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Investment companies are companies set up to make investments on behalf of their shareholders (also called closed-end funds and, in specific circumstances, investment trusts).

30 Sep 2022

QuotedData’s weekly news show 30th September 2022

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 and Andrew McHattie covered the week’s top stories: Bluefield Solar The rise in discount rates Mixed progress with IPOs for Welkin China Private Equity, Independent Living REIT and Sustainable Farmland […]

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30 Sep 2022

QD view – Managers question UK small cap weakness

The UK economy looks increasingly precarious. The recent ‘targeted fiscal event’ has sent the pound sliding, gilt yields rising and confidence to rock bottom. With recession looming, it has also proved a tough moment for UK smaller companies, which were already battling poor sentiment. Smaller companies managers are no strangers to volatility, but how are […]

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30 Sep 2022

Bluefield Solar posts strongest results since IPO

Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF) has published its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2022. It has been a very successful year for BSIF, which has recorded its highest earnings and dividend since its launch, along with 320m of solar and battery investments; an oversubscribed fundraise of £225m, 1.1GW of capacity being developed […]

30 Sep 2022

JPMorgan Global Growth & Income treads water in challenging environment

JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI) has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2022. During the year, JGGI provided an NAV total return of -3.4% and a share price total return of -4.8%, both of which compare to a return on the trust’s benchmark, the MSCI AC World Index of -4.2% […]

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30 Sep 2022

Crystal Amber delivering progress on realisation

Crystal Amber (CRS) has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2022. The year was a defining one for the fund in that it was not able to secure a 75% majority in favour of its continuation at its AGM on 1 November 2021. Following this, shareholders approved a new investment policy […]

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30 Sep 2022

JPMorgan Emerging Markets underperforms due to stock selection

JPMorgan Emerging Markets (JMG) has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2022. During the year, JMG provided NAV and share price total returns of -17.3% and -20.6% respectively, both underperforming its benchmark, (the MSCI Emerging Markets index) which provided a total return of -15.0% (all in sterling terms). Stock selection was […]

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30 Sep 2022
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JLEN and Foresight Solar announce purchase of a 49.9MW battery project

JLEN Environmental Assets (JLEN) and Foresight Solar (FSFL) have announced the acquisition of Gigabox No 4 Limited, which holds the development rights to construct a 49.9MW lithium-ion battery energy storage plant based in Angus, Scotland. Both parties are taking a 50% equity stake in the project which will see each of them invest up to […]

30 Sep 2022
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 September 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 September 2022: NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has announced that it has increased the commitments available under its Revolving Credit Facility (RCF) with AIB Group (UK) Plc and NatWest from £75m to £135m – an increase of £60m. The additional commitments have been agreed at a margin of 120bps over SONIA […]

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29 Sep 2022

Harmony Energy Income hoping to issue C shares

Harmony Energy Income Trust is proposing to raise capital via a placing of new C Shares at 100p per share to fund its pipeline of 2-hour duration battery energy storage systems. The company was launched on 9 November 2021 raising £210m (before expenses), and now has net assets of about £244m. The current portfolio comprises […]

29 Sep 2022
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 September 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 September 2022: Rockwood Strategic (RKW) confirms that its shares are now admitted to listing on the premium segment of the Official List maintained by the FCA and to trading on the premium segment of the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market. The trust is moving across from AIM. [Now the focus […]

28 Sep 2022

Ceiba struggles to access cash in Cuba

Ceiba Investments (CBA) has published its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2022. During the period, CBA’s NAV per share fell by US$0.04 per share to US$1.12 per share – a fall of 3.5%. However, reflecting currency moves over the period, in sterling terms, CBA’s NAV rose by 7.1% from 86.4p per […]

28 Sep 2022
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 September 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 September 2022: AVI Japan Opportunity (AJOT) has published its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2022. During the period, AJOT provided NAV and share price total returns of -9.74% and -12.81% respectively, both underperforming the trust’s benchmark, the MSCI Japan Small Cap Total Return Index, which returned […]

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27 Sep 2022

QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 September 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 September 2022: North American Income Trust (NAIT) beat its benchmark over the six months ended 31 July 2022, returning 5.5% in NAV terms to the Russell 1000 Value Index’s 4.9%. The discount narrowed and that meant the return to shareholders was 8.6%. A dividend of 5p (up from 3.8p last […]

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26 Sep 2022

Riverstone Energy’s Hammerhead to list via SPAC

Riverstone Energy says that two of its portfolio companies, Hammerhead Resources Inc., a Calgary-based energy company, and Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation IV (Nasdaq: DCRD, DCRDW, DCRDU), a special purpose acquisition company, have announced a business combination that values Hammerhead at an enterprise value of C$1.39bn, which is approximately 2.2x DCRD’s projected 2024 EBITDA for Hammerhead. […]

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26 Sep 2022
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Smooth sailing for Tufton

For the 12 months ended 30 June 2022, Tufton Oceanic Assets reported an NAV return of 32.5% and a profit of $107.3m, or $0.362 per share. It raised its dividend target from 7.5 cents to 8 cents. The manager thinks that this will be covered 1.8x up to the end of 2023. Containership and bulker […]

