In QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 September 2021: Seraphim Space (SSIT) has invested $25m into Isotropic Systems, a leading developer of transformational broadband terminal technologies which is looking to redefine satellite communications. Isotropic’s Series B funding round raised more than $35m and other participants included strategic and deep-tech venture capital investors, such as AEI HorizonX, Promus […]
QuotedData’s weekly news show 24 September 2021 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: US solar funds CQS New City High Yield Genesis Emerging Markets This week’s interview was with Peter Hewitt […]
We had results this week from two of the giants of the UK equity income sector. The City of London Trust, which has been managed for 30 years by Job Curtis at Janus Henderson, celebrated its 55th consecutive year of dividend increases. Rival, Murray Income can ‘only’ boast a 48-year track record of consecutive dividend […]
Normally the dull end of the real estate world (meant in the nicest possible way), the social housing real estate investment trust (REIT) sector has thrown up two of the biggest pieces of news this week – Civitas Social Housing (CSH) coming under attack from a short seller and Home REIT (HOME) raising £350m in […]
Castelnau Group Limited (Castelnau) has announced that it has published a prospectus in relation to an initial public offering (IPO) on the LSE’s specialist fund segment of the main market (SFM). Castelnau is targeting a capital raise of £170m (170 million shares at £1.00 per share) via an initial placing, an offer for subscription and […]
New Star Investment Trust (NSI) has announced its annual results for the year ended 30th June 2021, during which it benefited from its allocations to UK smaller companies and emerging markets but allocations to dollar cash and gold equities hurt performance. During the year, NSI generated a positive total return of 22.16%, taking the net […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 September 2021: Nippon Active Value Fund (NAVF) has published its interim results for the 6 months to 30 June 2021. Over the period, NAVF’s NAV per share and share price total return had increased by 10.1% and 17.5% respectively, while its discount narrowed from 6.2% to 2.6%. In comparison, the […]
Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR) has reported impressive full-year results, posting net asset value (NAV) total return of 12.8% for the year to 30 June 2021. The uplift in NAV (EPRA net tangible assets – NTA) of 7% to 108p per share was primarily due to an 8.5% like-for-like growth in the value of its property […]
BB Biotech has disclosed an increase in its holding in Mersana Therapeutics (Nasdaq:NRSN), the timing of which suggests it again aims to capitalise on a 40% fall in an investee company’s share price that occurred after a clinical trial update earlier in the month. The Swiss investment company disclosed the increased holding in a SEC […]
European Opportunities results overshadowed by Wirecard – European Opportunities has published results for the year ended 31 May 2021 and they don’t look good. Over the period, the trust returned 1.2% in NAV terms and 0.1% in share price terms. This compares to a return on the MSCI Europe Index of 24.6%. The dividend was […]
Better year for Gulf Investments but tender offer looms For the year ended 30 June 2021, Gulf Investment Fund generated an NAV return of 42.4%, very marginally less than the return on its benchmark S&P GCC Composite Index of 45.2%. A small narrowing of its discount meant that shareholders’ returns matched those of the index. […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 September 2021: Acorn Income has published a circular convening the meetings necessary to get shareholder approval for its plan to liquidate and offer investors a choice of cash or a rollover into an open-ended fund managed by Unicorn – the Unicorn UK Income Fund – this will be the default […]
Urban Logistics REIT has deployed £88m of the £109m it raised in July in six off-market transactions. The blended net initial yield (NIY) was 5.4% and is made up of a combination of income producing assets and forward funding commitments. Separately a further £15m was deployed before this equity raise, in three transactions. The manager […]
Another strong year for Pacific Horizon despite departure of long-standing manager – Pacific Horizon (PHI) has published its preliminary results for the year to 31 July 2021. The trust’s strong performance from the previous year has continued, with an exceptional NAV return of 61.3% and share price return of 59.2%. This compares with a 12.7% […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 22 September 2021: JPMorgan Smaller Companies (JMI) has changed its name to JPMorgan UK Smaller Companies with effect from today. Shareholders are unaffected by the change of name and existing share certificates should be retained and will remain valid. The manager of Tufton Oceanic Assets (SHIP), Tufton Investment Management, has announced […]
