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07 Nov 2016

Highcroft sells Warwickshire warehouse

The Board is pleased to announce that Rodenhurst Estates Limited (the property owning subsidiary of Highcroft Investments PLC) has today agreed the sale of a freehold warehouse on the Heathcote Industrial Estate, Warwick to a private investor.  It is expected that contracts will be completed within one month. Built in the early 1990’s, the property […]

07 Nov 2016
Biotech Growth's NAV shrinks by a quarter

Biotech Growth Trust lags benchmark in first half

Biotech Growth’s net asset value per share increased 20.5% during the six month period ended 30 September. The Company’s benchmark, the Sterling-adjusted NASDAQ Biotechnology Index, increased 23.2% during the same period. The Company’s share price increased 21.7% during the period. Currency movement contributed significantly to performance, as the Dollar appreciated 10% relative to the Pound […]

07 Nov 2016

Fair Oaks will launch new master fund

The commitment period of FOIF LP (the “Master Fund”) in which Fair Oaks Income Fund is invested ended in June 2016. The Company has subsequently introduced a redemption mechanism to return to Shareholders capital realised from the Master Fund and has made its first distribution under that mechanism. Fair Oaks Capital Limited, the Company’s investment […]

07 Nov 2016

Fidelity Special Values just fails to keep pace with benchmark

Fidelity Special Values just failed to keep pace with its benchmark over the year to 31 August 2016, delivering a NAV return of 9.9% against 11.7% for the index. The total dividend for the year is 3.7p, 10.4% higher than last year. The discount widened from 2.0% at the start of the reporting year to 10.0% […]

07 Nov 2016

Scottish Mortgage bets on the strong getting stronger

Over the six months to the end of September, both Scottish Mortgage’s net asset value (NAV) and price per share rose by 25% on a total return basis; for context, the FTSE All World Index rose by 18% over the same period.  All three of these figures were favourably influenced by the falls in the pound against […]

07 Nov 2016

BACIT to become a life sciences company

BACIT plans to expand its investment policy and grow its assets under management with a couple of deals. This will nudge the fund towards becoming more of a life sciences company. BACIT is hoping to acquire Syncona LLP, a limited partnership vehicle founded by Wellcome Trust. this has an existing portfolio of life science investments. The […]

07 Nov 2016

Takeovers help International Biotechnology beat its benchmark

International Biotechnology Trust outperformed the Nasdaq Biotech Index over the year to the end of August 2016 as the fund’s NAV return was -1.7% against -3.8% for the index. Unfortunately, the discount widened from 5.7% to 13.5% and therefore the return to shareholders was -9.8%. Quoted portfolio The quoted portfolio outperformed the NBI by 1.1% in the […]

03 Nov 2016

Anglo Asian Mining lowers AISC to US$703

Anglo Asian Mining Plc (AAZ:AIM) Gold, copper and silver production & exploration in Azerbaijan; the company posted an updated investor presentation today. The presentation provides details of the all in sustaining costs per ounce of gold produced at their Gedabek mine in Western Azerbaijan. Target production for the full year to 31 December 2016 is 73k – […]

03 Nov 2016

Highland Gold Mining – Q3 2016 progress

Highland Gold Mining (HGM:LSE) Three operating mines in Russia and a pipeline of promising development projects. 9-months production 191,752 oz AuEq (2015:191,408 oz ). Q3 production 63,096 oz AuEq, 11% decrease from Q3 2015. Mnogovershinnoye: Recovery rates improved to 92.1% from 91.9% Q3 2015. Average grade improved to 2.42 g/t from 2.22 g/t in Q3 […]

03 Nov 2016

Edinburgh Dragon’s performance picks up

For the year to 31 August 2016, Edinburgh Dragon’s NAV rose by 31.9% on a total return basis. This was slightly less than the MSCI All Country Asia (ex Japan) Index ‘s increase of 33.0% in sterling terms. Most of these returns were generated in the second half of the year when Edinburgh Dragon’s performance picked up, […]