BioPharma Credit (BPCR) is providing debt financing to Novocure Luxembourg S.a.r.l. through a senior secured loan agreement. BPCR will invest up to US$200m and BioPharma-V will invest up to an additional US$200m in parallel, with BPCR acting as collateral agent. Under the terms of the transaction, the Company will invest up to US$200m across four tranches: Tranche […]

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 May 2023: US Solar Fund (USF) has published a circular with details of the tender offer that it announced on 24 April 2024 that it is proposing to use as a means of returning capital to shareholders. The proposed tender price of $0.764 per share, which is equivalent to the 31 […]

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 May 2024: European Assets Trust (EAT) announced that Mine Tezgul will succeed Sam Cosh as the company’s lead investment manager with immediate effect. Mine Tezgul is a portfolio manager in the European equities team and head of European small cap equities. Mine joined the manager in 2018 as an equity […]

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, chair of the Financial Services Regulation Committee, has written to Nikhil Rathi, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), pushing for a resolution to the cost disclosure issue that has been plaguing the investment companies sector. This is a very welcome intervention, we think, and hopefully it will add to […]

Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust (AEET) announced its annual results for the year end December 31 2023. The company saw a NAV total return of 0.3%, while shares fell 17.6%, leading the discount down to 39.3%. The company has made no new investments outside its existing commitments since the failed continuation vote back in Feb 2023 […]

Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies (IPU) announced its annual results for the period ended 31 Jan 2024. The company saw  NAV total return of -4.1%, slightly worse than the benchmark fall of -3.3%. Shares fell -3.1% while the discount narrowed to 11.1%. Longer term performance remains positive, with the cumulative NAV total return over the […]

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 1 May 2024: Picton Property (PCTN) has announced a 5.7% increase in its dividend, following recent portfolio activity and the repayment of floating rate debt. The interim dividend payment for the first quarter of 2024 (to be paid this month), will be 0.925p per share (Q4 2023: 0.875p per share). Picton […]

abrdn Property Income Trust reported annual results for 2023, in which NAV total return was -3.0%. The real estate investment portfolio returned 0.7%, which outperformed the MSCI Quarterly Property Index benchmark return of -1.5% over the same period. The company’s portfolio has outperformed the index over one, three, five and 10 years. The group’s NAV […]

Digital9 Infrastructure has published results for 2023. It published an NAV as at 31 December 2023 on 28 March of £728m or 84p per share. At that time, the board had obtained an independent valuation of Aqua Comms, Elio Networks, Arqiva Group and the potential earn-out payment of up to US $135m from the sale […]

Berlin residential landlord Phoenix Spree Deutschland has reported a 22.4% fall in EPRA net tangible assets to €3.96 per share (24.0% drop in sterling terms) in the year to 31 December 2023. The fall was mainly due to a 11.9% like-for-like drop in the value of its portfolio to €675.6m as buyer sentiment and transaction […]

Marwyn Value Investors has published results for the year ended 31 December 2023. The NAV total return on the ordinary shares for the year was 5.1%, for the 2016 realisation shares it was 5.0% and for the 2021 realisation shares it was 4.2%. Those figures compare to a return on the Small Cap Index of […]

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 April 2024: Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) says that the 1,157,160 shares that were tendered last month were valued at $2.5088 each or $2,903,083. Those investors that sold will get paid around 15 May 2024. Now that the sale of abrdn’s European private equity business to Patria Investments is complete, abrdn […]

Baker Steel Resources Trust (BSRT) has released its annual results for the 12 months ending 31 December 2023. Over the year BSRT’s NAV per share decreased by 2.8%, compared with the increase in the MSCI World Metals and Mining Index of 13.8%. BSRT’s share price fell by 15.1%, finishing the year on a 48.8% discount. […]

Ecofin U.S. Renewables Infrastructure Trust (RNEW) released its annual financial results for the 12 months ending 31 December 2023: RNEW reported a negative NAV total return of -5.5% and share price total return of -28.0%. NAV per share decreased from 94.3 cents per share to 85.2 cents. The company’s total NAV was $117.7m as of […]