Overview
UK Mortgages Limited aims to provide Shareholders with access to stable income returns through the application of relatively conservative levels of leverage to portfolios of UK mortgages. The Company expects that income will constitute the vast majority of the return to Shareholders and that the return to Shareholders will have a relatively low volatility and demonstrate a low level of correlation with broader markets.
The Company will target a net total return on the Issue Price of between 7 and 10% a year, once the Company is fully invested.
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Research History
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03 Nov 2022 8 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – November 2022
Investment Companies Monthly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and abrdn November 2022 Monthly | Investment companies Winners and losers in October 2022 Many equity markets recovered some of the ground lost in September. The swift departure of Liz Truss and her unfunded tax cuts helped the UK stock market and sterling. North America […]
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16 Oct 2020 11 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Quarterly Review – Third Quarter 2020
Investment Companies Quarterly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents In this issue Performance data Positive movers Negative movers Discounts and premiums Getting more expensive Getting cheaper Money in and out Money in Money out Major news stories Upcoming Events New research Guide The legal bit Stubborn resistance The end […]
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10 Aug 2020 7 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – August 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 Income Events Guide Appendix – Performance by sector full list New research Here is a list of research we published over July: Seneca Global Income & Growth – […]
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07 Apr 2020 8 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – April 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 March: An update note […]
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5 min read
QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – April 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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06 Dec 2019 6 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – December 2019
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford Table of contents New research In this issue Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Income Events New research Here is a list of research we published over November: An initiation note on Henderson High Income “We have initiated coverage on Henderson High Income (HHI). Since […]
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08 May 2019 3 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – May 2019
Investment Companies Roundup New research Over April, we published notes on Henderson Diversified Income, Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure, Jupiter Emerging and Frontier Income, Seneca Global Income & Growth and Polar Capital Global Financials Trust. You can read all these notes by clicking on the links above or by visiting www.quoteddata.com. In this issue Performance data – it was […]
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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 Jul 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – July 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – July 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 June 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. July Investment Companies Roundup Money raised and returned in June Newcomer to the market, Yew Grove […]
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18 Apr 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – April 2018
QuotedData investment companies roundup – April 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 March 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Stock markets have suffered their first meaningful fall for nearly two years. At the quarter end, […]
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19 Oct 2017 1 min read
Quarterly investment companies roundup – Third quarter 2017
Quarterly investment companies roundup – Third quarter 2017 – Markets moved up a little over the course of the three months ended 30 September 2017. Regionally, emerging markets did well. The pound strengthened a bit relative to the US dollar but was flat against the euro. The oil price rose by more than 20%. In […]
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12 Oct 2017 1 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – October 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – October 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 September 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. October Investment Companies Roundup Amongst the top performers, Alternative Liquidity Fund sold its […]
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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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14 Jun 2017 1 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – June 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – June 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 May 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. June Investment Companies Roundup Japan was one of the best places to be […]
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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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07 Dec 2016 1 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – December 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 November 2016. december-investment-companies-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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1 min read
