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Oakley Capital Investments makes solid progress in 2023

Oakley Capital Investments has published results for the 12 months ended 31 December 2023. They show that the fund produced an NAV return of 4% for the year, matching the return on the All-Share Index. However, a narrowing discount meant that the return to shareholders was 18%. The dividend for the year is 4.5p. Once […]

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GCP Asset Backed Income will recommend discontinuation

The GCP Asset Backed Income board has been talking to shareholders about the way forward for the company. Feedback on the future strategic direction came from shareholders representing a majority of the total voting rights in the company. Whilst differing views have been expressed by shareholders, a majority indicated a preference for an orderly realisation or […]

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Another great year for AVI Japan Opportunities

AVI Japan Opportunity’s results for 2023 show it continuing to pull ahead of its benchmark. For the 12 month period ended 31 December 2023, AVI Japan Opportunity generated an NAV total return of 15.8% and a share price total return of 14.8%, both well ahead of the 6.9% return on the MSCI Japan Small Cap […]

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Great stockpicking boosts Schroder Asia Total Return

Schroder Asian Total Return has published its final results for the year ended 31 December 2023. Returns were good, with a NAV total return of 8.8% coming in well ahead of the 1.3% return posted by the MSCI All Countries Asia ex Japan Index. Shareholders got a return of 10.3%, helped by a narrowing discount. […]

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QuotedData’s morning briefing 14 March 2024 – FCSS, ACIC, TIGT, STS, PHI

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 14 March 2024: Fidelity China (FCSS)  is expanding by £126.6m as it issues 59m shares to abrdn China shareholders in connection with the merger of the two companies. Each abrdn China (ACIC) share rolling into Fidelity China will be exchanged for 2.06481 Fidelity China shares (although each shareholder’s total position will […]

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Allianz Technology Trust returns more than 40% in 2023

Allianz Technology Trust (ATT) has released its annual results for the 12 months ending 31 December 2023. Over the 12 month period ATT generated a NAV total return of 46.4%, and share price total return of 44.5%. Both slightly underperformed its benchmark, the Dow Jones World Technology Index, which retuned 48.2%. ATT attributes this underperformance […]

QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 March 2024 – AEIT, UEM, SSIT, SUPR, CREI

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 March 2024: Asian Energy Impact Trust (AEIT) has released its NAV for the period ending 31 December 2023. It reported a NAV per share of 48.5 cents per share, down from 50.4 cents as of 30 September 2023. This is represents a total NAV of $85.0m. NAV movements are attributed […]

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Higher rates impact on Foresight Solar NAV

Foresight Solar Fund has published results for the year ended 31 December 2023. The highlights are: Net Asset Value (NAV) of £697.9m or 118.4p per share, down from £771.5m or 126.5p Higher discount rates (used to value the fund’s future cash flows to calculate the NAV) took 6.8p off the NAV – the discount rate […]

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TRIG sells a windfarm for 15% more than its previous valuation

The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) says that it has exchanged contracts for the sale of its 100% equity interest in Pallas, an onshore wind farm located in the Republic of Ireland, for a consideration of €62m. The proceeds from the sale represent a 15% premium to the last published valuation as at 31 December 2023. The […]

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QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 March 2024 – RGL, THRL, LAND, GSF

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 March 2024: Regional REIT (RGL) says that it is exploring a possible equity capital raise of around £75m through a rights issue that would be at a material discount to the current share price. The company adds that the rights issue is one of a range of refinancing options it is […]

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Cost disclosures – letter to The Times

We have co-signed a letter in today’s Times that calls for more urgent action on cost disclosures. You can read the letter on The Times site here Or you can see a version with the full list of signatories at the new website dedicated to this issue here   James & Ed  

HGT’s double-digit returns take its size to £2bn

HgCapital Trust (HGT) released its annual results for the 12 months ending 31 December 2023. HGT reported NAV returns of 11.1% over the year, ending with a NAV per share of 500.4p, and total net assets of £2.3m. HGT also reported a share price total return of 26.2%, with its market cap hitting the £2.0bn […]

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QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 March 2024 – SHC, GPE

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 March 2024: Shaftesbury Capital (SHC) has completed the acquisition of 25-31 James Street, Covent Garden, London for £75.1m. The properties have a contracted rent of £3.9m and comprise 21,000 sq ft of lettable area, including 12,000 sq ft of retail and 9,000 sq ft of residential and office accommodation. The company says […]

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QuotedData’s weekly news show 8th March 2024

Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • Hipgnosis Songs Fund (0:26) • Alliance Trust versus F&C (5:46) • Triple Point Energy Transition (9:59) This week’s interview was with Richard Aston from CC Japan […]

QuotedData’s weekly news show 23rd June 2023 with Jonathan Hick from Triple Point Energy Transition
Stock spotlight: Dexcom

Sands Capital’s Sunil Thakor looks at medical device company Dexcom – leader in the field of continuous glucose monitoring – and examines what makes it a high-quality growth business. Filmed in December 2023.

