In QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 December 2021: Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT) has completed its purchase of two onshore wind farms in Finland for about €140m. The Saunamaa and Suolakangas wind farms have a combined installed capacity of 71.4MW, and are in the final stages of commissioning, but the risks associated with the residual construction […]
Impact Healthcare buys three care homes – Impact Healthcare REIT is buying three care homes. One deal has completed and it has exchanged contracts to acquire two further properties. All of these are leased to existing tenants of the REIT. The purchase price is £14.3m (plus transaction costs). The deal adds three care homes with a […]
International Public Partnerships buys UK PPP portfolio – International Public Partnerships is buying a small portfolio of UK PPP (public/private partnership) investments comprising initially interests in Townlands Community Hospital in Henley, Eltham Community Hospital and minority interests in the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) projects STaG 1 and 2. The seller is an affiliate of […]
Third Point chairman steps down – “impossible to continue” This morning, the board of Third Point Investors announced that its chairman, Steve Bates, was leaving the board. The company issued the following statement: “The Board of Third Point Investors Ltd (“TPIL” or the “Company”) announces with regret that the Chairman, Mr Steve Bates, has determined […]
Odyssean makes approach to Strategic Equity Capital – Odyssean has this morning made the following announcement: “The board of Odyssean Investment Trust plc (“OIT”) announces that it has made a proposal to the Board of Strategic Equity Capital plc (“SEC”) regarding a combination of SEC and OIT to be effected by way of a section […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 December 2021: GCP Asset Backed Income (GABI) has been having issues with its loan to the Co-Living Group (which is currently in administration). An acquisition vehicle was established as planned and two of six agreed assets were transferred across to this vehicle. These two assets have subsequently been sold. Of […]
UK Commercial Property REIT has continued to strengthen its industrial and logistics portfolio with the £94m acquisition of Precision Park in Leamington Spa, Warwick, which includes a government-let ‘Megalabs’, aimed at increasing the UK’s daily testing capacity for COVID-19. Precision Park comprises two distribution units extending to over 380,000 sq ft, a 65,442 sq ft […]
LondonMetric Property has acquired Savills IM UK Income and Growth Fund in a corporate transaction for £122.2m, reflecting a blended yield on cost of 4.3% and an anticipated reversionary yield of 4.9%. The fund owns a portfolio of 15 assets across 482,000 sq ft with 75% in urban logistics and the remainder comprising long income […]
Crystal Amber to begin winding down process after failing to pass continuation vote – Crystal Amber (CRS) has provided an update following the result of its 2021 annual general meeting where the resolution that the company continue as constituted received a majority of votes, but did not achieve the required 75% majority of votes cast […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 22 December 2021: Syncona (SYNC) has reached an agreement to sell its portfolio company Gyroscope Therapeutics Holdings to Novartis, a leading global medicines company, for up to $1.5bn on a cash and debt free basis, with an upfront payment of $800m and up to $700m (£528 million) potentially due upon the […]
Ecofin Global Utilities and infrastructure Trust (EGL) has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2021, during which it has comfortably outperformed the utilities and infrastructure indices against which it benchmarks itself. During the year, EGL has provided NAV and share price total returns of 22.9% and 28.9% respectively. Both of these […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 December 2021: HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited (HVPE) has announced that its multi-currency credit facility has been increased by US$100 million (from US$600 million to US$700 million) with immediate effect. The additional US$100 million is being provided by Credit Suisse AG London Branch, one of the existing lenders, which has […]
Urban Logistics REIT has bought four assets for £28.6m, as it begins to deploy the proceeds from its recent £250m equity raise. The acquisition price reflects an average net initial yield (NIY) of 5.82%. Three of the assets are income producing, while the fourth is a forward funding development project. The assets Elland Road, Leicester […]
Grit Real Estate, the pan-African real estate company, has raised $156.7m through an open offer and placing. Part of the proceeds, $80.6m, was made through the issue of 155,027,444 new ordinary shares to the shareholders of development company Gateway Real Estate Africa Limited (GREA) and its asset manager Africa Property Development Management Limited (APDM) as […]
Scottish Investment Trust dips into revenue reserves as it reinstates dividend – Scottish Investment Trust (SCIN) has posted its results for the year to 31 October 2021. During the period, its share price total return was 24.3% and the net asset value per share (NAV) total return (with borrowings at market value) was 15.9%. The […]