QuotedData’s round up of views on the global economy – November 2016
QuotedData’s collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from comments made by chairman and managers of investment companies. november-economic-and-political-roundup
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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
News
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24 Mar 2022 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 March 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 March 2022: Starwood European Real Estate Finance (SWEF) generated an NAV return of 6.6% for the year ended 31 December 2021 and paid a reduced dividend of 5.5p (down from 6.5p). Subject to the discount triggered realisation mechanism not being activated, the directors will put forward a realisation vote no […]
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21 Mar 2022 4 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 March 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 March 2022: Further to the announcement on 8 February 2022 in relation to the proposed merger of TwentyFour Income Fund Limited (TFIF) and UK Mortgages Limited (UKML), the board of UKML has announced that the special resolutions proposed at its EGM last week were approved and that liquidators have been […]
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11 Feb 2022 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 11th February 2022
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • Strategic Equity Capital • UK Mortgages/Twenty Four Income • BlackRock Throgmorton This week’s interview was with Richard Aston of CC Japan Income & Growth […]
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08 Feb 2022 2 min read
Twenty Four Income and UK Mortgages to merge
Twenty Four Income and UK Mortgages to merge – the boards of TwentyFour Income Fund and UK Mortgages have agreed the terms of a proposed merger of the two companies. The merger will be effected by way of a scheme of reconstruction of UK Mortgages, consisting of the winding-up of that fund, the transfer of […]
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23 Jun 2021 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 June 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 June 2021 – Weiss Korea Opportunity Fund (WKOF) said that further to its announcement of 9 June 2021, it has made good progress with the sale of assets in the realisation pool and announced the first compulsory redemption of realisation shares representing approximately 76.7% of realisation shares in issue. Standard Life […]
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17 Mar 2021 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 March 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 March 2021 – UK Mortgages’s (UKML’s) interim results to 31 December 2020 delivered a 7.7% total NAV return. Chairman, Christopher Waldron, said the following in his notes: “Clearly, since those early days of the COVID-19 pandemic our worst fears over the extent of mortgage holidays and the consequences of other forbearance […]
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09 Feb 2021 2 min read
UK Mortgages sells two portfolios
UK Mortgages sells two portfolios – UK Mortgages Limited says that, on Friday 5th February 2021, UK Mortgages Corporate Funding Designated Activity Company signed agreements under which, Godiva Mortgages Limited, a subsidiary of Coventry Building Society has made a commitment to purchase two buy-to-let mortgage portfolios originated by Godiva and currently financed within the Cornhill No.6 […]
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19 Jan 2021 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 19 January 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 19 January 2021; Hg has held a minority position in TeamSystem since 2015, following its majority exit to a vehicle indirectly held by Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners VII, L.P. A transaction has recently been agreed to transfer TeamSystem to a vehicle indirectly held by Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners IX, L.P. As […]
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12 Jan 2021 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 January 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 January 2021: UK Mortgages Limited is launching Hops Hill No.1, a securitisation of the portfolio of first ranking, buy-to-let mortgage loans originated by Keystone Property Finance. Keystone have been originating loans for UKML for the last two years with warehouse financing provided by NAB. The portfolio size reached almost £340m by 31st […]
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20 Nov 2020 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 20 November 2020
QuotedData’s weekly news show 20 November 2020 Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on youtube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: BlackRock Throgmorton’s fundraise Montanaro European’s excellent results UK Mortgage’s plan for the future Watch it again here We’ll be […]
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16 Nov 2020 2 min read
QuotedData’s Morning Briefing 16 November 2020
QuotedData’s Morning Briefing 16 November 2020 – UK Mortgages (UKML) is to convene an extraordinary general meeting on 4 December. Its board is recommending that UKML should continue operating as a publicly-traded investment company under a revised mandate offering an increased focus on enhancing liquidity and returns whilst continuing to seek to narrow the discount. This […]