For the 12 months ended 30 June 2021, Murray Income returned 20.6% in NAV terms against 21.4% for the All-Share Index. The return to shareholders was 18.5% as the discount widened from 5.0% to 6.8%. However, since the period end the trust’s relative performance has improved. The dividend was increased marginally from 34.25p to 34.5p […]
The City of London Investment Trust has published results covering the year ended 30 June 2021. It just failed to match its benchmark over the period – returning 20.0% in NAV terms and 21.3% in share price terms against 21.5% for the All-Share Index. It also underperformed its peer group – the AIC UK Equity […]
Schroder UK Public Private saw its NAV rise by 16.1% to 40.65p over the six months ended 30 June. As we reported last week, the upcoming IPO of Oxford Nanopore could see this rise further. In the private equity portfolio two new investments were made into Tessian and Revolut. The portfolio had 34 holdings, 25 […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 September 2021: Workspace has sold 13-17 Fitzroy Street, London for £92m. The 92,700 sq ft property has been vacant since Arup moved out in June 2021. The sale price represents a 3.2% discount to the last valuation as at 31 March 2021 and a capital value of £993 per sq […]
Genesis speaks out on future of Emerging Markets fund ahead of of EGM to change manager and investment policy – Following the news in July that Genesis Emerging Markets would be appointing Fidelity as its new manager, implementing a new investment policy and other changes, the board has proposed a vote at an EGM, scheduled to take […]
All systems go at Gore Street Energy Storage with new acquisition, placing and retail offer – Gore Street Energy Storage (GSF) has announced a retail offer via PrimaryBid of new ordinary shares of 1p each at an issue price of 107p per new ordinary share. This represents a discount of approximately 7.8% to the closing mid-price of 116.0p on 17 September 2021 and […]
Supermarket Income REIT has acquired six supermarkets for a total of £113.1m, reflecting a combined net initial yield of 4.6%. Acquired from different vendors, the purchases consist of a Tesco in Prescot, two Morrisons in Durham and Cumbria, an Aldi in Oldham and an Aldi and M&S Foodhall site in Liverpool. The Tesco in Prescot, Merseyside […]
‘Recovery in fortunes’ continues for CQS New City High Yield – CQS New City High Yield (NCYF) has posted its annual financial report for the year to 30 June 2021. During the period under review, it delivered an NAV total return of 21.38% and a share price total return of 26.31%. The trust achieved a […]
Gresham House Energy Storage agrees five year debt facility after solid start to 2021 – Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID) has agreed a new five year £180m debt facility with a syndicate of banks including Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Lloyds Bank, NatWest and Santander. The facility comprises a £150m capex term facility and a £30m […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 20 September 2021: Ecofin US Renewables Infrastructure (RNEW) has completed its acquisition of Echo Solar Portfolio’s largest asset, which it signed an agreement to acquire in July. The portfolio includes 12 solar photovoltaic projects, which are at construction stage and are expected to be completed and to commence operations in phases […]
QuotedData’s weekly news show 17 September 2021 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: GCP Asset Backed Income Schroder UK Public Private Apax Global Alpha This week’s interview was with Robin Parbrook […]
Interim results tend to be quite placid affairs – giving a good update on performance and market commentary but not much else. This week, however, property development specialist Harworth Group bucked the trend by outlining its intentions to double in size to more than £1bn over the next five to seven years. Chief executive Lynda […]
As we discussed in Friday’s news show, it has been a good week for private equity investors. Hg Capital said it had sold its investment in supply chain management software company Achilles at a 20% premium to its last valuation, adding 0.9% to NAV. Apax Global Alpha announced an 89% uplift in the value of […]
JPMorgan Mid Cap has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2021, which show that it had a bumper year of outperformance that was derived from a number of sources. During the year, JMF says that its benchmark, the FTSE250, provided a total return of 36.7%, while JMF’s NAV total return for […]
NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has announced that it has into a £100m joint venture partnership (JVP) with Eelpower Limited, a leading battery storage specialist in the UK. The joint venture partnership is targeting the establishment of up to 250MW in projects with £100m in invested capital and has already signed its first acquisition of a […]
