Electra Partners has announced the successful initial public offering (“IPO”) of its portfolio company Hollywood Bowl Group, the UK’s largest ten-pin bowling operator. Upon admission of its shares to the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange on 21 September 2016, Hollywood Bowl will have a market capitalisation of GBP240 million. Based on the offer price, […]
Ruffer has published its results for the year ended 30 June 2016. The NAV fell by 1% on a total return basis. The target return, being twice the Bank of England base rate, amounted to 1% over the financial year and by way of context the FTSE All-Share Total Return index rose by 2.2%. Earnings […]
GCP Student Living reports that its EPRA NAV per ordinary share increased by 9%, from 125.51 pence to 136.93 pence as at 30 June 2016. Total operating profit (including valuation gains) was GBP39.3 million (GBP 12.2 million excluding valuation gains). Earnings per share fell from 28.46p to 15.48p and EPRA EPS for the group fell […]
New Star Investment Trust’s total return was 12.06% for the year to 30th June 2016. This took the year-end NAV to 125.70p. Unfortunately the discount widened and the share price rose by just 3.4%. By comparison, the Investment Association’s Mixed Investment 40-85% Shares index gained 2.20%. Equity markets generated positive returns, with overseas performance enhanced in sterling […]
North Atlantic Smaller Companies reports that for the six month period to 31 July 2016, the fully diluted adjusted net asset value (with Oryx under the equity method of accounting) rose by +3.0% as compared to a rise in the sterling adjusted Standard & Poor’s 500 Composite Index of +20.6% and the FTSE Small Cap […]
Infrastructure India plc has announced that on 14 September 2016 it entered into a revised and restated management and valuation and portfolio services agreement with Franklin Park Management, LLC, its existing asset manager, to effect a reduction in annual cash fees payable by IIP to the asset manager. The other terms of the new management agreement […]
Ranger Direct Lending has reported interim results covering the first half of 2016. The proceeds of the initial public offering (IPO) on 1 May 2015 and December’s secondary issue of Ordinary Shares were all substantially deployed by the end of 2015, so Ranger began 2016 with all of its assets committed to Debt Instruments, less […]
India Capital Growth reports that, despite Indian markets enduring a shaky start to the year in lockstep with equity volatility globally, its portfolio performance has remained robust, with the net asset value per share rising 17.2%, as compared with the notional benchmark’s performance of 14.9% over the six months ended 30 June 2016. the 17.2% return […]
Alternative Asset Opportunities PCC Limited has made an announcement about Traded Life Interests. On 23 June 2016 it announced that it was exploring the possibility of a sale of the portfolio. The Board is pleased to announce today that is has conditionally agreed to sell 71 of the Company’s 80 policies for a total cash consideration […]
HICL Infrastructure Company Limited, has announced the purchase of a proportion of the Road Management Services (A13) PLC Index-Linked Guaranteed Secured Bonds 2028 for GBP50.1m. The Bonds were issued in 2000 to finance the A13 Thames Gateway PFI Project and have the benefit of an unconditional and irrevocable financial guarantee from the monoline MBIA UK in […]