QD view – Clash of the titans

Alliance Trust and F&C Investment Trust are two of the largest investment trusts offering investors access to a global portfolio of shares. Both are well over 100 years old, with a good track record of adapting to changing circumstances. There has always been something of a rivalry between them, but it feels to me as […]

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2023 – a more challenging year for BlackRock World Mining

BlackRock World Mining (BRWM) has released its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2023, during which it provided NAV and share price total returns of -6.2% and -10.4% respectively. In comparison, it says that its reference index, the MSCI ACWI Metals & Mining 30% Buffer 10/40 Index (net total return), returned +2.4%, the […]

F&C held back by underexposure to ‘Magnificent Seven’ during 2023

F&C Investment Trust (FCIT) has announced its results for the year ended 31 December 2023, during which it provided NAV and share price total returns of 11.3% and 8.1% respectively, both underperforming its All-Share benchmark, which it says returned 15.1%. 2023 was a good year for global equity markets after significant losses during 2022 and, […]

Chrysalis backs Smart Pension’s growth plans with £4m investment

Chrysalis Investments is making a c.£4m investment in Smart Pension Limited, alongside certain other investors. This investment is in addition to the approximate £2m invested in Smart on 16 January 2024, as previously disclosed. The terms of this combined approximate £6m investment would likely lead to an increase of approximately 3.7p in the Chryalis’s NAV […]

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Alliance Trust celebrates decent outperformance in 2023

Alliance Trust had a good year in 2023, returning 21.6% in NAV terms and 20.2% in share price terms, 6.3 and 4.9 percentage points ahead of the return on the MSCI All Country World Index (MSCI ACWI), respectively. A 5% increase in the annual dividend to 25.2p per share makes this the 57th year of […]

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Premier Miton Global Renewables ploughs on in difficult markets

Premier Miton Global Renewables Trust has published its annual report covering the 12 months ended 31 December 2023. In a difficult period for the sector that it operates in, the return on the trust’s assets was -7.5%, which was meaningfully better than the return on the S&P Global Clean Energy Index of -20.1%. Thanks to […]

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QuotedData’s morning briefing 7 March 2024 – AEEE

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 7 March 2024: Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust (AEET / AEEE) says it didn’t receive any definitive proposal from potential buyers that it believes, at this time, could deliver greater value to shareholders than its ongoing managed run-off of the portfolio. It wants to hold back a cash buffer but plans to […]

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Chrysalis – correction to our note published 7 February 2024

In our note published 7 February 2024, we wrote “The managers envisage that Klarna could be worth $18bn based on Klarna trading on the same gross profit multiple as closest-listed peer, Affirm. CHRY has a 1% stake. On those figures, a Klarna sale could add about 30p to the NAV.” Unfortunately, there was a drafting […]

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Digital 9 Infrastructure takes a big step towards realisation

The board of Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has announced that the Icelandic regulator has given its approval for the sale of the Verne Global group of companies (which included Verne Iceland). As a result all closing conditions related to the Verne Transaction have now been satisfied. However, the change of control consent is still conditional […]

CLS Holdings’ results shine light on office sector struggles

CLS Holdings, the office landlord with assets across the UK, France and Germany, has reported a sharp fall in EPRA net tangible assets (NTA) in full year results to the end of December 2023, as the office sector continues to struggle with valuation declines. The group’s NTA fell 23.2% to 253.0p from 329.6p at the […]

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QuotedData’s morning briefing 06 March 2024 – CVCE, LMP

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 6 March 2024: CVC Income & Growth (CVCE) has announced that 50,000 shares were issued as a result of its March 2024 tender. CVCE currently has 96.6m shares in circulation, 52.7m of which are held in treasury. The merger of LondonMetric Property (LMP) and LXi REIT (LXI) has completed. A total […]

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HydrogenOne’s Sunfire gets €0.5bn of new funding

HydrogenOne Capital Growth notes that its portfolio company Sunfire GmbH has announced a successful equity funding round, part of a wider funding package totalling more than €500m. The investment adviser believes this is a significant financial milestone for Sunfire, with €215m raised in a Series E equity financing round, further complemented by a term loan […]

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RIT Capital looks to reduce private investments exposure as prospect of realisations improves

RIT Capital says that its NAV total return for the year ended 31 December 2023 was 3.2%. There was quite a big dispersion of returns by asset class within the portfolio. The trust’s quoted equities delivered strong performance, returning +18.1% for the year. Uncorrelated strategies produced solid returns, led by credit positions returning double digits. […]

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Triple Point Energy Transition publishes wind down proposals

Triple Point Energy Transition has published a circular convening a meeting to approve its managed wind down proposals. Approval will be sought from Shareholders for: the proposed change to the investment objective and investment policy to facilitate the managed wind-down of the company and orderly realisation of its assets; the conditional disposal by TENT Holdings […]

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Apax Global Alpha pleads case for continuation as vote looms

Apax Global Alpha says that its NAV return for the year ended 31 December 2023 was 4.1%. This is a long way behind the return on the MSCI World Index for the year of almost 20%. The chairman notes that deal activity in private equity was more muted during the first half of 2023, but […]

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