In QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 February 2025 Asia Dragon (DGN) has announced the results of the elections for its combination with Invesco Asia Trust (IAT): 30.92% of shares opted for the rollover option while 69.08% of shares opted for the cash option, which was limited to 25% of the shares in issue (less shares held […]
Keystone Positive Change (KPC) has announced that it is relaunching its plans to liquidate the trust – offering shareholders the option of a cash exit at a 1% discount to the residual NAV or the opportunity to rollover into the Baillie Gifford Positive Change Fund (click here to see our coverage of the original proposals), […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 February 2025: Baker Steel Resources Trust (BSRT) has published a portfolio update and its NAV as at 31 January 2025 (89.1p per share), a decrease of 0.6% from the last published NAV at 31 December 2024, largely due to falls in the share prices of Tungsten West Plc and Metals […]
European Opportunities Trust (EOT) has released its interim results for the six months to 30 November 2024. During the period, EOT provided NAV and share price total returns of -8.4% and -10.6% respectively, compared with a total return of -3.3% for its benchmark, the MSCI Europe Total Return Index (all in sterling terms). EOT’s chair, […]
The boards of JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI) and Henderson International Income (HINT) have agreed terms for a merger of the two trusts under which it is proposed that HINT’s assets will be rolled into JGGI, with existing HINT shareholders receiving new JGGI shares in exchange. The announcement from the two trusts says that […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 7 February 2025: Ecofin US Renewables Infrastructure (RNEW) says that its AIFM and investment manager, Ecofin Advisors, LLC (Ecofin), has given it notice to terminate its investment management agreement. RNEW says that the manager and Board will work towards an orderly transition during the 12 month notice period. Residential Secure Income […]
In what is now the sixth successive defeat for Saba Capital Management in its bid to take control of seven London listed investment companies, shareholders in The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT) have voted down Saba’s proposals to remove all of the existing board and replace them with just two of its own representatives, by […]
AVI Japan Opportunity Trust (AJOT) says that it has received a tender offer bid aimed at privatising one of its portfolio companies, Tecnos Japan Incorporated (Tecnos Japan). AJOT says that its manager has signed a tender agreement with Ant Capital Partners, who is making the tender offer, for AVI’s 10% stake in Tecnos Japan. AJOT’s investment in Tecnos […]
Syncona (SYNC) says that its portfolio company, Spur Therapeutics (Spur) has announced positive new data from its Phase I/II GALILEO-1 study of FLT201, its novel gene therapy candidate, in Gaucher disease at the 21st Annual WORLDSymposium in San Diego, CA, USA. The clinical trial In Spur’s trial, six patients have been treated in GALILEO-1 with […]
Syncona (SYNC) says that its portfolio company, Achilles Therapeutics Plc, has announced that its board has recommended a members’ solvent voluntary liquidation and a return of capital to shareholders. SYNC’s announcement says that, based on the information currently available to Achilles and, assuming that Achillies’ shareholders approve the liquidation proposals and associated resolutions, it is […]
