News

30 Sep 2022

JPMorgan Global Growth & Income treads water in challenging environment

JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI) has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2022. During the year, JGGI provided an NAV total return of -3.4% and a share price total return of -4.8%, both of which compare to a return on the trust’s benchmark, the MSCI AC World Index of -4.2% […]

30 Sep 2022

JPMorgan Emerging Markets underperforms due to stock selection

JPMorgan Emerging Markets (JMG) has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2022. During the year, JMG provided NAV and share price total returns of -17.3% and -20.6% respectively, both underperforming its benchmark, (the MSCI Emerging Markets index) which provided a total return of -15.0% (all in sterling terms). Stock selection was […]

30 Sep 2022

JLEN and Foresight Solar announce purchase of a 49.9MW battery project

JLEN Environmental Assets (JLEN) and Foresight Solar (FSFL) have announced the acquisition of Gigabox No 4 Limited, which holds the development rights to construct a 49.9MW lithium-ion battery energy storage plant based in Angus, Scotland. Both parties are taking a 50% equity stake in the project which will see each of them invest up to […]

30 Sep 2022

QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 September 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 September 2022: NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has announced that it has increased the commitments available under its Revolving Credit Facility (RCF) with AIB Group (UK) Plc and NatWest from £75m to £135m – an increase of £60m. The additional commitments have been agreed at a margin of 120bps over SONIA […]

28 Sep 2022

QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 September 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 September 2022: AVI Japan Opportunity (AJOT) has published its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2022. During the period, AJOT provided NAV and share price total returns of -9.74% and -12.81% respectively, both underperforming the trust’s benchmark, the MSCI Japan Small Cap Total Return Index, which returned […]

16 Sep 2022

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure makes onshore and offshore wind investments

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure (ORIT) has announced that it has purchased a further 7.75% ownership interest in the Lincs Offshore Wind Farm from a fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management. This follow-on investment adds to the original 7.75% stake in this wind farm that ORIT acquired in May 2022. Following this transaction, Lincs represents approximately 16% […]

16 Sep 2022

QuotedData’s morning briefing 16 September 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 16 September 2022: RTW Venture’s (RTW’s) portfolio company, Third Harmonic Bio Inc., has completed its initial public offering (IPO) and has listed on Nasdaq (ticker: THRD). The upsized issue raised US$185.3m by offering around 10.7m shares at US$17.00 per share. Third Harmonic Bio is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a first-in-class, […]

12 Sep 2022

Independent Living REIT prospectus

Independent Living REIT 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 […]

09 Sep 2022

Sam Vecht becomes lead manager of BlackRock Latin American

BlackRock Latin American (BRLA) has announced that Ed Kuczma is stepping down from his role as a portfolio manager and, with immediate effect, Sam Vecht will become the lead portfolio manager and Christoph Brinkmann will become the deputy portfolio manager. Mr Vecht is a Managing Director in BlackRock’s global emerging markets equities team and has […]