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Burford

September 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:
  • 808p
The shares fell in response to a bear raid, driven by a report by hedge fund Muddy Waters which claimed there were issues with the quality of earnings, that it is insolvent and that corporate governance is poor.In response Burford stated that it has provided audited and clean financial statements since 2010 and detailed investment level data on a cash basis using the same reporting approach. It went on to rebut the attacks on its accounting treatment of various investments.It also stated that it has US$400m cash in hand, that its debt is “laddered” with maturities between 2022-2026; it has no intention of funding all undrawn investment commitments immediately; it expenses all costs rather than capitalise them and ...

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