HICL Infrastructure (HICL) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2023. The chair, Mike Bane, describes the financial performance in the year as being resilient, with NAV growth of 1.8p per share to 164.9p. The return from the portfolio was 10.2% (March 2022: 9.6%), outperforming the company’s expected return of 6.6% […]
Capital Gearing (CGT) has published its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2023, which its chairman, Jean Matterson, describes as a difficult year for the trust and traded markets generally (however, she notes that it is only the second year in the last 41 years, when CGT has failed to achieve a positive […]
LondonMetric and CT Property Trust (CTPT) have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended all-share offer that will see LondonMetric acquire the entire share capital of CTPT. Under the terms of the acquisition, CTPT shareholders will receive 0.455 new LondonMetric shares per share. On the basis of the closing price of LondonMetric of 188.0 […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 May 2023: Weiss Korea Opportunities Fund (WKOF) has announced that, due to the very limited number of elections received for the realisation opportunity (the results of which were announced on 10 May 2023), all of the realisation shares will be compulsory redeemed utilising WKOF’s existing cash reserves. The redemption price […]
Caledonia Investments has published results for the year ended 31 March 2023. Over the period, the company generated an NAV total return of 5.5%, which compares to a 2.9% return on the All-Share Index. The dividend was increased by 4% to 67.4p. The chair’s statement makes no mention of the trust’s share price or discount […]
Home REIT has appointed AEW as its new manager as the company looks to turn around its fortunes after a series of damaging revelations involving malpractice and allegations of fraudulent activity. The board has entered into an agreement with AEW UK Investment Management LLP under which, effective immediately, AEW will act as the company’s property […]
The following statement was published by RM Infrastructure Income today: Although RMII is well positioned from an investment perspective, the company’s shares, in common with many investment companies, have traded at a discount over a period of time. This, coupled with the company being of a small scale, has created challenges in generating improved liquidity in […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 May 2023: Harmony Energy Impact’s (HEIT) NAV was 6.7% lower at end April (117.1p, down from 125.5p at end January) after it cut the power price forecasts used in its NAV calculation. Aberforth Smaller Companies (ASL) has renewed its £130m revolving credit facility with The Royal Bank of Scotland International […]
In Alliance Trust’s latest manager interview, Brian Kersmanc and Andrew Wellington share their views on the most important drivers of stock returns and to what extent the macro influences their investment decisions. Filmed: April 2023
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Limited (CORD), an operationally focused investor in the core digital infrastructure that enables modern communications and the internet, announced that the portfolio company, České Radiokomunikace has signed customer agreements to broadcast three new channels. The team at Cordiant Capital Inc, CORD’s investment manager, supported CRA in the signing of these exciting new revenue-generating […]
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: • abrdn Japan (0:36) • BioPharma Credit (8:02) • Gresham House Energy Storage (13:12) This week’s interview was with Michael Anderson from Aquila Capital European Renewables – […]
Scottish Mortgage’s share price is almost 60% below its November 2021 peak. It published results for the 12 months ended 31 March 2023 this week and they were not pretty. Over the period, the NAV return was -17.8%, but – as the discount widened – the return to shareholders was -33.5%. Discount at 30-year record […]
JPMorgan Multi-Asset Growth & Income (MATE) announced annual results for the year ended 28 February 2023. The company recorded a negative total return of -5.3% on its opening net asset value, an underperformance of 11.3% for the year, compared to the benchmark. The company’s share price returned -1.5% during the period as the discount to […]
The Unbound Group (UBG) (formerly Electra Private Equity) provided an update follow its strategic review. The company had recently reported that the trading environment remained challenging over Q1 with conditions deteriorating more than expected, leaving the company with cash constraints. As a result the board has decided to initiate a formal review of strategic options available […]
Tritax Eurobox has published results for the six months ended 31 March 2023 and, while the NAV has fallen, the overall picture looks quite good. Highlights were: Falling net assets Portfolio value of €1,596.7m (30 September 2022: €1,765.6m), with like-for-like reduction of 14.7%, primarily due to significant outward yield shift across the sector, partly offset […]
