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15 Mar 2016

NB Private Equity reports record distributions in 2015

NB Private Equity reports that, at  31 December 2015, its NAV per Share was $14.35, up from $14.24 NAV per Share at 31 December 2014. this translated into a 4.9% NAV total return during 2015. They say this was driven by unrealised gains on private equity and public holdings as well as cash and payment-in-kind (“PIK”) interest on its income investment portfolio. […]

15 Mar 2016

Fidelity European Values beats benchmark in 2015

Fidelity European Values say that, for the year ended 31 December 2015, the net asset value total return was 6.9%, outperforming its Benchmark Index, the FTSE World Europe (ex UK) Index, which returned 5.3%. The share price total return over this period was 9.2%, ahead of the NAV return as a consequence of the level of discount […]

14 Mar 2016

Real Estate Investors makes a good start to life as a REIT

Real Estate Investors has published results for the year ended 31 December 2015 – its first year of operations as a REIT. The EPRA NAV per share rose by 5% to 64.5p from 61.3p.   EPRA earnings per share were 0.81p (2014: loss 0.36p). This was on the back of a 38% increase in rental income to £8.4m. The total dividend per […]

14 Mar 2016

Murray International scraps performance fee after disappointing year

Murray International had a poor year in 2015. The Chairman said he was disappointed to report that the NAV not only underperformed its benchmark in 2015 but also declined in absolute terms. He says a NAV total return of -7.8% inclusive of a 3.3% dividend increase (46.5p vs. 45p in 2014) compared unfavourably with a benchmark total return […]

14 Mar 2016

Global Resources to pay back convertibles

Global Resources Investment Trust has not been able to come to an agreement with Primestar Energy FZE and LIM Asia Multi-Strategy Fund Inc. relating inter alia to the subscription, open offer and early redemption of loan notes and the reduction of the required coverage ratio (4:1 assets to loan notes). The assets of the fund […]

11 Mar 2016

Starwood lends against Dublin apartments

Starwood European Real Estate Finance has announced that on 10 March 2016 it advanced a EUR7.9 million whole loan relating to the acquisition of 44 apartments in South Dublin, the Republic of Ireland. The sponsor is a highly regarded local investor that is an existing borrower of the Company. The transaction represents the Company’s third […]

11 Mar 2016

Origo suspended

Origo Partners announced on 8 March 2016 that, whilst the Company’s articles of association include a requirement for the Company to have redeemed US$12 million of  convertible zero dividend preferences shares (“CZDPs”) by 8 March 2016, it is not in a position to redeem US$12 million of CZDPs at the current time.  The 8 March […]

11 Mar 2016

Amedeo now has six A380s

Amedeo Air Four Plus Limited has issued 53m new shares at 101p. Since the completion of its initial public offering on 13 May 2015 (the “IPO”), the Company has acquired five Airbus A380 aircraft, the last of which was delivered in February 2016. The Assets are all leased to Emirates Airlines for a term of 12 years, with […]

11 Mar 2016

Safestore buys Space Maker

Safestore has agreed an option to acquire Space Maker, the ninth largest self-storage portfolio in the UK with 12 stores. The initial consideration is £43.0m initial consideration and a £1.4m deferred consideration to be funded from existing Group debt facilities. At the initial consideration price, the Space Maker portfolio has an implied first year net operating income […]

11 Mar 2016

Claverhouse outperforms again and hikes dividend for 43rd year

JPMorgan Claverhouse outperformed its benchmark index, both in terms of NAV and share price over 2015. The return on net assets of the UK stock market, as measured by the Company’s benchmark, the FTSE All-Share Index, was +1.0%. The Company’s total return on net assets was significantly better at +6.0% (the fourth year in a […]