ICG ENTERPRISE TRUST PLC (ICGT)

ICG ENTERPRISE TRUST PLC (ICGT)

AGM Reports

Graphite Enterprise Trust Plc (ICGT) AGM Report 2015

Graphite Enterprise Trust Plc held its annual general meeting on the 11th June at the Westbury Hotel in the West End of London. The company has a strategy of investing in European mid-market buy-outs either via its in house funds, or via third party funds (essentially the latter makes Graphite a fund of funds). There were approximately 30 investors present. I will concentrate on the full year figures from Graphite as, although we did have a trading update released at lunch (the ...

Graphite Enterprise (ICGT) AGM Report 2013

Graphite Enterprise Trust held its AGM on the 13th June at the Westbury Hotel in the West End of London. The company is an investment trust which specialises in private equity investments. There is plenty of background on this company on the main ShareSoc web site (see www.sharesoc.org/campaigns3.html ) because we ran a campaign to reduce the large discount to NAV. It’s also worth reading the previous AGM report in 2012 which is here. I will therefore keep this report fairly brief. ...

Graphite Enterprise (ICGT) AGM Report 2012

Graphite Enterprise (GPE) is a private equity investment trust who held their AGM on the 11th June. The performance of this long-established trust has been good over the years (see some data below), but like other similar trusts, the confidence of investors in such companies evaporated in 2008 when they were seen as vulnerable to a cash crisis. At that point some of the other private equity trusts ran into severe problems, while Graphite and others suffered from large discounts (the ...

ShareSoc News

ShareSoc celebrates second anniversary

PRESS RELEASE 43 (01/03/2013) In February 2010 the UK Individual Shareholders Society (ShareSoc) was launched as an organisation to represent private investors. Since then the Society has recruited over 2,500 members and has actively worked to promote their interests. ShareSoc has run a number of campaigns on companies where we identified significant issues of concern to shareholders including Rensburg AIM VCT, Graphite Enterprise, Intercede Group, Lighthouse Group and BAE Systems, and achieved significant share price performance improvement in the first two. Intercede ...

ShareSoc Launches Campaign on Excessive Share Price Discount at Graphite Enterprise Trust

PRESS RELEASE 32 (15/08/2012) ShareSoc (the “UK Individual Shareholders Society”), has launched a Shareholder Action Group in relation to Graphite Enterprise Trust Plc. We have major concerns about the persistent discount to Net Asset Value (NAV) at which the shares of this company trade and some aspects of the corporate governance of the company. In the view of ShareSoc, and the shareholders in Graphite Enterprise whom we represent, the discount at which the company’s shares trade (about 34% at the time of writing) ...