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12 Aug 2015

Picton buys Sheffield warehouse

Picton Property Income has acquired the freehold of a retail warehouse in Sheffield, for £17.7m, reflecting a net initial yield of 6.6%. The property is well located close to Sheffield city centre, in an established retail warehouse location and adjacent to Queens Road Retail Park.  It was built in 2002 on a nine acre site, […]

11 Aug 2015

Prospect Japan struggles in H1 2015

Prospect Japan has published interim figures covering the first half of 2015. We are having trouble understanding the statement – the text says “The Prospect Japan Fund (the “Company”) underperformed the MSCI Japan Small Cap Index (Total Return) by 26.7% in the six months to 30 June, 2015 (falling by 12.3% against a total return […]

11 Aug 2015

Witan outperformance continues

Witan’s results for the first half of 2015 show it beating its benchmark by 1.9% – delivering a total return on net assets of 5.5% compared with a return of 3.6% for the composite benchmark (the FTSE All-Share Index 40%, the FTSE All-World North America Index 20%, the FTSE All-World Europe (ex UK) Index 20% and the […]

11 Aug 2015

Adams sells last of legacy assets

Adams, which used to be (until March 2013) and eastern European property company, Carpathian, and is now focused on the technology and life sciences sectors, sold or shut down the last of its  legacy assets over the year ended 31 March 2015. It is one of the smallest listed investment companies. The Company delivered a gain of €172,000 on […]

11 Aug 2015

Woodford Patient Capital unveils its portfolio

Woodford Patient Capital has published its first set of figures – interims covering the period from its launch until the end of June 2015. The net asset value at the end of the period was 101.86p and the share price 113.5p – putting it on a premium of 11.4%. The Board is planning to issue […]

11 Aug 2015

Real Estate Investors sells 36 Great Charles Street

Real Estate Investors, the Birmingham based property group, announces the sale of the part-vacant office building, 36 Great Charles Street, Birmingham, to Circle Property Unit Trust for the sum of £2.5m.  The property was acquired on 25th March this year for the sum of £1.85m. RLE : Real Estate Investors sells 36 Great Charles Street

11 Aug 2015

Premier Energy & Water says utilities pull back has created opportunities

Premier Energy & Water has published its interim accounts, covering the six months to the end of June 2015. The period was a difficult one for the global utilities market, as evidenced by a -7.5% return on the FTSE All-World Utilities Index but Premier Energy & Water did much better than this with a return […]

11 Aug 2015

Stratex confirms mineralisation over 1.2 km strike at Madina Bafé prospect, Senegal

Stratex International has completed a trenching programme at the Madina Bafé prospect at its 85%-owned Dalafin gold project, in Senegal. Channel-sampling results include 4.0 m at a grade of 1.40 g/t gold and 6.0 m at 0.86 g/t gold in highly weathered material (ie potentially leached and thus lower grade than unweathered material). The company […]

10 Aug 2015

Peer-to-peer lending leads bumper investment trust fundraising

http://www.fundweb.co.uk/news-and-analysis/peer-to-peer-lending-leads-bumper-investment-trust-fundraising/2023047.article The peer-to-peer focused P2P Global led investment trust fundraising for July, which was another bumper month for assets raised, reaching £1.6bn. Research from QuotedData found that July was another big month for money raised, higher than the £1bn raised in June and the £870m in May.

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