News

24 Apr 2017

Kennedy Wilson Europe to merge with Kennedy Wilson Holdings

The Kennedy Wilson Holdings Board (KW) and the Independent Committee of Kennedy Wilson Europe (KWE) are pleased to announce that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended all-share merger.  Eeach KWE Scheme Shareholder will be entitled to receive: 0.667 New KW shares for each KWE share. Based on the closing price of US$22.50 per […]

24 Apr 2017

LXi REIT buys Cambridge Belfry Hotel

Lxi REIT has acquired the Cambridge Belfry Hotel at Cambourne, Cambridge. The purchase price for the Property is GBP18.53 million, reflecting a net initial yield of 6.1% on the asset acquisition (net of acquisition costs). The property is fully let to Marstons Hotels Limited and guaranteed by its parent, QHotels Holdings Limited.  QHotels is a […]

21 Apr 2017

More patience required for Woodford Patient Capital shareholders

Woodford Patient Capital says that 2016 was a challenging year, with its net asset value declining modestly from 97.37p to 93.24p. Meanwhile, the share price moved from a 3.7 per cent premium to net asset value at the end of 2015, to a slight discount of -2.4 per cent at the end of the period, […]

21 Apr 2017

Vietnam Enterprise has a great 2016

Vietnam Enterprise Investments (VEIL) had a great 2016, its NAV rising 22.98%, outperformed the VN Index by 5.7%, despite a flurry of market-boosting new listings and the outlier performance of index heavyweights Faros (“ROS”, +791.7%, 3.3% of VN Index) and Sabeco (+51.5%, 8.5% of VN Index).  This was VEIL’s best relative performance against the VN Index […]

20 Apr 2017

Caledonia’s Blanket gold mine ups Q1 production by 18% year-on-year

Caledonia Mining’s Blanket gold mine, in Zimbabwe, produced 12.8koz of gold in Q1 2017, an 18% increase on Q1 2016. Production continues to be supported by access to resources below the 750m level through the development of a second decline into the AR Main ore body as well as through the current decline at AR […]

20 Apr 2017

GCP Infrastructure – funding for Green Investment Bank

GCP Infrastructure – funding for Green Investment Bank – The Board of GCP Infrastructure  notes the announcement by Macquarie Group today in respect of its acquisition of the UK Green Investment Bank. The Board confirms that the company has entered into a conditional, binding commitment with a Macquarie-owned entity to subscribe for a series of loan […]

20 Apr 2017

SQN warns on solar loan

In August 2015, SQN agreed a 5 year financing arrangement with a US solar cell manufacturing company (not named by SQN but almost certainly Suniva) that was secured against its manufacturing and production equipment and supported by a parental guarantee from a public company.  In the NAV as at 28 February 2017, being the last published […]

20 Apr 2017

Reconstruction Capital II sells Top Factoring

Reconstruction Capital II  says that the Top Factoring Group has been acquired by Intrum Justitia AB. Accordingly, RC2 received yesterday a total of EUR 12.83 million (after the repayment of Glasro’s bank debts), and is due to receive a further EUR 0.28 million on 4 May 2017. Accordingly, the Company will have received a total […]