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17 Oct 2022

A “disappointing” year for JPMorgan UK Smaller Companies

JPMorgan UK Smaller Companies (JMI) has announced its annual results for the financial year to 31st July 2022, which its chairman, Andrew Impey, describes as “disappointing”. Over the year, JMI’s NAV total return was -23.8% as compared to the Numis Smaller Companies plus AIM Index (excluding investment companies) which returned -16.0%. In addition, and in […]

17 Oct 2022

Seraphim Space – repurchases not in shareholders best interests despite 47% discount

Seraphim Space (SSIT) has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2022. During the year, SSIT’s NAV grew by 1.9%, but its share price fell by 47.0%, so it finished its year end on a 47.% discount to NAV. The chairman, Will Whitehorn says that “Given the discrepancy of performance between NAV […]

17 Oct 2022

QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 October 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 October 2022: Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD) has announced that the final regulatory clearance process, for the acquisition of Emitel SA, the Polish multi-asset digital infrastructure platform, remains ongoing but that it has been notified that the process has been extended until 21 November 2022. It says that the final regulatory […]

14 Oct 2022

QD view – navigating troubled waters

When I started writing this article, it was being widely reported that the chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, had been forced to cut short his visit to the US and was returning to London to face urgent talks with the prime minister and Conservative MPs. Before I had finished it, he was out of a job, with […]

14 Oct 2022

Schroder Japan Growth benefits from value bias and gearing

Schroder Japan Growth (SJG) has published its annual results for the year ended 31 July 2022, during which it provided an NAV total return of 1.0%, outperforming its benchmark which produced a negative total return of -1.9% over the year. The share price fell -2.0% on a total return basis, with the discount averaging 11.0% […]

14 Oct 2022

QuotedData’s morning briefing 14 October 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 14 October 2022: Hipgnosis Songs Fund (SONG) has announced that it has appointed Singer Capital Markets Securities Limited to manage an “irrevocable share repurchase programme” to buy back ordinary shares within certain pre-set parameters. The Share Purchase Programme will commence today and will run until 8 December 2022. Castelnau Group (CGL) […]

13 Oct 2022

Oakley Capital sells majority of Wishcard holding

Oakley Capital Investments Limited (OCI) has announced that Oakley Capital Fund IV, in which it holds an investment, has agree to sell part of its stake in Wishcard Technologies Group, one of Europe’s fastest growing gifts and rewards platforms. After the sale, Fund IV will retain a residual shareholding in Wishcard. OCI’s look through share […]

13 Oct 2022

QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 October 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 October 2022: Riverstone Credit Opportunities Income (RCOI) has announced that it has reached an agreement to extend its EPIC Propane, a sponsor-backed infrastructure company that provides propane purity offtake transportation to the Gulf Coast export market. EPIC Propane is part of the broader EPIC Midstream system that includes over 1,695 […]

12 Oct 2022

Harmony Energy Income C share raises £15m against “a very challenging market backdrop”

Harmony Energy Income (HEIT) has announced the results of its C share issue that was announced on 28 September 2022 (click here to see our coverage of this). HEIT has raised gross proceeds for the C share issue of around £15m, which will be used to fund the acquisition of projects in its pipeline (totaling […]

12 Oct 2022

Taylor Maritime makes all cash offer for Grindrod Shipping

Further to its announcement on 30 August 2022 that it had made an indicative all cash offer of US$26 for each Grindrod Shipping Holdings Limited share that it didn’t already own (consisting of a cash purchase price of US$21.00 per share plus a special cash dividend from Grindrod of US$5.00 per share to its existing […]