobalt. RetailBook is running a conditional retail offer of new ordinary shares in Cobalt Holdings. […]

29 May 2025
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Capital Gearing beats inflation and is now ahead of CPI over five years

Capital Gearing Trust’s results for the 12 months ended 31 March 2025 show a NAV return of 4.1% and share price return of 3.6%, which compares to inflation over that period of 2.6%. The discount widened slightly from 2.4% to 2.8%. The focus of the trust is on long-term returns. Over five years, the NAV […]

29 May 2025

RM Infrastructure Income launches new tender offer

RM Infrastructure Income has been in a managed wind-down process since 20 December 2023. On 25 September 2024, a successful tender offer returned c.£17.5m to shareholders at 88.59 pence per share (the NAV on 30 August 2024). This represented 16.6% of the issued share capital. Today, the trust is launching a tender offer of up […]

29 May 2025

Odyssean expands despite difficult year

Odyssean Investment Trust’s results for the year ended 31 March 2025 show a 10.7% fall in NAV and 13.5% fall in share price, and a shift from trading on a small premium to a small discount (2.5%). The returns fall short of the return on the Deutsche Numis Smaller Companies ex Investment Companies plus AIM […]

29 May 2025

HarbourVest Private Equity keen to narrow discount further

HarbourVest Gobal Private Equity says that, for the year ended 31 January 2025, it generated a NAV return (in dollars) of 7.3% and a share price return (in sterling) of 19.2% (as the discount narrowed from 42% to 35%). The trust announced a range of measures on 30 January 2025 that are aimed at narrowing […]

29 May 2025

Shires Income will rebalance its quarterly dividends

Shires Income has announced results covering the 12 month period that ended on 31 March 2025. The trust returned 9.5% in NAV terms and 22.4% in share price terms (as the discount narrowed from 13.3% to 3.7%). By contrast the return on the All-Share index benchmark was 10.5%. The full-year dividend of 14.8p matches Shires’ […]

29 May 2025

JPMorgan Japanese appoints new co-manager

JPMorgan Japanese has announced that Xuming Tao has been made a co-manager of the trust, working alongside the existing team of Nicholas Weindling and Miyako Urabe. Xuming has been a member of the Japanese equity team at JPMAM in Tokyo since 2019 and was a co-manager of JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income before […]

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HarbourVest adopting a more simple structure

HarbourVest Private Equity says it will change the way it invests – moving from investing through HarbourVest Partners’ co-mingled funds to direct investments in third party funds, secondary opportunities and co-investments – a ‘separately managed account’. The transition to the new structure will be gradual as new commitments are invested this way, while the existing […]