AVI Japan Opportunities has submitted shareholder proposals to both SK Kaken and NC Holdings. Details of AVI’s campaign on SK Kaken can be accessed here and that of NC Holdings can be accessed here. SK Kaken AVI notes that, despite a high-quality business model and having a dominant share of the domestic construction paint market, […]
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund has announced a proposed placing of shares to institutional investors and a separate offer of shares on the REX platform (the “Retail Offer”) available to existing UK-based retail shareholders of the company. Targeted gross proceeds are approximately £80m, of which the maximum size of the Retail Offer will be capped […]
A proposal to wind up abrdn Latin American Income was announced on 15 March. Now we have more detail on the process of doing this. The proposals involve the company being placed, with the approval of shareholders, into summary winding-up. If the resolution is passed at the EGM and the joint liquidators are appointed, they […]
Heads of terms have been agreed for a proposed combination of the assets of abrdn Japan Investment Trust with those of Nippon Active Value Fund. The abrdn Japan board says that the proposal follows an extensive review of various investment strategies in the Japan fund sector. It believes the case for taking advantage of recent corporate […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 18 May 2023: JLEN Environmental Assets (JLEN) NAV at end March 2023 slipped very marginally (0.4p) from the level at end December. Falling near-term power prices, which have affected other renewable energy funds, are less impactful on JLEN, which has a high degree of protection from short term price hedges as […]
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust (APEO) provided an update for its estimated NAV. At 30 April 2023, APEO’s estimated NAV was 738.1 pence per share (estimated net assets £1,134.8 million), representing a 1.0% per share decrease from the estimated NAV at 31 March 2023 of 745.9 pence per share (estimated net assets £1,146.8 million). The […]
Scottish Mortgage announced its annual results for the year to 31 March 2023. The company NAV fell 17.8%, and shares dropped 33.5%. This compares to the FSTE All World Index which fell 0.9% while the global sector average share price fell 13.6%. These numbers reflect the company’s exposure to high growth sectors of the market, […]
VietNam Holding Limited (VNH) has announced a monthly investor report and manager update for April. As of April 30, the company was up 4.4% YTD, a slight drag on the Vietnam All Shares Index which was up 5.2%. Shares were down 0.4% over the past month. In addition to its recent performance, management added the […]
Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund (SEQI) provided a monthly update for April. The company’s NAV grew 1.5% over the course of the month. The company also added an additional purchase of Samhällsbyggnadsbolaget (SBB) 2027 senior corporate bonds for €5.0m (SBB is a social infrastructure property company listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm (Large Cap) and the […]
Workspace Group has sold five non-core properties in the South East of England for a total of £82m. These disposals were from the portfolio of assets acquired as part of the McKay acquisition completed in May 2022. The properties sold comprise light industrial and logistics properties in Bracknell, Crawley, Poyle, Theale and Weybridge. The site […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 16 May 2023: Apax Global Alpha (APAX) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a significant minority stake in IBS Software through the Apax XI Fund in which APAX is a limited partner. IBS is a leading provider of modern software solutions to the global travel and logistics industry. […]
Tritax Big Box REIT has acquired a urban logistics park in Birmingham for £58.5m, at a 4.5% net initial yield and a reversionary yield of 6.7%. The group has bought Junction 6 Industrial Park, one of the UK’s leading urban logistics estates of scale totalling 384,000 sq ft across 12 assets. It is located less than […]
North Atlantic Smaller Companies (NAS) has announced its 12 month results for the financial year ending 31 January 2023: Over the 12 month period NAS generated a NAV total return of -11.8%, and a share price return of -9.9%. The investment team attributes this negative return to the difficulty of markets, which was “one of […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing for 15 May 2023: Chrysalis (CHRY) has announced a £12.5m follow-on investment in its existing holding in Smart Pension. This investment forms part of a $95 million Series E funding round. This funding round will be used to drive Smart Pension’s growth in key markets, finance a pipeline of acquisitions, and […]
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, Matthew Reed and Richard Williams covered the week’s top stories: Update on Renewables Octopus Renewables Infrastructure (1:30) Bluefield Solar (6:13) NextEnergy Solar (7:18) HydrogenOne (9:36) US Solar no longer up for sale […]
