Overview
BioPharma Credit : BPCR
BioPharma Credit plc provides investors with an opportunity to gain exposure to the fast growing life sciences industry, through a diversified portfolio of loans and other instruments backed by royalties or other cash flows derived from sales of approved life sciences products. BioPharma Credit’s primary objective is to generate predictable income for shareholders over the long term.
Once substantially invested, BioPharma Credit will target an annual dividend yield of 7 per cent. (calculated by reference to the Issue Price), and a net total return on NAV of 8 to 9 per cent. per annum in the medium term.
Pharmakon Advisors, the fund’s Investment Manager, was founded in 2009 and has invested US$1.3 billion in 20 transactions across four funds. The first three funds are now fully invested. Drawing upon the expertise and successful track record of Pharmakon Advisors, the fund enjoys access to its extensive, industry-focused knowledge and contacts to source, analyse and structure attractive investment opportunities.
Their website can be reached by clicking this link.
BPCR : BioPharma Credit
Fundamentals
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Research History
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07 May 2020 11 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – May 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents New research In this issue Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Major news stories Income Events Guide Appendix – Performance by sector full list New research Here is a list of research we published over April: An update note […]
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17 Apr 2020 12 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Quarterly Review – First Quarter 2020
Investment Companies Quarterly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents In this issue Performance data Positive movers Negative movers Discounts and premiums Getting more expensive Getting cheaper Money in and out Money in Money out Major news stories Upcoming Events New research The legal bit Unprecedented times We have knitted […]
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07 Oct 2019 8 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – October 2019
Economic & Political Roundup Kindly sponsored by Polar Capital and Allianz A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you […]
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07 Aug 2019 4 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – August 2019
Investment Companies Roundup New research Over July, we published notes on CQS New City High Yield, BlackRock Throgmorton, Strategic Equity Capital, Seneca Global Income & Growth, CG Asset Management, Standard Life Investments Property Income and Aberdeen New Dawn. You can read all these notes by clicking on the links above or by visiting www.quoteddata.com. In this issue Performance data – appetite […]
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05 Apr 2019 6 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – April 2019
Kindly sponsored by Polar Capital Economic & Political Roundup A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy […]
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19 Dec 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – December 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – December 2018 is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of November 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Extract from ‘winners and losers’ The Californian wildfires took their toll on CatCo Reinsurance as it […]
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13 Nov 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – November 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – November 2018 is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of October 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Winners and losers in October In what was generally a miserable month for equity markets, Brazil shone […]
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16 Oct 2018 2 min read
Quarterly Investment Companies Roundup – Third Quarter 2018
Quarterly Investment Companies Roundup – Third Quarter 2018 Global equities delivered positive returns over the third quarter of 2018. This was principally because of strength in the US market. Political uncertainty and concerns about global trade held back other regions. Generally, government bond yields rose over the quarter. The UK equity market fell as the Bank of […]
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12 Oct 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – October 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – October 2018 is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of August 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Money raised and returned in September Trian Investors 1 is a new fund that will adopt […]
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18 Jul 2018 2 min read
Quarterly Investment Companies Roundup – Second Quarter 2018
QUARTERLY INVESTMENT COMPANIES ROUNDUP – SECOND QUARTER 2018 Global equities markets rose in the second quarter of 2018, Markets were volatile, as positive economic data and encouraging company performances played off against geopolitical concerns. Yields from bond markets rose early in the quarter but fell back as investors turned to ‘safer’ investments. The threat of […]
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11 May 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – May 2018
QuotedData investment companies roundup – May 2018 – is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of April 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. India Capital Growth has experience a rebound in performance in the past month, as […]
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25 Apr 2018 2 min read
Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018
Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018 Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018 – Global equity markets declined in the first quarter of 2018. Concerns about US interest rate rises were the feature of the first half of the quarter. However, worries about global trade took over in the second part, particularly […]
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18 Jan 2018 2 min read
QuotedData – 2017 review of the year
QuotedData – 2017 review of the year – Many commentators, including us, were wary going into 2017. In the event, economic growth and markets surprised on the upside: US markets hit new highs despite three interest rate rises. Perceived low/no growth areas such as Europe and Japan burst into life. Asia’s technology stocks surged. India’s […]
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10 Jan 2018 2 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – January 2018
QuotedData investment companies roundup – January 2018 – is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of December 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. January Investment Companies Roundup Winners and losers in December Infrastructure India’s share price […]
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11 Dec 2017 2 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – December 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – December 2017 – is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of November 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. December Investment Companies Roundup Money raised and returned in November There were no […]
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10 Apr 2017 1 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – April 2017
Our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of February 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. April Investment Companies Roundup
News
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09 Nov 2020 2 min read
BioPharma Credit to invest an additional $75m in follicular lymphoma drug maker
BioPharma Credit (BPCR) announced that it, through its fully owned subsidiary, together with BioPharma Credit Investments V has entered into an amended and restated loan agreement with Epizyme, which will see BPCR invest an additional US$75m in the Epizyme loan. This amended loan agreement is dated 3 November. Under the original terms of the loan agreement, […]
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28 Sep 2020 3 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 September 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 September 2020: CVC Credit Partners European Opportunities (CCPE/CCPG) reported interim results to 30 June 2020, with NAV total returns for the Sterling and Euro share classes coming in at (7.95%) and (8.45%), respectively. Chairman, Richard Boléat, had this to say: “Performance of risk assets as a whole since 30 June has […]
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16 Sep 2020 3 min read
BioPharma Credit interim period investments total $236m
BioPharma Credit (BPCR) has published interim results to 30 June 2020. The company says it is London’s only specialist debt investor to the life sciences industry. It seeks to achieve returns primarily through investments in debt assets secured by royalties or other cash flows derived from the sales of approved life sciences products. NAV per share decreased […]
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1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 16 September 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 16 September 2020: UK equity income sector company, Law Debenture Corporation (LWDB), said it remained committed to at least maintaining 2019 full-year dividend level of 26p. LWDB is a unique combination of an equity portfolio and independent professional services business. LWDB said today that “we approached 2020 with a professional services business […]
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10 Sep 2020 3 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 September 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 September 2020: Capital & Counties has sold a block of property, that it has dubbed “the Wellington block”, for £76.5m. The block comprises 25-31 Wellington Street, 23 Wellington Street, 15 Exeter Street, 12 & 14 Burleigh Street and Burleigh House, currently providing approximately 66,000 square feet of lettable space. The buyer […]
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30 Jul 2020 1 min read
BioPharma anticpates Lexicon prepayment
BioPharma anticpates Lexicon prepayment – BioPharma Credit has a $124.5m loan to Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (part of a $150m loan) which is secured against its XERMELO® (telotristat ethyl) product. Lexicon is planning to sell XERMELO to TerSera Therapeutics for $224m. BioPharma believes that Lexicon will use the upfront proceeds from the XERMELO sale to substantially reduce its debt, including […]
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21 Jul 2020 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 July 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 July 2020: BioPharma Credit has received a notice of prepayment for its $150 million senior secured loan with Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. As a result, the company is expected to receive on or before 4 August 2020, approximately $156.2 million, comprised of $150 million in principal, $1.2 million in accrued interest and […]
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13 Jul 2020 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 July 2020
Ruffer (RICA), the flexible investment sector fund, delivered total NAV and share price returns of 10.1% and 12.4%, respectively, over the year ending period to 30 June. The portfolio’s protective assets led returns through the downturn, with positive contributions over the last six months coming from credit protection (+6.2%), gold (+5.1%), index-linked bonds (+3.9%) and option protection (+3.3%). The equity book was […]