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30 Oct 2020 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 30 October 2020
QuotedData’s weekly news show 30 October 2020 Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on youtube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: a crossroads for UK Mortgages an unwelcome tender offer for shares in Alternative Income REIT Augmentum raising £28m […]
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27 Oct 2020 2 min read
UK Mortgages review progressing
UK Mortgages review progressing – For the year ended 30 June 2020, UK Mortgages reports a fall in its asset value, from 82.06p to 80.59p, and a more substantial collapse in its share price, from 73.5p to 49.3p. The NAV total return for the period was 2.7%. The dividend was reduced from 5.625p to 4.5p but was […]
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17 Aug 2020 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 August 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 August 2020: Following on from the news on 14 August that 2020 that UK Mortgages (UKML) had rejected M&G’s revised offer (we wrote about this here) of 70p per share, UKML’s board noted the following: “The board continues to believe that M&G Investment Management’s proposals undervalued the company and its […]
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13 Aug 2020 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 August 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 August 2020: Riverstone Credit Opportunities Income (RCOI) has announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2020. During the period, its NAV per share has fallen by 1.0% to US$1.004 (31 December 2019: US$1.014), although the company made a profit of US$2.46 million. RCOI has announced the […]
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10 Aug 2020 2 min read
UK mortgages updates on strategic review
As part of its follow up to its strategic update announced on 22 July 2020, UK Mortgages Limited (UKML) has announced a review of future strategy. At the same time, it has reiterated its position that the possible offer from M&G Investment Management (MAGIM) materially undervalues the Company and its prospects. As such, UKML’s board […]
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24 Jul 2020 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 24 July 2020
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on youtube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: M&G’s approach to UK Mortgages – which could results in a takeover; Baillie Gifford’s new China trust – rising from the ashes of Witan Pacific; […]
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20 Jul 2020 2 min read
M&G stalking UK Mortgages
M&G Investment Management Limited (“MAGIM”), on behalf of one of its managed funds, M&G Specialty Finance Fund (£) SCSp says that it has made several approaches to the board of UK Mortgages Limited with a view to making a recommended cash offer, all of which have been rejected. The most recent approach was made on 15 […]
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14 Jul 2020 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 14 July 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 14 July 2020: Pollen Street Secured Lending shareholders remain in limbo as the deadline for Waterfall making an offer for the company is extended again. This time until 5pm on 11 August. Standard Life Private Equity’s estimated NAV edged higher in May to 431.2p from 427.7p. 99% of the valuations of […]
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18 Oct 2019 2 min read
UK Mortgages feels impact of falling interest rates
UK Mortgages feels impact of falling interest rates – UK Mortgages says that, for year ended 30 June 2019, its NAV fell from 85.7p to 82.1p, its share price fell from 87.25p to 73.5p and it cut its dividend target from 6p to 4.5p. The main culprit for this is said to be falling interest rates. […]
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26 Jul 2019 2 min read
QuotedData’s other news 26 July 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 26 July 2019: Scottish American (SCAM) has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 June 2016, in which it modestly outperformed its benchmark. SCAM’s net asset value total return for the first six months of 2019 was 17.3% and the share price total return was 17.5%. In contrast, it says […]
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3 min read
UK Mortgages seeks changes to improve returns
UK Mortgages Limited (UKML) has announced proposals to change its articles, investment policy and share buyback policy, with the aim of improving the returns generated by the Portfolio and the Company’s cash position, without at the same time increasing the credit risk of the underlying securitisations. Background to the proposals UKML says that the investment […]
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25 Jun 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news – 25 June 2019
In QuotedData’s other news – 25 June 2019 Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR) has announce a 12-month extension of the maturity date of its £100 million Revolving Credit Facility with HSBC from 30 August 2020 to 30 August 2021. SUPR says that the original terms of the facility are unchanged, and the facility contains one further […]
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09 Apr 2019 1 min read
UK Mortgages completes £209m fourth securitisation
UK Mortgages completes £209m fourth securitisation – UK Mortgages (UKML) has announced the successful public sale of £209.15m senior securitised notes. The securitisation is backed by a pool of owner-occupied mortgages originated by The Mortgage Lender (TML) completed between October 2016 and today. It has been purchased by on a forward flow basis by UK […]
