News

30 Mar 2016

NewRiver Retail looking to buy Bexleyheath shopping centre

NewRiver Retail Limited confirms that it is in advanced negotiations with a vendor which may or may not lead to the acquisition of the Broadway shopping centre and Broadway Square in Bexleyheath town centre, London Borough of Bexley for approximately £120m (subject to negotiation). The assets under consideration total 525,000 sq. ft. across an 11-acre site and […]

29 Mar 2016

Tritax acquires Argos distribution centre

Tritax Big Box REIT has announced that it has acquired Argos’ National Distribution Centre at Barton Business Park, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire for a purchase price of £74.65m (net of acquisition costs), reflecting a net initial yield of 5.55% on the corporate acquisition. The purchase has been funded from equity proceeds, with senior debt finance expected to be […]

29 Mar 2016

F&C Private Equity benefits from record realisations

F&C Private Equity reports that its net assets at the year-end were £216m giving a fully diluted net asset value (‘NAV’) per Ordinary Share of 295.74p. Taking into account dividends paid during the year which total 11.03p, the NAV total return was 10.7 per cent. This compares to a total return from the FTSE-All-Share Index […]

24 Mar 2016

Dalradian completes infill drilling at Curraghinalt; updated resource by end-April

Dalradian Resources has completed Infill drilling at its 100%-owned Curraghinalt gold project, in Northern Ireland and expects to release an updated resource estimate by the end of April. The infill drilling programme comprised 51,479 m in 181 holes and was planned to convert Inferred resources to Measured and Indicated in support of a feasibility study, […]

24 Mar 2016

Impax Environmental beats its benchmark in 2015

For the 12 months ended 31 December 2015 the net asset value per share of Impax Environmental Markets achieved a total return of 6.0% and ended the year at 178.6p.   During 2015, IEM’s share price total return was 5.8% and it ended the year at 160p. The directors are recommending a dividend for the year ended […]

24 Mar 2016

North American Income achieves 10% dividend growth

North American Income Trust’s net asset value per share rose by 3.2% on a total return basis over the year that ended on 31 January 2016. The reference benchmark, the S&P 500, provided a total return of 5.2% in sterling terms and the Russell 1000 Value, which was incorporated as an additional measurement during the […]

24 Mar 2016

International Public Partnerships reports record levels of investment

International Public Partnerships has published results for the year ended 31 December 2015. The NAV increased by 2.5% to 130.2p. They have declared a full year 2015 fully covered cash dividends up c.2.5% at 6.45 pence per share and set a minimum target dividend for 2016 financial year of 6.65 pence per share and for 2017 of 6.82 […]

24 Mar 2016

UK Mortgages working on more transactions

UK Mortgages has published its first set of figures, covering he period from its incorporation to the end of December 2015. The net asset value at the end of the period was 97.82p. In early November that the  manager had completed the first purchase of a £310m pool of high quality buy-to-let mortgages from the […]

24 Mar 2016

JPMorgan American suffers from lack of FANG exposure

JPMorgan American has published results for the year ended 31 December 2015. In 2015, the US equity market, as measured by the S&P 500 total return Index in sterling terms, provided a return of 6.9%. In local currency terms, the market was more or less flat, and the gain to investors arose largely from the […]