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22 Jun 2020 1 min read
BioPharma Credit’s discount control mechanism activated
BioPharma Credit (BPCR), the specialist life sciences debt investor, has announced that its discount control mechanism has been activated. The company will be required to purchase shares in the market as a result of the shares trading in excess of a 5% discount to NAV over a three-month rolling period, using the methodology described in the company’s […]
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26 May 2020 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 May 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 May 2020, as the lockdown begins to ease: FastForward Innovations says its medicinal cannabis investment, Emmac Life Sciences will manufacture product for a clinical trial as part of a Consortium led by the University of Valencia. The clinical trial in COVID-19 patients will use the T12 molecule to prevent disease progression […]
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10 Mar 2020 5 min read
BioPharma Credit significantly increased its scale over 2019
BioPharma Credit (BPCR) has published annual results to 31 December 2019. The company says it is London’s only specialist debt investor to the life sciences industry. The company seeks to achieve returns for its shareholders primarily through investments in debt assets secured by royalties or other cash flows derived from the sales of approved life sciences […]
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07 Feb 2020 1 min read
BioPharma funds Collegium Pharmaceutical
BioPharma funds Collegium Pharmaceutical – BioPharma Credit has made a senior secured term loan agreement with Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. (traded on Nasdaq with the ticker COLL, with a current market capitalisation of about $680m). The company is investing alongside BioPharma Credit Investments V (Master) LP. The company will invest $165m and BioPharma-V will top that up […]
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19 Dec 2019 1 min read
BioPharma Credit funds Global Blood Therapeutics
BioPharma Credit funds Global Blood Therapeutics – BioPharma Credit has entered into a definitive senior secured term loan agreement with Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: GBT) alongside BioPharma Credit Investments V (Master) LP. The company will invest up to US$82.5 million in two tranches and BioPharma-V will invest an additional US$67.5 million. Global Blood Therapeutics […]
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16 Dec 2019 2 min read
BioPharma Credit loan to Sarepta as FDA approves Vyondys
BioPharma Credit loan to Sarepta, as FDA approves Vyondys BioPharma Credit (BPCR), the LSE-listed life sciences debt investor, is to extend a loan of up to $350m to the US listed biotech, Sarepta Therapeutics (Nasdaq: SRPT), as part of a $500m senior secured term loan arranged by its manager Pharmakon Advisors, with the remainder provided […]
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13 Nov 2019 1 min read
New investments from BioPharma Credit
New investments from BioPharma Credit – BioPharma Credit (BPCR) has announced that it has entered into two separate loan agreements to invest US$52.5m now and up to an additional US$32.5m over the next twelve months. Epizyme – epigenetic therapies On 4 November 2019, BPCR entered into a definitive senior secured term loan agreement for up to […]
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13 Sep 2019 2 min read
BioPharma lends up to $150m to OptiNose
BioPharma lends up to $150m to OptiNose – BioPharma Credit will lend, alongside BioPharma Credit Investments V, up to $150m via senior secured notes issued by OptiNose US, Inc. BioPharma Credit’s share of the transaction will be up to US$82.5 million and its initial investment US$44.0 million. (BioPharma Credit Investments V (Master) LP is a private fund also […]
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04 Sep 2019 2 min read
BioPharma to spend $600m cash pile by year end
BioPharma to spend $600m cash pile by year end – in its interim results, covering the first half of 2019, BioPharma Credit reports that $165.7m was invested in total of which: $80m went to a senior secured loan commitment to BioDelivery Sciences on 23 May 2019 The first tranche of $60m was drawn on 28 May […]
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30 Jul 2019 2 min read
BioPharma updates on Lexicon
BioPharma updates on Lexicon – BioPharma Credit has updaed the market following an announcement from Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Sanofi has made a notice of termination in relation to its collaboration and license agreement with Lexicon for the development and commercialization of Zynquista. Sanofi’s actions do not impact XERMELO(R) which is marketed by Lexicon in the US […]
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29 May 2019 2 min read
BioPharma Credit makes new loan to BioDelivery Sciences
BioPharma Credit makes new loan to BioDelivery Sciences – BioPharma Credit has entered into a senior secured term loan agreement for up to US$80 million with BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. (Nasdaq: BDSI), a commercial-stage specialty pharmaceutical company with a current market capitalisation of approximately US$400 million. In addition, BioPharma Credit bought 5,000,000 BDSI shares at […]
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05 Mar 2019 2 min read
BioPharma Credit increases diversity of portfolio
Biopharma Credit increases diversity of portfolio – BioPharma Credit has published their annual report for the 2018 year. They have invested in three new companies totalling $494 million which greatly increased the scale and diversity of their portfolio. They have also deployed a further $164 million to support previous investment agreements. Tesaro Inc. was acquired […]
