Overview
Juridica Investments aims to provide its shareholders with a level of dividends and capital growth that exceed investors’ cost of capital by an attractive margin. It pursues this objective by investing directly and indirectly in a wide variety of business-to-business related litigation and arbitration claims.
Research History
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18 Jul 2018 2 min read
Quarterly Investment Companies Roundup – Second Quarter 2018
QUARTERLY INVESTMENT COMPANIES ROUNDUP – SECOND QUARTER 2018 Global equities markets rose in the second quarter of 2018, Markets were volatile, as positive economic data and encouraging company performances played off against geopolitical concerns. Yields from bond markets rose early in the quarter but fell back as investors turned to ‘safer’ investments. The threat of […]
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11 May 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – May 2018
QuotedData investment companies roundup – May 2018 – is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of April 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. India Capital Growth has experience a rebound in performance in the past month, as […]
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15 Mar 2017 1 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – March 2017
Our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of February 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. March Investment Companies Roundup
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14 Feb 2017 1 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – February 2017
Our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of January 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. February Investment Companies Roundup
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31 Jan 2017 1 min read
QuotedData – 2016 review of the year
Our review of 2016 includes performance data, significant moves in discounts and premiums, money raised and money handed back, major news stories and links to the research we have published including our guide to investment companies. 2016 Annual roundup
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08 Nov 2016 1 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – November 2016
Our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of October 2016. november-investment-companies-roundup-2
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27 Oct 2016 1 min read
Quarterly investment companies roundup – Third quarter 2016
Q3 saw the market adapt to life post the UK’s EU referendum. Sterling continued to fall but most stock markets stabilised and discounts narrowed across most sectors. While the US election is dominating headlines, it does not seem to be having much impact on markets so far. q3-quarterly-roundup
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13 Oct 2016 1 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – October 2016
Our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of September 2016. october-investment-companies-roundup
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16 Dec 2013 1 min read
Quoted Fund weekly issues and repurchases
Each week we’ll let you know which funds are growing and which are shrinking – please see the attached pdf: 131216-issues-and-repurchases
News
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05 Apr 2018 1 min read
Juridica left with seven cases
Juridica left with seven cases – During 2017, Juridica’s NAV per share dropped by US$0.0977 per share from US$0.2541 per share at 31 December 2016 to US$0.1563 per share at 31 December 2017. mostly this relates to the payment of dividends amounting to US$11.9 million (US$0.1074 per share) but it also made a profit during 2017 of US$1.1 million (US$0.0097 per […]
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22 Aug 2017 1 min read
Juridica shares leap on news of 8p dividend
Juridica shares leap on news of 8p dividend – Juridica has published interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2017. The NAV has barely moved – up 0.48 cents to 25.89 cents – but the company has announced an 8p dividend and the shares are up 65% at the time of writing. The secrecy […]
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03 Apr 2017 3 min read
Juridica Investments NAV reduced by 77.78% during 2016, still aiming to monetise all investments by the end of 2017
Juridica Investments has announced its results for the year ended 31 December 2016. During the year, the company’s NAV fell by US$0.8891 to US$0.2541 (a reduction of 77.78%). Dividends paid to investors during 2016 totalled 40 pence per share (bringing total life-to-date dividends to £1.036 per share). 2016 saw a total comprehensive loss of US$37.8 […]
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18 Jan 2017 1 min read
Juridica’s manager sees change of owner
Juridica Investments (JIL) has announced that it has been informed of a change in ownership at Juridica Asset Management Limited (JAML), its investment manager. It says that, effective 11 January 2017, Richard Fields, founder and sole owner of JAML, sold the entirety of his interest to John Sicilian. John Sicilian and William Yuen previously had […]
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15 Nov 2016 1 min read
UIL, Industrial Multi Property Third Quarter Winners – QuotedData
LONDON (Alliance News) – The best performer in both price and net asset value terms in the third quarter was UIL Ltd, boosted by its largest investment, Australian-listed Resolute Mining Ltd, which benefited from a strong gold price. Industrial Multi Property Trust PLC and Kubera-Cross Border Fund Ltd both saw recoveries in their share price […]
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07 Sep 2016 2 min read
Juridica to return 32p per share after announcing more losses
Juridica reports a total comprehensive loss of US$27.2 million (2015: US$34.2 million) or 24.67 cents per ordinary share for the six months ended 30 June 2016 due principally to: a net unrealised loss of US$23.8 million generated from the change in valuation of the Company’s investments; operating expenses of US$2.1 million; a realised loss of […]
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01 Jul 2016 3 min read
Miton Global Opportunities flat after rollercoaster year
Miton Global Opportunities has released results for the year ended 30 April 2016. The net asset value per share rose to 182.4p, a total return of 0.4% – there is no dividend. The manager says the company’s shares ended the financial year standing at an all-time high, moving from 162.75p to 164.25p during the year. […]
