Appointment of Non-executive Director and Chair Designate Schroders plc (the Company ) today announces that Dame Elizabeth Corley will join its Board as a Non-executive Director, member of the Nominations Committee and Chair designate, effective 1 September 2021. Subject to shareholder approval, Elizabeth will succeed Michael Dobson as Chair at the conclusion of the Company s Annual General Meeting, currently scheduled for 28 April 2022. Elizabeth is a leading figure in financial services with over 45 years experience including as CEO of Allianz Global Investors, and previously at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and Coopers & Lybrand. She is currently a non-executive director of Pearson plc, BAE Systems plc and Morgan Stanley. She is also Chair of the Impact Investing Institute. Elizabeth will step down from her roles as a non-executive director of Morgan Stanley and Pearson plc before becoming Chair at Schroders.
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Performance Update
The Board of Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust plc (the Company ) is pleased to announce the unaudited net asset value ( NAV ) as at 31 December 2020 of 99.90p per share reflecting an increase of 1.6% over the opening unaudited NAV of 98.32p per share following the Company s IPO on 22 December 2020. A significant contributor to the increase was the Company s holding in Bridges Evergreen Holdings - in particular its investment in AgilityEco, a business that tackles fuel poverty primarily via government-backed schemes.
The Company s valuation of its fund holdings is based on the latest valuations reported by the underlying fund managers as at 31 December 2020.
Given the news towards the end of Q4 2020 of a number of successful COVID-19 vaccine discoveries, followed by expectations of an immediate rollout of a vaccination programme, and probable clarity around Brexit negotiations, we got to work quickly in early December to invest. Our belief that the small and mid-cap segment of the UK public equity market offers investment potential was corroborated within the first two weeks of SBO s launch when one of our holdings was bid for - a first for the portfolio. Calisen, a provider of energy meters and metering systems, received an offer from Coyote Bidco (a consortium consisting of investors including BlackRock Alternatives Management and Mubadala Investment Company) that was c.26% above the previous day s closing share price. Calisen s directors and KKR owned c.73% of the company and voted in favour of the deal; as such we believed limited acceptance would be required from the remaining shareholders to obtain