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07 Oct 2022
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 7 October 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 7 October 2022: Following its merger with Pollen Street Capital Holdings, Honeycomb Investment Trust has announced that it has changed its name to Pollen Street Plc. Honeycomb’s shares will trade under the new name on the London Stock Exchange from 8.00am on Monday 10 October 2022. The trust’s ticker will also […]

05 Oct 2022

A “disappointing” year for the European Smaller Companies Trust

European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT) has published its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2022. SCT’s chairman, Christopher Casey, says that “NAV total return performance for the year to 30 June 2022 has been disappointing at negative 21.0%, lagging the benchmark performance of negative 17.3%. Share price total return for the year was […]

05 Oct 2022

“Another excellent year” for Ruffer

Ruffer (RICA) has released its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2022, which its chairman, Christopher Russell, says “has been another excellent year for Ruffer”. During the period, RICA’s NAV total return was 6.0%, with the NAV per share rising from 281p to 295p. The share price total return was 5.6%, reflecting a […]

05 Oct 2022

HgCapital holdings Ideagen and ProcessMap to merge

Hg, the Manager of HgCapital Trust, has announced that its investee company Ideagen, a trusted name in software solutions for regulated industries, andfellow investee company ProcessMAP, a leading Environmental, Health and Safety software platform provider are to be merged and Hg will remain as majority investor in the combined business. The transaction is expected to […]

05 Oct 2022

Interest rate swaps give Hipgnosis certainty over debt costs

Further to its announcement of a new revolving credit facility (RCF) two days ago (click here to read more on this), Hipgnosis Songs Fund (SONG) has announced that it has now completed the interest rate swap agreements that it said were in negotiations when it made the RCF announcement. Crucially, at a time of rising […]

05 Oct 2022

QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 October 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 October 2022: Brunner (BUT) has announced that Julian Bishop will be joining the AllianzGI team managing the trust’s portfolio on 1 November 2022 as a senior portfolio manager with a view to becoming co-lead manager alongside Christian Schneider in due course. Julian has 25 years investment experience as a global […]

04 Oct 2022

BB Biotech’s enters Q4 with NAV rise on Myovant buyout offer

BB Biotech saw an almost 3% rise in its NAV yesterday to CHF51/share, helped by a 36% jump in the share price in one of its holdings – Myovant – triggered by a cash buy-out offer. BB Biotech’s share price, however, was largely unchanged at CHF52.8, which has had the effect of reducing the investment […]

03 Oct 2022

Henderson Eurotrust has a tough year

Henderson Eurotrust (HNE) has published its annual results for the 12 months ended 31 July 2022. During the year, which HNE’s chairman, Nicola Ralston, describes as “a tough one for the Company’s investment portfolio”, HNE provided NAV and share price total returns of -13.9% and -19.6% respectively. In comparison, HNE says that its benchmark, the […]

03 Oct 2022

Vietnam Holding posts peer beating performance

Vietnam Holding (VNH) has published its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2022. During the year, VNH’s NAV per share declined by 4.36% in USD terms, while the market as a whole, as measured by the Vietnam All Share Index (VNAS), declined by 16.5%. However, in sterling terms, VNH’s NAV increased by 9.0% […]

30 Sep 2022

Bluefield Solar posts strongest results since IPO

Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF) has published its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2022. It has been a very successful year for BSIF, which has recorded its highest earnings and dividend since its launch, along with 320m of solar and battery investments; an oversubscribed fundraise of £225m, 1.1GW of capacity being developed […]