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33 investment trusts have raised dividends for 10 to 19 consecutive years.

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Eight investment trusts join the next generation of dividend heroes

33 investment trusts have raised dividends for 10 to 19 consecutive years.

Biotechnology & Healthcare: a sector on the mend?

What’s the prognosis for biotech and healthcare companies? How will the US election impact the sector, and could we see a recovery later this year?

Top performing investment trust ISAs over the last 25 years

18 trusts returned over £100,000 from a one-off £7,000 investment.

Dividend heroes

Ten investment trusts have raised dividends for 50+ years.

The changing face of investment trusts

How the industry has changed since 1999.

Biotechnology & Healthcare: what are the challenges of investing in the sector?

Annabel Brodie-Smith asks managers about the challenges of investing in the Biotechnology & Healthcare sector.

Biotechnology & Healthcare: where are you finding opportunities?

A panel of Biotechnology & Healthcare managers discuss where they are currently finding opportunities.

Biotechnology & Healthcare: is the sector due a comeback?

Annabel Brodie-Smith, Brett Darke, Marek Poszepczynski and Geoff Hsu discuss whether Biotechnology & Healthcare is due a comeback.

The big buyback

David Prosser explores the role of share buybacks in narrowing investment trust discounts.

Biotechnology & Healthcare: will the results of the US election make a difference for the sector?

Brett Darke, Marek Poszepczynski and Geoff Hsu on whether the results of the next US election will impact the Biotechnology & Healthcare sector.

Greencoat UK Wind

25 March 2024

 Acquisitions generating more green

Witan Investment Trust

22 March 2024

QuotedData's Weekly News & Interview.

Henderson EuroTrust

22 March 2024

Proposed merger with Henderson European Focus Trust.

HgCapital Trust

22 March 2024

Strong earnings growth and realisations in FY23.

Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies

22 March 2024

QuotedData's Weekly News & Interview

Investment company liquidity – steady as she goes, but could be better

19 March 2024

A review of investment company liquidity in London since 2016.

Listed private equity – Performing a balancing act

6 March 2024

UK-listed private equity investment companies maintained strong NAV total returns (TR) over the last five and 10 years of c 14% per year on average, despite recent monetary tightening and other macro headwinds.

Range anxiety

7 February 2024

We look at what context we can gain from ten years of discount analysis.

2023 was an annus horribilis for Infrastructure and Renewable Energy

1 February 2024

The focus of Hardman & Co Research is on the nine quoted Infrastructure Investment Companies (IICs) and on the 22 Renewable Energy Infrastructure Funds (REIFs).

Share the wealth, Xi...

25 January 2024

The world's most successful communist country could benefit from a welfare state.

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India Capital Growth serves up great absolute but poor relative returns

India Capital Growth Fund reports NAV growth of 28.6% and share price growth of 34.1% for 2023. However, the benchmark S&P BSE Midcap Total Return Index rose by 38.4% The share price discount to NAV narrowed over the year to just over 3.9% at the year end. The board intends to continue to repurchase shares […]
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International Public Partnerships results light on crucial detail

International Public Partnerships says that over 2023 its NAV fell by 4.1% to 152.6p [like BBGI, it doesn’t say what the NAV total return was, it was 1.0%, and while there is room to say that the share price correlation with the All-Share is just 0.4, there wasn’t room to say that the return to […]
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BBGI can’t pretend that 2023’s results were good

BBGI Global Infrastructure’s NAV total return for 2023 was 3.9% [we had to work that out, for some reason, the company went out of its way to avoid saying it, resorting to publishing an annualised NAV return since IPO instead, but if you think that’s odd, the really damning thing is the absence of any […]
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M&G Credit Income had a good 2023

M&G Credit Income returned 10.4% in NAV terms over 2023, ahead of the 9% return on its benchmark. The statement says that outperformance came from tightening credit spreads, which drove capital growth,and strong income returns supported by higher yielding private assets. The portfolio was substantially protected from interest rate rises and rate-driven volatility by the […]
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 March 2024 – IVPB, IVPG, IVPM, IVPU, RIII, TENT, DGI9, HOME

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 March 2024: Not enough shareholders of Invesco Select Trust (IVPB / IVPG / IVPM / IVPU) voted on the plan to merge the four asset classes into just the global equity income class. The percentage voting requirement to get the deal approved has been relaxed and the timetable pushed back. […]

TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund - TwentyFour Update

28/03/2024 - 08:10

TwentyFour Select Monthly Income

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Transaction in Own Shares

28/03/2024 - 08:20

Ruffer Investment Company Limited

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Form 8.3 - Tritax Big Box REIT plc

28/03/2024 - 08:10

Janus Henderson Investors

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2023 Second Half-Year Dividend

28/03/2024 - 08:10

International Public Partnerships

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Transaction in Own Shares

28/03/2024 - 08:10

RTW Biotech Opportunities Ltd

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