In QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 November 2024: Bellevue Healthcare (BBH) has announced the redemption price for its annual redemption opportunity at 154.76p per share. This was calculated as the aggregate cash received by BBH from the realisation of the redemption pool, after deducting the costs of the redemption, and a pro-rata share of the costs […]
Schroder UK Mid Cap results for the 12 months ended 30 September 2024 came in behind its benchmark. The NAV total return for the period was 17.3% versus 21.4% from the FTSE Mid 250 ex Investment Trusts Index. The share price total return was +17.5%. The discount widened marginally, from 12.0% at the beginning of […]
Over the 12 months ended 30 September 2024, abrdn Equty Income Trust generated an NAV total return of 13.3% and a share price return of 10.4%. The NAV return was only just behind the 13.4% return posted by the All-Share Index, but the discount widened from 0.2% to 3.0%. Revenue per share for the period […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 November 2024: Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies (SST) says its lead manager Vinay Agarwal has left FSSA Investment Managers by mutual agreement. The trust’s new lead manager is Sreevardhan Agarwal, who is now in charge of the portfolio. Sree has acted as the company’s deputy manager and, latterly, co-manager for the past […]
Keystone Positive Change (KPC) has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2024. Over the year, the company’s NAV total return was 2.2% compared to a total return of 20.4% for the benchmark index. The share price total return for the same period was 13.5% as the discount narrowed from 14.0% to […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 November: APAX Global Alpha (AGA) has announced that it expects to invest approximately €28m in the accountancy and advisory practice of Evelyn Partners on a look-through basis. On 25 November 2024, the Apax XI Fund, in which AGA is a limited partner, announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire Evelyn […]
Caledonia Investments is convening a meeting to ask shareholders to approve a ‘Rule 9 waiver’ – this is part of the Takeover Code. Currently, a ‘concert party’ of shareholders connected to the Cayzer family controls 49.49% of the trust’s shares and voting rights. Ordinarily, at its AGM it would ask shareholders to approve a Rule […]
NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) announced it has published its first Nature Strategy Report, which you can view in full here. The report outlines NextEnergy Solar Fund’s strategic plan for nature and nature targets, consolidating and building upon the lessons learned from 10 years of active engagement with the environment surrounding its assets since IPO. It […]
Baillie Gifford European Growth Trust (BGEU) announced its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2024. The company delivered a NAV total return of 12.1% compared to a total return of 15.3% for the comparative index. The share price total return was 9.3%. At the time of publishing, the company’s discount sat at 17%. […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 November 2024: LondonMetric Property (LMP) reported a 2.1% uplift in EPRA net tangible assets (NTA) to 195.7p per share over the six months to 30 September 2024. The company’s portfolio of predominantly urban logistics and long-income assets was up 1.1% to £6.2bn. Net rental income increased 154% to £193.1m, while […]
Downing Renewables & Infrastructure (DORE) has published its latest NAV and operational update as at 30 September 2024. The NAV was £202.6m or 117.3p per share, a decrease of 0.5% from the NAV per share as at 30 June 2024 (£207.6m or 117.9p per share) which also takes into account the payment of the £2.5m (1.45p per […]
Asia Dragon (DGN) has published its annual results for the year ended 31 August 2024, during which the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index rose 12.0% in sterling total return terms, while DGN’s net asset value (NAV) increased 9.3% on the same total return basis. The share price rose from 353p to 404p over the […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 25 November 2024: Utilico Emerging Markets (UEM) has published its interim report for the six months ended 30 September 2024, a period that continued to be challenging with elevated volatility in most markets as uncertainty has dominated. UEM experienced two key headwinds: the first was the revaluation of Petalite Limited (Petalite) and […]
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: Blackstone Loan Financing (0:19) Edinburgh Worldwide (4:17) Miton UK MicroCap (9:36) This week’s interview was with Alex Crooke from Bankers Investment Trust – watch it again here.
