Summit Germany spends €100m in Wolfsburg. Summit Germany Limited, the AIM-listed German commercial property investment company, has announced that it has entered into an unconditional agreement with Dazzle Capital Holdings Ltd., for the acquisition of a portfolio of commercial properties at a total purchase price of approximately €100 million including acquisition costs, located in 4 different […]
LondonMetric Property sells last Marlow office. LondonMetric Property has announced that it has exchanged on the sale of its last remaining office asset in Marlow to Kildare Partners for GBP68.5 million. The 231,000 sq ft office property is 96.7% let off a WAULT of 7.0 years to Allergan, Dun & Bradstreet, Lexington Catering, Icon Clinical and […]
UK Mortgages takes steps to tackle falling NAV as capital distributions eat into fund. UK Mortgages has made an update presentation to investors. In it, it acknowledges that it has taken longer to invest the proceeds of its IPO than expected. The longer investment period has meant: Slower earnings growth A longer period of uncovered […]
Ranger Direct Lending updates on Princeton saying it has initiated arbitration proceedings. Princeton is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and invests in a Delaware master fund (the “Princeton Master Fund”) which is a party to the underlying lines of credit. Ranger Alternative Management II, LP (the “Investment Manager”), the Ranger Specialty Income Fund, LP […]
Great year for Monks as seven holdings more than double. Over the year to 30 April 2017, Monks’ net asset value total return was 40.0% compared to a total return of 31.0% for the World Index (in sterling terms). The share price total return for the same period was 53.9%, with the discount narrowing to 0.6%. The one […]
JPMorgan American slashes fees. The Board of JPMorgan American Investment Trust has announced that, following a review, the investment management fee arrangements with JPMorgan Funds Limited will change. With effect from 1st October 2017, the annual investment management fee, currently 50bps of total assets less current liabilities, with no tiering, will be charged at an annual […]
F&C Global Smaller just fails to match rising benchmark – it says that small cap stocks more than held their own against the larger companies, doing particularly well in the US, over the year ended 30 April 2017. The fund’s benchmark is a blended index of the returns from the MSCI All Country World ex UK […]
Great Portland buys an acre of Whitechapel – Great Portland Estates plc has acquired the freehold of land and buildings including Cityside and Challenger House, 40/42 Adler Street and 2/8 Whitechapel Road, London E1 from Hermes Investment Management, for GBP49.6 million (GBP320 per sq ft). The 1.1 acre site sits between Aldgate to the west and […]
Phaunos Timber Fund bites the dust – the Board of Phaunos Timber Fund Ltd has announced that at the Annual General Meeting held at 11.00 a.m. on 19 June 2017, all resolutions were duly passed on a poll with the exception of Resolution 7 (the Continuation Vote). As Resolution 7 has not been passed, it is the Board’s […]
From an economic standpoint recent news in the UK has been worrying. House prices are falling and so are retail sales. Inflation has exceeded the Bank of England’s target and so the monetary policy committee is edging closer to raising interest rates. We have a hung parliament and we are just about to embark on […]
