RTW backs Nuance Pharma – RTW Venture Fund backed Nuance Pharma in its $181 million Series D financing round, which was co-led by the fund’s investment manager RTW Investments, LP. Nuance is a Chinese-based privately held fully integrated pharmaceutical company engaged in creating value through China’s specialty pharmaceutical markets, with an established focus on iron deficiency, […]
Gabelli Value shareholders reject continuation (again) – At the General Meeting held on 7 December 2020, none of the resolutions set out in the notice of General Meeting dated 11 November 2020 were passed on a poll. The voting was 35.6% for : 64.4% against on each resolution. We’re going to reproduce the next section of […]
Lowland hit by industrials and insurance exposure – Lowland has announced results for the year ended 30 September 2020. Lowland’s NAV declined by 24.8% during the year, and its share price by a similar amount. These declines compare with a fall in the company’s benchmark, the All-Share index, of 16.6%. The dividend has been increased by 0.5p […]
LondonMetric lets Birmingham logistics warehouse – LondonMetric Property has exchanged contracts with a global retail company on a new 15 year lease at an annual rent of £1.6 million, subject to upward only inflation linked rent reviews, at its Tyseley development near Birmingham. The 120,000 sq ft last mile logistics warehouse will mark the completion of […]
Aberdeen Standard European Logistics recognised for environmental improvements – Aberdeen Standard European Logistics has been awarded four Green Stars out of a maximum of five in the recently released survey of GRESB (Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark). This latest scoring reflects the progress made to date with regards to environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) factors thanks to […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 8 December 2020 – Syncona’s Autolius reported positive results in its ALLCAR Phase 1 study, where it is using AUTO1 to treat Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. COVID has delayed phase 2 – it says that “…enrolment projections have had to be adjusted. We now expect to enroll patients throughout 2021 with a […]
Land Securities has acquired a City of London office building for £87m, reflecting a net initial yield of 4.1%. The company has bought 55 Old Broad Street, EC2, which comprises 100,000 sq ft, from PGIM Real Estate. The 10-storey building wraps around Land Securities’ City office tower Dashwood and is located a two minute walk […]
Warehouse REIT has acquired an industrial estate in Milton Keynes for £17.5m. The company has bought the Granby Industrial Estate, which comprises 24 urban logistics and trade counter units, for a net initial yield of 5.7%. The 10-acre estate offers 147,000 sq ft of gross lettable area which is let to 16 tenants, across 19 of […]
CLS Holdings has exchanged contracts to acquire two office properties in Berlin, Germany, and Watford, United Kingdom, for a combined total of £55.9m. In Berlin, the group has bought Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 112 & 113 for €43.5m. The asset is comprised of two adjoining building and has six storeys totalling 93,775 sq ft. It is currently 29% let following the […]
Marwyn launches three new investment vehicles – Marwyn Value Investors Limited has announced that three new UK listed acquisition companies, Marwyn Acquisition Company I Limited, Marwyn Acquisition Company II Limited, and Marwyn Acquisition Company III Limited have been admitted to the standard segment of the Official List and to trading on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market. The […]
Keystone (KIT) announces that it has decided, subject to contract and to shareholder approval, to appoint Baillie Gifford & Co Limited (Baillie Gifford) as its manager using its ‘Positive Change’ investment strategy, a global equity strategy which seeks to provide attractive investment returns while contributing towards a more sustainable and inclusive world. Structural challenges led to […]
Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income’s (SEQI’s) portfolio consists of 74 investments made across 8 sectors, 28 sub-sectors and 12 mature jurisdictions. The company has this morning published interim results covering the period to 30 September 2020. Over the first half period, the company’s NAV delivered a total return of 6.9%, while the market return came in at a stronger 14.4%. SEQI […]
JLEN Environmental Assets Group has announced that it has acquired a portfolio of five biomethane Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) refuelling stations for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), located in the UK. The investment has been made alongside other Foresight funds and the developer and operator of the stations, CNG Fuels Limited (CNG Fuels). JLEN will also […]
The proposed debut listing on the International Property Securities Exchange (IPSX) has been postponed. The initial public offering (IPO) of shares in the Mailbox REIT, which owns the Mailbox, a large prime office-led mixed use property in Birmingham, has been postponed due to a potential acquisition of M7 Real Estate by a global institutional commercial […]
QuotedData’s weekly news show 4 December 2020 Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on youtube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: Polar Capital Global Financials’ remarkable share price rise Invesco Income Growth’s planned merger Golden Prospect Precious Metals’ influx […]
