American hedge fund relaunches campaign against Scottish investment trust Investing The American hedge fund tycoon behind a years-long assault on Britain’s investment trust industry has revived his campaign against a Baillie Gifford-run fund less than a month after being resoundingly defeated by shareholders at a crunch meeting. Saba Capital founder Boaz Weinstein shared an open letter to investors in the Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust (Ewit), [...]
Home REIT: Beleaguered property fund value falls 60 per cent Investing Scandal-hit housing investor Home REIT has published its long-delayed 2023 annual results, revealing its property portfolio has been valued at just 40.7 per cent of its original purchase cost. The results for the year to 31 August 2023 revealed that the value of Home REIT’s assets had decreased by more than a third in a [...]
Etoro: ‘We could still float in London but things need to change’ Investing The UK boss of trading platform Etoro has opened up about what the London Stock Exchange has to do to win its backing.
Baillie Gifford says shareholders can ditch China trust if underperformance persists November 13, 2024 Baillie Gifford has pledged to allow investors to refund their money from its £133m China-focused growth trust if it continues to underperform the wider market over the next four years. The trust’s share price has dropped by more than 33 per cent in the last five years, compared to a drop of just nine per [...]
3i Infrastructure set to exit stake in French green energy firm October 7, 2024 FTSE 250 investment trust 3i Infrastructure is poised to sell its stake in French independent green energy operator Valorem in a deal worth roughly €309m (£258m).
Almost 90 per cent of investment trusts are on a discount. When will it change? September 5, 2024 A significant 88 per cent of all investment trusts are now trading on a discount to their underlying assets, City A.M. can reveal. The gap between the share price of investment trusts and the price of their underlying assets has got so bad that 30 per cent of all trusts now trade on a discount [...]
Columbia Threadneedle property trust bought out for £673m despite management complaints September 4, 2024 Columbia Threadneedle-run Balanced Commercial Property Trust has reached a deal to be sold for £673.5m, despite objections from its investment manager. The trust has been managed by Columbia Threadneedle since it was created in 2005, and began a strategic review this April after shareholders told it there was “need for change from the status quo”. [...]
Londonmetric makes £120m worth of acquisitions and sales in dealmaking spree September 2, 2024 LondonMetric has made £70m worth of acquisitions and offloaded other assets worth £50m in the real estate investment trust's (REIT) latest dealmaking spree.
AI venture capital trust dishes out more funding May 31, 2024 Superseed Capital, a venture capital fund investing in early stage companies focusing on AI and software as a service, has invested almost half a million pounds over the last three months.
Ground Rents Income fund offloads two student sites as it continues to liquidate portfolio February 23, 2024 A British real estate investment trust has offloaded two student accommodation sites in Bristol and Exeter for a total of over £3m.