JPMorgan Indian (JII) under board scrutiny for underperformance – JPMorgan Indian has posted its results for the year to 30 September 2021. During the period, the company produced a total return on net assets of 43.2% while the total return to shareholders was 45.4%, reflecting the narrowing of the share price discount to NAV from […]
Lowland mulls share split after strong year of performance – Lowland Investment Company (LWI) has published its annual report for 2021, which reviews the 12 months to 30 September 2021. During this period, the trust delivered 51% in NAV terms while its share price soared by 53.3%, significantly ahead of its index return of 27.9%. […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 20 December 2021: Tufton Oceanic Assets Limited (SHIP) has agreed to divest the Containership Swordfish for $19m. The realised net IRR will be 27% and realised net MOIC will be 2.4x. Swordfish was acquired in January 2018 for $10.25m as one of the company’s first two investments together with the Containership […]
Discount and premiums have a tendency to mean revert, often quite quickly, and so I’m not given to favouring trusts that are trading at ratings much above their long-term averages, unless I can see a good reason. In the case of Pacific Horizon (which was trading at a premium of 6.3% as at 15 December […]
Polar Capital Global Healthcare (PCGH) has released its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2021, during which it has provided NAV and share price total returns of 19.46% and 24.55%, strongly outperforming its benchmark, the MSCI ACWI Health Care Index, which returned 13.40%. Since its restructuring to 30 September 2021, PCGH has provided […]
Seraphim Space Investment Trust (SSIT) has announced that it has acquired holdings in ICEYE Oy and D-Orbit SpA from Seraphim Space LP as was set out in SSIT’s IPO prospectus. SSIT agreed to acquire four assets from the Seraphim Space Fund in exchange for new ordinary shares in SSIT and these two acquisitions represent the […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 December 2021: Oryx International Growth (OIG) has published its interim results for the six months ended 30th September 2021. Both the chairman’s and manager’s statement are impressively succinct, so there’s surprisingly little that we can say here. However, we can report that during the period, OIG’s NAV has increased by […]
LXi REIT (LXI) has acquired a Sainsbury’s supermarket in Middlesbrough for £58.9m. The purchase of the asset will be satisfied through the issue of just over 35.7m new shares in the company at 145p and a further £7m in cash. The seller, Laxmi Nivaria, is an existing long-term shareholder of the company and has agreed […]
Schroder UK Public Private loans money to Rutherford Health – Schroder UK Public Private Trust has committed £3m towards an £8m bridge loan being provided to Rutherford Health by its shareholders. In addition, LF Equity Income Fund has committed to provide a convertible loan facility of £2m. The loan will accrue interest at the rate […]
Syncona’s Anaveon secures Series B financing – Syncona has committed CHF35m (£29m) to Anaveon AG as part of a CHF110m (£90m) Series B financing round. Syncona was a cornerstone investor. The financing round was led by Forbion and supported by a leading international syndicate of specialist investors, including existing investor Novartis Venture Fund and new investors […]
Riverstone Energy hails Solid Power listing – Solid Power announced the closing of its business combination with a special purpose acquisition vehicle – Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation III (DCRC) – on 8 December 2021. On 9 December Solid Power became the only pure-play solid-state battery company to trade on the public markets. Solid Power common stock and […]
Schroder UK Mid Cap Fund has published its annual report for the year ended 30 September 2021. The NAV total return for the year was 41.8%, just ahead of the 40.9% produced by the 250 index (ex investment trusts). However, a narrowing discount (from 19.4% to 7.8% over the year) produced a share price total […]
New Danish portfolio for International Public Partnerships – International Public Partnerships has acquired an interest in a portfolio of four Danish public-private partnerships projects delivering availability-based, long-term, predictable cash flows. The company now holds a majority interest in the portfolio, which was bought for £14m. This is the company’s first investment in Denmark and provides […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 16 December 2021: Triple Point Social Housing REIT (SOHO) says that Parasol, a registered provider focused on the supported housing sector, has been deemed non-compliant with regards to elements of the Regulator’s governance and financial viability standard. The Regulator would like to see Parasol demonstrate improvement in the areas of business […]
Hammerson has continued its non-core asset sell off with the disposal of six properties for £92m. The group said the sales were in line with its strategy of reducing debt, simplifying the portfolio and generating capital for redeployment. It has exchanged contracts to sell its 50% stake in Silverburn, a 100,000 sqm shopping centre near Glasgow, […]
