Blackstone Loan Financing Ltd - investment company in managed wind-down - Sets out plan for second redemption, which will return about EUR61.0 million to shareholders by means of a compulsory partial redemption. It will take place around December 19. The first redemption back in June returned EUR23.0 million. Read More
Blackstone Loan Financing Ltd - investment company in managed wind-down - Reports half year results to June 30. Notes difference in IFRS net asset value per share of 81 euro cents, up from 73 cents in December and published NAV per share of 91 cents, unchanged. IFRS Nav total return is 18.06%, up from 17.76%. Published NAV is 5.64%, down from 10.39% in December. The firm has an IFRS discount rate loss of 19.53%, widened from 18.62%. Publish NAV discount rate loss is 28.35%, narrowed from 35.15%. Says IFRS values calculated with a "mark to market" approach, while published values use "mark to model". BCF portfolio at June 30 is "highly diversified and defensively positioned", Blackstone says. Portfolio year-to-date default rate is 0.6%, less than the European and US loan indices of 0.8% and 2.6% respectively. Blackstone paid two dividends of 2.25 cents during the period and plans for two further payouts this year, to total nine cents. Read More
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Blackstone Loan Financing Ltd - investment company in managed wind-down - Net asset value on December 31 is EUR0.9098 per redeemable share, representing a 10% NAV total return in 2023. On an IFRS basis, NAV is EUR0.7250 for an 18% NAV total return. "The difference between the published and IFRS NAV total return is the differing valuation bases, with the main driver being the discount rate used," Blackstone Loan Financing explains. At the end of December, the share price discount is 35% to published NAV and 19% to IFRS NAV. Shareholders back in September approved plans to sell all assets and wind down the company. Blackstone Loan Financing paid a dividend of EUR0.09 per share for 2023, up from EUR0.08 for 2022. It plans to continue to pay quarterly dividends during the wind-down process and also will start to redeem shares. Read More
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Blackstone Loan Financing Ltd - invests in floating-rate senior secured loans and bonds and in collateralised loan obligations - The board says it has put forward proposals for a managed wind-down of the company. Says the board and Blackstone Ireland Ltd, its investment advisor, unanimously recommended to shareholders to vote in favour of the proposals. Read More
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Blackstone Loan Financing Ltd - invests in floating-rate senior secured loans and bonds and in collateralized loan obligations - Board doesn't think offering an immediate exit opportunity to shareholders is in the best interest of the company or the shareholders. Says board and its advisers formed this view following consultations with shareholders. "There was no consensus for the creation of a run-off share class to sit alongside a continuing share class given the potential reduced liquidity of both such share classes," Blackstone Loan Financing says. "There was some appetite, but not consensus, for the entire fund being placed into run off." Says will use share buybacks to try to reduce the discount of the share price to net asset value, but may put forward a continuation vote to the 2024 annual general meeting if there is no significant improvement to the discount before then. The company holds its AGMs in July. Read More