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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 […]

22 May 2025

Good year for STS Global Income & Growth

STS Global Income & Growth has published results covering the 12 month period ended 31 March 2025, and they are good. The NAV and share price return were both 10.9% over the period which compares to a return on the Lipper Global – Equity Global Income Index of 4.5%. The total dividend for the year […]

22 May 2025

Scottish Mortgage performance picks up but discount stubbornly wide

Scottish Mortgage has announced results for the 12 months ended 31 March 2025. Over the period, it generated a NAV return of 11.2% and a share price return of 6.0%, which despite the implied discount widening, are both ahead of the 5.5% return delivered by the All-World Index. The statement stresses the importance of looking […]