Menhaden Resource Efficiency reports an NAV return for 2021 of 17.3% and a share price return of 13.0%. The discount widened to 28%, but the board is resisting share buybacks and instead hopes to narrow this by marketing the trust. There is a 0.2p dividend, enough to satisfy the minimum requirement to maintain investment trust […]
Warehouse REIT has exchanged contracts to acquire an industrial estate in Milton Keynes for £62m, reflecting a net initial yield of 4%. The multi-let Bradwell Abbey Industrial Estate totals 335,000 sq ft across 69 units and is located just off the A5, and close to the M1 motorway. The estate is currently 96% let to […]
RM Infrastructure Income’s results for 2021 show an NAV total return for the year of 7.6% and a return to shareholders of 16.7%. Dividends for the year totalled 6.5p. The overall portfolio size remained largely unchanged during the year, closing at £130.8m across 34 loans and one wholly owned asset. Eight new loans were made […]
NB Global Monthly Income Fund has published results for the year ended 31 December 2021. Over the year, the share price total return was 14.1% and the NAV total return 5.9%. As of 31 December 2021, the portfolio’s gross yield was 6.3%, and the gross yield to maturity was 6.6%. A monthly dividend of 0.39p was paid […]
Aquila Energy Efficiency wants to push on – the company has concluded its strategic review and the board has decided that “whilst certain changes are required to enable the investment adviser to execute on the company’s investment strategy, the market opportunity for energy efficiency investments located in Europe remains attractive, particularly in the context of […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 April 2022 the news is dominated by annual results, but we also have: An unusual advance on the sale proceeds of Infrastructure India’s (IIP) wind farm assets – the buyer AVSR Constructions is supposed to pay INR 550m (approximately £5.5m), but the seller is yet to satisfy all the conditions […]
Good maiden results for Petershill Partners – Petershill Partners (PHLL) has posted its maiden final results for the period from 24 March 2021 to 31 December 2021. The company raised $720m (net of share issue costs) at its IPO last year and the board has announced plans to launch a share buyback programme of up […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 20 April 2022: abrdn China has entered into a £15m unsecured multicurrency revolving loan facility with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, London Branch for a two year period. The facility will be utilised for general working capital purposes and for the acquisition of new investments. Under the terms of the […]
BMO Commercial Property Trust will change its name to Balanced Commercial Property Trust following the sale of its manager’s business from Bank of Montreal (BMO) to Ameriprise Financial, parent company of Columbia Threadneedle. The announcement was made in the group’s annual results where it delivered a net asset value (NAV) total return for 2021 of […]
Ecofin US Renewables has published its first set of results which cover the period from when it was incorporated on 12 August 2020 through its listing on 22 December 2020 and up to the end of December 2021. Since IPO, the trust has returned 2.8% in NAV terms and 0.8% in share price terms. The […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 19 April 2022: Baker Steel Resources (BSRT) reports that its NAV total return for 2021 was 1.2%, behind the 5% return on its EMIX Global Mining benchmark. Although two core investments, Tungsten West and Silver X listed during the year, it did not monetise either of these investments and therefore did […]
Impact Healthcare REIT has recently exchanged contracts to acquire three purpose-built care homes in and around Glasgow. The homes are let to Silverline, which was already a tenant in the portfolio. The purchase price is £8.1m (plus transaction costs). The initial annual rent has been agreed at £627,750, reflecting an accretive gross initial yield of […]
RTW Venture Fund notes that LENZ Therapeutics has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Ji Xing Pharmaceuticals to develop and commercialize LNZ100 (aceclidine) and LNZ101 (aceclidine + brimonidine) for the treatment of presbyopia (the loss of reading vision due to age) in Greater China. RTW Investments, LP (the investment manager) has invested $10m on […]
UK Commercial Property REIT’s results for 2021 show the company generating an NAV return of 21.5% for the year (well up on 2020’s -0.9% following the effects of COVID). A 21.4% return on the portfolio was well ahead of the 16.8% return generated by the company’s MSCI benchmark. Returns were helped by much better rent […]
Fair Oaks Income has published results for the year ended 31 December 2021. On 19 April 2021, the company announced the result of its reorganisation proposal. 62,562,883 2017 shares had been elected for re-designation as realisation shares and 405,815,477 2017 shares were re-designated as 2021 Shares (86.6% of the 2017 shares in issue, including 650,000 […]
