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CHRY Chrysalis Investments Limited

80.50
0.90 (1.13%)
Last Updated: 08:11:50
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Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Chrysalis Investments Limited LSE:CHRY London Ordinary Share GG00BGJYPP46 ORD NPV
  Price Change % Change Share Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  0.90 1.13% 80.50 157,605 08:11:50
Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price
80.10 80.50 80.50 79.20 79.20
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
Finance Services -71.53M -78.23M -0.1315 -6.05 473.74M
Last Trade Time Trade Type Trade Size Trade Price Currency
08:11:08 AT 614 80.50 GBX

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Posted at 25/4/2024 09:20 by Chrysalis Investments Daily Update
Chrysalis Investments Limited is listed in the Finance Services sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker CHRY. The last closing price for Chrysalis Investments was 79.60p.
Chrysalis Investments currently has 595,150,414 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of Chrysalis Investments is £473,739,730.
Chrysalis Investments has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of -6.05.
This morning CHRY shares opened at -
Posted at 09/4/2024 18:39 by riverman77
It's more the principle here - someone blocking me from investing on the basis that it's deemed too risky in some way! And also pretty inconvenient dealing on the phone, as I was kept waiting a good 10 minutes (not the usual dealing service which is fairly quick, but had to be put through to a separate dealing team to unblock it). More seriously, I suspect this decision could be a factor in the recent share price weakness.
Posted at 09/4/2024 15:38 by riverman77
Just tried to add a few of these on AJ Bell and informed it is restricted from dealing. I presume this is something to do with the idiotic risk warning they sent a couple of weeks ago saying CHRY may not offer value for money. I also wonder if this is the reason for the recent weakness - if investors can't buy it then that's surely going to weigh on the share price. Really annoying that brokers are interfering in this way.
Posted at 03/4/2024 09:32 by bielsainvestor
Asset Value Investors hails Chrysalis ’inflection point’ with 5.7% stake

Activist manager of AVI Global scoops up £27m position in Chrysalis Investments, making it the recovering growth capital fund’s largest shareholder.

Investment company activist Asset Value Investors has scooped up a £27m stake in Chrysalis Investments (CHRY), making it the largest shareholder of the growth capital fund that looks to build on a strong recovery in the past year and put the trauma of its 2022 crash behind it.

Stock exchange filings show AVI bought a 5.7% stake in Chrysalis on 27 February, two-and-a-half weeks before the investment company passed a continuation vote with the support of 97% of voting shareholders.

Most of the stake is held in AVI Global (AGT), the £1bn investment trust managed by AVI chief executive Joe Bauernfreund, which specialises in buying out-of-favour closed-end funds and holding companies.

The filings indicate just over 2% of AGT’s assets are in the late-stage private equity fund run by ex-Jupiter fund managers Richard Watts and Nick Williamson.

This puts AVI in the driving seat to ensure Chrysalis continues to prioritise shareholder returns and narrows its wide discount.

The shares have staged an impressive recovery in the last 12 months, rallying 60% on hopes of interest rate cuts and the flotation of holdings such as credit provider Klarna that could fund a £100m share buyback programme.

However, they are still less than a third of their peak in September 2021 and trail 45% below net asset value (NAV).

‘With a maturing portfolio and potentially more supportive IPO markets ahead in 2024 and 2025, we believe Chrysalis is at a key inflection point with scope for material NAV upside from what is now significantly more conservative carrying values for its key assets,’ AGT’s head of research Tom Treanor said.

‘While the new capital allocation policy ensures that the next £100m of exit proceeds will be deployed into share buybacks that will be highly accretive given the very wide prevailing discount to NAV, we look forward to continuing our constructive dialogue with the board – as the company’s largest shareholder – on what a longer-term capital allocation policy might look like.’

AVI’s purchase comes not long after managers Watts and Williamson spun off the the £887m portfolio from Jupiter, which they manage at their new firm, Chrysalis Investment Partners.

This is the second time in the past year that AVI has emerged with a big holding before a continuation vote.

