Overview
NB Distressed Debt invests in 40 to 50 holdings diversified across distressed, stressed and special situations investments, with a focus on senior debt backed by hard assets.
Fundamentals
Price
Research History
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09 Oct 2020 7 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – October 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents New research Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Major news stories Events Guide Appendix – Performance by sector full list New research Here is a list of research we published over September: Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust – […]
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08 Jun 2020 7 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – June 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents New research In this issue Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Major news stories Income Events Guide Appendix – Performance by sector full list New research Here is a list of research we published over May: GCP Infrastructure – […]
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07 May 2020 4 min read
QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – May 2020
Economic & Political Roundup Kindly sponsored by Allianz A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell […]
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05 Apr 2019 4 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – April 2019
Kindly sponsored by Polar Capital Economic & Political Roundup A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy […]
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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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13 Mar 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – March 2018
QuotedData investment companies roundup – March 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 February 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Equity markets continued to run up in early February, supported by strong corporate earnings […]
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12 Jul 2017 2 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – July 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – July 2017 – 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 June 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. July Investment Companies Roundup Money raised in July Newly launched in June were […]
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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
News
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26 Apr 2024 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 April 2024 – NBDD
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 April 2024: NB Distressed Debt has published its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2023. As a reminder, each share class is in its harvest period and there is now very little left of the fund. Perhaps reflecting this, there is not the usual depth of information that […]
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27 Apr 2023 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 April 2023
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 April 2023: Literacy Capital (BOOK) says its 31 March 2023 NAV was 467.3p, up 11.1% over the first three months of the year from 420.6p at the end of December. RCI (+£18.6m) was again the most significant contributor in the quarter, driven by strong organic growth. Kernel Global added £8.4m […]
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17 Apr 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 April 2023
In QuotedData’s morning briefing for 17 April 2023: RTW Venture Fund (RTW) has announced that its largest holding, Prometheus Biosciences (equal to c14.8% of RTW’s NAV) has been acquired by Merck for $200 per share, a 75% premium to its prior closing price. This would value Prometheus at c.$10.8bn. Prometheus is a clinical-stage biotechnology company […]
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26 Aug 2022 3 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 August 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 August 2022: Greencoat UK Wind (UKW) has completed the acquisition of a net 12.5% stake in Hornsea 1 offshore wind farm, as previously announced on 16 May 2022 (click here to read our coverage of the announcement). JZ Capital Partners (JZCP) has announced that, subject to the satisfaction of certain […]
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25 Apr 2022 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 25 April 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 25 April 2022: Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has signed a sale and purchase agreement for the acquisition of Nordic data centre and cloud services provider, Ficolo Oy for a total consideration of €135m. The acquisition is expected to complete later this year following customary regulatory approval. It builds upon DGI9’s strong […]
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15 Apr 2021 2 min read
NB Distressed still in distress
NB Distressed still in distress – NB Distressed Debt Investment Fund has published results for the year end 31 December 2020. The fund is in wind-up mode and so the focus is on maximising proceeds from the portfolio and getting that back to investors. There are three principal share classes – ordinary shares (NBDD), extended life […]
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18 Mar 2021 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 18 March 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 18 March 2021: NB Distressed Debt says its investment manager, Neuberger Berman Europe Limited, has offered to waive its entitlement to receive its management fee with immediate effect. The chairman says “The fee waiver recognises that it is taking longer than expected to fully realise the company’s assets due to a number […]
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27 Aug 2020 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 August 2020
It has been a quiet morning so far. In QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 August 2020: NB Distressed Debt (NBDD) reported interim results to 30 June 2020, with the main point of focus being the ongoing wind up of the company’s three share classes: Ordinary; Extended Life; and New Global. Chairman, John Hallam, noted: “the Ordinary class […]
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26 May 2020 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 May 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 May 2020, as the lockdown begins to ease: FastForward Innovations says its medicinal cannabis investment, Emmac Life Sciences will manufacture product for a clinical trial as part of a Consortium led by the University of Valencia. The clinical trial in COVID-19 patients will use the T12 molecule to prevent disease progression […]
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15 Apr 2020 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 April 2020
UK-focused Mercantile (MRC), the £1.5bn market cap trust, reported annual results to 31 January 2020. The company out performed its benchmark, with a total NAV return of +28.0% (shareholder’s return was +40.2%). Stock-specific highlights from the year include: Winners: One of the company’s largest holdings is a long standing investment in alternative asset manager Intermediate Capital Group whose shares […]
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16 Dec 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 16 December 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 16 December 2019 – Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID) acquired two operational battery storage facilities totalling 50MW from VLC Energy, a joint venture between Low Carbon and VPI Immingham a subsidiary of Vitol Group, for £29.2 million. The facilities comprise a 40MW facility at Glassenbury, Kent, and a 10MW facility at […]
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25 Nov 2019 2 min read
Portfolio update from NB Distressed Debt