NextEnergy Solar Fund says that it is targeting a dividend of 7.52p for the financial year ended 31 March 2023, up 5% from the target for FY22 of 7.16p. The increase is higher than the rate of inflation over the course of 2021 (4.1%) and the biggest dividend increase announced by any of the UK-listed […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 14 April 2022: Jupiter Emerging and Frontier Income Trust’s (JEFI) board has looked at the candidates available for a rollover option and decided not to offer any of them. Shareholders will receive cash instead. A proposal to wind up the company will be put to a vote shortly – expect to […]
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust has committed to invest up to €3.5m to set up and fund Nordic Renewables Limited, a new development platform focused on renewable energy assets in Finland. The investment is made alongside an equal amount from another fund managed by Octopus Renewables Limited. Nordic Renewables Limited will benefit from an exclusive joint […]
Digital 9 Infrastructure has signed a binding sale and purchase agreement for the acquisition of GAData Holdings Limited (trading as Volta Data Centres) for £45m. Volta wholly owns and operates a premier data centre facility based in central London, providing co-location services. The investment forms part of Digital 9’s metro edge data centre strategy of […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 April 2022: ICG Enterprise Trust notes that New Mountain Capital is merging Information Resources Inc., which the trust holds and invested $15m into in 2018, with The NPD Group, a global provider of market information and advisory services, with a client base of over 2,000 companies, in Hellman & Friedman’s […]
LucaNet AG has agreed a strategic investment from Hg. It hopes that this marks a key milestone in its ambition to become a global leader in corporate performance management software. Hg is taking a majority stake in the business. Existing shareholders Rolf-Jürgen Moll, Oliver Schmitz, and Dominik Duchon will maintain a substantial minority share. Mr. […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 April 2022: Diverse Income Trust is asking shareholders whether they want to take advantage of its annual share redemption facility. However, as the announcement points out, the discount is already narrow. Shareholders have until 3 May 2022 to submit redemption requests. Cash would hit accounts on 16 June or thereabouts. […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 April 2022: Foresight Solar (FSFL) has reached final approval for the portfolio refinance of the Oakey 1 Solar Farm (O1) and Longreach Solar Farm (LR) portfolios with ANZ and Deutsche Bank for a term facility of approximately A$59m plus a debt service reserve facility of approximately A$1m. The portfolio will […]
James Carthew, QuotedData’s Head of Investment Company Research, interviews Tom Williams of Downing Renewables and Infrastructure Trust (DORE). Watch the video to find out about DORE’s core sustainable objective, the reasons behind the fund’s focus on Northern Europe, the benefits of DORE in a high inflation environment as well as the dividend yields shareholders can […]
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, Jayna Rana covered the week’s top stories: Fundraising HydrogenOne Capital Growth Supermarket Income REIT International Public Partnerships Portfolio updates Gresham House Energy Storage NextEnergy Solar Cordiant Global Agriculture Income This week’s interview […]
Open Door Investment Management give their views on the impact of the Russian invasion on China. 1. Do we need to worry about China’s strong ties to Russia? In many ways, Russia’s economy is a good fit for China’s, in that it is a huge supplier of many commodities that China needs. It could also […]
With everything else going on, it feels like the topic of ‘net-zero’ has been pushed down the agenda. However, with new legislation due to come through on the energy efficiency of commercial property, landlords may be sitting on a ticking time-bomb. The government has set a target of lifting the minimum energy performance certificate (EPC) […]
NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has announced that it has commenced the construction of Whitecross, a 36MW, subsidy-free utility solar plant, located in Lincolnshire. The original construction date of the asset was pushed back from the second half of 2021 “due to material volatility in the solar PV module supply chain post covid which has since […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 8 April 2022: HydrogenOne Capital Growth (HGEN) has announced that its placing, which was previously announced on 4 April 2022, has raised gross proceeds of £21.5 million via the issue of 21,469,999 New Ordinary Shares at a price of 100 pence per New Ordinary Share. The Placing was well supported by new […]
Dunedin Income Growth has announced results for the year ended 31 January 2022. The NAV increased by 8.1% on a total return basis, underperforming the All-Share Index which produced a total return of 18.9%. The share price total return for the year was 12.5%. The chairman notes that “Large capitalisation companies whose share prices were […]
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