RE: What's in it for UFG ?4 May 2019 08:55
I have to say To suggest the only reason the fund is selling a chunk of their holding at below market SP is because of some unknown bad news is just baseless scaremongering . Youve totally ignored the fact that they cant sell their holding on the market , there is no liquidity for such a sale. In effect they are trapped unless finding an offmarket buyer. So TSG have negotiated this buybank discount in order to allow UFG a partial exit for their strategic reasons, and provide shareholder value. Tsg dont have to do this. They have weighed up taking on extra debt and decided its worth it. Just think of the current div yield that will be saved on those shares, offsetting the extra interest.
You must have missed the part where it is stated the directors and fund members will be buying more shares, do directors buy more shares when they are hiding badnews, i think not.
There are some reasons for concern/ uncertainy , and the effect this will have on sp but as share buybacks go, this seems logical and in long term shareholder interest. A lesser dominance of 1 big fund may well encourage other funds to buy in, especially as they could obtain posistions worth taking, with liquidity available. The massive single fund ownership is a negative on tsgs sp .
Whatever your view on the buyback. Dont go thinking this is about hidden bad news. The rns is pretty good at explaining all this and why its happening.