Staude Capital’s Global Value Fund has published an open letter to the ordinary shareholders of Third Point Investors Limited, which has been reproduced below. 7 January 2022 Dear Fellow Ordinary Shareholders of Third Point Investors Limited (‘TPIL or the ‘Company’), A Christmas pantomime It was a piece of spin to put a smile […]
Schroder British Opportunities (SBO) has announced that one of its private equity investments, Waterlogic Group Holdings, has agreed to combine with Culligan International to create a leader in sustainable drinking water solutions and services. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2022, subject to receipt of regulatory approvals and the satisfaction […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 7 January 2022: Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR) has announced that Sainsbury’s has exercised its purchase option to acquire eight stores within a 26-asset portfolio owned in partnership by SUPR, British Airways Pension Trustees Limited and Sainsbury’s. Sainsbury’s acquisition of the eight stores will be completed in July 2023 upon expiry of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