In September it hiked its position in Hipgnosis Songs Fund (SONG) to 3.1% a month before two key shareholder meetings. It successfully led investor opposition to a controversial asset sale that saw the company lose the continuation vote, prompting a strategic review under a new board.
Posted at 29/2/2024 09:40 by donald pond
OK, thinking about this, the way it makes some sort of sense...
CHRY owns around 1% of Klarna
Klarna floats for $18bn
CHRY stake is worth $180m
There are 595m shares in issue
That works out at 30c/share
Quite different to
"The managers envisage that Klarna could be worth about $18bn based on Klarna trading on the same gross profit multiple as closest-listed peer, Affirm. CHRY has a 1% stake. On those figures, a Klarna sale could add about 30p to the NAV."

If that is the case, it is pretty poor that the Company allowed it to go out like that.

And thanks Tom and Rimeau for highlighting
Posted at 28/2/2024 09:58 by 74tom
My calcs are similar, it looks to be valued at around $10.5b, at 31/12 it was held at a value of £93.2m and the last disclosed cost of £71.5m was provided in the June accounts. This tallies with the fact they they invested £23m in August 2019 at a valuation of $5.5b and a further $50m in September 2020 at $10.5b. So at the last NAV date they were at breakeven on the 2020 investment and around 90% up on the 2019 sum. They also have an unrealised FX gain from the dollar strengthening over the invested period.

At the mooted $20b IPO value they would have a liquid investment with a value of ~£170-190m (depending on IPO dilution), which is around 33% of the current market cap. On a NAV basis it would add around 15p to the last reported number of 143.37p (180-93/595 million shares), meaning the current share price is trading at a 44% discount...

From the annual results;

"While speculation has swirled around Klarna's IPO over the last few years, this is the first time the Investment Adviser has seen the company publicly state conditions are now "in place" for it to consider such a move. The ramifications for Chrysalis of an exit that at least underpins the asset's valuation are hard to understate. Such a move could potentially deliver substantial liquidity into the Company and allow the new CAP to come into effect."

Has to be a strong buy now, this was the key catalyst I had been wating for.
Posted at 30/1/2024 18:51 by tole
https://masterinvestor.co.uk/funds-and-investment-trusts/three-growth-trusts-that-could-make-a-comeback-in-2024/Chrysalis InvestmentsAnother opportunity that they highlight is Chrysalis Investments (LON: CHRY) that provides exposure to later stage private companies with long-term growth potential. It has really struggled and the shares are currently available at around a 44% discount to NAV.The trust is managed by a team from Jupiter Asset Management and it is selling pressure from the firm's open-ended funds that has forced the price so far below the value of the underlying assets. Numis says that this process has now largely cleared and the key to sentiment going forwards will be achieving successful exits.Chrysalis has recently announced an upcoming disposal that would add 4.1% to NAV and allow the Board's new capital allocation programme to kick in. The proceeds would be used to build a prudent cash reserve of about £50m, which would allow 25% of net cash profits to be distributed to shareholders via buybacks. The broker says that such a transaction would be a big step in the right direction.
Posted at 30/1/2024 12:49 by knowing
Hat tip to Affan

Zeus Capital initiated coverage. Make an note of some of the things they say:

" We estimate Chrysalis’ stake in Starling could be worth 33% more, equivalent to an additional 9.6p of NAV per share. Further, we think Chrysalis’ stake in Klarna could be worth c. 80% more (£169m), equivalent to an additional 12.4p of NAV per share. This uplift in Starling and Klarna would increase NAV per share by 15% to 165p, making the Chrysalis shares trade at a 52% discount. We see no reason why the carrying value of other major assets is too high, particularly as the interest rate tightening cycle in the UK, US and Eurozone comes to an end and discount rates start to fall."

" Furthermore, on 5 December Chrysalis announced it had visibility over a disposal that would add 5.5p per share to the Group’s NAV at 30 September 2023, which we estimate could result in an inflow of £56m if it relates to one of its three medium sized investments (see page 16), taking cash to c. £75m"
Posted at 12/1/2024 14:07 by davebowler
Analysts: Shonil Chande and Alex O’Hanlon

CHRY: Mkt Cap £399m | Share price 67.1p | Prem/(disc) -50.2% | Div yield n/a



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Each quarter Liberum’s sector teams list their most preferred stocks on a 6- to 12-month time horizon. Chrysalis Investments and Octopus Renewables Infrastructure were selected by the Alternative Funds team.

