Macau Property Opportunities focused on sales efforts – Macau Property Opportunities Fund Limited has announced its results for the year ended 30 June 2017: Highlights: MPO’s portfolio value appreciated 9.7% over the year to US$425.7 million. Adjusted NAV grew 10.2% year-on-year to US$249.3 million, equating to US$3.26 (250 pence*) per share. IFRS NAV increased by […]
Pantheon to combine share classes – Pantheon International plans to effect the consolidation of its ordinary and redeemable share capital into a single class of ordinary shares. The Proposals include the issue of an unlisted Asset Linked Note (the “ALN”) to the largest holder of Pantheon’s redeemable shares in exchange for part of its shareholding. […]
Auditor declines to offer opinion on Infrastructure India accounts – Infrastructure India has published results for the year ended 31 March 2017 – which are, of course, somewhat out of date now. They say that the Net Asset Value decreased to £282m as at 31 March 2017 and the NAV per share was […]
Jupiter European sticking with Novo Nordisk – Jupiter European Opportunities says that, for the financial year to 31 May 2017, its total return on net assets was 30.5%, which compares with 35.7% for the benchmark. The total return on the shares was 30.6%. There is a 6.5p dividend. The manager says that the underperformance is partly explained by sector weightings – […]
City Natural lags benchmark, ETF to blame? – City Natural Resources says that on 30 June 2017 its net asset value stood at 132.7p, giving a net asset value total return for the year of 7.9%. The benchmark index returned 17.7%. The shares returned 17.8% as the discount narrowed from 22.7% to 17%. This year’s […]
Foresight Solar buys Australian solar farm – Foresight Solar Fund Limited has entered into a binding contract to acquire its first asset outside of the UK with a commitment to acquire 48.5% of the share capital of Bannerton Solar Farm in Victoria, Australia. The project will have a peak capacity of 110MWp once operational. KDB Infrastructure […]
Blue Capital Alternative statements on hurricanes – Blue Capital Alternative Income has been making a series of announcements on the impacts of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria on its portfolio. Update 28 September 2017 “On 20 September 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a major hurricane followed by substantial rainfall and flooding. […]
No plan to tackle Ranger’s discount – Ranger Direct Lending has published its interim statement covering the six month period ended 30 June 2017. As Christopher Waldron, the chairman, points out, the first six months of 2017 has been a difficult period for Ranger Direct Lending, which has seen its share price fall to a […]
James Carthew: Custodian captures investors’ attention A cloud still hangs over the likes of Land Securities (LAND) and British Land (BLND), whilst Intu Properties (INTU), the shopping centre specialist, is hitting new multi-year lows. However, there is a clear distinction between these older, self-managed real estate investment trusts (Reits) and the newer, externally managed Reits. […]
Syncona backs Autolus fund raise – Syncona has announced that its portfolio company, Autolus, has completed a US$80 million Series C funding round. Autolus is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialisation of next-generation engineered CAR-T cell therapies for the treatment of cancer. Syncona was the single largest investor in the $80 […]
