Aberdeen Latin American Income says, in the six month period ended 29 February 2016, the NAV total return (capital return plus dividends reinvested) in sterling terms fell by 0.2% which underperformed the composite benchmark’s total return of 0.9% for the same period. The shares delivered a share price total return of -6.2% for the six months. They […]
Custodian REIT has acquired a high street retail unit in Chester, let to TSB Limited and Ciel (Concessions) Limited (trading as Chesca). The property is located in the city centre on the pedestrianised Eastgate Street near Cath Kidston, Jack Wills, Kuoni Travel, H Samuel, Fat Face and Jaeger. The tenants’ leases expire between September 2019 […]
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies says, for the year ended 31 January 2016 the net asset value rose by 10.9%, on a total return basis, an outperformance of 7.1% versus the benchmark index of the Company, the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding Investment Companies), which returned a lesser 3.8%. When compared to the wider UK stock […]
In accordance with the proposals for the reconstruction, voluntary winding-up and rollover of Henderson Global Trust into Henderson International Income Trust and/or The Bankers Investment Trust, Henderson Global’s Board has announced that the special resolutions put forward at the Ordinary Share Class Meeting and the First General Meeting, both held on Friday 15 April, have been approved by […]
Middlefield Canadian has just published its results for 2015. In 2015, the Fund outperformed the S&P/TSX Composite High Dividend Index by over 12%, with a total return (in GBP) of -11.8% versus the benchmark total return of -24.1% (in GBP) over the same period. Having got permission to increase the fund’s exposure to the US, […]
Recovery in commodity prices has boosted investment trusts specialising in the sector Investors also hoping for Brazil revival if leader Dilma Rousseff is ousted Biotech and healthcare hit by fears Democrat party will squeeze drug prices if they win the US http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/investing/article-3542148/Unloved-commodity-Brazil-Russia-funds-finally-come-good.html
Weiss Korea Opportunity Fund says, during the period from 31 December 2014 to 31 December 2015, the company’s NAV per share increased by 11.70%, outperforming the reference MSCI Korea 25/50 Capped Index, which returned -1.1% in Sterling terms. The company paid a dividend of 1.8580 pence per share on 26 June 2015. The Directors intend to return […]
Nimrod Sea Assets had an investment period of 18 to 24 months. Any cash which had not been invested or committed at the end of this investment period was to be returned to shareholders as soon as practicable. The Board had anticipated being in a position to return the unrequired, uninvested cash to shareholders after March […]
Juridica, a provider of strategic capital for corporate legal claims to both businesses and the legal markets, provides the following portfolio update. Two cases in the Company’s portfolio have reached settlement, with one being a definitive settlement agreement and the second being a partial settlement agreement and this latter case is ongoing. Gross proceeds from […]
Altin has announced that, as of Friday, Alpine Select owns 50.01% of Altin AG’s shares. If Altin was a UK company this would trigger a bid for the rest of the company at the highest price Alpine Select paid for its additional stock. We will bring you more information when we have it. AIA : […]
