Overview
Pollen Street Plc (formerly Honeycomb Investment Trust, prior to its merger with Pollen Street Capital Holdings Plc, which completed on 6 October 2022) aims to provide its shareholders with an attractive level of dividend income (targeting an 8% yield) and capital growth through the acquisition of interests in loans made to consumers, small businesses and other counterparties, together with related investments (“Credit Assets”), in specialist lending market segments which are underserved by mainstream lenders.
Pollen Street will seek to enhance returns for Shareholders through selected investments in companies which are aligned with its strategy, such as brokers and originators of loans to consumers and small businesses and strategic providers of data related to consumers and small and medium enterprises. Pollen Street will invest a maximum of 10% of the net proceeds of the Placing (and 10% of the net proceeds of any further share issue) in these assets. The trust’s ticker changed from HONY to POLN with effect from 10 October 2022.
You can access the fund’s website here
Research History
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05 Jan 2023 9 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – January 2023
December 2022 Monthly roundup | Investment companies Winners and losers in December 2022 The Financials sector only has two constituents, one of these – Trian Investors 1 – has seen its discount narrow since it promised to return cash to investors by next June, and it has also benefited from underlying NAV appreciation. Last month’s […]
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02 Jun 2021 1 min read
Interview with Matthew Potter of Honeycomb Investment Trust
In this week’s show, James Carthew talked to Matthew Potter of Honeycomb Investment Trust. Watch it again here If you were looking for QuotedData’s roundup of the week’s news, this is now in the news section – just click here. If there is a guest speaker you’d particularly like to hear from, please email us – [email protected]. […]
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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 May 2019 4 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – May 2019
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 or sell any of the […]
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12 Oct 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s Economic round up – October 2018
QuotedData’s Economic round up – October 2018 is 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 […]
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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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25 Apr 2018 1 min read
Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018
Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018 Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018 – Global equity markets declined in the first quarter of 2018. Concerns about US interest rate rises were the feature of the first half of the quarter. However, worries about global trade took over in the second part, particularly […]
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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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07 Feb 2018 2 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – February 2018
QuotedData investment companies roundup – February 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 January 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. The oil price was up again over the month and this helped propel […]
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18 Jan 2018 1 min read
QuotedData – 2017 review of the year
QuotedData – 2017 review of the year – Many commentators, including us, were wary going into 2017. In the event, economic growth and markets surprised on the upside: US markets hit new highs despite three interest rate rises. Perceived low/no growth areas such as Europe and Japan burst into life. Asia’s technology stocks surged. India’s […]
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14 Sep 2017 2 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – September 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – September 2017 – is 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 […]
News
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12 Oct 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 October 2023 – NAS, JEMA, POLN
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 October 2023: North Atlantic Smaller Companies (NAS) has sold its stake in Assisi Pet Care. On a look-through basis the trust invested £3.6m over the course of three years via a buy and build investment strategy and expects to receive at the closing, approximately £11m. This represents an uplift on […]
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22 Sep 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news update 22nd September 2023
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, Matthew Read covered the week’s top stories: • HICL Infrastructure (0:25) • GCP Infrastructure/GCP Asset Backed Income (2:24) • HydrogenOne Capital Growth (7:46) • Nippon Active Value (12:00) • Pollen Street (13:22) […]
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28 Nov 2022 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 November 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 November 2022: Pollen Street (POLN) has provided its Q3 update. As a reminder, POLN has formed from the merger of Honeycomb Investment Trust and Pollen Street Capital Holdings on 30 September 2022, and focuses on high quality, asset-backed senior secured lending. POLN reported a return on Net Investment Asset of […]
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07 Oct 2022 5 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 7 October 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 7 October 2022: Following its merger with Pollen Street Capital Holdings, Honeycomb Investment Trust has announced that it has changed its name to Pollen Street Plc. Honeycomb’s shares will trade under the new name on the London Stock Exchange from 8.00am on Monday 10 October 2022. The trust’s ticker will also […]
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06 Jun 2022 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 6 June 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 6 June 2022: Atrato Onsite Energy (ROOF) has posted its interim results for the period from its launch on 16 September 2021 to 31 March 2022. ROOF raised £150m at IPO in November 2021, and has since avoided 18 tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Installed operation capacity ended the period at 976kW […]
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02 Mar 2022 2 min read
80p dividend for Honeycomb shareholders ahead of merger
