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17 Aug 2015

Murray International struggles on stock selection and Japan underweight

Murray International’s interims for the first half of 2015 show the fund underperforming its benchmark – the net asset value total return declined by 2.6% compared with a positive total return of 2.0% on the Company’s benchmark (40% the FTSE World UK and 60% FTSE World ex UK).  Over the six month period the share price total […]

17 Aug 2015

Kennedy Wilson Europe buys Spanish supermarkets

Kennedy Wilson Europe has bought a portfolio of 16 Spanish supermarkets. The portfolio, which comprises 11 Carrefour supermarkets and five Dia supermarkets, was acquired from a joint venture between French institutional investors managed by AEW Europe. The purchase price of the portfolio was €85.5m, reflecting a yield on cost of 6.9%. The acquisition was funded […]

17 Aug 2015

Empiric buys student block in Falmouth

Empiric Student Property is buying the freehold of a high quality purpose-built student accommodation scheme on Pendennis Rise, in Falmouth, for £8.1m (excluding costs). The property is located next to the Falmouth Docks, within a few minutes’ walk to the Woodlane campus of Falmouth University and the marine School, and with good public transport links […]

17 Aug 2015

Dalradian expands infill drilling for 2016 feasibility study

Dalradian Resources is moving directly to a feasibility at its 100%-owned Curraghinalt gold project, in Northern Ireland after originally planning to produce a pre-feasibility study by the end of 2015. The company now plans to expand its infill drilling programme and conduct underground exploration to complete a resource update in 2016. Depending on the results […]

14 Aug 2015

Leaf Clean Energy sells four investments

The board of Leaf Clean Energy Company has announced the completion of the realisations of four of its investments: the biomass power plants Multitrade Telogia, LLC and Multitrade Rabun Gap, LLC, the landfill gas portfolio owned by Johnstown Regional Energy, LLC and the solar thermal power technology company SkyFuel.  These transactions closed on 11 March, 31 […]

13 Aug 2015

Caledonia’s earnings hit by higher costs and lower gold price

Caledonia Mining’s earnings fell 59% to Canadian cents 3.4/share in H1 2015 (adjusted: Canadian cents 5.2/share), as gold production at its 49%-owned Blanket mine, in Zimbabwe, dipped to 20.4 koz (H1 2015: 21.5 koz), AISC rose 11%, to US$984/oz, and the gold price received was lower at US$1,187/oz gold. Costs rose as a result of […]

13 Aug 2015

Derwent beats IPD as development programme progresses

Derwent London has published interim results covering the first half of 2015. Over this period, its EPRA net asset value per share increased by 10.9% to 3,226p from 2,908p. EPRA earnings per share were 33.97p, 16.5% up on the equivalent period last year – this was on the back of a 21.9% increase in PBT and […]

13 Aug 2015

Fondul underperforms on oil price and widening discount

Fondul Proprietatea has published interim results covering the six months ended 30 June 2015, its first since listing in London in April. Over this period the total return on net assets was 1.9% but the discount widened from 26.1% to 32.9% and this meant the return to shareholders was -5.8%. Romania underperformed most markets in […]

12 Aug 2015

Centamin’s gold production and earnings up yoy

Centamin has reported EPS of USc1.65 for Q2 2015, up 67% from the corresponding quarter of 2014, but down from the USc2.50 earned in Q1 2015. Gold production rose 32% yoy, to 108 koz, and remained broadly in line with the first quarter of 2015. On the back of the higher production  at its Sukari […]

12 Aug 2015

Ranger Direct Lending was 19% invested at end June

Ranger Direct Lending has published its first set of figures covering the period from its launch on 25 March 2015 to the end of June. After initial launch costs of 1.63% of NAV, the Company had a NAV of $15.14 per share upon listing, with the NAV per share growing to $15.16 on 30th June […]

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