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12 Mar 2021

European Assets comfortably outperformed in a difficult year

European Assets Trust (EAT) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2020, during which it comfortably outperformed in a difficult year. EAT’s sterling NAV total return was 21.9% for the year ended, which it says compares to an 18.9% return for the EMIX Smaller European Companies (ex UK) Index, its benchmark. […]

12 Mar 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 March 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 March 2021: Jupiter US Smaller Companies (JUS – soon to be Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies) has announced its annual results for the six months ended 31 December 2020. During the period, JUS’s NAV per share rose by 17.8% but, according to the company, this was less than the 24.8% gain […]

05 Mar 2021

BlackRock World Mining managers delighted with 2020 performance

BlackRock World Mining Trust (BRWM) has its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2020, during which the managers say they were delighted with the portfolio’s performance. During the year, BRWM provided NAV and share price total returns of +31.8%1 and +46.7%1 respectively. In comparison, BRWM says that its reference index, the MSCI ACWI Metals […]

05 Mar 2021

Murray International hurt by stock selection in an extraordinary year

Murray International (MYI) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2020, during which the overwhelming impact on its performance was the loss of 610 basis points due to stock selection, in what its chairman Kevin Carter (pictured), describes as an “an extraordinary chapter in the history of the world and financial […]

05 Mar 2021

SDCL Energy Efficiency Income signs agreements with two development partners

SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEIT) has announced that it has signed framework agreements with two preferred development partners providing it with the right to invest in a series of energy efficiency assets in the UK and the United States. SEIT says that such framework agreements, with established developers and partners, can generate valuable organic […]

05 Mar 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 March 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 March 2021: The Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited (TRIG) has announced the publication of a prospectus and circular to put in place a new 12 month share issuance programme in respect of up to 600 million new shares. TRIG has also announced an Initial Issue, which will comprise the Initial Open Offer, […]

26 Feb 2021

Strong returns for Mobius Investment Trust’s second year of operations

Mobius Investment Trust (MMIT) has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 November 2020 (its second year of operations), during which MMIT provided strong NAV and share price total returns of +16.3% and +24.7% respectively. The chairman, Maria Luisa Cicognani, says that Emerging markets were particularly hard hit by the risk-averse sentiment in […]

26 Feb 2021

CC Japan Income & Growth hurt by income focus

CC Japan Income & Growth (CCJI) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 October 2020, which show that it was hurt by its focus on income. During the year, CCJI’s NAV total return fell by 11.1% in sterling terms, while the Tokyo Stock Exchange Price Index (Topix) was fractionally positive at +0.3%. […]

26 Feb 2021

A good share price performance from Law Debenture in 2020

Law Debenture (LWDB) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2020 and, in the words of its chairman, Robert Hingley, “Law Debenture has delivered a good performance in 2020, demonstrating the advantages of its unique structure, which allows increased flexibility in portfolio construction”. To summarise its performance, while LWDB provided an […]