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31 May 2016

John Laing Infrastructure buys Oldham Social Housing Project

John Laing Infrastructure has announced that, following the satisfaction of certain conditions agreed between the parties, it has completed the acquisition of a 95% interest in the Oldham Social Housing PPP project. The project, located in the UK, has been fully operational since January 2015 and benefits from an availability-based payment mechanism. The acquisition was […]

31 May 2016

RIT Capital Partners says Alliance Trust approach “very preliminary”

Alliance Trust has made an announcement in response to the press speculation over the weekend. They say, as communicated to shareholders in October of last year and more recently at the time of the publication of the annual results in March this year, a number of significant changes to Alliance Trust have been implemented in […]

31 May 2016

AEW UK REIT now fully invested

The Board of AEW UK REIT has announced the acquisition of two mixed use assets in Nottingham and Blackpool for a total of GBP13.2m, net of acquisition costs.  With these two acquisitions the Company has now fully invested its equity capital and is geared to 20% of Gross Asset Value, in line with its investment […]

31 May 2016

Alasdair McKinnon has good start at Scottish Investment Trust

Scottish Investment Trust has announced results for the six months ended 30 April 2016. Over that period the net asset value per share total return was 4.0% (with borrowings at market value). The share price total return was 4.4%. The company does not have a formal benchmark but, by way of reference, over the review period the […]

26 May 2016

Biotech Growth’s NAV shrinks by a quarter

Over the year to 31 March 2016, Biotech Growth Trust’s net asset value per share fell by 24.8% during the year, underperforming the Company’s benchmark, the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index, measured in sterling terms, which fell by 21.8%. The Company’s share price fell further, by 26.3%, as the discount of the Company’s share price to the […]

26 May 2016

Chenavari hit by Portuguese bank bail in

Chenavari Capital Solutions has published interim accounts covering the six months to the end of March 2016. The NAV as at 31 March 2016 was GBP121.6 million with a NAV per Share of 93.31 pence. Total dividends during the period were 4 pence per Share, the NAV total return for the period was -1.17%. The shares were quoted […]

26 May 2016

Alternative Assets hit by insurance costs

Alternative Asset Opportunities says its interim report for the six months to December 2015 referred in some detail to insurers applying increases to applicable premium rates. These are known as ‘cost of insurance’ (COI) increases. COI increases have historically been very rare and, although they can be implemented each year by the insurer, until September 2015 […]

26 May 2016

Schroder Income Growth in line with benchmark in first half

Schroder Income Growth says that, during the six months ended 29 February 2016, the net asset value produced a negative total return of 1.4%, broadly comparable to that of the FTSE All-Share Index, which fell by 1.2% over the period.  The company’s share price declined by 8.5% in total return terms during the period as the […]

26 May 2016

Standard Life Equity Income light on resources and defensives

Standard Life Equity Income says, in the six months to 31 March 2016 its diluted net asset value total return was 0.7%. This compares with the benchmark total return of 3.5%. The discount on SLET’s shares widened slightly from 0.4% six months ago to 1.6% at 31 March, producing a decline of 0.7% in the share price total […]

26 May 2016

Widening discount hits Toro’s returns

Toro has published its first set of accounts. The company’s shares were admitted for trading on the 8 May 2015. The share price was 83 cents as of 31 March 2016, trading then at a discount to NAV of 13.82%. Over the period the company generated a loss of EUR4.5 million or a loss of 1.23 […]