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18 Oct 2017 2 min read
UK Mortgages dividend uncovered until 2020
UK Mortgages dividend uncovered until 2020 – UK Mortgages Limited has announced results for the year from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017. The net asset value has fallen from 94.95p to 89.36p as dividends for the year of 6p were paid from revenue of just 0.41p per share with the balance coming from […]
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21 Sep 2017 1 min read
UK Mortgages cuts management fee
UK Mortgages cuts management fee – The board of UK Mortgages Limited has reached agreement with TwentyFour Asset Management LLP for a reduced portfolio management fee. With effect from the financial year beginning 1 July 2017 the annual portfolio management fee payable by UKML to TwentyFour will reduce to 0.60% of the lower of the […]
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27 Jun 2017 2 min read
UK Mortgages takes steps to tackle falling NAV
UK Mortgages takes steps to tackle falling NAV as capital distributions eat into fund. UK Mortgages has made an update presentation to investors. In it, it acknowledges that it has taken longer to invest the proceeds of its IPO than expected. The longer investment period has meant: Slower earnings growth A longer period of uncovered […]
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26 May 2017 1 min read
UK Mortgages announces securitisation for Oat Hill No.1
UK Mortgages Limited (UKML) and TwentyFour Asset Management LLP (TwentyFour) have announced the mandate for Oat Hill No.1 PLC, a public securitisation of Buy-to-Let mortgages originated by Capital Home Loans, purchased in February 2017 by UK Mortgages. TwentyFour, the appointed Portfolio Advisor, has mandated BofAML as Arranger and BofAML and NatWest Markets as Joint Lead […]
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03 Jan 2017 1 min read
UK Mortgages expecting gross IRR greater than 8% for third transaction
UK Mortgages Limited has announced that terms have been agreed, and signed, for the purchase of an existing pool of mortgages, which, if completed, will be UKML’s third transaction and will deploy its remaining investible capital. The company says that it expects the transaction will be completed early in 2017, following the finalisation of certain […]
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24 Nov 2016 1 min read
UK Mortgages concerned about rate of deployment
The Board of UK Mortgages and TwentyFour Asset Management say that the TwentyFour portfolio management team remain fully engaged on a number of prospective opportunities with the aim of fully investing the Company’s capital in as timely a manner as possible. The Board is confident that current opportunities under discussion will lead to the remaining cash […]
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27 Oct 2016 1 min read
UK Mortgages will pay 6p dividend but this may not be covered by earnings
UK Mortgages has published its first set of accounts, covering the period from 10 June 2015 to 30 June 2016. At the end of the period, the NAV was 94.95p, the share price 96.75p and they had declared dividends totalling 3p for the period. They say that the pace of investment has been slower than […]
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08 Jul 2016 2 min read
UK Mortgages agrees second transaction
The Board of UK Mortgages Limited has announced that the second transaction for UKML has been agreed. Since UKML’s launch, TwentyFour has sought a mortgage origination partner to facilitate an ongoing flow of mortgage loans that fit the investment policy. Over the past few months, the team has worked with The Mortgage Lender Limited (“TML”) to develop […]
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26 May 2016 1 min read
UK Mortgages completes its inaugural securitisation
UK Mortgages Limited and its manager, TwentyFour Asset Management LLP, have announced that Malt Hill No.1 Plc (a public securitisation backed by buy-to-let mortgages originated by Coventry Building Society Group) has successfully completed the public sale of £263.3mm of AAA-rated bonds. As previously announced, the securitisation is backed by buy-to-let mortgages originated by Coventry Building […]
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23 May 2016 1 min read
UK Mortgages securitising Coventry BS portfolio
UK Mortgages Limited and TwentyFour Asset Management LLP have created Malt Hill No.1, a public securitisation backed by buy-to-let mortgages originated by Coventry Building Society Group. These mortgages were purchased in November 2015 by UK Mortgages Corporate Funding Designated Activity Company. The securitisation transaction was announced on 23rd May, with a view to price the Class A notes […]
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24 Mar 2016 2 min read
UK Mortgages working on more transactions
UK Mortgages has published its first set of figures, covering he period from its incorporation to the end of December 2015. The net asset value at the end of the period was 97.82p. In early November that the manager had completed the first purchase of a £310m pool of high quality buy-to-let mortgages from the […]
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04 Nov 2015 1 min read
UK Mortgages signs agreement for first transaction with The Coventry Building Society
UK Mortgages Limited, which listed on the LSE on 7 July 2015 raising £250m, has announced that it has signed an agreement for its first transaction. The transaction is with the Coventry Building Society Group. Under the terms of the transaction, UK Mortgages will invest in profit participating notes (PPNs) issued by a dedicated acquisition […]
