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13 Apr 2022

Octopus Renewables backs Finnish renewables developer

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust has committed to invest up to €3.5m to set up and fund Nordic Renewables Limited, a new development platform focused on renewable energy assets in Finland. The investment is made alongside an equal amount from another fund managed by Octopus Renewables Limited. Nordic Renewables Limited will benefit from an exclusive joint […]

13 Apr 2022

Digital 9 buys data centre in London

Digital 9 Infrastructure has signed a binding sale and purchase agreement for the acquisition of GAData Holdings Limited (trading as Volta Data Centres) for £45m. Volta wholly owns and operates a premier data centre facility based in central London, providing co-location services. The investment forms part of Digital 9’s metro edge data centre strategy of […]

13 Apr 2022

QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 April 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 April 2022: ICG Enterprise Trust notes that New Mountain Capital is merging Information Resources Inc., which the trust holds and invested  $15m into in 2018, with The NPD Group, a global provider of market information and advisory services, with a client base of over 2,000 companies, in Hellman & Friedman’s […]

12 Apr 2022

Hg backs LucaNet

LucaNet AG has agreed a strategic investment from Hg. It hopes that this marks a key milestone in its ambition to become a global leader in corporate performance management software. Hg is taking a majority stake in the business. Existing shareholders Rolf-Jürgen Moll, Oliver Schmitz, and Dominik Duchon will maintain a substantial minority share. Mr. […]

12 Apr 2022

QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 April 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 April 2022: Diverse Income Trust is asking shareholders whether they want to take advantage of its annual share redemption facility. However, as the announcement points out, the discount is already narrow. Shareholders have until 3 May 2022 to submit redemption requests. Cash would hit accounts on 16 June or thereabouts. […]

07 Apr 2022

Dunedin Income Growth struggles as value style comes back into fashion

Dunedin Income Growth has announced results for the year ended 31 January 2022. The NAV increased by 8.1% on a total return basis, underperforming the All-Share Index which produced a total return of 18.9%. The share price total return for the year was 12.5%. The chairman notes that “Large capitalisation companies whose share prices were […]

07 Apr 2022

Rockwood comes full circle

Rockwood Realisation, free from the influence of Gresham House, now plans to halt the realisation process and return to making strategic investments in smaller UK companies. Richard Staveley, who managed the portfolio for a while at Gresham, will take on responsibility for the new strategy, he’ll be advised by Christopher Mills, manager of North Atlantic […]

07 Apr 2022

North American Income ups dividend despite lower option income

North American Income Trust reports an NAV total return per share of 25.7% for the 12 months ended 31 January 2022. It just failed to match the 26.3% total return for the Russell 1000 Value Index. The chairman says that this was attributable mainly to overall positioning in the technology sector and stock selection in […]

07 Apr 2022

Merchants ekes out 40th year of dividend growth after good year

Merchants Trust has published results covering the 12 months ended 31 January 2022. The NAV total return for the period was 35.7%, comfortably ahead of the benchmark All-Share Index return of 18.9%. As economies recovered from the effects of COVID, revenue earnings per share for the year were up 38.4% over the corresponding period last […]

07 Apr 2022

Lindsell Train changes the way it values its asset management business

The independent directors of The Lindsell Train Investment Trust have decided to change the way that the trust values its stake in the management company. It will apply to monthly valuations starting on 31 March 2022. The board is aiming to capture the changing economics and prospects for the asset management business. It is designed […]

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