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7 March 2024
Chrysalis Investments Limited ("Chrysalis" or the "Company")
Portfolio Update
The Company is pleased to announce an approximate £4 million investment in Smart Pension Limited ("Smart"), alongside certain other investors. This investment is in addition to the approximate £2 million invested in Smart on 16 January 2024, as disclosed in the FY23 Financial Report and Audited Financial Statements released on 29 January 2024.
The terms of this combined approximate £6million investment are likely to lead to an increase of approximately 3.7p in the Company's Net Asset Value per share if applied to the Company's Net Asset Value as of 31 December 2023. A formal revaluation of the portfolio will occur shortly for the quarter ended 31 March 2024, in accordance with the Company's standard process.
Smart has grown strongly since Chrysalis first invested in June 2021, and the Smart Pension Master Trust ("SPMT") is now the UK's third biggest master trust operator. SPMT currently has 1.3 million members and nearly £5 billion of assets under management ("AUM"), out of a group total of approximately £12.5 billion AUM. SPMT and Smart's international business is powered by Keystone, the group's proprietary technology platform. Keystone is a cloud-based retirement and savings platform that can serve multiple jurisdictions globally and is ideally suited to consolidation, as high levels of automation (including self-service) drives efficiencies and helps to deliver scale, ultimately leading to better value for members.
The proceeds of the raise will be used to further accelerate growth, including via M&A (SPMT has undertaken seven acquisitions since inception), and will underpin Smart's drive towards profitability.
At 5 March 2024, and following completion of this investment, the Company had £27.2 million of liquidity, including a £13.6 million position in Wise plc.
Nick Williamson and Richard Watts (co-portfolio managers) commented:
"We are delighted to support Smart alongside its other key investors. As a result of this new investment, Smart is now even better placed to grow its master trust and platform business and we look forward to supporting Smart on its journey towards profitability, with significant progress towards break-even expected over 2024."
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For further information, please contact
Media Montfort Communications Charlotte McMullen / Toto Reissland / Lesley Kezhu Wang |
+44 (0) 7976 098 139 chrysalis@montfort.london |
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Jupiter Asset Management: James Simpson
| +44 (0) 20 3817 1696 |
Liberum: Chris Clarke / Darren Vickers / Owen Matthews
| +44 (0) 20 3100 2000 |
Deutsche Numis: Nathan Brown / Matt Goss
| +44 (0) 20 7260 1000 |
Apex Administration (Guernsey) Limited: Chris Bougourd | +44 (0) 20 3530 3109 |
LEI: 213800F9SQ753JQHSW24
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