The boards of JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI) and Henderson International Income (HINT) have agreed terms for a merger of the two trusts under which it is proposed that HINT’s assets will be rolled into JGGI, with existing HINT shareholders receiving new JGGI shares in exchange. The announcement from the two trusts says that […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 7 February 2025: Ecofin US Renewables Infrastructure (RNEW) says that its AIFM and investment manager, Ecofin Advisors, LLC (Ecofin), has given it notice to terminate its investment management agreement. RNEW says that the manager and Board will work towards an orderly transition during the 12 month notice period. Residential Secure Income […]
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust has committed an additional €3.4m (£2.8m) to Nordic Generation (Norgen), a specialist developer focused on the Finnish wind and solar market. The money will be used to build on the strong progress already achieved by the asset and to support its phase 2 pipeline. As part of the transaction, the trust’s […]
British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) has created a ‘bidco’ – Boswell Holdings 3 S.C.Sp. – to launch a cash bid for BBGI Global Infrastructure. BCI and BBGI have announced that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended all cash offer to be made by Bidco. BBGI shareholders who accept the offer […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 6 February 2025: JPMorgan Core Real Assets (JARA) will return £33.7m to shareholders by way of a compulsory redemption of up to 34,753,090 shares at 97.0465p per share on 27 February 2025. For example, a holder of 10,000 shares will have 1,688 shares redeemed, and will receive £1,638 in cash. Although […]
In what is now the sixth successive defeat for Saba Capital Management in its bid to take control of seven London listed investment companies, shareholders in The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT) have voted down Saba’s proposals to remove all of the existing board and replace them with just two of its own representatives, by […]
AVI Japan Opportunity Trust (AJOT) says that it has received a tender offer bid aimed at privatising one of its portfolio companies, Tecnos Japan Incorporated (Tecnos Japan). AJOT says that its manager has signed a tender agreement with Ant Capital Partners, who is making the tender offer, for AVI’s 10% stake in Tecnos Japan. AJOT’s investment in Tecnos […]
Syncona (SYNC) says that its portfolio company, Spur Therapeutics (Spur) has announced positive new data from its Phase I/II GALILEO-1 study of FLT201, its novel gene therapy candidate, in Gaucher disease at the 21st Annual WORLDSymposium in San Diego, CA, USA. The clinical trial In Spur’s trial, six patients have been treated in GALILEO-1 with […]
Syncona (SYNC) says that its portfolio company, Achilles Therapeutics Plc, has announced that its board has recommended a members’ solvent voluntary liquidation and a return of capital to shareholders. SYNC’s announcement says that, based on the information currently available to Achilles and, assuming that Achillies’ shareholders approve the liquidation proposals and associated resolutions, it is […]
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD) has announced that a subsidiary of its portfolio company, Speed Fibre DAC, has entered into a put and call agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of BT Communications Ireland Limited (BTCIL), the wholesale and enterprise business unit of BT Ireland, for an enterprise value of €22m. The acquisition is […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 February 2025: Third Point Investors has published its investor letter for Q4 2024. Third Point’s flagship Offshore Fund achieved a 9.1% gain in Q4 2024 and 24.2% for the full calendar year. Returns for the full year were driven by positive results across all strategies, including equities, corporate and structured […]
In what is the fifth successive defeat for Saba Capital Management in its bid to take control of seven London listed investment companies, shareholders in CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income (CYN) have voted down Saba’s proposals to remove all of the existing board and replace them with just two of its own representatives, very […]
Henderson Opportunities is the latest trust to announce that it has successfully fought off the attack by Saba. In this trust’s case, the voting was 65.36% against Saba’s proposals. Just 284,248 shares or 0.72% of the trust’s shares in issue were voted alongside Saba. The turnout was 73.4%, with 28,985,426 of 39,491,875 shares voting. On […]
VH Global Energy Infrastructure has issued a statement on the impact of tariffs on its Brownsville fuel terminals in Texas. The Brownsville plant imports oil slurry from Mexico and refines that into a useful product. I wrote this up this morning, but the company said that I misunderstood the announcement, so I’m happy to put […]
