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Burford Capital

February 2019

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • BUR
  • Price:
  • 1670p
The shares jumped after litigation finance specialist Burford Capital announced it had secured access to almost US$1bn of new capital, giving it a new and financially attractive structure for how the next US$1.6bn of investments will be made. The most significant part is a new strategic capital relationship with a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF); both parties have committed a new US$1bn pool of capital with the SWF supplying US$667m and Burford the remaining one third, although receiving 60% of the investment profits. In addition 50% of all new investments will be allocated to this fund over the next four years or until it is fully invested.Separately Burford has announced the raising of US$300m of capital for a new private fund. ...

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