QD view – Resurgent emergence: What are the prospects for emerging markets funds as the global economy recovers from COVID-19? The place to be Quite a few commentators have been picking emerging markets as the place to be in 2021. Part of the argument is that many of them (particularly in parts of Asia) coped […]
Aberdeen Emerging Markets (AEMC) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 October 2020, during which fund selection contributed strongly to the outperformance during the year, allowing AEMC to provide NAV and share price total returns of 8.9% and 12.2% respectively. The chairman, Mark Hadsley-Chaplin, says that there were notable contributions from certain […]
Tritax EuroBox, the European logistics investor, has proposed an equity raise of £173m (€200m) as it looks to expand its portfolio in the burgeoning property sector. The group will use the proceeds, together with existing cash (from the €65.5m sale of a Polish asset last week) and new debt, to acquire a near term pipeline […]
Assura (AGR) has announced that it has completed the acquisition of primary care developer Apollo Capital Projects Development Limited (Apollo). AGR says that Apollo has a strong, 20-year track record of developing high-quality primary care properties across the UK, with a very experienced four-person development team. As well as expanding the Assura development team to […]
NewRiver REIT (NRR) has announced that its joint venture with BRAVO Strategies III LLC (BRAVO), in which it holds a 10% stake, has exchanged contracts to acquire The Moor, a 28 acre estate in Sheffield city centre. The estate is being acquired from CEP ASI UKPF Nominee 1 Limited and CEP ASI UKPF Nominee 2 […]
Civitas Social Housing (CSH) has announced that the Company has secured a new seven year term, interest only, loan facility of £84.55m from M&G Investment Management Limited, a new lender to the Company. The new facility is priced at 2.75% above a fixed rate set by reference to the LIBOR swap rate of the loan […]
Urban Logistics REIT (SHED) has announced the acquisition of six logistics assets for a total consideration of £27.8 million at a net initial yield of 6.87%. The acquisitions include the Kinaxia portfolio (four logistics assets purchased from Kinaxia Logistics), a logistics asset in Leigh and a logistics asset in Rotherham. The Kinaxia Portfolio On 17 […]
Jupiter UK Growth (JUKG) has issued a circular detailing its reconstruction and wind up proposals. This follows on from JUKG’s previous announcements in January that terms had been agreed with Brown Advisory Funds Plc for a rollover into the Sterling Class B Distribution Shares in Brown Advisory Global Leaders Fund, or, alternatively, shareholders could opt […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 19 February 2021: City of London has released its interim report for the six months ended 31 December 2020. During the period, it provided an NAV total return of 6.9% and a share price total return of 12.3%. These compare against returns from its All-Share Benchmark of 12.3%, the AIC UK Equity Income […]
Supermarket Income REIT has acquired a further stake in a 26-strong Sainsbury’s portfolio. The group, in a joint venture partnership with BA Pension fund, bought a 25.5% stake in the Sainsbury’s portfolio last year from British Land, and has today acquired a further 25.5% stake from Aviva Investors for £115m. Following this second acquisition, the […]
Brunner beat the market in 2020 – Brunner Investment trust’s results for the year ended 30 November 2020 show an NAV total return of 6.2% for the period, ahead of the 5.3% return delivered by the trust’s benchmark (70% World Ex-UK and 30% UK All-Share). As dividend cuts and suspensions abounded in the wake of the […]
Riverstone Credit bucks poor energy markets for 2020 – Riverstone Credit Opportunities Income has published results for the year ended 31 December 2020. The company finished the year with an NAV of $1.04. It was also able to declare dividends totalling 7 cents per share for 2020. These were covered by earnings of 7.59 cents. The […]
KKV Secured Loan secures an exit and an NAV uplift – Finally, some better news for investors in KKV Secured Loan as it reports that it has received net proceeds of $24.3m from the refinancing of two existing investments in a US based reinsurance company. These investments are referred to as Borrowers 7 and 9 in […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 18 February 2021: SEGRO (SGRO) says its French subsidiary is making a tender offer for the 5.6% of Sofibus Patrimoine that it doesn’t already own. SEGRO’s offer is €313.71 per share. Grainger (GRI – the residential property company) has made Robert Hudson its chief financial officer. Rob is currently chief finance and operations […]
Supermarket Income REIT has acquired its first Northern Ireland asset with the purchase of a Sainsbury’s supermarket in Bangor for £24.8m. The price for the 10-acre site, which also includes a Homebase unit, reflects a net initial yield of 6.6%. Developed in 2011, the site comprises a 44,000 sq ft net sales area supermarket with 650 […]
