ICG Enterprise (ICGT) announced that PAI Partners had reached an agreement to sell Roompot, an operator and developer of holiday parks in Northern Europe, to KKR, for an undisclosed sum. PAI Partners is one one of Europe’s leading private equity managers. Roompot, is the ICGT’s 6th largest investment, representing 2.1% of the portfolio at 30 April 2020. […]
JPMorgan Indian (JII) has announced that after 26 years with JPMorgan and nearly 30 years working in finance, Rukhshad Shroff, the company’s joint portfolio manager, has decided to retire from asset management. He will leave JP Morgan Asset Management on 11th September 2020. Joint-manager structure maintained with Ayaz Ebrahim joining JII’s portfolio is managed on a joint […]
Aberdeen Japan’s (AJIT’s) NAV rose by 3.3% over the year to 31 March 2020, in sterling terms.The shares increased by 6.8%, while the Topix benchmark declined by 2.5%. The impact of covid-19 has been less severe in Japan AJIT note that the Japanese stock market has not been immune from the global sell-off, but has […]
Over the year to 30 April 2020, global growth trust, Monks (MNKS), delivered an NAV total return of 3.4% compared , which compares with (1.0%) for the FTSE World Index. The market return for the same period was 3.7%. Over the year, MNKS used its premium to NAV valuation to grow the fund, with an issuance equivalent […]
The anti-inflammatory drug, Dexamethasone, has been shown to help the most seriously ill covid-19 patients. Private equity sector company, ICG Enterprise (ICGT), delivered an NAV total return of (4.1%) and a portfolio return of (3.8%), over the quarter to end-April. It expects the impact from covid-19 to continue weighing on valuations over the coming months. The portfolio’s […]
HICL Infrastructure (HICL) has completed investments worth £103m in the following: 1.) the acquisition of a further 74% interest in Holdfast Training Services (a PPP project that supports the Royal School of Military Engineering) and 2.) the acquisition of the transmission assets associated with the Walney Extension Offshore Windfarm (located in the Irish Sea). The investments have been […]
Over March, we looked at Alcentra European Floating Rate Income (AEFS), after it announced its intention to wind-up – you can access the story here. This morning, the fund has released a market commentary report, covering performance over May: “The fund was up 2.83% (gross) in May, behind both the Credit Suisse Western European Leveraged Loan […]
Chenavari Toro Income (TORO), the debt – structured finance company. announced the implementation of a series of new initiatives aimed at narrowing the share price discount to NAV. The initiatives are listed as: “An enhanced dividend policy: The Company is targeting a quarterly dividend yield of 2.5 per cent. (by reference to NAV) equating to […]
CEIBA Investments (CBA), the real estate company focused on Cuba, has released a trading statement, in which it look at the state of the pandemic in the country, Cuba’s role in helping other countries, and the current state of the company’s trading, operations and investments. Cuba close to a staged reopening of the tourism industry and […]
Baillie Gifford-managed Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI) delivered an NAV return of 16.4%, over the six-month interim period to 30 April 2020 (the shares increased by 21.7%). Over the same period, EWI’s comparative index, the S&P global small cap index, declined by 12,9%. The top-five holdings at the period-end were: The top allocations by sector were as […]
