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29 Jun 2016

INPP tops up Wolverhampton schools investment

International Public Partnerships Limited has announced that it has acquired an additional interest in the Wolverhampton Building Schools for the Future (“BSF”) project. INPP will commit a further GBP7.2 million to acquire Carillion Private Finance’s 72% direct investment, growing the Company’s existing 10% investment in the Project to 82%. The opportunity to acquire the additional […]

28 Jun 2016

Amedeo’s first results published

Amedeo Air Four Plus has published its first set of accounts covering the period from incorporation to 31 March 2016. The Company’s shares were first listed on 13 May 2015 upon the admission of 202,000,000 redeemable ordinary shares (“Shares”) at an issue price of 100 pence per Share. On 15 December 2015, pursuant to an […]

28 Jun 2016

Global Resources gets cash injection from manager

Global Resources Investment Trust says it has entered into a legally binding subscription agreement with RDP Fund Management LLP under which RDP has agreed conditionally to subscribe (subject to having the right to assign some or all of the right to subscribe) for a total of 40,000,000 new ordinary shares of GBP0.01 in GRIT  (plus warrants) at […]

28 Jun 2016

NextEnergy Solar returns held back by power prices

NextEnergy Solar reports that, at 31 March 2016, the company’s NAV was GBP273.8m, equivalent to 98.5p per share (March 2015: NAV of GBP248.4m, 103.3p per share) mainly affected by reductions in power price forecasts and removal of LECs (which had a combined negative impact on NAV of 14.6p per share). As experienced during the previous reporting […]

28 Jun 2016

UK Commercial Property announces two disposals

UK Commercial Property Trust Limited has announced that on 24 June 2016 it completed the sale of Dolphin House, an office in Sunbury-on-Thames, having also completed the sale, earlier in the month, of 6 Arlington Street, in London’s St James’s.  The sales were completed in two separate transactions for a total consideration of GBP45.6 million, […]

28 Jun 2016

Good year for Picton Property on new acquisitions and Angel Gate

Picton Property Income has announced results for the year ended 31 March 2016. The EPRA NAV increased by 12.7% to 77 pence per share. EPRA earnings increased by 30.1% to GBP19.9 million, equivalent to EPS of 3.7 pence per share (up 8.3% on the year before). The dividend has been increased by 10% to 3.3p. The total […]

28 Jun 2016

No tender offer for Invesco Asia

The year to the end of April was a difficult one for Asian funds. Invesco Asia outperformed however, returning -7.1% on net assets against -14.3% for the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index. The return to shareholders was -10.3% (the discount widened from 9.8% to 13.1%). The dividend is being maintained at 3.65p. At the […]

28 Jun 2016

Aberdeen Emerging’s Asian exposure works in its favour

Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment Company beat its benchmark over the six months ended 30 April 2016.  The company’s net asset value total return for the period was 6.1%, comparing favourably with a return of 5.6% from the benchmark index, the MSCI Emerging Markets Net Total Return Index (in sterling terms). The share price total return […]

27 Jun 2016

M&A activity delivers positive outcome for Geiger Counter

Over the six months to the end of March 2016 Geiger Counter’s net asset value rose by 28.9%. The Company’s share price lagged the increase in the net asset value rising 11.5 per cent over the six months. As a result the discount widened to reach 25.7 per cent at the end of March. The […]

27 Jun 2016

Jupiter Green reports modest outperformance

Jupiter Green has published results for the year ending 31 March 2016. During the period under review, the total return on the net assets, adjusted for share cancellations decreased by 1.0 per cent. This compares with a decrease in the Company’s benchmark index, the MSCI World Small Cap Index Total Return of 2.4 per cent. […]