Capital Gearing Trust (CGT) has reported annual results covering the year to 5 April 2020. Total NAV and share price returns came in at +0.1 and +0.5%, respectively, while the premium rose from +2.2% to +2.6%. Investment review – portfolio came through March turmoil well CGT’s managers, Peter Spiller, Alastair Laing and Christopher Clothier, provided the […]
Latin America is now the centre of the pandemic. While Brazil has been in the headlines most, there are concerns that Venezuela is particularly unprepared to cope, were cases to escalate. The BBC reports that on a per capita basis, Ecuador is the worst affected country in the region. Flexible investment company, Caledonia (CLDN), reported […]
As of 31 March 2020, Riverstone Energy (RSE) had a NAV per share of $5.31 – this compares with $9.66 as at 31 December 2019 (click here to read more on this). RSE released an interim update this morning, covering the quarter-ending 31 March. Key unaudited financial highlights from the period include: NAV as at 31 March 2020 […]
Flexible investment sector company, Livermore (LIV), has published annual results to end-December 2019. NAV per share remained broadly stable at $0.99 (2018: $1.00). Given the December year-end, much of the commentary was inevitably around 2019 themes. We have therefore included LIV’s post-period views on covid-19 first: Covid-19 update LIV’s manager notes included the following: “In March […]
Over the year-ended 31 March 2020, HICL Infrastructure (HICL) delivered an NAV total return of 1.9% (2019:10.8%). The company says that the target dividend of 8.25p has been declared and is fully cash covered. In terms of its balance sheet, over the year, HICL strengthened it by raising £117m in two capital raises while it also refinanced the […]
Rolls-Royce says it will shed 9,000 jobs in response to the covid-19 crisis – it expects any recovery in the airline industry to take several years (click here to read more). JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income (JAGI) reported interim results to end-March with the total market return coming in at (6.6%) compared with (9.3%) for the […]
The near £700m market cap Asia fund, Schroder AsiaPacific (SDP) has reported interim results to 31 March 2020. Between them, China and Hong Kong account for nearly 80% of its allocation by geography and its three largest sectoral exposures are technology, financial services and consumer cyclical. During the six month period ended 31 March 2020, SDP’s […]
BlackRock World Mining’s (BRWM) NAV increased by 18.1% over the month of April (the shares were up 17%) – driven by gold. BRWM’s portfolio, as at 30 April 2020, was as follows: Exposure % Total Diversified 32.0 Gold 30.9 Copper 16.8 Silver & Diamonds 4.9 Nickel 3.6 Industrial Minerals 3.4 Platinum Group Metals 2.1 Iron […]
Invesco Enhanced Income (formerly Invesco Perpetual Enhanced Income) (IPE) predominantly invests in high yielding corporate and government bonds. The company has this morning reported interim results to 31 March 2020. IPE delivered a total NAV return of (13.4%), which compares to 3 month LIBOR of +0.4%. The share price premium decreased from 1.3% to a discount of (9.2%). […]
Over Adamas Finance Asia’s (ADAM) full-year results period to 31 December 2019, the company’s NAV increased by 8% year-on-year driven mostly by a new investment which was acquired in exchange for the issue of the company’s shares. Highlights from post period-end activity include: Whilst the covid-19 pandemic continues to create global uncertainty, ADAM says it remains […]
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