Apax Global Alpha (AGA) has announced that The Apax IX Fund, in which AGA is a limited partner, has sold its remaining shares in Genius Sports Limited, which it describes as a leading provider of sports data, content, and technology powering the global sports, betting, and media ecosystem. AGA says that, including prior distributions, this […]

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 July 2024: Brett Miller has joined the board of Ecofin US Renewables (RNEW) as a non-executive director of the company with immediate effect. Brett, who has wide-ranging investment trust experience, particularly in the restructuring and managed run-off of a number of listed closed end funds across a range of asset […]

Sirius Real Estate has announced a proposed £150m capital raise. The placing of shares at an offer price of 94p is in line with its adjusted NAV at 31 March 2024. The capital raise will enable the company, which owns business parks in Germany and the UK, to execute on its ongoing acquisition strategy.  Up to […]

Emerging technologies are poised to reduce the steel industry’s environmental impact, creating compelling investment opportunities in the sector. Executive summary Steel remains a vital component of many products solving environmental challenges and improving resource efficiency, from wind turbines to waste collection. This makes lowering the carbon intensity of its production and aligning the industry with […]

HG Capital says that it has agreed to sell a stake in team.blue to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The deal vales team.blue at €4.8bn, making it one of the largest privately-owned technology companies in Europe. Hg describes team.blue as Europe’s leading digital enabler for entrepreneurs and small and medium sized businesses, serving 3.3m […]

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 July 2024: JZ Capital Partners (JZCP) has announced more detail on its planned return of capital to shareholders. The company will hand back about $40m on 25 July 2024 by redeeming 9,803,921 shares at $4.08 per share, equivalent to about 12.65% of investors’ shareholdings. The cash should be received by […]

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 9 July 2024: Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust (SBSI) released its annual impact report. The report demonstrates that the portfolio has positively impacted 400,000 people since inception, provided decent, affordable homes for 35,000 disadvantaged, vulnerable and lower-income people; and delivered £217m in benefits for the public, through savings to government and […]

Unite Group has upped its rental growth forecast for the forthcoming academic year to 7% (from 6%) due to high demand for its student accommodation, and said that the higher education policy remains stable under a Labour government. The company revealed that 94% of rooms were now reserved for the 2024/25 academic year, ahead of […]

On 18 June 2024, the board of Downing Strategic Micro-Cap (DSM) announced that it had received a request to requisition a general meeting from Vidacos Nominees Limited, acting as nominee of Milkwood Capital Limited (Milkwood) – click here to see our coverage. As it said at that time, DSM’s board considers that Milkwood’s decision to […]

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 8 July 2024: Hg, the manager of HgCapital Trust (HGT) has agreed the sale of its remaining investment in TeamSystem, to funds advised by Hellman & Friedman LLC (H&F). TeamSystem is a leading provider of business software solutions to businesses and accountants in Italy, Spain and Turkey. Hg first invested in […]

Castelnau Group (CGL) is up more than 30% over the last five days thanks mostly to an announcement from portfolio company Dignity/Valderrama (which accounts for almost 80% of the trust), which was up 45.7% (with a NAV impact of 43.0%). The primary driver of this uplift is the reduction in net debt which has been […]

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 July 2024: US Solar Fund (USF) provided an update for the first quarter ended 31 March 2024. The company saw a NAV total return of 0.9%. Portfolio performance was also down due to lower than expected solar irradiance. Overall generation was 130.6GWh, 11.6% below forecast. Canadian General Investments (CGI) provided […]

Ground Rents Income Fund has reported large valuations declines having released delayed full year results to September 2023 and updated to March 2024. Portfolio values fell 20.7% to £81.5m in the six months to 31 March 2024, having fallen 2.7% in the year to 30 September 2023. The decline included a negative valuation adjustment of […]

NewRiver REIT has acquired an asset management business, boosting its capital partnerships business to £1.5bn across a portfolio of 21 shopping centres and 18 retail parks, with 13 different partners. The company has bought Ellandi Management Limited, an asset and development management business focused on UK retail and regeneration, for £5m. The Ellandi business brings […]

Oryx International Growth’s results for the 12 months ended 31 March 2024 show the trust generating an NAV uplift of 12.2%. However, the share price fell by 1.8% as the discount widened from 19.0% to 29.1%. There is no dividend. The manager notes that performance was driven by takeovers or offers for significant parts of […]

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 July 2024: Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT) has published six-month numbers covering the period ended 31 May 2024. The trust beat its benchmark, returning 18.2% in NAV terms and 23.3% in share price terms versus 15.9% for the MSCI All Countries World Financials Index. [We covered many of the reasons […]

in QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 July 2024: Downing Renewables & Infrastructure (DORE) announced that Downing Hydro has pre-qualified its first hydropower plant site for participation in the Frequency Containment Reserve markets (FCR) in Sweden. The FCR markets serve to stabilise the Swedish grid. The initial site pre-qualified is the Gottne hydropower plant. The site is […]

Merck Mercuriadis, chairman and founder of Hipgnosis Song Management (HSM), the manager of Hipgnosis Songs Fund (SONG) has given notice of his intention to step away as chairman of HSM, effective upon closing of the proposed acquisition of SONG by Blackstone, which is expected to become effective on 29 July 2024 (click here to see […]

Artemis Alpha Trust (ATS) announced its annual report for the year ended 30 April 2024. The company delivered a NAV total return of 15.1%, well ahead of the benchmark index return of 7.5%. Shares rose 12.3%. The discount was 11.7% at the time of publishing. The company noted that during the second half of the […]

AEW UK REIT has reported a NAV total return of 5.0% for the year to the end of March 2024. NAV fell 2.6% to 102.73p per share due to the impact of higher interest rates on the value of its portfolio. However, dividends of 8p per share over the year brought its total return into […]

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 July 2024: JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI) announced that it intends to pay dividends totalling 22.80 pence per share (5.70 pence per share per quarter) in relation to its financial year commencing 1st July 2024. This is in line with its policy of paying out 4.0% of the company’s […]

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 1 July 2024: HG Capital Trust (HGT) has agreed to the sale of F24, a leading European software-as-a-service provider for Business Resilience solutions. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed and completion is subject to closing conditions. However the transaction will value HGT’s investment in F24 at c.£18.4m. This would […]