Gavin Lumsden is a journalist at Citywire, where he has built a 25-year career focusing on finance, investment, and energy sectors. His work often delves into alternative investments, asset management, and renewable energy, reflecting a commitment to covering critical themes within financial markets and the aerospace industry. Gavin's insights and analyses have been featured in prominent outlets including Yahoo News UK, Yahoo Finance, The Telegraph, and QuotedData.
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By: Gavin Lumsden
Great Portland Estates (GPE) says development director Andrew White will leave the central London real estate investment trust after 13 years. Chief executive Toby Courtalud said White had played a leading role in many of the company’s most successful developments. His role will not be replaced with executive director Dan Nicolson retaining board level responsibility […]
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Schroder European Real Estate (SERE), the £85m commercial property investment trust drawing up plans for a managed wind-down, saw its portfolio fall 3.9% in the three months to 30 June. Weaker investment demand for secondary offices and heightened economic uncertainty alongside concerns over rising inflation and interest rates knocked €7.5m off the valuation, the real […]
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Aquila European Renewables (AERI) chair Robert Naylor has added to his growing list of grievances against Aquila Capital after the investment company had to stump up €700,000 (£597,000) to bail out a wind power project in Finland and accused the site’s technical manager of missing out on valuable government support. Naylor said this was the […]
Scottish Mortgage Trust (SMT) says SpaceX (SPCX) accounted for over a quarter (25.7%) of its £18.7bn portfolio at 30 June, up from 21% before its record flotation on 12 June and up from 8.2% in November. The disclosure in the latest factsheet of the Baillie Gifford flagship came yesterday as SpaceX shares fell to $139, […]
Schroder British Opportunities (SBO), the £55m growth capital fund facing a wind-down vote early next year, saw the value of its investments fall 3% in the 12 months to 31 March as the technology weighted portfolio was hit by fears of artificial intelligence (AI) disruption. Chair Justin Ward said the unquoted companies that accounted for […]
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MIGO Opportunities’ (MIGO) relaunch as a higher conviction portfolio under new lead manager Tom Treanor has paid off with the £69m investment company bargain hunter achieving a 20.6% return in the year to 30 April. The investment trust, which invests in other London-listed funds when their shares are cheap, provided a 21.9% total return to […]
Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR) has launched a £100m share issue to fund the purchase of three supermarkets in Manchester, Edinburgh and Halifax for £118m and a further pipeline of six assets for £98m. The fund raise will comprise of a placing to professional investors and an offer to private investors through Retail Book. Chief executive […]
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NextEnergy Solar (NESF), an 18%-yielding renewables fund languishing on a 39% share price discount, has put itself up for sale and complained of the short-term horizons of some investors. The £268m investment company this morning invited bids from “bona fide parties”, saying that despite “the performance of its underlying portfolio of assets, NESF continues to […]
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Gore Street Energy Storage (GSF) shares fell today after the investment trust’s new board unveiled a larger than expected fall in the battery portfolio after updating revenue forecasts. Net asset value (NAV) slid 14.8%, or 13p, to 74.9p per share in the fourth quarter of the company’s financial year, taking the total decline for the […]
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The Association of Investment Companies has called on incoming prime minister Andy Burnham to help “save our stock market” by abolishing stamp duty and reversing last year’s reduction of tax relief on venture capital trusts (VCTs). Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester, is poised to replace Sir Kier Starmer as leader of the Labour […]
