International Public Partnerships Limited has announced that it has agreed to acquire ten Building Schools for the Future (“BSF”) investments from Balfour Beatty, marking a significant evolution in the Company’s allocation to education infrastructure. The transaction will transform INPP into a majority investor in BSF, the investment delivery vehicle designed to refurbish secondary schools across the […]
Board of Trading Emissions has announced that a settlement has been reached in respect of all of the arbitrations with subsidiaries of Yunnan Dianneng (Group) Holding Co. Ltd. By way of background, in 2014, the Company received notices of arbitration in respect of claims that challenged the amendments that had been made to, in total, […]
Nimrod Sea Assets has published results for the year ended 31 March 2016. The company made various announcements in the early part of the year. These included the decision to effectively halt any further deals and new transactions; to pay four quarterly dividends of 2 cents per share from June 2015 to March 2016, most of […]
Central Asia Metals (CAML) reports H1 2016 copper production from its Kounrad dump leach copper recovery plant, in Kazakhstan, up 27% year-on-year to 6,908 t. Sales were 6,355 t, a 24% increase on H1 2015. The company further reports that the expansion project to exploit the Western dumps, which is being funded from cashflow generated […]
The Board of Private Equity Investor has announced that it has received a proposal to acquire 15 of its Limited Partnership investments. The proposal covers approximately 87% of the NAV of the investment portfolio of the Company. The proposal is priced at a 35% discount to the net asset value of these holdings at 31 December 2015. […]
Dolphin Capital announced results on 30 June 2016 that cover the year to the end of 31 December 2015 – so these figures are quite a bit out of date. The dramatic 44% NAV drop is mainly down to a dilutive share issue. We have just reproduced the key points from the statement: Gross Assets of […]
Miton Global Opportunities has released results for the year ended 30 April 2016. The net asset value per share rose to 182.4p, a total return of 0.4% – there is no dividend. The manager says the company’s shares ended the financial year standing at an all-time high, moving from 162.75p to 164.25p during the year. […]
According to an article in the Daily Telegraph (which you can access here), Elliott Advisors (the activist investor in Alliance Trust) has built up a 5% stake in British Empire worth £32m. So far neither side has commented on the story. BTEM : Activist building stake in British Empire
EP Global Opportunities annunced yesterday that it has hedged the equivalent of £27m of its Japanese Yen exposure back into Sterling. This is the first announcement we have seen of a fund locking in the gais made on its overseas exposure as a result of the recent weakness of the pound. EPG : EP Global […]
Electra has raised €72m from the redemption of preferred equity and from the sale of c28% of its 15% equity interest in Allflex. This is equivalent to a return of 0.8x cost. the retained stake in Allflex has a value, implied by this transaction, of €78m (£65m). Together this repreents a 48% uplift to the […]
