In QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 September 2024: RTW Biotech Opportunities (RTW) has announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2024, during which its NAV was up 3.0% and its share price was up 10.1%. In comparison, RTW says that its comparator indices – Russell 2000 Biotech and Nasdaq Biotech were up […]
Oakley Capital Investments has published results for the six-months ended 30 June 2024. The NAV has been out for a while but we now have more detail on the drivers of returns (26p or 4% return on NAV, would have been 6% but for adverse currency movements). The return to shareholders over the first half […]
Aquila European Renewables says that the board has consulted extensively with shareholders and believes that it would lose a continuation vote. It is now publishing a circular to convene a meeting at which shareholders will be asked to approve a managed wind-down of the company. Background A continuation vote in 2023 was built into the […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 September 2024: Harmony Energy Income (HEIT) says its 99.8 MWh / 49.9 MW Hawthorn Pit project (located in County Durham) and its 66 MWh / 33 MW Wormald Green project (located in Yorkshire) have been successfully energised and are expected to be fully operational in the coming weeks. Its portfolio […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 September 2024: Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust (DNE) announced its interim results for the half year ended 30 June 2024. The company delivered a NAV total return of 2.1% while shares rose 1.8%. Since the company’s managed wind-down was approved by shareholders in 2016 it has distributed £147m to shareholders and […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 September 2024: EPE Special Opportunities (ESO) announced its interim report for the six months to 31 July 2024. The company’s NAV total return was down 2%, while shares increased 2%. The share price represents a discount of 47% to the NAV per share. The company has cash balances of £18.4m, […]
Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) has announced that its 100% tender offer, which was launched on 21 August 2024 (click here to see our coverage), has received irrevocable commitments that would push it below its minimum size condition (this being that GIF must retain a post tender offer share capital of not less than 38m Shares). […]
Keystone Positive Change’s board has identified a need for some kind of corporate action that addresses the size of the company, the low liquidity in its shares and the discount. It also wants to enable shareholders to retain exposure to a global impact strategy. The board will consult more widely with shareholders and to explore […]
Mid Wynd International (MWY) has released its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2024, during which its NAV and share price increased by 13.9% and 17.1% (on a total return basis) both underperforming MWY’s comparator index, the MSCI All Country World Index which MWY says returned 20.1% (all figures in sterling terms). It […]
Ecofin US Renewables Infrastructure (RNEW) has announced that it has concluded its strategic review which was launched just over a year ago. As part of the review, RNEW appointed Marathon Capital to undertake a process focused on a sale of all its assets and an extensive marketing exercise was undertaken. However, RNEW says that no […]
JPMorgan Emerging EMEA Securities (JEMA) has said that, in conjunction with its appointed depositary, who appoints its custodian, its board is considering the options available to it in the event that JPMorgan Bank International (JPMBI), the sub custodian of its Russian assets in Russia, becomes insolvent. The circumstances in which such an event may occur […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 9 September 2024: Starwood European Real Estate Finance (SWEF) has published its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2024. SWEF says that it has made positive realisation progress during the half year with a total of £102.1m, 38.9 per cent of the Group’s 31 December 2023 total funded […]
Thank you to everyone that listened in today on our YouTube channel. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: PRS REIT (0:41) SEGRO / Tritax EuroBox (4:02) Balanced Commercial Property Trust (6:41) Artemis Alpha / Aurora (8:10) JPMorgan Core Real Assets (10:33) Digital 9 Infrastructure (11:51) Andrew McHattie covered: Major rises over the […]
I was recently asked about the outlook for listed private equity funds and whether it was likely to improve along with the more optimistic macroeconomic environment. Despite having a strong track record of achieving strong realisations and the private funds generally reporting good operational performance from their underlying holdings, the sector seems to struggle to […]
Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has published a company update including details of an unaudited portfolio valuation and updated net asset value and the news is not good – its board believes that “the aggregate portfolio valuation as at 30 June 2024 is likely to be materially below the latest published portfolio valuation as at 31 […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 6 September 2024: Triple Point Energy Transition (TENT) has declared a special dividend of 25p per share (£25m in aggregate), which is a distribution that is part of the managed wind-down approved by shareholders on 22 March 2024. TENT says this has been possible because of timely realisations to date. The […]
abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust has published results for the 12 months ended 30 June 2024. Over the year, the NAV total return was 18.1%, well ahead of the 10.0% return generated by its benchmark (the Deutsche Numis Smaller Companies, plus AIM, ex Investment Companies, Index). A narrowing discount meant that shareholders did even […]
On 25 July, JPMorgan European Discovery published details of a tender offer for 15% of its shares. Today, it has revealed that 81,976,778 shares were tendered, almost four times the maximum 21,160,028 shares that the company intends to buy back. As not everyone tendered, anyone who tendered 15% or less of their shareholding will get […]
Bluefield Solar reports the completion of Phase Two of its long-term strategic partnership with GLIL – the sale of a 50% stake in a 112MW portfolio of UK solar assets which had been 100% owned by Bluefield Solar. GLIL is a partnership of UK pension funds, investing into core UK infrastructure, including Local Pensions Partnership […]
Aquila European Renewables has entered into a sale and purchase agreement with Sunnhordland Kraftlag AS to sell its 25.9% interest in the Tesla wind farm for about €27.1m. Tesla is a 150 MW operating onshore wind farm located in Southern Norway, which was bought by Aquila European in 2019. The buyer is a Norwegian energy […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 September 2024: BioPharma Credit (BPCR) says it provided $132.925m of funding to Collegium Pharmaceutical to help fund its acquisition of Ironshore Therapeutics. BioPharma Credit already had exposure to Collegium through a $160.4m term loan. BioPharma Credit’s loans are part of a $645.8m senior secured loan funding package that was put […]
The board of Balanced Commercial Property Trust (BCPT) has recommended a cash offer for the company from Starwood Capital valuing the company at £673.5m. The cash offer, at 96p per BCPT share, represents a premium of 21.5% to its closing price of 79p per share as at 12 April – the last business day prior […]
SEGRO and Tritax EuroBox (EBOX) have announced that their boards have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended all-share offer by SEGRO for EBOX, under which EBOX shareholders will receive 0.0765 new SEGRO shares per EBOX share. Based on the closing price per SEGRO share of 880.0p as at 3 September 2024, the proposed […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 September 2024: Apax Global Alpha Limited (AGA), the closed-ended investment company providing access to the Apax Private Equity Funds, today announced that it expects to invest approximately €12m in Altus Fire & Life Safety on a look-through basis. On 3 September 2024, Apax XI, in which AGA is a limited […]
At its AGM today, shareholders in JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets (JARA) voted against a resolution for the fund to continue as an investment trust for another five years. This was not unexpected – the trust’s performance has been disappointing since its launch five years ago, while sentiment towards the sorts of assets in which […]
The results of the latest auction round (AR6) of government subsidies to support new renewable energy projects in the UK is in, and the news is good. Much better than last year’s effort. 3.3GW of new solar, 1GW of new onshore wind, 3.4GW of offshore wind, and 400MW of floating offshore wind have been announced, […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 September 2024: RM Infrastructure Income (RMII) announced a tender offer of up to £20m to be made to shareholders, together with a notice convening a general meeting of the company, to be held on 25 September 2024 at 12.00pm. Following shareholder approval of a new investment policy at a general […]
The webinar discusses the growing potential for Vietnam to participate in the global IT and semiconductor supply chain and features Nguyen Khai Hoan of FPT Corporation, Vietnam Holding’s largest portfolio holding.
Manchester and London (MNL) has announced a change in the structure of the fees it pays to its manager, M&L Capital Management Limited, under which there is a new tiered management fee replacing the current fee arrangements, which took effect from 1 September 2024. The new fee arrangements do not include any performance fee or […]
The board of PRS REIT (PRSR) has formed a sub-committee to engage with shareholders and lead its response to the requisition notice published last week calling for chairman Stephen Smith and director David Francis be replaced. The sub-committee comprises the three independent non-executive directors who are not the subject of the requisition, being: Geeta Nanda, […]