Chrysalis Investments –Core portfolio nears summit climb

CHRY’s investment case is underpinned by the potential for accretive stake sales/exits within the core portfolio, with Klarna and Starling Bank amongst the companies considered close to or IPO-ready. There is potential for further augmentation of returns via capital distributions. We have a BUY recommendation with a TP of 118p. Our NAV forecasts do not assume portfolio realisation events. The key upside risk to our view comes from exits achieved at valuations above NAV.
Posted at 30/10/2023 11:15 by captain stock
Chrysalis Investments Limited Quarterly NAV Announcement and Trading UpdateSource: UK Regulatory (RNS & others)TIDMCHRYRNS Number : 6194RChrysalis Investments Limited30 October 2023The information contained in this announcement is restricted and is not for publication, release or distribution in the United States of America, any member state of the European Economic Area (other than to professional investors in Belgium, Denmark, the Republic of Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden), Canada, Australia, Japan or the Republic of South Africa.30 October 2023Chrysalis Investments Limited ("Chrysalis" or the "Company")Quarterly NAV Announcement and Trading UpdateNet Asset ValueThe Company announces that as at 30 September 2023 the unaudited net asset value ("NAV") per ordinary share was 134.65 pence.The NAV calculation is based on the Company's issued share capital as at 30 September 2023 of 595,150,414 ordinary shares of no par value.September's NAV represents a 2.21 pence per share (1.6%) decrease since 30 June 2023.Movement in the fair value of the portfolio accounted for approximately 3.99 pence per share, with foreign exchange generating a favourable movement of approximately 2.01 pence per share. Fees and expenses make up the balance.Investment Adviser CommentsRichard Watts and Nick Williamson (co-portfolio managers) comment:"The NAV was broadly flat over the period, largely mirroring the performance of key equity markets. Notwithstanding this, the IPO market continued to show signs of life, with ARM listing in the US towards the back end of the quarter. We also note that Instacart and Klaviyo listed over the period and while their post-IPO performances have been mixed, we believe that this represents a step in the right direction. Private equity markets have also seen signs of recovery as the interest rate and macro-economic picture becomes clearer. Deal volumes are increasing from a low point in Q1 2023, and the tech sector remains key for PE.We consider both public and private exit routes as viable options. The portfolio contains a number of later-stage assets, either profitable or funded to profitability, that we believe will make very attractive targets in due course, with some considered "IPO ready". With this in mind, Klarna's comments in the period that the 'requirements have been met' to consider an IPO were encouraging to us.Our key assets are continuing to perform well from both an operational and financial perspective; this gives us confidence in the potential of the portfolio to drive NAV progression."Portfolio ActivityInvestment activity during the quarter was limited.In July the Company invested a further GBP6.5 million in Secret Escapes as part of a wider GBP31.7 million fundraise, supporting the refinancing of existing debt facilities. This capital will enable the company to accelerate marketing spend with a view to driving customer acquisition and ultimately growth. The company is already profitable, but it is hoped that the additional capital raised will result in a faster rate of growth and an even more profitable business in the near to medium term.Portfolio UpdateThe portfolio in aggregate continues to make solid progress against its financial and operating targets; this is particularly true across the core portfolio which consists of our later-stage assets:wefoxwefox continues to grow strongly and has demonstrated a clear roadmap to profitability. The Investment Adviser believes that wefox will be profitable towards the end of 2023, a target the company set itself at the beginning of the period and is well positioned to post its first full year of profitability in 2024.In the previous quarter, wefox announced that it had launched its global affinity business, which will connect insurance companies with partners that can distribute their insurance products. In recent weeks, wefox has announced that WINDTRE, Italy's leading telecommunications business, has signed a 10-year deal to launch the sale of home and travel insurance products in-store.On 1 October, wefox appointed Jonathan Wismer as its new Group Chief Financial Officer. Jonathan brings more than 25 years of experience in the insurance industry, having held senior finance roles at Zurich, AIG and Resolution Life. The appointment represents the company's continued strengthening of its C-suite as it steps up its plans for profitable growth and global expansion.On 24 October, wefox also appointed Mark Hartigan as Chairman. Mark was previously Chief Executive at LV and Head of Operations for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Zurich Insurance Group. He was Chief Executive Officer for Zurich Global Life in the Asia Pacific