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04 Sep 2017

Five alternative investments for 5% plus yields

Investors’ insatiable appetite for income has pushed many innovative income funds to lofty premiums, but a host of opportunities remain. Jennifer Hill outlines five routes to pocket inflation-beating income. Investors are on the hunt for alternative sources of income, given the high valuations of many equity markets and poor value in bonds. ‘We’ve been looking […]

04 Sep 2017

Investment Trust Insider on Triple Point Social Housing REIT

James Carthew: how the two social housing Reits compare Triple Point Social Housing (SOHO) is one of the recent crop of new issues in the burgeoning housing real estate investment trust (Reit) sub-sector.  It raised £200 million in an oversubscribed issue at a time when rival launches struggled to meet their targets and some were […]

04 Sep 2017

Triple Point Social Housing makes second investment

Triple Point Social Housing makes second investment – Triple Point Social Housing REIT says it has progressed well since its successful IPO in early August, which was supported by a broad range of institutional investors as well as by Places for People Group, one of the UK’s largest property and leisure management, development and regeneration companies. Shortly […]

04 Sep 2017

Ground Rents to offer inflation linked alternative to doubling rents

Ground Rents to offer inflation linked alternative to doubling rents – On 2 August 2017, Ground Rents Income Fund issued a Corporate Update in light of media attention on ground rents and the launch by the Communities Secretary, Sajid Javid, of a consultation on proposals to amend leasehold legislation. The announcement advised that the Board, in […]

04 Sep 2017

Central Asia Metals in advanced talks for reverse takeover transaction: suspends trading

Central Asia Metals (CAML) the AIM-listed copper producer, has announced that it is in advanced talks with a third party which may lead to a reverse takeover transaction. At the company’s request, its shares were suspended this morning from trading on AIM and will remain so until either the publication of an admission document setting […]

01 Sep 2017

Have equity income funds had their day?

Have equity income funds had their day? – Merry Somerset Webb on QuotedData research In the 1950s, the point of investing was simple. It was, says John Littlewood in his book, The Stock Market: 50 Years of Capitalism at Work, “to provide assets to match as closely as possible the liabilities stretching years into the […]

01 Sep 2017

Amedeo Air Four Plus buys new plane for Thai Airways

Amedeo Air Four Plus buys new plane for Thai Airways – Amedeo Air Four Plus, via its wholly-owned subsidiary, AA4P Mu Limited, reports the purchase of one A350-900 aircraft, bearing manufacturer’s serial number 130, on 31 August, 2017, placed on lease to Thai Airways International Public Company Limited for a term of 12 years. Following […]

01 Sep 2017

Blue Capital Alternative Income evaluating options on discount

Blue Capital Alternative Income evaluating options on discount – the company made a brief announcement on the morning of 1 September 2017 that just says: “The Company’s Ordinary Shares have traded at an average discount of more than 5 per cent. to the net asset value per Ordinary Share over the three month period ending […]

01 Sep 2017

Syncona says NightstaRx files for IPO

Syncona says NightstaRx files for IPO – Syncona Ltd, today notes that its portfolio company NightstaRx Limited (to be reorganised as Nightstar Therapeutics Limited) has filed a registration statement on Form F-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) for a proposed initial public offering, in the United States, of its American Depositary […]

01 Sep 2017

Supermarket Income REIT buys Sainsbury’s superstore

Supermarket Income REIT buys Sainsbury’s superstore – Supermarket Income REIT has acquired the freehold of the Sainsbury’s Bybrook Superstore in Ashford, Kent, from National Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Society for GBP80 million (net of acquisition costs), reflecting a net initial yield of 4.5% after the next agreed RPI-linked rent review in September 2017. The store […]