Portfolio update from NB Distressed Debt – NB Distressed Debt (NBDD) has provided a portfolio update this morning; the company’s portfolio is invested across distressed, stressed and special situations investments, with a focus on senior debt backed by hard assets.On 13 June 2013, assets attributable to the company’s ordinary shares were placed into a harvest period. Since then, […]
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28 Aug 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 28 August 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 28 August 2019 – Hipgnosis Songs Fund settled for £51.1m of new money – issuing 48.4m shares at 105.5p. NB Distressed Debt Investment Fund has compulsorily redeemed on a pro rata basis 5,418,379 NBDX shares at a price of $0.9213 per NBDX share and 2,833,485 NBDG shares at a price of GBP0.8800 […]
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23 Aug 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 23 August 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 23 August 2019: Africa Opportunity shrinks board – Chris Agar, Dr. Vikram Mansharamani, and Mr. Peter Mombaur resign as directors with effect from 22 August 2019 so that the trust can save money. We have a raft of half-year reports: BMO Private Equity made 2.4% in NAV terms and 13.7% in share […]
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28 Mar 2019 2 min read
NB Distressed Debt pushes on with shareholder returns in 2018
NB Distressed Debt pushes on with shareholder returns in 2018 – NB Distressed Debt (NBDD) has published its annual report for the year to 31 December 2018. The company is made up of a number of different share classes: the Ordinary Share Class; the Extended Life Share Class; and the New Global Share Class. All three […]
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18 Feb 2019 2 min read
NB Distressed Debt sells largest holding for €34m
NB Distressed Debt has announced the sale of its combined largest holding, a lodging and casino sector investment, for proceeds totalling approximately $34 million. It says that the sale price is “substantially equal to the carrying value in the most recent Net Asset Value announcements” and represents a gain of approximately $9 million over the […]
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18 Apr 2018 3 min read
NB Distressed Debt’s run-off continues
NB Distressed Debt’s run-off continues- NB Distressed Debt Investment fund (NBDD), which is currently undergoing a run off program, has published its annual report and audited financial statement for the year ended 31 December 2017. The company overall has an indefinite life span. It is made up of a number of different share classes, which are currently […]
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19 Jan 2018 1 min read
Investment Trust Insider trusts that didn’t escape me last year
Investment Trust Insider – trusts that didn’t escape me last year. As 2018 gets underway, I thought that it might be worth revisiting some of the funds that I wrote about in 2017. At the start of the year I hailed the changes that Standard Life Private Equity (SLPE) was implementing to broaden its investment proposition and noted the increasing […]
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11 Apr 2017 2 min read
Rebound in NB Distressed Global NAV in 2016
NB Distressed Debt has published results for 2016. All three share classes are now in run-off. NB Distressed Global saw a remarkable rebound in its NAV over the year but investors at launch are still nursing a loss on their investment. On 31 March 2017 NBDG became the last of the existing share classes to enter into […]
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26 Aug 2016 4 min read
Welcome increase in disclosure by NB Distressed Debt
NB Distressed Debt has published interim results covering the six months to the end of June 2016. By that point, the NBDD Share Class had returned, through capital distributions, $108.4m or 87% of investors’ original capital of $125.0m by the end of the period. This, when added to the NAV of $40.3m, brings the ratio […]
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21 Jul 2016 1 min read
NB Distressed Debt to cancel CISE listing
NB Distressed Debt has announced its intention to cancel the listing of it shares on the Channel Islands Stock Exchange (CISE). The Company’s Shares are currently admitted to the SFS (Specialist Fund Section) of the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market and are also listed on the CISE. The Board says that one of the key […]
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26 Apr 2016 3 min read
Mark to market write downs weigh on NB Distressed Debt
NB Distressed Debt has announced results for the year ended 31 December 2015. NBDD’s NAV per share decreased 10.7% during the year, to $1.1184 from $1.2521 per share, compared to a drop of 8% in the HFRI Distressed/Restructuring Index and a drop of 43% in the defaulted loans segment of the S&P/LSTA Index. Similarly the Extended […]
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15 Dec 2015 2 min read
NB Distressed Debt curtails buy-back programme
The Board of NB Distressed Debt has announced that it is curtailing its buy-back programme on the Global and Extended Life shares. At the time of writing, the Global shares have fallen by 4.0% today and the extended Life shares by 3.7%. 1) with respect to the Global shares they said: “The discount control policy […]
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27 Aug 2015 1 min read
NB Distressed Debt suffers from difficult market environment
NB Distressed Debt said a difficult market environment led to falls in NAVs across its portfolios. It exited five investments during the first six months of 2015 which generated total returns of $9.3 million over the life of the investments. Over the first half of 2015, NB Distressed Debt distributed a further $30m to investors in the […]
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04 Mar 2015 1 min read
Promotions at NB Distressed Debt
NB Distressed Debt Investment Fund Limited has announced that senior analysts, Brendan McDermott and Ravi Soni, have been promoted to co-portfolio managers for distressed debt, effective immediately. Mr. McDermott and Mr. Soni report to Michael Holmberg, Senior Portfolio Manager and head of Neuberger Berman’s distressed debt business. At the same time they’ve announced that, Patrick Flynn, co-portfolio […]
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28 Jan 2014 1 min read
NB Distressed Debt : NBDD – proposed issue
ND Distressed Debt is proposing to create a new class of shares. This new “Global” portfolio will invest in the global distressed debt market with a particular focus on Europe and North America. The manager will have until 31 March 2017 to invest the issue proceeds and after this date all capital and profit from […]
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17 Jan 2014 1 min read
NB Distressed Debt : NBDD and NBDX – capital distributions
NB Distressed Debt is ready to make its first distributions to shareholders. These will be done via compulsory redemptions of shares – $28m in the case of NBDD (the original fund) or $0.2255 per share and $20.9m in the case of NBDX (the continuation fund) or $0.0593 per share. For NBDD the money comes from […]
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13 May 2024 1 min read
This investment trust sector yields 9% – is it too good to be true?
by Sam Benstead from interactive investor, 8th May 2024: Rising interest rates have knock-on effects for all investments – but one of the most important impacts is on bond markets. When rates rise, so do the returns that investors demand from fixed income. This leads to higher yields as a result of falling prices for […]
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24 Jun 2021 1 min read
Hunt for alternatives is back on as yields slide
Fixed income experts analyse the opportunities away from government and corporate bonds JENNIFER HILL, 24 June 2021, Citywire Wealth Manager Magazine issue 558 A Treasury sell-off at the beginning of 2021 provided a brief hint that more historically normal yields were on their way. That has faded in recent months as prices once again neared […]