On Tuesday next week we will hold the third and final day of our ESG conference and the main focus will be on governance. The importance of this area to investors cannot be understated. Just think of the damage done at BHS, Carilion, Wirecard, Patisserie Valerie, Boohoo and Volkswagen. It wasn’t just investors taking the […]
The retail Armageddon took another sobering twist this week, with the liquidation of department store Debenhams and former high street fashion kingpin Arcadia Group going into administration. The headline numbers are shocking, the main one being that around 25,000 jobs are at risk. From a property point of view, the double collapse could see up […]
Gravis Capital Management Limited (Gravis), the manager of GCP Infrastructure, GCP Student Living and GCP Asset Back Income, has announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with ORIX Corporation (ORIX) whereby ORIX will acquire a 70% equity stake in the Gravis business. ORIX is a diversified financial services group. The announcement says that ORIX’s […]
Landsec has announced that it has exchanged contracts to sell 1 & 2 New Ludgate to Sun Venture for a cash consideration of £552m. Completion is expected to take place by the end of December 2020 and is unconditional. Landsec says that the proceeds will initially be used to pay down debt before being reinvested […]
Great Portland Estates (GPE) has announced it has let 17,700 sq ft of office space at The Hickman development at 2/4 Whitechapel Road, E1 to Four Communications Group Limited (Four), an integrated marketing and communications agency. Four will occupy the offices on the fifth, sixth and seventh floors at The Hickman on ten-year leases (with […]
Aquila European Renewables Income Fund (AERS) has announced that Tesseract Holdings Limited, its fully owned subsidiary, has entered into a share purchase agreement (“SPA”) to acquire 100% of a Spanish solar PV construction project (Albeniz), along with an interest in the shared substation. The acquisition is structured as an unlevered investment. The Company’s estimated total […]
In QuotedData’s Morning Briefing 4 December 2020: Downing Renewables & Infrastructure Trust (DORE) has successfully raised gross proceeds of £122,500,000 in its IPO at an issue price of 100 pence per Ordinary Share. QuotedData wrote an IPO note on the company – click here to read – which will look to provide sustainable income streams, with […]
Tritax EuroBox will acquire assets earlier in the development process as it refines its acquisition strategy to a more value-add approach. The company said the move would “support the delivery of secure and attractive dividends and capital growth for shareholders”. As well as buying sites at an earlier stage in their development, it will also […]
St Modwen Properties has continued to ramp up development of industrial and logistics assets, as it looks to take advantage of occupier demand in the sector. In a trading update this morning, the company said it had completed 1.2m sq ft of developments in the sector this year, an increase on the 0.9m sq ft […]
Hg invests in Benevity – Hg, the manager of HgCapital Trust has announced an investment in Benevity, Inc., a global leader in global corporate purpose cloud software. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed and closing of the transaction is subject to regulatory approvals which are expected in January 2021. HgCapital Trust will invest approximately £27.3m, […]
Derwent London sells Johnson Building – Derwent London has exchanged contracts to sell its 192,700 sq ft freehold interest in Johnson Building, 77 Hatton Garden and 5-7 St Cross Street EC1 to Eurazeo Patrimoine, the real assets division of Eurazeo. The headline price is £170m before rental top-ups of £2.4m for incentives and vacant space. The […]
Golden Prospect subscription shares exercised – Golden Prospect Precious Metals Limited says that the subscription trustee has exercised all of the 10,336,782 outstanding subscription share rights (the rump of subscription shares that hadn’t been taken up by subscription share holders). The ordinary shares that arose from the exercise of the rump have been sold by finnCap […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 December 2020: Jupiter UK Growth’s board has agreed in principle to a voluntary winding up of the company and the offer of cash or a rollover into an open-ended UCITS fund, the Brown Advisory Global Leaders Fund. The rollover fund’s investment objective is to achieve capital appreciation by investing primarily in […]
Tritax EuroBox has acquired an asset in Belgium for €31.2m, bringing the group to full deployment of equity and debt. The newly built 34,125 sqm logistics facility in Nivelles, south of Brussels, comprises two units (one of 18,140 sqm and the other 15,985 sqm) and will be bought from Logistics Capital Partners, a European developer and […]
Residential Secure Income REIT (RESI) has published its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2020 in which it shows resilience in its performance. The announcement provides a summary of the key highlights in a number of areas, and these are reproduced below. Financial highlights – Resilient performance from existing portfolio Robust performance through […]
