Investment Company News

10 Jul 2018
Investment Trust Insider : Trust buster Lazard World gets fatal taste of its own medicine

Investment Trust Insider on recent new issues

Investment Trust Insider on recent new issues – James Carthew: can Ashoka overcome a disappointing launch? It has been a week of contrasts in the new issue market. Tritax EuroBox (BOXE) raised its maximum target of £300 million in an issue that was ‘significantly oversubscribed’ and Hipgnosis Songs Fund (SONG) raised over £200 million. Whereas […]

09 Jul 2018

RESI becomes a Registered Provider

RESI becomes a Registered Provider – Residential Secure Income (ReSI), which was set up to invest in the residential asset classes that comprise the stock of UK social housing providers, has announced that itI, through its wholly owned subsidiary ReSI Housing Limited, has become the first publicly listed investment fund to become a Registered Provider with the […]

09 Jul 2018

Better Capital deal lapses

Better Capital deal lapses – Further to the announcement of 25 June 2018 about the proposed sale of Northern Aerospace (NAL), BECAP 12 GP Limited (the GP) has informed Better Capital PCC Limited that: “Permission to complete the sale was not obtained from the Competition and Markets Authority by the revised contractual deadline, despite requests […]

09 Jul 2018

FastForward NAV jumps

FastForward NAV jumps – FastForward Innovations has published results for the year ended 31 March 2018. Highlights: Net assets of GBP13,534,000 (2017: net assets of GBP10,101,000). NAV per share increased by a third from 7.60p to 10.18p. Three new investments in the year, including a significant investment in a Canadian medical cannabis business Successful sale of the […]

09 Jul 2018

John Laing Environmental adds two anaerobic digestion plants

John Laing Environmental adds two anaerobic digestion plants – John Laing Environmental Assets has announced the acquisition of two anaerobic digestion (AD) assets, Egmere Energy Limited and Grange Farm Energy Limited, for a total consideration of c.GBP36 million. The Egmere Energy AD plant is located in Egmere, North Norfolk and was commissioned in November 2014. […]

06 Jul 2018

Key trust holding Biogen claims rare Alzheimer’s trial success

Key trust holding Biogen claims rare Alzheimer’s trial success Trust favourite Biogen saw its stock rise by 20% on Friday, after reporting a surprise apparently positive result from a Phase II study with the anti-amyloid beta protofibril antibody BAN-2401 in the notoriously tough indication of Alzheimer’s disease. However, the share price boost to Biogen probably reflects the implied […]

06 Jul 2018

Oakley Capital selling Damovo

Oakley Capital selling Damovo – Oakley Capital Investments Limited says that Oakley Capital Private Equity II has reached an agreement to sell its stake in Damovo Group, a leading independent European unified communications and collaboration company, to Eli Global. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approval, values Damovo at up to EUR140 million, comprising an […]

06 Jul 2018

Standard Life Investments Property Income makes three acquisitions

Standard Life Investments Property Income makes three acquisitions – Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust has completed three purchases for a total of GBP32.48m. The largest of the three assets is a Tier 3 Data Centre in Birmingham, let to a major operator for a term of 20 years, subject to a tenant only lease break […]

05 Jul 2018

Autolus IPO boosts WPCT to top of specialist trust league in June

Autolus IPO boosts WPCT to top of specialist trust league in June The Nasdaq float of Autolus, one its top ten investee companies, boosted Woodford Patient Capital Trust (WPCT) to top position in the performance league table of biotech/healthcare specialist investment trusts for the month of June, both in terms of price and NAV total return. […]

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