Regulator issues report on social housing sector – The Regulator of Social Housing has published a report on ‘Lease-based providers of specialised supported housing’ – the sorts of registered providers that are the counterparties to leases provided by Civitas Social Housing and Triple Point Social Housing REIT. You can read the report here Civitas had this […]
F&C agrees long-term fixed rate funding – F&C Investment Trust has agreed to issue a number of fixed rate senior unsecured private placement notes: EUR42 million for seven years at a coupon of 0.93% GBP57m for 23 years at a coupon of 2.59% GBP37m for 30 years at a coupon of 2.69% GBP20m for 40 years […]
Menhaden baled out by X-ELIO write up – Menhaden has released results for the year ended 31 December 2018. In an environment of falling markets, the NAV slipped again to 90.6p from 92.1p and the share price fell to 67p from 68.5p, with no sign of any narrowing of the discount. The NAV total return was […]
Change of guard at Value and Income – Value and Income Trust has announced the retirement of Angela Lascelles and Matthew Oakeshott, with effect from 1 April 2019. Angela and Matthew have managed the trust’s portfolio since August 1986 when, as the founder directors of OLIM Limited, they led the reorganisation of the trust, raising its […]
INPP buys BeNEX Rail stake – International Public Partnerships Limited has entered into a sale and purchase agreement to acquire a further 51% shareholding in BeNEX GmbH from Hamburger Hochbahn AG, the City of Hamburg’s municipal public transportation company. The company has agreed to invest up to approximately EUR54 million of which part will be subscribed […]
Syncona/Woodford investment Autolus reports positive data – Claire Roddie MB, PhD, FRCPath, honorary senior lecturer, Cancer Institute, University College London, has presented initial data from the ongoing Phase 1/2 trial of AUTO1 in adult acute lymphoblastic B cell leukemia (ALL). the presentation was made at the American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2019 in Atlanta, […]
Schroder Asia Total Return hit by China weakness – Schroder Asian Total Return has published its annual report for the year ended 31 December 2018. The chairman says that 2018 was a difficult year. The company produced a net asset value total return of -8.1%, better than the total return of -8.6% from an equivalent index […]
Dunedin Income Growth looking good ahead of 150th birthday – Dunedin Income Growth’s NAV return for the year to 31 January 2019 matched that of the All-Share index (both falling by 3.8%). The share price total return for the year was -0.83% reflecting a modest narrowing of the discount to NAV from 8.14% at the start of […]
International Public Partnerships deploys another £105m – International Public Partnerships has published results for 2018. Highlights are: Net Asset Value growth of 7.9% to GBP2.2 billion (31 December 2017: GBP2.0 billion) NAV per share growth to 148.1 pence (31 December 2017: 145.0 pence) Full-year dividend increase of c.2.5% to 7.00 pence per share (31 December 2017: […]
BBGI looking at offshore transmission opportunities – BBGI’s 2018 results are out. Highlights are: Overall NAV up 24.4 per cent to GBP774.5 million as at 31 December 2018 (31 December 2017: GBP622.5 million) and NAV per Share up 2.8 per cent to 133.5 pence per share as at 31 December 2018 (31 December 2017: 129.9 pence […]
