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20 May 2025

Riverstone Energy plans managed wind down

Riverstone Energy’s board has been talking to its manager about the strategic direction of the company. They have agreed that it is time to wind-down the company – sell the assets and return the proceeds to shareholders. Shareholders will need to approve the idea. To get that done, the company will soon be publishing a […]

20 May 2025

Karl Sternberg is the new chair of Capital Gearing Trust

Karl Sternberg will succeed Jean Matterson as chairman of Capital Gearing Trust (CGT). Karl was a founding partner of institutional asset manager Oxford Investment Partners, which was acquired by Towers Watson in 2013. Prior to that, he held a number of positions at Morgan Grenfell/Deutsche Asset Management between 1992 and 2004 including chief investment officer […]

20 May 2025
15 May 2025

NextEnergy Solar will maintain its dividend

NextEnergy Solar Fund says its board has approved a maintained dividend target of 8.43p per share for the financial year ending 31 March 2026. This is forecast to be covered in a range of 1.1x – 1.3x by earnings post-debt amortisation and the company can be reasonably comfortable making this prediction because there is a […]

15 May 2025
13 May 2025

Greencoat Renewables sells Irish portfolio

Greencoat Renewables says that it has sold six Irish onshore wind assets for €156m. The 115.7MW disposal will translate into up-front consideration of €139m and €17m in non-contingent deferred consideration over 2026 and 2027. The proceeds will be used to reduce the company’s revolving credit facility. Gearing levels will be reduced from 54% reported at […]

13 May 2025
08 May 2025

Small improvement in ICG Enterprise’s discount but there is a long way to go

ICG Enterprise has published results for the 12 months ended 31 January 2025. The NAV return for the year was 10.5% – the underlying portfolio return was 10.6%, helped by earnings growth for the companies held of about 15% on average. In addition, there were 40 exits achieved, which came at an average 19% uplift […]