The problem with Trump’s use of the phrase “MAGA” – Make America Great Again – is that it implies America wasn’t already great. With its booming equity markets, robust economic growth, and strong fundamentals – such as energy independence, deep pools of domestic capital, and the inherent advantages of the US dollar’s reserve currency status […]
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In this video, Senior Investment Director, Alan Gauld outlines the strategy of the Patria Private Equity Trust (PPET), highlighting the focus on diversified private equity investments, including funds, and direct investments, with a goal of achieving long term returns for its shareholders. This video is supplied by Patria.
HgCapital Trust (HGT) says that it will invest approximately £11.7m in Empyrean Solutions, which it describes as a leading provider of risk and performance management software for financial institutions, alongside other institutional clients of Hg investing through the Hg Mercury 4 Fund. Hg says that the transaction follows a period of rapid growth and scaling, […]
Blackstone Loan Financing Limited (BGLF) says that it has entered into a conditional agreement for the sale of 100% of the Profit Participating Notes (PPNs) to an entity that is an affiliate of its manager. The transaction is subject to shareholder approval and certain other conditions but, if it proceeds, BGLF says that the deal […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 22 November 2024: Schroder British Opportunities (SBO) has announced a non-material change to its investment policy, whereby it will remove the following paragraph that makes reference to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: “The Company will focus on companies which the Portfolio Managers consider to be sustainable from an environmental, social […]
Foresight Environmental Infrastructure (FGEN) announced its interim report for the six months to 30 September 2024. The NAV total return for the period was flat, following the write down of one of its portfolio assets, HH2E, which we discuss below. Prior to this, the NAV total return would have been 2.6%. The company remains on […]
NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) announced its interim results for the six months to 30 September 2024. The company’s NAV total return fell 2.6%, while the shareholder total return was 18.2%. At the time of publishing, the discount stood at 28%. The company announced that it was on track to deliver its target dividend of 8.43p […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 November 2024: Shires Income (SHRS) announced its interim results for the six months to 30 September 2024. The company delivered a NAV total return of 6.8%, compared to a benchmark return of 6.1%. The share price total return was 14.5%, resulting in a narrowing of the discount of share price […]
Oakley Capital’s Oakley Capital Fund V is investing in Konzept & Marketing, a leading, independent managing general agent (MGA) in the German, personal non-life insurance market. Oakley will be investing alongside insurance veteran, Joachim Müller, former CEO of Allianz Commercial, who will oversee a buy-and-build strategy as chairman of the business. Oakley Capital Investments’ look-through […]
Edinburgh Worldwide’s board has been reviewing the trust’s strategy, execution, and recent performance. It has determined that change is needed “to put the trust back on a path to growth”. Some of the proposals need shareholder approval. Today it has published a circular setting out its plans for a change of investment policy, and a […]
As at 30 September 2024, HydrogenOne Capital Growth’s largest investment was in Sunfire GmbH. The trust’s stake represented 25% of its NAV. Sunfire has just announced a new 50-megawatt (MW) electrolyser contract with Ren-Gas, Finland’s hydrogen project developer, at its plant in Tampere. Sunfire will deliver five 10-MW pressurised alkaline electrolysis modules (which HGEN’s manager […]
VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities says its third solar and storage hybrid system in New South Wales, Australia, has completed the construction phase and has now been commissioned. The project came in on time and on budget. The company announced the completion of two hybrid systems in NSW three weeks ago. This raises the operational […]
The UK financial regulator – the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) – has introduced a product labelling scheme aimed at preventing “greenwashing” – passing off funds as having ESG benefits that they don’t actually have. Impax Environmental Markets, which is the UK’s largest investment trust focused on environmental solutions and resource efficiency, has announced that it […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 20 November 2024: Starwood European Real Estate Finance (SWEF) reports a drop in its NAV from 105.61p at end September to 99.38p at end October. Most of this fall relates to an impairment provision made against one asset, but it is not saying what this is. HICL Infrastructure (HICL), reporting six-month […]
Miton UK MicroCap (MINI) has issued a statement saying that, following its engagement with shareholders on the future direction of the company – which MINI’s board said it would do given the level of redemption requests received for the 2024 Redemption Point – the board has concluded that it is the best interest of shareholders […]