80p dividend for Honeycomb shareholders ahead of merger – Honeycomb (HONY) has posted its full-year results for the 12 months to 31 December 2021. During the period its dividend yield remained at 8% while its NAV returned 8.5%. The group maintained its track record of investment performance with earnings of £30.3m and the portfolio remains stable, […]
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18 Feb 2022 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 18th 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: • Honeycomb • Credit ratings for CSH and SUPR • NextEnergy Solar/TRIG This week’s interview was with Carlos Hardenberg of Mobius Investment Trust – watch […]
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15 Feb 2022 3 min read
Honeycomb to merge with Pollen Street
Honeycomb to merge with Pollen Street – Honeycomb Investment Trust has announced plans to merge with Pollen Street Capital Holdings, the holding company for its investment manager. This would be the end of Honeycomb as an investment trust as it morphs into a commercial company. Pollen Street shareholders will end up with about 45.5% of […]
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15 Sep 2021 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 September 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 September 2021: The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) has announced the results of its issue (by way of placing) under the its Share Issuance Programme and PrimaryBid Offer announced on 31 August 2021.TRIG will issue 161,290,323 New Ordinary Shares at 124 pence per share, raising gross proceeds of £200m in aggregate. […]
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30 Apr 2021 2 min read
Honeycomb results broadly in line with prior year
Honeycomb (HONY) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2020, during which it provided an NAV return of 7.7% over 2020, which was broadly in line with the prior year (2019: 7.8%). HONY’s chairman, Robert Sharpe, says that the stability of returns is particularly pleasing given the economic backdrop. He attributes […]
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29 Dec 2020 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 December 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 December 2020 – Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR) has bought a Waitrose supermarket in Market Harborough, Leicestershire from Alpha Real Estate for £9.1m. The investment represents a net initial yield of 4.3%, with an unexpired lease term of 19 years. Schroder British Opportunities (SBO) announced an investment into Graphcore, described as a leading machine […]
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11 Nov 2020 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 November 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 November 2020 – Gabelli Value Plus+ (GVP) published a circular in connection with the notice requisitioning a general meeting of the company from Associated Capital Group. On 22 October, GVP received a notice from ACG requisitioning a general meeting of the company. GVP’s board says that it does not consider that the package of measures […]
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15 Sep 2020 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 September 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 September 2020: McKay Securities has let the whole of 135 Theale Logistics Park, its 134,430 sq ft speculative warehouse development at Junction 12 of the M4 near Reading, to a logistics operator. The new tenant has agreed to a 10-year FRI lease term at a rent which is 2.0% ahead of […]
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14 Sep 2020 2 min read
Honeycomb shows resilience
Direct lending sector company, Honeycomb (HONY), delivered an 8.2% annualised NAV return for the first six months of the year (30 June 2019: 7.5%). The portfolio has displayed solidity over the pandemic to-date, with the underlying returns increasing in Q2 2020. The manager notes that the portfolio has seen the majority of underlying customer loans […]
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14 Aug 2020 2 min read
Pollen Street announces interim advisory agreement with Waterfall Asset Management
Pollen Street saga announces interim advisory agreement with Waterfall Asset Management – There have been more announcements involving Pollen Street Secured Lending’s (PSSL) future this afternoon, summarised below (you can access our most recent coverage of PSSL’s future, including Honeycomb’s proposed merger attempt by clicking here and here): At 12:40 pm, Honeycomb (HONY) said: “HONY […]
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11 Aug 2020 2 min read
Pollen Street saga continues
Pollen Street saga continues – Yesterday, Pollen Street Secured Lending’s board published a press release in which it rebuffed the merger proposal from Honeycomb. It also said that it intended to announce a replacement manager for the trust very shortly. The board said that the terms of the management agreement would provide significantly lower management and performance […]
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06 Aug 2020 3 min read
Could Bee marvellous: Honeycomb proposes merger with Pollen Street Secured Lending
Honeycomb Investment Trust (HIT) has announced that it has made a proposal to Pollen Street Secured Lending (PSSL) regarding a possible merger between the two. Under the terms of the proposal, PSSL shareholders would receive new ordinary shares in HIT on a NAV for NAV basis. The company says that a further announcement will be […]
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28 May 2020 1 min read
Honeycomb let down by widening discount
Honeycomb let down by widening discount – For the year ended 31 December 2019, Honeycomb Investment Trust reported a return on NAV of 7.8%, a little down from the 8.4% generated in 2018. Shareholders were left with a loss for the year, however, as the shares moved from trading at an 11.3% premium to a […]
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03 Mar 2020 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 3 March 2020
In QuotedData’s other news 3 March 2020: AEW UK Long Lease REIT has changed its name to Alternative Income REIT Gresham House Energy Storage managed to raise £31m, despite the ongoing market volatility. It will issue 30m shares at 104p each. The dispute between Pollen Street Secured Lending and its manager, Pollen Street Capital rumbles on. […]
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11 Sep 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 11 September 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 11 September 2019: Grit Real Estate, the pan-African real estate trust, is planning a fundraise – up to 280m shares at a price no less than NAV. Neil Rogan, ex-head of Global Equities at Gartmore with sole responsibility for Gartmore Global Focus Fund and the former lead manager of Fleming Far Eastern […]
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19 Aug 2019 1 min read
Woodford watch – P2P Honeycomb merger off?
