Overview
Boussard & Gavaudan seeks to achieve long-term appreciation of its assets through multi alternative investment strategies by investing in BG Fund, a sub-fund of BG Umbrella Fund Plc, also managed by BGAM. BG Umbrella Fund Plc is a feeder fund to BG Master Fund Plc. BG Master Fund Plc is an opportunistic Europe-focused multi-strategy fund which aims primarily at arbitraging instruments with non-linear pay-offs in special situations. Over time, BGHL may undertake direct investments other than BG Fund that are identified by the Investment Manager.
The fund’s website can be accessed at this link.
Research History
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24 Jan 2020 28 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Annual Review – 2019
In this issue The sector at the end of 2019 Performance data Performance by sector and fund Money in and out of the sector Money in and out of existing funds Money coming into existing funds Money going out of existing funds Liquidations, de-listings and trading cancellations Significant rating changes Major news stories Outlook for […]
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06 Dec 2019 8 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – December 2019
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford Table of contents New research In this issue Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Income Events New research Here is a list of research we published over November: An initiation note on Henderson High Income “We have initiated coverage on Henderson High Income (HHI). Since […]
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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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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 […]
News
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10 Dec 2020 3 min read
Boussard & Gauvadan manager opposes tender
Boussard & Gauvadan manager opposes tender – Boussard & Gavaudan Holding has repurchased 1,629,532 shares (about 10.5% of its issued share capital), updated its website and revised the format of its newsletters in an attempt to narrow its discount over the past 12 months. Performance during 2020 has been positive, year to date the NAV has grown […]
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18 Jul 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 18 July 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 18 July 2019: The global growth fund, Brunner Investment Trust (BUT), reported half-year results to 31 May 2019 with NAV (with debt at fair value) up 2.9% on a total return basis. The company’s portfolio delivered a return of 4.1% between December 2018 and May 2019 – the main driver of performance […]
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17 Jul 2019 2 min read
Boussard & Gavaudan proposals unfriendly to smaller retail investors
Boussard & Gavaudan proposals unfriendly to smaller retail investors – The Europe-focused hedge fund company, Boussard & Gavaudan Holding (B&G), has struggled to arrest a long-standing discount and lack of liquidity in its sterling (BGHS) and euro (BGHL) shares – they both trade at discounts of more than 25 percent. Still, the detail behind the […]
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27 Apr 2015 1 min read
Boussard & Gavaudan gets almost a third of return from buy-backs
Boussard & Gavaudan published their annual report on Friday 24th. This showed that, over the course of 2014, the NAVs for the Euro and Sterling shares increased by 6.85% and 5.29% respectively, whilst the market price improved by 11.73% and 16.71%. This was a good result both in NAV and share price terms as, by […]