Overview
Gabelli Merger Plus+ : GMP seeks to generate total return, consisting of capital appreciation and current income. The company will seek a secondary objective of the protection of capital, uncorrelated to equity and fixed income markets.
Gabelli Merger Plus+ will seek to meet its investment objective by utilizing the Gabelli Private Market Value (PMV) with a Catalyst, investment methodology, maintaining a diversified portfolio of catalyst event merger arbitrage strategies to seek to create an optimal risk/reward profile for the portfolio. “Catalyst Event Driven Merger Arbitrage” is a highly specialised active investment approach designed principally to profit from the differences between the public market price and the price achieved through corporate catalyst events. Catalysts are utilised to earn returns independent of the broad markets’ direction. This includes corporate events such as announced mergers, acquisitions, takeovers, tender offers, leveraged buyouts, restructurings, demergers and other types of reorganisations and corporate actions (“deals”).
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Research History
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10 Aug 2020 10 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – August 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents New research 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 July: Seneca Global Income & Growth – […]
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12 Nov 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – November 2019
Economic & Political Roundup
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13 Nov 2018 2 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – November 2018
QuotedData’s economic roundup – November 2018 is 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 or sell any […]
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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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19 Oct 2017 2 min read
Quarterly investment companies roundup – Third quarter 2017
Quarterly investment companies roundup – Third quarter 2017 – Markets moved up a little over the course of the three months ended 30 September 2017. Regionally, emerging markets did well. The pound strengthened a bit relative to the US dollar but was flat against the euro. The oil price rose by more than 20%. In […]
News
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08 Oct 2020 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 8 October 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 8 October 2020: Schroder UK Public Private Trust (formerly Woodford Patient Capital) acknowledges the potential uplift to its NAV to come from the merger of Seedrs and Crowdcube. Like Augmentum, Schroder UK Public Private is an investor in Seedrs. Hg Capital Trust has secured a £200m multicurrency revolving credit facility. this boosts available […]
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24 Oct 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 24 October 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 24 October 2019 Gabelli Merger Plus reported a return of 3.7% on NAV but, after discount widening, a return to shareholders of -6.5% for the year ended 30 June 2019. The best index comparisons are probably the S&P Merger Arbitrage Index which returned 8.33%, and the CS Merger Arbitrage Liquid Index, up […]
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09 Oct 2018 4 min read
Gabelli Merger Plus yet to shine
Gabelli Merger Plus yet to shine – The Gabelli Merger Plus+ Trust has published its first annual report, covering the period from its listing on 19 July 2017 to 30 June 2018. Over this period the fund generated a return on NAV of 2.78%, ahead of the return on 3-month treasury bills (which it uses as a […]