Woodford watch – P2P Honeycomb merger off? – Sky News has a story which you can read here – that merger talks between P2P Global and Honeycomb Investment Trust have collapsed following objections from “several” shareholders in P2P including Aberdeen Standard Investments and Premier Fund Managers. The tie up makes logical sense in that both […]
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29 Apr 2019 2 min read
Honeycomb Investment Trust taking advantage as banks retreat from speciality space
Honeycomb Investment Trust taking advantage as banks retreat from speciality space – Honeycomb Investment Trust (HONY) has released its financials covering the year to December 31, 2018. The company had a good year with its asset secured lending model in the speciality space demonstrating the ability to withstand the many economic, political and market challenges […]
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19 Apr 2018 1 min read
Honeycomb raises £100 million
Honeycomb raises £100 million – Honeycomb Investment Trust [HONY] has raised £100m with a placing of up to 9,523,809 ordinary shares in the company at an issue price of £10.50 per share. These shares will not be entitled to receive the interim dividend of 20.0 pence per ordinary share, also announced when the capital raising was announced but will be entitled to […]
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29 Jan 2018 1 min read
Honeycomb provides funding to GLI Finance
Honeycomb provides funding to GLI Finance – The board of GLI Finance has announced that the company has signed a new funding facility with Honeycomb Investment Trust. The funding line has a term of 3 years and comprises a GBP50 million accordion and revolving credit facility, of which GBP20 million will be drawn and deployed […]
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26 May 2017 1 min read
Honeycomb Investment Trust announces placing programme
Honeycomb Investment Trust (HONY) has published a prospectus in relation to a share issuance programme of up to 40 million new Ordinary Shares and/or C Shares, including a first placing of Ordinary Shares. The Company says that it has fully deployed the net proceeds of the IPO placing and the placings of Ordinary Shares undertaken […]
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28 Apr 2017 3 min read
Honeycomb focusing more on organic origination
Honeycomb Investment Trust says that, following the initial share issue of GBP100.0 million, there have been two further successful share offerings with total gross proceeds of GBP100.0 million. The net share proceeds of all the share offerings have been deployed, with the latest gross proceeds of GBP50.0 million largely deployed on 13 January 2017 following […]
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26 May 2016 4 min read
Edinburgh Investment Trust sees strong benefits from its Tobacco holdings
The Edinburgh Investment Trust, managed by Mark Barnett (pictured), has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2016. During the year, the trust produced an NAV total return +4.6% (with dent at market value) versus a negative return of 3.9% for the trust’s benchmark, the FTSE All-Share Index. The company’s share price total […]
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13 May 2016 1 min read
Too Sweet to trade – Honeycomb raises a further £50m
Honeycomb Investment Trust has announced that it has completed the placing, announced yesterday, of 5 million new ordinary shares in the Company, raising gross proceeds of £50m. The placing shares are to be issued at a price of £10 per share, which represents a 1.5% to the trust’s estimated net asset value per share of […]
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23 Feb 2016 1 min read
Honeycomb buys loan portfolio
Honeycomb Investment Trust has announced that it has agreed to acquire a portfolio of consumer loans from Caledonian Consumer Finance Limited and Carnegie Consumer Finance Limited for a purchase price of £15m. Caledonian is separately expected to acquire 700,000 ordinary shares in the Company from Pollen Street Capital Holdings Limited, an affiliate of the Company’s Investment Manager, Pollen Street […]
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23 Dec 2015 1 min read
Honeycomb Investment Trust – a sweet £100m launch
Honeycomb Investment Trust has listed on the Specialist Fund Market of the London Stock Exchange raising £100m. The trust’s investment manager is Pollen Street Capital, the former private equity business of the Royal Bank of Scotland, which is headed by Lindsey McMurray. Pollen Street describes itself as a private equity fund manager focussed on investing […]
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24 Jun 2021 1 min read
Hunt for alternatives is back on as yields slide
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02 Sep 2019 2 min read
Investment trust Insider on P2P and Honeycomb
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