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21 May 2021

Capital Gearing provides “another year of very acceptable returns”

Capital Gearing (CGT) has announced its annual results for the year ended 5 April 2021, which its chairman, Jean Matterson, describes as “another year of very acceptable returns”. To illustrate, during the year, CGT provided an NAV total return of 13.9% and a share price total return of 13.6%. While CGT does not set out […]

21 May 2021
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Schroder British Opportunities investment acquires majority stake in Waterlogic

Schroder British Opportunities (SBO) has announced that it made an investment into the EPIC I-b Fund SLP, a single asset fund managed by Castik Capital, which has acquired a majority stake in Waterlogic Group Holdings Limited, a leading global provider of purified drinking water dispensers, headquartered in the UK. Who are Waterlogic? Founded in the […]

21 May 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 May 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 May 2021: Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure (EGL) has announced its interim results for the six months ended 32 March 2020. During the period, EGL provided NAV and share price total returns of 13.5% and 16.1% respectively, thereby outperforming the MSCI World Utilities Index and S&P Global Infrastructure Index, which returned […]

20 May 2021

JPMorgan Japanese performance held back by market rotation

JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ) has announced its interim results for the six months ended 31 March 2021, during which it underperformed its benchmark, which can be primarily attributed to the market rotation in favour of companies expected to benefit from a recovery in economic activity, facilitated by the vaccine rollout. During the period, JFJ provided a […]

14 May 2021

Apax Global Alpha sees NAV uplift from Global-e IPO

Apax Global Alpha (AGA) has announced that Global-e has completed its IPO and started trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, which based on the closing price on 12 May 2021 has led to an uplift of approximately 0.9% of AGA’s Adjusted NAV (or €0.02 per share) at 31 March 2021. The IPO was a […]

14 May 2021

Apax Global Alpha gets ultra-premium pet food exposure through Nulo

Apax Global Alpha (AGA) has announced Apax X, in which it holds a limited partnership interest, has signed an agreement to acquire a majority ownership stake in Nulo, which it describes an ultra-premium pet food company. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021, subject to customary closing conditions. Aga says […]

14 May 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 14 May 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 14 May 2021: John Laing Group has announced that all necessary approvals have now been obtained for the availability-based Colombian road PPP project Pacifico 2 and that it has achieved financial close on its purchase of the 21.15% interest in Pacifico 2 it has acquired from Construcciones El Condor. This transaction completed […]

07 May 2021

Sherborne Investors C gives up on Barclays

Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C (SIGC) has announced that its board has been notified by the company’s investment manager that funds managed by it have disposed of their entire 6.01% shareholding in Barclays PLC. There’s no explanation as to why, other than the manager says that it has identified a better opportunity. Sherborne Investors has advised […]

07 May 2021

Liontrust ESG Trust issues ITF for a £150m IPO

Liontrust ESG Trust (ESGT) has issued an intention to float (ITF) this morning, in which has announced plans for a £150m IPO on the premium segment of the main market of the London Stock Exchange. ESGT is seeking to raise £150 million by means of a placing, offer for subscription and intermediaries offer, following which […]

07 May 2021

US Solar Fund raises US$132m in first fundraise since IPO

US Solar Fund (USF) has announced that it has raised US$132m in its first fundraising since its IPO two-years ago (click here to read the IPO note we produced on the fund at that time). This first issue, which was conducted under its recently launched placing programme, was well supported by new and existing investors […]