Overview
BioPharma Credit : BPCR
BioPharma Credit plc provides investors with an opportunity to gain exposure to the fast growing life sciences industry, through a diversified portfolio of loans and other instruments backed by royalties or other cash flows derived from sales of approved life sciences products. BioPharma Credit’s primary objective is to generate predictable income for shareholders over the long term.
Once substantially invested, BioPharma Credit will target an annual dividend yield of 7 per cent. (calculated by reference to the Issue Price), and a net total return on NAV of 8 to 9 per cent. per annum in the medium term.
Pharmakon Advisors, the fund’s Investment Manager, was founded in 2009 and has invested US$1.3 billion in 20 transactions across four funds. The first three funds are now fully invested. Drawing upon the expertise and successful track record of Pharmakon Advisors, the fund enjoys access to its extensive, industry-focused knowledge and contacts to source, analyse and structure attractive investment opportunities.
Their website can be reached by clicking this link.
BPCR : BioPharma Credit
You can view our interviews with the company’s Fund Managers below:
24th June 2022: Pedro Gonzalez de Cosio – Weekly Show
Fundamentals
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In The Press
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15 Sep 2025 1 min read
Investment trust insider on BioPharma Credit
Investment trust insider on BioPharma Credit – James Carthew: The overly discounted debt trust I’m considering buying Direct lending trusts are languishing after making some risky loans, but BioPharma Credit is a wholly more robust portfolio. Few parts of the investment companies sector are thriving, but one that is doing well is debt, as I […]
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09 May 2025 1 min read
The outlook for debt investment trusts
Holly McKechnie, Investors Chronicle, May 9, 2025: Debt investors face two major challenges: interest rate risk and credit risk. Given the current political and economic landscape, it would be understandable to be nervous about both. However, for savvy investors there are still opportunities in this esoteric sector.. Many debt trusts focus on private credit – […]
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23 Sep 2024 1 min read
Investment trust insider on good news for the investment companies sector
Investment trust insider on good news for the investment companies sector – James Carthew: Trusts that should rally on costs reform and rate cuts There was no pool of capital waiting to pounce on last week’s good news so there is still time to grab a bargain before over-sold investment companies start to bounce. On cost […]
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21 Aug 2024 1 min read
Debt funds’ new lease on life
By James Carthew, QuotedData, 20 August 2024: The 0.25% reduction in the Bank of England base rate on 31 July may not sound much but it marked the first interest rate cut in four years and signalled that the UK’s bout of elevated inflation that began in April 2021 was finally under control. A lot […]
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02 May 2024 2 min read
Tapping into private credit
JENNIFER HILL for Citywire Wealth Manager, 2 May 2024: Private equity houses expanding into lending segments vacated by the banking sector following the global financial crisis have supercharged growth in private credit and given investors greater access to an increasingly diverse opportunity set. Private credit is now the second largest private market strategy […]
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15 Dec 2023 2 min read
The investment trusts facing crunch continuation votes
by Dave Baxter, Investors’ Chronicle, 15 December 2023: The optimists would have you believe that the worst is finally over for the investment trust sector. Interest rates have apparently peaked, wide share price discounts are likely to limit further falls and the reform of cost disclosure requirements could remove one of the many challenges facing […]
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30 Nov 2023 1 min read
Debt investment trust yields stand out – but are they safe?
by Dave Baxter, Investors’ Chronicle, November 29, 2023: The sharp rise in bond yields has had inescapable implications for many an asset class. With the UK 10-year government bond offering a ‘risk-free’ yield of more than 4 per cent, anything racier needs to justify its place in a portfolio with superior growth or income. A […]
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05 Jul 2023 1 min read
The funds and trusts that can’t be replaced with an ETF
by Sam Benstead from interactive investor, 5 July 2023: When it comes to sales, there has only been one winner in the active versus passive fund battle over the past decade, with the latter cleaning up. In 2007, before the financial crisis struck, the amount held in tracker funds was a mere £29 billion, which […]
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27 Mar 2023 1 min read
Investment trust insider on debt funds
Investment trust insider on debt funds – James Carthew: Float your eye over debt funds As interest rates continue to climb, the future returns available from debt funds are looking more interesting. However, the picture is clouded by concerns about defaults. Some closed-end funds that should probably be raking in new money from investors are […]
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18 Oct 2022 1 min read
Investment trust insider opportunities in troubled times
Investment trust insider opportunities in troubled times – James Carthew: Where trust opportunities lie after another Tory regime collapse The U-turns, clumsy mistakes, muddled thinking and general ineptitude of current UK economic policy may have killed any hope of a relatively shallow recession in the UK. For investors, the way forward is hard to fathom, […]
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22 Feb 2022 1 min read
Fund and trust ideas to income-boost portfolios to beat inflation
Cherry Reynard from interactive investor 15th February 2022: Four types of funds yield 5% plus. Cherry Reynard runs through the options, risks and potential rewards… In general, there are four types of investment that generate a yield in excess of 5%. The first are conventional equity income strategies… The second type of high-income fund operates at […]
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11 Sep 2019 1 min read
Investment trust insider on BioPharma Credit
Investment trust insider on BioPharma Credit – James Carthew: a good testing time for BioPharma Credit Last week I mentioned that the largest fund in the AIC’s three debt sectors is the £1.4 billion BioPharma Credit (BPCR), whose investment approach of lending to revenue-generating life sciences companies has attracted a large fan base, helped by an […]