and Middle East region and led its regional business in Europe.StarlingStarling continues to benefit from an increase in yields on cash and debt securities, as a result of increases in the Bank of England's Base Rate, and this continues to drive interest income and profitability. Starling generates a post-tax return on equity of over 40%, making it, the Investment Adviser believes, one of the most profitable digital banks globally. Engine, the tech platform that powers Starling, offers the potential to license Starling's award-winning technology to financial organisations around the world.Starling announced that from 1 October, it will share the benefit of increased interest rates with its customers, by paying 3.25% AER interest on accounts balances of up to GBP5,000. Starling also offers a One Year Fixed Saver paying 5.53% interest on deposits between GBP2,000 and GBP1,000,000 that are held for a year. These represent extremely competitive rates of interest versus high-street banks.The Investment Adviser views these moves as consistent with Starling's brand values, as well as likely providing an incremental boost to deposit growth. Sharing the benefits of technology and scale with customers is a key enabler of growth, as has been seen in other portfolio companies.BrandtechBrandtech has made two acquisitions in the year: Jellyfish and Pencil AI. Although the acquisition of Pencil AI is smaller than Jellyfish, the Investment Adviser is excited about its potential. Pencil AI was founded in 2018 and is currently the leading AI creative and distribution SaaS platform. The company utilises Open AI's GPT family of large language models (LLMs) to generate content that is 10x lower in cost to produce but with a 2x uplift in performance.During the quarter, Brandtech launched Pencil Pro, an enterprise-level generative AI product, specifically created to meet the needs of global brands. This proposition could be significantly disruptive, and it is encouraging that Unilever and Bayer have decided to be launch partners.Smart PensionFollowing the announcement of its $95 million Series E funding round in the previous quarter, led by Aquiline Capital Partners, Smart has continued to execute its M&A strategy.During the quarter, Smart acquired Evolve Pensions, a leading provider of workplace pension services through its master trust, the Crystal Trust. Evolve has over 128,000 members and GBP750 million in assets. The acquisition of Evolve Pensions represents one of the largest master trust acquisitions of the year and makes the Smart Pension Master Trust (SPMT) the country's third biggest master trust operator. SPMT now has 1.1m members and GBP4bn under management while the group has a total of over GBP11bn under management.KlarnaKlarna released its first half results during the quarter which demonstrate sustained revenue growth and a return to profitability through the second quarter of the year.Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) increased by +14% year-on-year (to SEK239 billion) while revenues grew by +17% year-on-year (to SEK5.5 billion). The Investment Adviser is encouraged by revenues continuing to grow ahead of GMV as it demonstrates Klarna's ability to monetise its existing customer base. Fundamental to the improved operating performance was the increase in gross profit for the period, which rose 83% year-on-year to SEK2.7 billion, driven by a 49% reduction in credit losses as a percentage of GMV.In the second quarter, Klarna generated an adjusted operating profit of SEK10 million which represents a material improvement in profitability year-on-year and the first full quarter of profitability since the Company's investment. To give a sense of how much progress Klarna has made, in the second quarter of 2022, Klarna's adjusted operating loss was in excess of USD280 million, which implies the company has moved from an annualised operating loss of over USD1 billion, into an annualised profit in the space of 12 months.Deep InstinctDeep Instinct continues to innovate and in recent weeks has launched 'Deep Instinct Prevention for Storage' (DPS). This new product applies a prevention-first approach to storage protection, wherever data is stored - Network Attached Storage (NAS), hybrid, or public cloud environments - and seamlessly integrates into existing environments to deliver unparalleled efficacy and accuracy along with enterprise-grade scalability.This is an exciting development in the industry given that the amount of data being stored in public and hybrid cloud environments continues to grow exponentially and a single infected file can put an enterprise at risk. As part of the Deep Instinct Prevention Platform, DPS fills gaps in data protection by applying a unique deep learning framework dedicated to cybersecurity. Whenever a file is added or changed in a storage environment, it is scanned immediately, and malicious files are either quarantined or deleted to prevent execution.FeaturespaceFeaturespace is a world leader in enterprise grade technology preventing fraud and financial crime. This is evidenced by a number of recent awards and product releases.As highlighted earlier in the year, Featurespace has developed a bespoke fraud transaction monitoring framework for NatWest that led to a +135% improvement in Natwest's financial scam detection rate and a 75% reduction in false positives. During the quarter, NatWest and Featurespace won 'Best Innovation by a Financial Institution' at the Datos Insights 2023 Fraud and AML Impact Awards for that specific initiative.More recently, the company has launched TallierLTM, the world's first Large Transaction Model (LTM). TallierLTM, a foundation AI technology for the payment and financial services industry, is a large-scale, self-supervised, pre-trained model designed to power the next generation of AI applications. The model has shown improvements of up to 71% in fraud value detection when compared to industry standard models.Cash UpdateAs of 30 September, the Company had net cash of approximately GBP23 million, subsequent to the follow-on investment in Secret Escapes, and a position in Wise of GBP10 million, to give a total liquidity position of approximately GBP33 million.The majority of follow-on investments have now been completed and most of the portfolio is now either profitable or funded through to profitability. While there may be additional funding requirements across the portfolio in the short to medium term, the Investment Adviser considers the Company has sufficient available liquidity to address these.Portfolio compositionAs of 30 September 2023, the portfolio composition was as follows: 30-Sep Carrying Value Portfolio Company (GBP millions) % of portfolio ---------------- ----------------- wefox 188.6 23.5% ---------------- ----------------- Starling 141.7 17.6% ---------------- ----------------- Brandtech 103.9 12.9% ---------------- ----------------- Smart Pension 79.7 9.9% ---------------- ----------------- Klarna 56.9 7.1% ---------------- ----------------- Deep Instinct 51.5 6.4% ---------------- ----------------- Featurespace 49.6 6.2% ---------------- ----------------- Tactus 29.0 3.6% ---------------- ----------------- InfoSum 27.2 3.4% ---------------- ----------------- Secret Escapes 25.0 3.1% ---------------- ----------------- Graphcore 16.5 2.1% ---------------- ----------------- Wise 10.3 1.3% ---------------- ----------------- Sorted 0.3 0.0% ---------------- ----------------- Gross cash 22.6 2.8% ---------------- ----------------- Source: Jupiter Investment Management Limited. Due to rounding, the figures may not add up to 100%. The above percentages are based on an aggregate portfolio value (including cash) of approximately GBP803 million for 30 September 2023.OutlookThe Investment Adviser remains optimistic about the prospects for the Company. As noted in the last NAV update, IPO and private markets have shown some signs of life, which is an indication that investor risk appetite is recovering to some degree.The Investment Adviser remains focused on helping the portfolio companies get to a position where they can "exit" and considers a number of assets "IPO ready". It is intended that any future realisations flow through the proposed Capital Allocation Policy that was outlined to shareholders on 13 October 2023. The Investment Adviser believes this policy would be an essential mechanism to help unwind the current share price discount to NAV.FactsheetAn updated Company factsheet will shortly be available on the Company's website: https://www.chrysalisinvestments.co.uk-ENDS- For further information, please contact: Media +44 (0) 7976 098 139 Montfort Communications: chrysalis@montfort.london Charlotte McMullen / Toto Reissland / Lesley Kezhu Wang Jupiter Asset Management: James Simpson +44 (0) 20 3817 1696 Liberum: Chris Clarke / Darren Vickers / Owen Matthews +44 (0) 20 3100 2000 Numis: Nathan Brown / Matt Goss +44 (0) 20 7260 1000 Maitland Administration (Guernsey) Limited: Chris Bougourd +44 (0) 20 3530 3109 LEI: 213800F9SQ753JQHSW24A copy of this announcement will be available on the Company's website at https://www.chrysalisinvestments.co.ukThe information contained in this announcement regarding the Company's investments has been provided by the relevant underlying portfolio company and has not been independently verified by the Company. The information contained herein is unaudited.This announcement is for information purposes only and is not an offer to invest. All investments are subject to risk. Past performance is no guarantee of future returns. Prospective investors are advised to seek expert legal, financial, tax and other professional advice before making any investment decision. The value of investments may fluctuate. Results achieved in the past are no guarantee of future results. Neither the content of the Company's website, nor the content on any website accessible from hyperlinks on its website for any other website, is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement nor, unless previously published by means of a recognised information service, should any such content be relied upon in reaching a decision as to whether or not to acquire, continue to hold, or dispose of, securities in the Company.This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact rns@lseg.com or visit www.rns.com.RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy.ENDTSTFEIFDUEDSEFS(END) Dow Jones NewswiresOctober 30, 2023 03:00 ET (07:00 GMT)
Posted at 01/9/2022 06:26 by unastubbs
From The Telegraph today