JPMorgan Emerging Europe Middle East and Africa has published results covering the 12 months ended 31 October 2024. Pleasingly, the trust beat its benchmark (S&P Emerging Europe, Middle East & Africa) by 1.7 percentage points, returning 13.6% on NAV to the index’s 11.9%. However, the share price continued its usual volatile and unpredictable path and […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 February 2025: M&G Credit Income (MGCI) is convening a meeting on 27 February to approve the issue of up to 31,002,226 shares (20% of its issued share capital). The company has already issued 9.6m shares since its AGM in 2024 and was running out of room to issue more. [It […]
Keystone Positive Change says that at its general meeting, over 60% of the votes cast were against Saba’s requisitioned resolutions. Excluding the votes Saba cast in favour of its own requisitioned resolutions (representing 1,650,762 votes and approximately 38.87% of the votes cast), only a further 33,845 votes, representing just 0.80% of the votes cast, were […]
Shareholders at Baillie Gifford US Growth have voted to reject Saba’s proposals for the trust by 65.6% to 34.4%. Excluding the shares voted by Saba, approximately 98.5% of the votes cast were against the requisitioned resolutions. The turnout (the percentage of eligible shares that were voted) was 78.4%, not that far shy of that at […]
Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT) has entered the FTSE 100 Index for the first time today, nearly 25 years after its launch in 1996. In achieving this milestone, PCT becomes one of a select group of six investment companies (a record in itself) that are constituents of the UK’s premier index: 3i Group, Scottish Mortgage, […]
The board of Henderson European Trust says that it has been notified that the company’s two co-portfolio managers, Tom O’Hara and Jamie Ross, have resigned from Janus Henderson Investors. With effect from today, Robert Schramm-Fuchs and Nick Sheridan, experienced portfolio managers who have worked in the manager’s European Equities team since 2014 and 2009 respectively, […]
3i Infrastructure (3iN) has issued a performance update for the three months ended 31 January 2025 in which it says that its portfolio is performing well, with attractive growth opportunities, and that recent realisations demonstrate value creation potential. Its managers Scott Moseley and Bernardo Sottomayor, say that they continue to see good earnings momentum in […]
HgCapital Trust (HGT) has released its preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2024 during which it has an estimated NAV total return for the year of 10.1%, driven by resilient trading in its underlying portfolio. Its shares have also enjoyed a rerating from a 13% discount to a 2% premium, which is reflected […]
On 18 December 2024, Henderson Opportunities Trust (HOT) announced that, in light of its performance and forthcoming continuation vote, it had instructed advisers to commence work on putting forward a scheme of reconstruction to give all shareholders a choice between ongoing alternative investment and/or a full cash exit at NAV. HOT has now published a […]
BlackRock Energy and Resources Income (BERI) has published its annual results for the year ended 30 November 2025, during which it provided NAV and share price total returns of 15.3% and 14.0% respectively, both significantly ahead of the internal benchmark that BERI uses to evaluate its performance (performance is measured against a blended comparator index […]
Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID) says that it has agreed substantial reductions in the annual fund management fees that it pays. Under the old AIFM Agreement, the annual fund management fee (AIFM fee) was calculated quarterly as a percentage of the Net Asset Value (“NAV”) at the beginning of each quarter, with the annual percentage […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 February 2025: Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI) has made an announcement in relation to its upcoming requisitioned general meeting and AGM, both of which are being held on 14 February 2025, in which it urges shareholders to “vote twice to stop Saba”. It says that shareholders can do this by voting against […]
With REITs and property companies having been heavily discounted by the market over the past two-and-a-half years, and with share prices moving inversely in eerily close tandem with gilt yields – the sharks are no longer just circling; they are taking huge chunks out of the sector. Seven REITs and property companies were lost to […]
From spaceflight to a new form of entertainment dubbed ‘shared reality’, discover the entrepreneurs and companies forging new paths outside public markets. Baillie Gifford’s Alexander Nicolier explains. Capital at risk. Listen here now
From spaceflight to a new form of entertainment dubbed ‘shared reality’, discover the entrepreneurs and companies forging new paths outside public markets. Baillie Gifford’s Alexander Nicolier explains. Capital at risk. Listen here now
Aberforth Smaller Companies (ASL) has published its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2024, during which it provided NAV and share price total returns of 12.1% and 10.7% respectively, both ahead of ASL’s benchmark – the Deutsche Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding investment companies), whose total return in 2024 was 9.5%. It also […]
