Jupiter Emerging & Frontier Income enjoys turnaround performance – Jupiter Emerging & Frontier Income (JEFI) has posted its full year results for the year ended 30 September 2021. Over the period, it delivered a share price total return of 31.5% and an NAV total return of 28.6%, compared to a 13.3% return from its MSCI […]
Stellar results from Henderson Opportunities as it plans to amend investment objective and policy – Henderson Opportunities (HOT) has posted its annual results for the year to 31 October 2021. During this time, its NAV increased by 58% while its share price increased by 29%. This compares with a 3% return from its benchmark and […]
Aquila Energy Efficiency to review investment strategy as it announces range of new investments – Aquila Energy Efficiency (AEET) has announced plans to conduct a review of its investment strategy to ascertain how best to accelerate deployment, while maintaining the trust’s credit criteria and return objectives. An update will be provided to shareholders on the […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 31 January 2022: Bluefield Solar Income (BSIF) has acquired the development rights for a 20 MW battery storage project for approximately £1.5m from Shaw-Energi Ltd. The project is based in Liverpool and construction is expected to begin during 2022. Meanwhile BSIF has also announced its first interim dividend of 2.03 pence […]
Today, transportation barriers prevent many from accessing the goods and services they need. But Nuro’s self-driving vehicles hope to deliver a better everyday life as its autonomous vehicles simultaneously reduce inequalities and transform local commerce for everyone. Claire Shaw, Investment Specialist at Scottish Mortgage explains. “With Nuro, the attraction is the scale of the opportunity, […]
QuotedData’s weekly news show 28th January 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 covered the week’s top stories: • Foresight Sustainable Forestry • CIP Merchant Capital • Standard Life Private Equity This week’s interview was with […]
A storm is hitting markets as central bankers threaten to raise interest rates to choke off inflation. Growth-focused funds have been hit hard – Scottish Mortgage’s shares are 20% lower than they were a month ago, for example. However, it is not all doom and gloom. Polar Capital Global Financials Trust is trading at a […]
Seraphim Space Investment Trust (SSIT) has announced today that its portfolio company D-Orbit S.p.A., an Italy-based space logistics and transportation company, is to become publicly listed through a business combination with Breeze Holdings Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: BREZ), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company. SSIT says that, following the close of the transaction, which is […]
JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) has announced that it has raised £60.7m through the placing and offer for subscription that it previously announced on 12 January 2022. The Issue was significantly oversubscribed, in both the placing and offer for subscription, and JLEN intends to use the net proceeds of the Issue to repay its credit […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 January 2022: Fondul Proprietatea (Ticker: FP.) has announced that the buyback programme that was approved by shareholders at the EGM on 5 December 2021 will start on 31 January 2022. The programme can repurchase up to 800m shares and lasts until 31 December 2022. All repurchased shares are to be […]
RTW Venture Fund has announced that it participated in an $85m Series B funding round for Kyverna Therapeutics, Inc. on 26 January. RTW invested alongside other investment vehicles of RTW Investments, LP (the investment manager) as well as other investors. Kyverna is a privately held cell therapy company engineering a new class of therapies for […]
Record results from Standard Life Private Equity – Standard Life Private Equity has announced results for the year ended 30 September 2021. The figures are good – an NAV return of 37.9% (the best in the trust’s 20-year history) and a whopping 60.6% share price return as the discount narrowed significantly. Both of these figures were […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 January 2022: ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT) is investing in Brooks Automation alongside funds advised by Thomas H. Lee Partners. The trust has an investment in THL Fund IX and will have exposure to the deal that way, but it will also make a direct investment in Brook Automation. Altogether – […]
Another strong year for Chrysalis as it doubles in size – Chrysalis Investments (CHRY) has posted its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2021, during which time its share price increased by 84% and its NAV per share increased by 57%. Total net assets rose by 154% from £542m to £1.4m over the […]
Polar Capital Global Financials back for more money – Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT) plans to raise additional equity capital through the issue of new ordinary shares via its placing programme. The new shares will be issued at a price which will be published on the day following the closing date of the placing, set […]
