Trading update

T2 Income Fund Limited 14 March 2006 T2 Income Fund - year-end report March 14, 2006. T2 Income Fund Limited ('T2' or the 'Company') announced today updated information regarding its first fiscal period of operations. T2 was admitted to trading on AIM on August 5, 2005. For the period from inception through December 31, 2005, the Company earned net investment income of approximately £218,000 and unrealized gains on investments (related to currency fluctuations) of approximately £30,000. As of the end of the year, the net asset value per share was £0.97. This information is unaudited. During the last quarter of the year, the Company made its first two investments. On December 15, 2005 the Company invested £1,156,430 in senior second lien debt of Corel Corporation, a Canadian-based software company, specializing in office productivity software and graphic and imaging applications. The note bears interest at LIBOR (the tenor selected by the borrower from time to time) plus 800 basis points and matures August 16, 2010. On December 30, 2005, the Company closed its second investment, consisting of £4.7 million senior secured first lien notes with warrants, in Peer 1 Network, Inc., a Canadian-based provider of outsourced Internet infrastructure and services. The notes mature on September 1, 2008, and may be extended at borrower's option for an additional two years; the notes bear interest at LIBOR (the tenor selected by the borrower from time to time) plus 650 basis points. T2 also received warrants to purchase 475,000 common shares (0.4%) of Peer 1 Network Enterprises, Inc., the parent company, at a strike price of US$0.23 per share. The Company earned approximately £649,000 in interest income through December 31, 2005, primarily from short-term deposits; during the quarter cash deposits were bearing interest at rates of approximately 4.3% - 4.5%. The Company also earned closing fees of approximately £47,000 from the Peer 1 transaction described above. Expenses from inception to December 31, 2005 were consistent with budget, and totaled approximately £478,000, excluding formation expenses. While the Company remains pleased with the quality and number of investment opportunities available to it since its listing, it has, for a variety of reasons, chosen to not yet consummate many of those transactions thus far. The reasons include transaction-specific due-diligence issues, pricing and equity terms that were unacceptable, and the Company's ability to achieve what it considers to be an appropriate risk/reward relationship in its investments. T2's Investment Adviser has since admission seen a significant number of investment opportunities in profitable and growing technology companies. However, the Company believes that a limiting factor in progressing certain of those transactions has been a more deliberate approach towards debt financing on the part of some potential portfolio companies, which has led to slower-than-expected progress in the negotiation and completion of certain transactions. At the same time, T2 has seen a range of technology companies (including companies in the enterprise software, IT services and Internet sectors) for which debt financing represents an attractive and efficient alternative to traditional equity capital investment, and the Company remains focused on opportunities to make investments consistent with its mandate. Since the time of its admission to trading on AIM in August 2005, the Company has reviewed more than 30 transactions involving the debt securities of technology companies. The Company is currently involved in due diligence processes for 8 transactions, with a total value in excess of £20.0 million, although the Company continues to note that there can be no guarantee that it will make these or similar investments. The Company has also been active in the syndicated loan market, in addition to individually negotiated transactions. It is expected that over time, additional investments will be identified in this market. In view of the above, it does not appear at this time that the Company will achieve the original projected yield of 7.2% for the four quarters ending June 2006, reflecting the slower pace of investment. The Company's ability to pay dividends will ultimately be based upon the pace of investment activity. The Company will make its financial statements available after the completion of the annual audit. The contents of this announcement include statements that are, or may be deemed to be 'forward looking statements'. These forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the terms ' believes', 'estimates', 'anticipates', 'expects', 'intends', 'may', 'will' or ' should'. They include the statement regarding the projected yield. By their nature, forward looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and readers are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. The Company's actual results and performance may differ materially from the impression created by the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as at the date of this announcement and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking statements, except as may be required by applicable law and regulation (including the AIM Rules). No statement in this announcement is intended to be a profit forecast. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
UK 100

Latest directors dealings