News

28 Apr 2023

VPC Specialty Lending benefits from resilient credit performance

VPC Specialty Lending (VSL) has released its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2022. During the period, VSL’s NAV per share decreased by 6.97% on a total return basis, comprising a NAV per share reduction from 114.14p to 98.19p, plus the 8.00p of dividends paid in 2022, while the share price fell from […]

28 Apr 2023

Blackstone Loan Financing plans 2024 continuation vote if discount persists

Blackstone Loan Financing (BGLF) has released its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2022. Key takeaways are that while performance was supported by robust distributions, the discount to NAV remains wide and the board launched a shareholder consultation in January to look at this. Conclusions were announced in March and steps will now […]

28 Apr 2023

Marwyn Value Investors modest outperformance overshadowed by discount widening

Marwyn Value Investors (MVI) has published its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2022. Unfortunately, the announcement doesn’t provide much in the way of detail as to how MVI generated its returns over the year, so we can’t comment on that here, but it says that, for its ordinary shares, it generated an […]

28 Apr 2023

Life Settlement Assets’ board mulling options to reduce the discount

Life Settlement Assets (LSAA) has announced its results for the year ended 31 December 2022. LSAA’s Board says that, now the MBC litigation is complete, it is actively considering further options to reduce this discount, which will be communicated to Shareholders in due course. Key highlights from the results are as follows: Finalisation of MBC […]

21 Apr 2023

Aurora reports on a difficult year

Aurora Investment Trust (ARR) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2022. During what was a difficult year in global markets, ARR provided an NAV total return of -17.4% (2021: +17.1%) and the share price total return was -16.3% (2021: +13.5%). ARR says that, in comparison, its benchmark All-Share Index provided […]

21 Apr 2023

HydrogenOne Capital Growth’s Cranfield Aerospace Solutions to merge with Britten-Norman

HydrogenOne Capital Growth (HGEN) has announced that it and its co-investors have signed a Heads of Terms agreement, signaling their intention to merge Cranfield Aerospace Solutions Limited (CAeS) with Britten-Normen and to create the world’s first fully integrated, zero-emissions sub regional aircraft for entry into service in 2026. HGEN describes this as an industry first […]

21 Apr 2023

QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 April 2023

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 April 2023: The Regulator of Social Housing has published an enforcement notice on Auckland Home Solutions, a tenant of Triple Point Social Housing REIT (4.6% of income) and Civitas Social Housing (15.9% of income). The enforcement notice follows on from the regulator’s ongoing engagement with Auckland and the regulatory notice […]

14 Apr 2023

Ecofin US Renewables Infrastructure makes sound progress

Ecofin US Renewables Infrastructure Trust (RNEW) has published its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2022, which its chairman, Patrick O’D Bourke, describes as one of sound progress. This included the announcement on 24 October 2022 of the appointment of Eileen Fargis as group lead and portfolio manager for RNEW (Eileen appeared on […]

14 Apr 2023

GCP Asset Backed Income seeing exciting new opportunities

GCP Asset Backed Income (GABI) has published its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2022. The year saw continued challenges for GABI, with the headwinds in the UK economy, and the availability of a broader range of income producing investments arising from increased interest rates. While these factors have contributed to GABI trading […]

14 Apr 2023

Value and Indexed Property Income acquires Coventry bowling alley

Value and Indexed Property Income Trust (VIP) has announced that it has acquired a freehold leisure investment at Coventry Crosspoint Business Park that comprises a bowling alley and two small restaurant units. Rental income totals £0.6m, 77% of which is from Tenpin Limited (bowling) on a lease without break until 2050, with RPI-linked rent increases […]