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23 Jan 2019 2 min read
BPCR gains windfall profit on Tesaro loan
BPCR boosted by windfall profit on Tesaro loan BioPharma Credit (BPCR), the LSE-listed investment vehicle that specialises in providing loans to biotech companies, is to receive a windfall profit from the early repayment of a $500m loan (of which it provided 64%) to Tesaro last year. This follows the completion of the acquisition of Tesaro, […]
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20 Sep 2018 2 min read
BioPharma Credit extends loan to Amicus
BioPharma Credit extends loan to Amicus – BioPharma Credit (BCPR) has entered into a $150m, five-year loan agreement with Amicus Therapeutics, a US-based biotech focused on rare disease. The senior secured loan will have a 2.0% additional consideration and bears interest at Libor plus 7.5% subject to a floor of 1% and certain caps. The loan is interest […]
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02 May 2018 2 min read
BioPharma Credit leads new $315m loan to Sebela
BioPharma Credit leads new $315m loan to Sebela BioPharma Credit (BPCR), the LSE-listed specialist life sciences debt investor, is to act as lead investor and collateral agent for a US$315m term loan to Sebela Pharmaceuticals, a US privately-held commercial-stage speciality pharmaceutical company focused on gastrointestinal, dermatology and women’s healthcare. BioPharma Credit will provide $194m of the loan principal […]
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06 Apr 2018 2 min read
BB Biotech may have to take hit on Incyte stake
BB Biotech may have to take hit on Incyte stake Switzerland’s BB Biotech (BBB.S) looks set to be in for a difficult month in terms of performance as a result of the negative result reported in a Phase III trial of a drug from Incyte Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq:INCY), which was the trust’s third largest holding accounting […]
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08 Mar 2018 2 min read
$300m C share issue planned for BioPharma Credit
$300m C share issue planned for BioPharma Credit – BioPharma Credit has released its first annual results, covering the period from launch to 31 December 2017. The NAV at the end of the period was $1.0091, up from 98 cents immediately after launch. The original target was to pay a 4% dividend per annum. It declared interim […]
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09 Feb 2018 1 min read
BioPharma Credit makes $150m loan to NovoCure
BioPharma Credit makes $150m loan to NovoCure – BioPharma Credit has entered into a definitive term senior secured loan agreement for US$150 million with NovoCure Limited (NASDAQ: NVCR), a commercial stage oncology company with a current market capitalisation of approximately US$1.9 billion. The US$150 million loan will mature in February 2023 and bears interest at 9.0% […]
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18 Dec 2017 1 min read
Investment Trust Insider on Biotech
Investment Trust Insider on Biotech – inspired by the launch of our biotech news service on QuotedData, I wrote something for Citywire that looks at some of the exciting stories that have been published just in the last couple of weeks. James Carthew: biotech boom boosts generalist trusts This week I am returning to the […]
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11 Dec 2017 2 min read
BioPharma Credit acquires royalty interest in diabetes drugs
BioPharma Credit acquires royalty interest in diabetes drugs – In its third deal announced in rapid succession, BioPharma Credit has purchased from Royalty Pharma Investments (RPI) a 50% interest in a former Bristol-Myers Squibb-owned royalty stream on two AstraZeneca diabetes drugs. The royalty interested was acquired by RPI from Bristol Myers Squibb on 14 November 2017 and relates to sales of Onglyza […]
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05 Dec 2017 3 min read
BioPharma secures second deal for up to $200m
BioPharma secures second deal for up to $200m – BioPharma Credit PLC has announced that it and BioPharma Credit Investments IV, S.àr.L., entered into a definitive term loan agreement for up to US$200 million with Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: LXRX), a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company with a current market capitalisation of approximately US$1.0bn. Lexicon markets XERMELO® (teloristat […]
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28 Nov 2017 1 min read
Investment Trust Insider on the importance of diversification
Investment Trust Insider on the importance of diversification James Carthew: Herald shows Woodford and Biopharma the importance of diversification A month ago I wondered when Biopharma Credit (BPCR), the biggest investment company launch of the year, would get its flotation proceeds invested. Last week it took a big step towards answering this question by committing […]
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22 Nov 2017 3 min read
BioPharma Credit makes first major investment since IPO
BioPharma Credit makes first major investment since IPO – BioPharma Credit PLC says that, on 21 November 2017, it and BioPharma Credit Investments IV, S.àr.L.entered into a definitive loan agreement for up to US$500 million with TESARO, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSRO), a oncology focused biopharmaceutical company with a market capitalisation of US$4.5 billion. TESARO has commercial […]
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31 Oct 2017 1 min read
Investment Trust Insider on BioPharma Credit
Investment Trust Insider on BioPharma Credit James Carthew: don’t let Biopharma’s slow start give you the wrong impression (title by Citywire!!) This week I’m revisiting Biopharma Credit (BPCR) which I last wrote about at the end of March, when it listed having raised £610 million. As things stand, it still holds the top slot for […]