Another £300m for 2021’s IPO stars Digital 9 Infrastructure and Cordiant Digital Infrastructure – Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) and Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD), both of which only launched in March last year before going on to raise further funds during 2021, have raised almost £300m between them via their respective placing programmes. Digital 9 Infrastructure […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 January 2022: Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL) has posted its interim results for the six months to 30 November 2021. During the period under review, the trust delivered a NAV total return of -2.1% and a share price return of -7.9%. This compares with a -2.8% return from its benchmark. Despite […]
JPMorgan Russian narrowly avoids need for tender – JPMorgan Russian Securities has published results for the 12-month period ended 31 October 2021. Over that period, the return on a net assets basis was +61.0%, and +65.8%, on a return to shareholder basis – good but underperforming the company’s benchmark by 9.3% and 4.5% respectively. The dividend […]
Home REIT has now fully deployed the £350m it raised in September 2021, with £55.1m of new acquisitions. The company has announced the acquisition of 240 additional properties, providing 880 beds for homeless people, bringing the portfolio total to 7,953. The properties were acquired at a weighted average net initial yield of 5.9% and are […]
Good progress at Foresight Sustainable Forestry – The purchase of Foresight Sustainable Forestry’s seed assets portfolio is said to be progressing and is expected to complete next month. The line-up of assets that the fund plans to buy has been tweaked so that the portfolio should comprise 26 assets in total (covering 8,000 hectares) including […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 25 January 2022: JPMorgan European has secured permission from investors to merge the growth (JETG) and income (JETI) share pools. The unification will create a single class of ordinary shares, which will each have an NAV of 100p as determined at 5:00 p.m. on 31 January 2022. The resulting number of […]
Invesco Asia hires new co-manager as it reflects on a tough six months – Invesco Asia (IAT) has appointed Fiona Yang as co-manager of the trust alongside Ian Hargreaves, with immediate effect. Fiona joined Invesco in August 2017 and manages Invesco’s Asian Equity Income Fund while covering the entire Asia ex-Japan region with particular expertise […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 January 2022 Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) will hold a general meeting on 14 February to ask shareholders to consider, and if thought fit, approve the amendment to the company’s investment policy. It is proposed that the existing policy is amended, inter alia, by replacing the size restriction and change the […]
QuotedData’s weekly news show 21st January 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 Matthew Read covered the week’s top stories: • Bluefield Solar – sunny outlook • Ruffer – doom and gloom This week’s interview […]
It might be too late to start an email with ‘Happy New Year’ now but coming to your inboxes early next week will be our annual review of the investment trust world in 2021. We won’t give you too many spoilers, but it would be rude not to share a few snippets early. It was […]
With valuations in biotech having fallen substantially in the last year, BB Biotech (SWX: BION) sees compelling opportunities in the small-to-mid cap space this year and believes some of its core portfolio companies, such as Neurocrine, Incyte and Ionis Pharmaceuticals, could see interest from strategic investors, including as M&A targets. The comments come in the […]
Downing Renewables & Infrastructure (DORE) has announced that it has exchanged contracts to acquire two operational portfolios of hydropower plants located in central Sweden for a total consideration of approximately €25m. The first is a circa 12 GWh portfolio of hydropower plants from ÄSI Kraft AB located in the SE3 electricity pricing zone for approximately […]
Polar Capital Global Financials Trust (PCFT) has announced today (21st January 2021) that it is considering an equity issue under its placing programme. There is currently strong interest in the financials sector and, reflecting this, strong demand for PCFT’s shares. Since 30 November 2020 to 20 January 2022, PCFT says that it has raised some […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 January 2022: Hg, the manager of HgCapital Trust (HGT) has announced that it is making an additional investment into Lyniate, which it describes as “a leader in healthcare data interoperability”. The terms of the transaction are not disclosed. The transaction will result in HGT investing approximately £8.1 million in Lyniate, […]
Bluefield buys Good Energy portfolio – Bluefield Solar has bought a 47.5 megawatt peak (MWp) operational solar and wind portfolio from Good Energy Group Plc (GOOD LN). The portfolio was bought for an initial equity consideration of £16.4m, which could rise to a total of £24.5m if a series of due diligence milestones are met […]
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