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13 May 2025
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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 […]

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 […]

08 May 2025

European Opportunities launches new tender offer

As expected, European Opportunities has published details of its latest tender offer. The tender offer will be for 25% of its shares in issue (up to 15,553,147 shares) and the tender price will be calculated as a 2% discount to NAV less the costs of implementing the tender offer. To participate, you will have to […]

08 May 2025

Chrysalis launches shareholder consultation in face of AVI’s calls for a continuation vote

New NAV This morning, Chrysalis announced that its NAV at end March 2025 was 152.62p, 2.6% lower than at the end of December 2024. In part, that reflects adverse currency moves, which took about 1.7p off the NAV. Richard Watts and Nick Williamson said “Overall, the portfolio continues to perform well. The top five assets […]

08 May 2025

3i Infrastructure has another good year despite widening discount

3i Infrastructure’s results for the 12 months ended 31 March 2025 are out [an impressively short timeframe for getting this done] and they are good. The NAV return was 10.1% and the dividend target for the new year has been increased by 6.3% to 13.45p. The only drawback was a widening of the discount, which […]

08 May 2025

Damaging Labour budget holds back BlackRock Smaller Companies

BlackRock Smaller Companies has published results covering the 12 month period ended 28 February 2025. The trust’s returns lagged those of the Deutsche Numis Smaller Companies plus AIM Index over the period, returning 0.0% in NAV terms and -1.4% in share price terms, while the index returned 6.2%. The chairman’s statement observes that the Aim […]

08 May 2025
17 Apr 2025

Third Point Investors celebrates successful year as it looks forward to outcome of strategy review

Third Point Investors has published results for the year ended 31 December 2024. key highlights are as follows: On 22 April 2024, the board created a strategy committee tasked with conducting a strategy review to consider how the company may best deliver value to shareholders going forward. On 11 December 2024, the company announced that […]

17 Apr 2025

JPMorgan Global Growth and Income and Henderson International Income push ahead with merger

Circulars have been published today to support the proposed merger between JPMorgan Global Growth and Income and Henderson International Income. The proposal was announced in February and although markets have had a wobble since, nothing has changed in the detail although the JPMorgan trust has given back some of its long term outperformance of the […]