The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) has published its annual results, covering the period to 31 December 2020. Performance highlights include: Portfolio generated 3,953GWh of electricity in the year (2019: 3,036GWh) Directors’ portfolio valuation of £2,213m, as at 31 December 2020 (2019: £1,745m) following six acquisitions NAV total return of 6.1% for the year and 8.1% since IPO (annualised) Earnings […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 February 2021 – Greencoat UK Wind’s (UKW’s) placing raised gross proceeds of £198m. The net capital raised will be deployed towards reducing borrowings under the company’s revolving credit facility, to allow the company to fund its pipeline of acquisition opportunities. Chrysalis Investments (CHRY) will seek approval from its shareholders to issue up […]
CC Japan subscription shares are here – CC Japan Income says today it has allotted 26,946,122 subscription shares to qualifying shareholders whose names were on the share register on 15 February 2021. Application has been made for the admission of the subscription shares to the standard segment of the official list and to trading on […]
Shareholders will vote on BH Global fees – BH Global’s board has been thinking about how to respond to the investment manager’s letter demanding a fee increase. The manager asked that the fee rate be increased from 1% to 2% and that this increased rate be applied unconditionally to the NAV, removing from the calculation the […]
A little late in the day, but Great Point Entertainment Income published its prospectus on Thursday 11 February and, as promised, here is a link to it. As the prospectus makes clear, access to the issue is subject to some geographical restrictions. Make sure you read these. As always, we aren’t recommending that you buy […]
LXI REIT looks to grow – LXI REIT hopes to raise £75m by way of an initial placing, open offer, offer for subscription and intermediaries offer for a target issue of up to 60,164,539 new ordinary shares at an issue price of 124.5p. The issue price represents a premium of 2.3% to the estimated NAV as at […]
JLEN Environmental expanding remit – JLEN Environmental hopes to widen what it is allowed to invest in. Shareholders need to approve the change. Under the planned revised investment policy, the company will continue to seek to achieve its investment objective by investing in a diversified portfolio of environmental infrastructure. However, the definition of “environmental infrastructure” […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 16 February 2021: GCP Student Living (DIGS) has terminated WeWork’s lease on the commercial space at Scape Shoreditch. The 50,000 sq ft Grade A space is just a two-minute walk from Old Street Underground. WeWork had £2.3m of rent arrears up to the end of 2020. GCP Student Living has collected £3.1m […]
Grit Real Estate, which invests in pan-african real estate assets (ex South Africa) has reported a 6.3% increase in EPRA net reinstatement value (NRV – one of the new EPRA reporting metrics for property companies replacing EPRA net asset value (NAV)) – over the six months to the end of December 2020. This increase (from […]
NextEnergy Renewables publishes prospectus – NextEnergy Renewables has announced the publication of a prospectus in relation to its initial public offering (IPO). As promised, here is a link to the prospectus, which was published today. As the prospectus makes clear, access to the issue is subject to some geographical restrictions. Make sure you read these. As […]
Cordiant Digital raises £370m – Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Limited has successfully raised gross proceeds of £370m through its placing and offer for subscription of ordinary shares and issue of subscription shares at an issue price of 100p per ordinary share. Subscription shares will be issued to subscribers in the initial issue for nil value on the […]
St Peter Port Capital proposes auctioning off its remaining assets – the board of St Peter Port Capital Limited is considering auctioning off all the company’s assets and then returning the net cash proceeds to shareholders (less a small amount to cover the costs of an orderly liquidation). The shareholder consent for the appointment of a […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 February 2021: Tritax EuroBox (EBOX) has sold its asset in Lodz, Poland for €65.5 million, 15% above its most recent valuation at 30 September 2020 and, based on the company’s target gearing of 45%, delivering an attractive geared IRR of 16.5% to shareholders. They bought this is April 2019 and completed a […]
QuotedData’s weekly news show 12 February 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: Immunocore upsized IPO (RTW Ventures – RTW – and Schroder UK Public Private – SUPP) Greencoat UK Wind […]
Back in December, we published a note on BlackRock Throgmorton, which we called “Infectious enthusiasm”. In it, we tried to bring out the excitement that its manager, Dan Whitestone, had about the future of the companies in his portfolio, and by implication the future of the trust. Over the two months since, the trust’s share […]
