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21 Dec 2021

Strong outperformance from Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure

Ecofin Global Utilities and infrastructure Trust (EGL) has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2021, during which it has comfortably outperformed the utilities and infrastructure indices against which it benchmarks itself. During the year, EGL has provided NAV and share price total returns of 22.9% and 28.9% respectively. Both of these […]

21 Dec 2021
QuotedData's morning briefing

QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 December 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 December 2021: HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited (HVPE) has announced that its multi-currency credit facility has been increased by US$100 million (from US$600 million to US$700 million) with immediate effect. The additional US$100 million is being provided by Credit Suisse AG London Branch, one of the existing lenders, which has […]

17 Dec 2021

QD view – Pacific Horizon – a premium that’s spicy for a reason?

Discount and premiums have a tendency to mean revert, often quite quickly, and so I’m not given to favouring trusts that are trading at ratings much above their long-term averages, unless I can see a good reason. In the case of Pacific Horizon (which was trading at a premium of 6.3% as at 15 December […]

17 Dec 2021

Strong outperformance from Polar Capital Global Healthcare

Polar Capital Global Healthcare (PCGH) has released its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2021, during which it has provided NAV and share price total returns of 19.46% and 24.55%, strongly outperforming its benchmark, the MSCI ACWI Health Care Index, which returned 13.40%. Since its restructuring to 30 September 2021, PCGH has provided […]

17 Dec 2021

Seraphim Space acquires holdings in ICEYE Oy and D-Orbit SpA

Seraphim Space Investment Trust (SSIT) has announced that it has acquired holdings in ICEYE Oy and D-Orbit SpA from  Seraphim Space LP as was set out in SSIT’s IPO prospectus. SSIT agreed to acquire four assets from the Seraphim Space Fund in exchange for new ordinary shares in SSIT and these two acquisitions represent the […]

17 Dec 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 December 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 December 2021: Oryx International Growth (OIG) has published its interim results for the six months ended 30th September 2021. Both the chairman’s and manager’s statement are impressively succinct, so there’s surprisingly little that we can say here. However, we can report that during the period, OIG’s NAV has increased by […]

10 Dec 2021

River and Mercantile UK Micro-Cap provides another year of outperformance

River and Mercantile UK Micro-Cap (RMMC) has published its annual report for the 12 months ended 30 September 2021, during which the portfolio NAV increased by 59.5%, significantly outperforming its benchmark, the Numis Smaller Companies plus AIM ex Investment Companies Index, which increased by 45.7%. Over the five years to 30 September 2021, the portfolio […]

10 Dec 2021

Edinburgh Worldwide looks to increase exposure to unquoteds

Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI) has announced its annual results for the year to 31 October 2021, during which it provided NAV and share price total returns of 18.3% and 11.1% respectively, both significantly behind its comparative index, the S&P Global Small Cap Index, which provided a total return of 35.9% (all in sterling terms). However, EWI’s […]

10 Dec 2021

ThomasLloyd Energy Impact Trust IPO raises US$150m

ThomasLloyd Energy Impact Trust (TLEI) has announced the results of its initial public offering, which will have raised US$150m once the Consideration Shares are issued (click here to for an explanation of these in our story covering the announcement of TLEI IPO). Before the issuance of the consideration shares, the IPO has raised gross cash […]

10 Dec 2021

Top quartile performance from Aberdeen Standard Equity Income

Aberdeen Standard Equity Income (ASEI) has published its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2021, which its chairman, Mark White, says puts it among the top quartile of investment trusts in the UK Equity Income peer group for the financial year. During the period, ASEI provided an NAV total return of 39.8% and […]