Aberforth Geared Income has announced results for the year ended 30 June 2015. The return on the portfolio for the period was 15.4% which compares well to a 2.6% return on the FTSE All-Share Index and 10.4% on the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding investment companies). The return due to the zeros was 6.75% so […]
British Land has announced that it has exchanged contracts for the sale of 39 Victoria Street, SW1 to Singaporean property company Ho Bee Land for a gross purchase price of £144m (net price of c. £139m after deduction of rent free top up). Ho Bee Land is quoted on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange […]
Riverstone Energy reports a 2.25% uplift in its NAV for the six months ended 30 June 2015. They say assets at the end of the period were worth $1.244bn or $16.36 per share. they invested another $180m over the period taking the amount invested to 46% of their available capital. Commitments in the period totalled […]
BBGI has signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement with John Graham Holdings Limited to acquire 100% of the equity and subordinated debt interests in two educational PPP projects in Northern Ireland. Belfast Metropolitan College is an educational campus comprising two five-storey teaching facilities and a two-storey engineering facility with associated car parking and a landscaped […]
Law Debenture beat the FTSE All-Share Index over the first half of 2015 but the share price weakened. The NAV total return was 3.8% vs. 3% for the index and the share price return was -1.6%. The interim dividend has been increased from 4.7p to 5.2p. The report says the stocks that added the most […]
Antofagasta’s copper production in H1 2015 was 303.4 kt, almost 13% lower than the same period in 2014 primarily due to lower grades (expected) and lower throughput at the Los Pelambres mine, Chile, where the company lost 8 kt of copper production in Q1 2015 as a result of disruption caused by protestors. At the […]
Brunner’s performance over the six months ended 31 May 2015 was 3% better than its benchmark as it returned 9.8% vs. 6.8% for its composite benchmark (50% FTSE All-Share, 50% FTSE World Index ex UK). The dividend has been increased from 6.1p to 6.4p. The statement says “Performance benefited from positive stock selection in Consumer […]
Candover Investments has announced a partial realisation of Stork BV with the sale of Fokker Technologies Group BV for €706m. Arle Capital Partners has agreed to sell Fokker, a subsidiary business of portfolio company Stork BV, to GKN. Fokker is a specialist Tier 1 supplier to the commercial, military and business jet markets. With almost 5,000 employees […]
Greencoat UK Wind has published results for the first half of 2015. Over the period the NAV rose by 0.2%. Dividends totalling 3.13p per share were declared for the period. High winds meant that electricity generation was 10% ahead of expectations at 408GWh. This helped them generate cash of £29.2m and pushed the dividend cover […]
Aquarius Platinum’s attributable PGM production from its two operating mines and one tailings retreatment plant rose 6% in the June 2015 quarter compared with the June 2014 quarter, to 88.8 koz. Most of this increase was due to a 6% rise in production at its primary Kroondal mine, to 56.0 koz (attributable, 50%-owned), a record […]
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