26 Sep 2022
India Capital Growth - Shakeout uncovers value

QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 September 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 September 2022 India Capital Growth (IGC) had a difficult start to 2022, underperforming the BSE Midcap total return index by 6.2% over the six months ended 30 June 2022. The trust returned -14.7% in NAV terms and -19.8% in share price terms (and that is after benefitting from a 4.3% […]

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24 Sep 2022

Chrysalis holding Revolution Beauty auditor raises serious concerns

Revolution Beauty has announced that BDO LLP, its auditor, has written to the board and identified a number of serious concerns that have arisen during the course of its work on the FY22 audit regarding, amongst others, the group’s ability to provide sufficient and accurate audit evidence in respect of a number of key audit […]

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23 Sep 2022

BB Biotech’s latest investment hints at broader strategy

Switzerland’s BB Biotech has opened a new investment position in Rivus Pharmaceuticals, a privately held US biotech developing a mitochondrial-based approach to obesity and cardio-metabolic disease. This was made as part of a $132m Series B financing that is notable for its size and the top-tier syndicate of healthcare specialist investors who have participated. The […]

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23 Sep 2022

QuotedData’s weekly news show 23rd September 2022

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 and Richard Williams covered the week’s top stories: • Rate rises, recession • City of London versus Murray Income • Supermarket REIT/LXI This week’s interview was with Matthias Siller of […]

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23 Sep 2022

QD view – supermarket sweep

Supermarket real estate has proved its worth during times of distress before – most recently during the pandemic – but can it do it again this time around as we enter a potential recession? Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), the largest supermarket landlord in the UK, and LXI REIT are both nailing their colours firmly to […]

Sectors
23 Sep 2022

The Investment Company’s results boosted by gold and flattered by weak pound

The Investment Company reported a fall in net asset value (NAV) of 1.4% in the year to 30 June 2022 to 336.3p, with the weak pound offsetting declines in share prices among its overseas equities portfolio. The NAV was also boosted by the price of gold, which rose 16.3% against sterling and this increase added […]

23 Sep 2022

QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 September 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 September 2022: M&G Credit (MGCI) has reported a NAV total return for the half year to 30 June 2022 was -3.4% which compared favourably to the performance of fixed income indices such as the ICE BofA Sterling and Collateralised Index (-14.17%) and the ICE BofA European Currency Non-Financial High Yield […]

22 Sep 2022

European Opportunities investors hit by widening discount

European Opportunities trust has just published results for the 12 month period ended 31 May 2022. [That is quite a lag for a trust of this size, we’ve seen some results for periods ending 31 July in recent days, we aren’t sure why this one was so delayed.] During the twelve months to 31 May […]

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22 Sep 2022

Murray Income misses out on value rally

Over the 12 months ended 30 June 2022, Murray Income Trust’s NAV total return was -4.0% and its share price return -0.7%, both lagging the 1.6% return generated by the All-Share Index. Earnings of 40.5p covered the full year dividend of 36p (up from 34.5p for the prior year). The chairman ascribes the underperformance to […]

22 Sep 2022

Volatile UIL gives up last year’s gains

For the 12 month period ended 30 June 2022, UIL’s NAV total return was -38.1%, more than reversing the previous year’s 50% gain, and its share price return was -27.6%. The fall in assets left it with gearing of 89.5% [which is one reason why the NAV moved so much, up and down – the […]

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22 Sep 2022
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 22 September 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 22 September 2022: Pantheon Infrastructure’s (PINT) first set of figures, covering the period from launch to 30 June 2022, show that £98m was invested at that date, but as of today £344m or 88% of the £400m IPO proceeds have been deployed. As we know, the subscription share exercise raised a […]

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21 Sep 2022

LXI REIT considers equity raise to fund £500m Sainsbury’s portfolio buy

LXI REIT is considering an equity raise to part-fund the £500m acquisition of a portfolio of 18 Sainsbury’s supermarkets. The group said that it was currently in discussions to acquire from Sainsbury’s, on a sale and leaseback basis, the 18-strong portfolio of prime grocery store assets, which are predominantly located in Southern England locations, but […]

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21 Sep 2022

Very disappointing year for JPMorgan Mid Cap

JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust has published results for the year ended 30th June 2022. The chairman points out that it was a year of two halves. For the six months (to 31st December 2021), when the story was about the recovery from COVID, the NAV total return was +5.5%, just about matching the return […]

21 Sep 2022

Tritax EuroBox appoints new fund manager

Tritax EuroBox has announced that Nick Preston has stepped down as fund manager of the company and has been replaced by Phil Redding, a partner at Tritax EuroBox’s manager Tritax Management. Phil joined Tritax in November 2020 as director of investment strategy, providing strategic investment advice across four flagship Tritax funds. Prior to joining Tritax, […]

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21 Sep 2022

Supermarket Income REIT to continue acquisition drive

Supermarket Income REIT says it will continue to grow its portfolio through acquisitions after reporting a 6% increase in EPRA net tangible assets (NTA) in the year to 30 June 2022 to 115p per share. With dividends, this equates to a 12% NAV total return for the year and 7% share price total return – […]

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