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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).

04 Feb 2022

BlackRock Energy and Resources Income benefits from traditional energy holdings

BlackRock Energy and Resources Income (BERI) has announced its results for the year ended 30 November 2021, during which it provided NAV and share price total returns of 34.4% and 41.7% respectively. In comparison, the EMIX Global Mining Index rose by 12.5% and the MSCI World Energy Index rose by 41.2% over the same period. […]

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04 Feb 2022
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 February 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 February 2022: Jupiter Emerging & Frontier Income Trust (JEFI) has announced that its Fund Manager, Ross Teverson, has recently increased his personal shareholding in the Company to 1,134,000 ordinary shares, representing 1.90% of JEFI’s total voting rights. [QD comment: We are pleased to see Ross Teverson further aligning himself with […]

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03 Feb 2022

Strong trading at Gore Street Energy Storage

Strong trading at Gore Street Energy Storage – Gore Street Energy Storage Fund says that over the final quarter of 2021, three of its sites -Lower Road (10MW), Larport Farm (19.5MW) and Breach Farm (10MW) – ranked as one the highest revenue generating energy storage assets in per MWh, according to Modo Energy, a specialist […]

03 Feb 2022

QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 February 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 February 2022: Gravis Capital Management plans to launch a new company GCP Co-Living REIT Plc which will acquire three assets that are transferring out of the Co-living Group. Readers may recall that Co-Living Group was a problem investment within the GCP Asset Backed Income (GABI) portfolio. The new REIT has […]

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02 Feb 2022

QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 February 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 February 2022: 3i Infrastructure (3IN) has completed its further £258m investment in ESVAGT, the market leader in service operation vessels for the offshore wind industry, taking its equity stake to 100%. Downing Renewables and Infrastructure (DORE) has acquired an operational 46 MW onshore wind project located in north east Sweden […]

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01 Feb 2022
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Triple Point Energy Efficiency buying battery portfolio

Triple Point Energy Efficiency buying battery portfolio – Triple Point Energy Efficiency says that its investment manager has secured, under exclusivity, a near-term pipeline of £108m of grid-scale battery energy storage systems assets. If the deal progresses to plan, the portfolio will be substantially deployed. To fund the short-term pipeline and to allow greater financial […]

01 Feb 2022

Riverstone Energy backs T-Rex

Riverstone Energy backs T-Rex – Riverstone Energy has made $17.5m preferred equity investment in T-REX Group, Inc.’s $40mSeries C funding round. T-REX is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, supporting the asset-backed financing industry. Riverstone says that it brings together asset class expertise, critical data management capabilities, and a platform for deal structuring, cash flow modeling, scenario analysis, […]

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01 Feb 2022

QuotedData’s morning briefing 1 February 2022

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 1 February 2022: Augmentum Fintech (AUGM) published an update on its portfolio. One interesting fact is that, while publicly listed fintech companies have fallen from an average 15.2x revenue at end June 2021 to 9.2x revenue in recent months, AUGM’s portfolio is valued on 4.2x. Over the second half of 2021, […]

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31 Jan 2022

Jupiter Emerging & Frontier Income enjoys turnaround performance

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 […]

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31 Jan 2022

Stellar results from Henderson Opportunities as it plans to amend investment objective and policy

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 […]

31 Jan 2022

Aquila Energy Efficiency to review investment strategy as it announces range of new investments

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 […]

31 Jan 2022
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 31 January 2022

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 […]

28 Jan 2022

Nurobots: delivering a good life with autonomous vehicles

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, […]

28 Jan 2022

QuotedData’s weekly news show 28th January 2022

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 […]

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28 Jan 2022

QD view – every cloud

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 […]

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28 Jan 2022

Seraphim Space’s D-Orbit is ready for launch

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 […]

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28 Jan 2022

JLEN Environmental Assets Group raises £60.7m in oversubscribed issue

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 […]

28 Jan 2022
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 January 2022

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 […]

27 Jan 2022

RTW backs Kyverna

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 […]

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27 Jan 2022
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Record results from Standard Life Private Equity

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 […]

27 Jan 2022

QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 January 2022

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 – […]

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26 Jan 2022
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Another strong year for Chrysalis as it doubles in size

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 […]

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26 Jan 2022
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Polar Capital Global Financials back for more money

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 […]

26 Jan 2022

Another £300m for 2021’s IPO stars Digital 9 Infrastructure and Cordiant Digital Infrastructure

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 […]

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26 Jan 2022
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 January 2022

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 […]

25 Jan 2022

JPMorgan Russian narrowly avoids need for tender

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 […]

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25 Jan 2022
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Home REIT completes £350m acquisition spree

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 […]

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25 Jan 2022

Good progress at Foresight Sustainable Forestry

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 […]

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25 Jan 2022

QuotedData’s morning briefing 25 January 2022

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 […]

24 Jan 2022

Invesco Asia hires new co-manager as it reflects on a tough six months

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 […]

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