On 22 October 2021, GRIT Investment Trust announced the new board appointments of Richard Lockwood and Malcolm Burne, both of whom were veteran fund managers, with exceptional records in the natural resources sector, together with plans to progress its plans to commence the re-building of a diverse portfolio of natural resources investments. The principal investment […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 20 September 2022: Tufton Oceanic Assets (SHIP) is buying two product tankers – Courteous and Mindful – for $73.0m, less than their depreciated replacement cost. This takes the fund’s fleet to 23 vessels. Both tankers have fixed rate time charters for three to five years to a major commodity trading and […]
Within the investment companies sector there has been a fair bit happening this week, with another couple of new funds looking to launch – The Sustainable Farmland Trust and Independent Living REIT; Fundsmith Emerging Equities throwing in the towel; and some exciting portfolio developments for a couple of our clients – JLEN’s glasshouse investment and […]
The Sustainable Farmland Trust has published its prospectus. You can access this here Application forms are towards the back of the document. There is an intermediaries offer – if you are interested, contact your usual investment platform to ask if they are participating. Access to the IPO is restricted by geography. In particular, you should not be accessing […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 September 2022, the news is dominated by interim results statements: Downing Renewables and Infrastructure (DORE) has made a great start to the year as it reports an NAV of 115.9p at end June 2022 and a total return for the first six months of the year of 14.1%. The portfolio […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 September 2022: Infrastructure India (IIP) has applied for, and has been granted, a three month extension to the deadline for publishing its audited annual accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022, which are now expected to be published in early November 2022. Proceeds from the sale of Indian Energy […]
It is not that long ago that COVID-19 posed a significant threat to UK equity income funds, as a swathe of companies – notably the banks – cut or passed their dividends altogether. However, investment companies, with their ability to salt away revenue reserves in the good times, were generally much better able to withstand […]
abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust has published results covering the 12 month period ended 30 June 2022. The trust underperformed its Numis Smaller Companies plus AIM (ex Investment Companies) Index benchmark by some margin, returning -27.3% in NSAV terms and -34.3% in share price terms against -19.0% for the index. The dividend increased by […]
The Renewables Infrastructure Group says that it has exchanged contracts to acquire the right to develop three battery storage sites in the North of England. Two of the projects, which when built will total about 165MW with a two-hour duration, are scheduled for grid connection and commencement of operations in 2024 and 2025. The third site, […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 8 September 2022: International Public Partnerships, publishing its interim report, says that its Angel Trains investment is unaffected by strikes, its additional £42m investment in the Thames Tideway super sewer completed yesterday (7 September) and construction works are 80% complete, and Cadent (the UK gas infrastructure business, INPP’s largest investment) is […]