Investment trust insider on Literacy Capital – James Carthew: Read up on Literacy Capital ready for the right moment With markets as volatile as they are, and talk of recession getting louder, it is perhaps unsurprising that discounts are widening across the investment companies sector. Just under a quarter of funds are clinging onto a […]
By ROSIE MURRAY-WEST, FINANCIAL MAIL ON SUNDAY, 21 May 2022: Any investment that has generated wealth since before the Coronation must have firm foundations. That is true for the 36 investment trusts that predate the Queen’s accession to the throne. They have survived the stock market crashes that peppered the early 1970s, October 1987 (Black […]
James Carthew for Investment Week, 16 May 2022: Most Asian funds have had a tough time recently, dragged down by their Chinese exposure. Government intervention in a range of sectors unnerved investors, but now the country has embarked on a new phase of stringent lockdowns in a bid to maintain its zero-Covid policy. Funds dedicated […]
Investment trust insider on Seraphim Space – James Carthew: Seraphim Space bumps back to earth Just 10 months ago, Seraphim Space (SSIT) managed to raise £150m from investors in an oversubscribed initial public offer. Stakes-for-shares swaps expanded the company, exuberant markets drove the shares to a 32% premium above net asset value (NAV), and by […]
Sam Benstead from interactive investor, 11th May 2022: The stock market rout this year has created a rare opportunity to buy shares in investment trusts run by star managers at large discounts to the value of their investments. Headline bargains include a 38% discount on Pershing Square Holdings run by Bill Ackman, a 10% discount […]
Kathleen Gallagher, Investment Week, 11 May 2022: At the beginning of this week (9 May) the JLEN Environmental Assets trust flagged that its Q1 NAV is likely to be 13-15% higher than the end of last year. The trust, and a number of its peers, are sitting on double digit premiums as they benefit from, […]
Investment trust insider on LXI REIT – James Carthew: Happy long returns to ‘eclectic’ LXI Reit LXI Reit (LXI) recently celebrated the fifth anniversary of its initial public offer (IPO). The trust launched in February 2017, raising £138m versus an original target of £200m. Any initial disappointment is presumably long behind it as the trust […]
Investment trust insider on China – James Carthew: The China trust I might add to my mix I have just survived my first brush with Covid and, presumably thanks to the vaccinations I have had over the past year or so, was fortunate that the symptoms were mild. I know there are people who worry […]
