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21 March 2018
Manager Katie Potts will now invest in companies below £3 billion rather than £2 billion after a successful year for its bigger holdings.
21 March 2018
Baillie Gifford has raised £173 million for its ‘patient capital-style’ US Growth trust.
21 March 2018
‘You’d have to be be mad to invest in UK PFI at the moment,’ says Stephen Ellis, chairman of Gravis Capital Management, who is looking to raise £200 million for the Global Diversified Infrastructure income fund.
20 March 2018
The boards of BlackRock Latin American and City Natural Resources High Yield (CYN) decide that offering investors the certainty of dividends paid from capital is the best way to secure demand for their shares.
20 March 2018
RM Secured Direct Lending hopes to clear the £100 million barrier with an offer of high-yielding C-shares and 3.5% yielding ‘zeroes’ .
20 March 2018
Alasdair McKinnon, contrarian manager of Scottish investment trust, hopes yesterday’s drubbing of Facebook shares is prelude to significant shift in investor attitudes.
20 March 2018
High-yielding Renewables Infrastructure Group soars past its £25 million ‘tap’ share issue target a month after weakening inflation link to its dividend.
19 March 2018
Augmentum Capital, the finch investor spun out of the Rothschilds’ RIT Capital Partners, raised £94 million, below the £125 million sought in its initial public offer of shares.
19 March 2018
Edward Bramson's Sherborne Investors lines up its biggest target yet with a 5.16% stake in Barclays and a statement of intent regarding its potential turnaround.
16 March 2018
Concern over the ‘relentless climb’ in stock markets saw manager Sam Morse raise his bets against company share prices in his £1 billion portfolio.
