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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]