abrdn European Logistics Income Real estate | Update | 23 June 2023 Riding out the storm abrdn European Logistics Income (ASLI) is riding out the storm of market valuation declines, with a focus on managing its portfolio and securing income. It has recently completed a number of letting renewals across its portfolio (see page 9) […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 June 2023: Gore Street Energy Storage (GSF) has increased the size of its existing revolving credit facility (RCF) with Santander from £15m to £50m. Pricing for the £50m facility remains unchanged at 300 basis points over SONIA. If the increased RCF is fully utilised, GSF’s debt would be equivalent to […]
The Global Smaller Companies Trust moved more or less in line with its benchmark over the 12 months ended 30 April 2023, returning -2.9% to the benchmark’s -2.1%. The benchmark changed on 1 May 2023 but for the period under review it was 30% Numis UK Smaller Companies (ex investment companies) and 70% MSCI All […]
AEW UK REIT (AEWU) has published its full year results for the year ended 31 March 2023. To summarise, AEWU’s investment manager has continued to actively manage the portfolio, outperforming the benchmark in all sectors and, according to its chairman, Mark Burton, AEWU has traded at the narrowest discount of all UK diversified REITs. The […]
Vietnam Holding Limited Investment companies | Update | 20 June 2023 Building on firmer foundations Vietnam Holding (VNH) has put in a decent performance in NAV total return terms versus its emerging Asia peers (see page 24), but this has not been reflected in its share price. The manager says that Vietnam’s long-term structural growth […]
Vietnam Holding Limited Investment companies | Update | 20 June 2023 Building on firmer foundations Vietnam Holding (VNH) has put in a compelling performance in net asset value (NAV) total return terms versus competing funds investing in emerging Asia (see page 24), but this is not being reflected in its share price. Presently, its share […]
Vietnam Holding Limited Investment companies | Update | 20 June 2023 Building on firmer foundations Vietnam Holding (VNH) has put in a compelling performance in NAV total return terms versus its emerging Asia peers, but this is not being reflected in its share price. This is despite Vietnam’s long-term structural growth drivers remaining intact and […]
abrdn Diversified Income and Growth’s board has announced that it has commenced a strategic review. The obvious problems that the trust faces are its discount, which was about 26% last night ahead of this announcement, and its shrinking market cap, which at £255m is not a bad size but the board feels limits the scope […]
Biotech Growth has reported results for the 12 months ended 31 March 2023 and they aren’t good. The NAV total return for the year was -11.0%, a whopping 16.4 percentage points behind the +5.4% return on the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index. The return to shareholders was -12.8%. The chairman’s statement attributes the underperformance to investors’ preference […]
Aquila European Renewables Investment companies | Initiation | 14 June 2023 Sunny days are here again Aquila European Renewables (AERI) is about four years old. Since launch, it has built up a 464MW portfolio of operational solar, wind and hydropower projects, spread across six European power markets. It has also generated returns in line with […]
