Aurora Investment Trust (ARR) has announced changes to its investment objective and the methodology used to calculate its performance fee. The change in the investment policy stems from a desire by the board to clarify the wording to make it consistent with ARR’s investment policy and dividend policy. ARR’s existing investment objective refers to providing […]
Pantheon International (PIN) has announced that Charlotte Morris has been appointed as co-lead portfolio manager of the trust with immediate effect to work alongside Helen Steers, succeeding Jie Gong in the role. Based in London, Charlotte is an investment partner at Pantheon and actively involved in the firm’s private equity secondaries business. PIN says that […]
Worldwide Healthcare (WWH) has published its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2024, during which it provided NAV and share price total returns of 12.0% and 8.6% respectively, which compare to a return from its MSCI World Health Care benchmark of 10.9% (all in sterling terms). The difference between the performance of the […]
VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund (VOF) and its manager, VinaCapital Investment Management have announced that Andy Ho, VinaCapital’s Chief Investment Officer, passed away unexpectedly at his home in Ho Chi Minh City on the morning of 6 June. Andy (pictured) had been with VinaCapital for some 17 years, having first joined VinaCapital in 2007. Previously he […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 7 June 2024: Pantheon International (PIN) has announced that, following the announcement of its capital allocation policy (CAP) on 16 May 2024, it has appointed Investec Bank and J.P. Morgan Securities to undertake an ongoing share buyback programme for the company. The maximum price payable is an amount equal to the […]
Sirius Real Estate (SRE) has published its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2024, which its chairman, Daniel Kitchen describes as one of “another year of strong financial and operational performance despite a backdrop of continuing macroeconomic and geopolitical volatility”. The year saw SRE raise €165.3m in November 2023 to take advantage of […]
JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JEGI) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31st March 2024, during which it continued its outperformance in what its chairman, Rita Dhut, says “remains a tricky backdrop of evolving inflation expectations and geopolitical difficulties”. During the year, JEGI provided NAV and share price total returns of 16.8% […]
On 29 April 2024, the board of Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited recommended that shareholders accept the $1.30 per share offer made by Blackstone Europe, via its wholly-owned investment subsidiary Lyra Bidco (click here to see our coverage of this). However, on 24 May 2024 it was announced that, with the consent of the Panel, there […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 June 2023: Schroder British Opportunities (SBO) has made a new private equity investment in HeadFirst, an international HR tech service provider operating in fifteen European countries. SBO says that the capital invested will be used to finance HeadFirst’s acquisition of managed services and specialist staffing provider, Impellam Group, to create […]
Downing Strategic Micro-Cap (DSM) has announced that, following an agreed and approved bid for one of its holdings, FireAngel Safety Technology Group Plc, intends to return the value of its investment in FireAngel to shareholders as soon as possible, via a third special dividend, in line with its stated intention of returning cash to shareholders. […]