Investors need nerves of steel owning this fund – but this really is the best time to buy

You are always running a risk buying – or indeed tipping – an investment trust that is trading at a premium, and Questor’s advice to readers in June last year to buy shares in Chrysalis Investments at an 18pc premium has rather proved that rule.

That premium has now morphed into a discount of about 55pc. As is often the case with trusts, movements in the discount or premium amplify what is happening to the value of the actual portfolio – the net asset value – and in the case of Chrysalis, the NAV has also fallen severely since our tip.

Take the two things together and we are in the red to the tune of about 70pc.

The rational course of action now is to seek to understand the reasons for the trust’s poor performance and form a dispassionate opinion on the chances of a recovery. To do this, we need to understand what Chrysalis does and appreciate the extent to which its investment strategy exposes it to forces beyond its control.

It invests in unquoted stocks, mostly newish businesses that seek to disrupt existing markets via the use of innovative or superior technology.

However, its holdings are not start-ups: they are more established, often profitable, and in some cases close to seeking a listing (some of its holdings have already floated).

In the wider economic and stock market circumstances of the past year – the return of inflation, rising interest rates and the consequent turn of the tide away from “growth” stocks and into “value” – a drastic fall in the value of such a portfolio was inevitable, no matter how well it was run or how strong the prospects of the individual businesses in it.

We have written many times about the unavoidable difficulties of valuing unquoted assets, but whatever valuation method you use and whatever its shortcomings, the only possible move in value of a portfolio of young technology stocks over the past year has been down.

In fact, Chrysalis has put a lot of effort into valuing its assets appropriately and independent valuers now advise the board, which makes the final decision.

To sum up, the value of the portfolio has suffered over recent months as the result of powerful forces in the financial markets that its managers could never have influenced. But what are its prospects now?

While we have seen a decisive change in mood back in favour of growth and tech stocks in the past two months, we cannot be sure it will continue. What we can do is look at the trust’s holdings and get a sense of their prospects for profitable growth over the years ahead, in the hope and belief that once the market has calmed down it will be the fundamentals of individual businesses that determine their value once more.

In a trading update last week, Chrysalis reported “strong revenue growth across the portfolio and excellent trading among [its] largest holdings”.

It said Starling Bank, the largest holding at 20pc of assets, had reported its first full year of profitability with pre-tax profits of £32.1m. But on an annualised basis, its current pre-tax profits are more like £92m, thanks to year-on-year lending growth of 72pc.

The second largest holding, Wefox, a “digital insurer” that makes up 17pc of the trust, “grew revenues to more than $320m (£275m) in 2021 and is on track for revenues to exceed $600m by the year end, representing growth of almost 100pc”, Chrysalis said.

Brandtech, a marketing technology company that accounts for 9.4pc of the portfolio, has also “continued to perform exceptionally well in both revenue and profit growth”, it added.

We referred to the recovery in growth and tech stocks over the past two months. But there is no sign of it in the Chrysalis share price, which stands at a record low of about 73p.

Partly, in Questor’s view, this reflects the fact that the NAVs of trusts that invest in unquoted assets are updated with a time lag that usually runs to three or six months.

But there is nothing to prevent improved investor sentiment lifting the share price (in other words, narrowing the discount), and the fact that this has not happened suggests to this column that investors have given up on the trust.

This feels like the point of maximum pessimism – the best time to buy, even if strong nerves will be needed.

Questor says: buy

Ticker: CHRY

Share price at close: 71.9p
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