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12 Apr 2016 1 min read
Juridica gets result in two cases
Juridica, a provider of strategic capital for corporate legal claims to both businesses and the legal markets, provides the following portfolio update. Two cases in the Company’s portfolio have reached settlement, with one being a definitive settlement agreement and the second being a partial settlement agreement and this latter case is ongoing. Gross proceeds from […]
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08 Feb 2016 2 min read
Juridica in cost cutting mode
Following an announcement on 18 November 2015, from Juridica Investments, that it would no longer make new investments and would be conducting a review of its cost structure, its board have now announced amendments to its fee structure and measures that the company says will reduce its fixed costs going forward. The board says that, […]
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02 Feb 2016 1 min read
Diverse Income well ahead of UK market
Diverse Income’s interim results, covering the six months ended 30 November 2015, show the fund generating a return on net assets of 6.4% and a return to shareholders of 7.0%. They also declared two quarterly dividends of 0.65p each. The Board is rebalancing the quantum of the four quarterly dividends to make them more equal […]
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08 Jan 2016 2 min read
Miton Global Opportunities underperforms in first half
Miton Global Opportunities, formerly Miton Worldwide Growth Investment Trust PLC, has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 31 October 2015. During the period, the company’s NAV total return was -4.4% and its share price total return was -2.8%. These compare against a return of -3.6% on the MSCI world and a 1.3% return […]
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19 Nov 2015 1 min read
Juridica throws in the towel
Juridica has announced that it is throwing in the towel and will shift into realisation mode. The Company will not make new investments (other than for funding existing investments in the Company’s portfolio where such funding is reasonably required to realise maximum shareholder value) and will seek to return capital to shareholders in the most […]
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16 Nov 2015 1 min read
Juridica reports lower than expected damages on a case
Juridica has announced that one of its cases, Case 5009-S, which involved a theft of trade secret dispute brought by a smaller plaintiff against a much larger company, has completed a trial by jury. In spite of a full win on liability the jury only awarded an amount which will result in a return to […]
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02 Oct 2015 1 min read
The Investment Company hit by holding in Gable Group
The Investment Company’s annual report for the year ended 30 June says the NAV of the Company fell slightly from 394.41p to 389.34p, a reduction of 1.3%. The return to shareholders, including the dividends paid during the year, totalled 16.9p. The FTSE All-Share Index generated a total return of 2.6% over the twelve months to […]
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19 Aug 2015 4 min read
Juridica NAV dives on loss of case
For the first half of 2015 Juridica reports that its net asset value decreased from US$1.66 (107 pence per share) as at 31 December 2014 to US$1.35 (86 pence per share) at 30 June 2015. This decrease in NAV per ordinary share was primarily attributable to the total comprehensive loss of US$34.2m generated during the six-month period ending 30 June 2015. […]
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22 Jul 2015 1 min read
The Investment Trust winners and losers in Q2
UK smaller companies funds feature quite prevalently in the lists on the back of a decisive election result in the UK and some funds close to the end of their lives made significant progress during the quarter for stock specific reasons. http://whichinvestmenttrust.com/the-investment-trust-winners-and-losers-in-q2/
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20 Jul 2015 1 min read
UK smaller companies trusts dominate Q2 best-performers
UK small-caps has emerged as the stand-out sector for investment trusts in Q2 2015, according to statistics from QuotedData. The report, published 16 June, showed that UK smaller companies-focused mandates accounted for the majority of best-performing funds in NAV terms for the quarter. http://www.portfolio-adviser.com/news/1023811/uk-companies-trusts-dominate-q2-performers
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16 Jul 2015 1 min read
Small company investment trusts got election boost
Investment trusts specialising in smaller companies were among the top performers of the past few months after a decisive election result improved confidence in the sector, new research shows. But commodity and Asia-focused investment trusts were among the stragglers as investors shunned stocks exposed to an economic slowdown in China or a US rate rise, […]
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17 Mar 2015 1 min read
Juridica NAV falls as fees rise
Juridica has published results for the year ended 31 December 2014. Over this period the net asset value fell from $2.02 to $1.66. 31 cents of this fall relates to a distribution (20p = 31 cents) made to shareholders so the loss on the net asset value over the year was 5 cents. The 5 […]
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14 Jul 2014 1 min read
Juridica Investments invests in AC Kinetics
Juridica Investments has announced an investment in AC Kinetics, a privately-held US-based developer of an advanced induction motor control algorithms, which aim to reduce energy consumption while improving performance. In announcing the purchase JIL, which invests directly and indirectly in a wide variety of business-to-business related litigation and arbitration claims, advised that they believe the AC […]
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21 Mar 2014 1 min read
Juridica : JIL – final results
Juridica Investments, chaired by Lord Brennan (pictured), has announced its results for the period ended 31 December 2013. Over the year its net asset value fell from $2.20 per share to $2.02 as it paid out a 14p dividend (cost to the fund $25.7m) while generating net income of just $5.1m. Net income was dragged down […]
