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13 Dec 2016

Schroder Asia Pacific benefits from Asia’s strong returns

Schroder Asia Pacific reports that its net asset value produced a total return of 40.9% compared to the benchmark (MSCI All Countries Asia ex Japan) total return of 36.6% and its share price produced a total return of 41.3%. The Directors recommend the payment of a final dividend of 4.75 pence. The manager’s statement says that the […]

13 Dec 2016

Eastern European Property sells Romanian investment

Eastern European Property says that an agreement was signed on 12 December 2016 to sell its Romanian subsidiary, Southern Properties SRL, the holding company for the property located in Bucharest. The consideration is expected to be EUR 1.50 million (c. GBP 1.27 million) after allowing for local transaction costs and related company costs. This compares to a valuation […]

13 Dec 2016

Oryx run of outperformance continues

Oryx International Growth reports that for the six months ended 30 September 2016 its net asset value rose by 10.7%, beating the Small Cap Index by over 4.5%. The rise in the NAV over the last five years now equals 114% as against 77% for the index. The report says that the increase in the net […]

13 Dec 2016

Ediston Property sees NAV rise over year

Ediston Property’s NAV total return for the year ended 30 September 2016 was 6.1% (based on a year end EPRA NAV of 107.07p). During the year the share price mostly traded in a relatively tight band around the stated NAV. At the start of the year it was at a 2.3% premium and at the year end […]

13 Dec 2016

MedicX delivers double digit return

Over the year to the end of September 2016 MedicX‘s EPRA net asset value rose by 3.4% to 73.2p. Together with the dividend, the total return on net assets was 11.8%. EPRA earnings per share rose from 3.7p to 3.8p. The total dividend for the year was 5.95p, up from 5.9p for the year before. […]

13 Dec 2016

Chenavari to switch to realisation mode

Chenavari Capital Solutions has announced its intention to cease making any further investments with immediate effect and from 1 January 2017 will commence a realisation period which will include the return of unencumbered cash balances to shareholders. Further announcements will be made prior to each individual return of cash. Background Prior to its initial public offering […]

13 Dec 2016

Finsbury Growth & Income outperforms again

Finsbury Growth & Income reports that its net asset value per share on a total return basis for the year was 20.6% and the share price total return was 20.8% (2015: 11.8%). Both have again significantly outperformed the benchmark. The UK market rose by 16.8% over the same period. The report says that the principal contributions to net asset […]

13 Dec 2016

New co-manager on Lowland

Lowland Investment Company says that its net asset total return for the year ended 30 September 2016 was 12.2% which compares to a 16.8% return for the UK market and an 8.6% return on the Numis Smaller Companies Index. The total dividend for the year will be 45p, which is an increase of 9.8% over […]

12 Dec 2016

Local Shopping REIT focused on piecemeal portfolio realisation

Local Shopping REIT’s results for the year ended 30 September 2016 show that it made sales worth £5m over the year while the reminder of its portfolio was valued at £75m at the year end. The fund is in wind up mode and they say that their preferred approach was to dispose of the remainder of […]