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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

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 […]

22 May 2025

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 […]

22 May 2025

BioPharma Credit lends to Paratek as it cashes out its OPTN position

BioPharma Credit highlights yesterday’s announcement that Paratek has completed its purchase of OPTN. In connection with this, BioPharma Credit received $82.8m, $71.5m was the repayment of the loan it had made to OPTN and $11.3m came as ‘make-whole’ and prepayment fees, and accrued interest. There is another $1.6m to come in connection with the company’s […]