News

24 Sep 2015

ICG Longbow performing according to expectations

ICG Longbow has published its interim report covering the six months ended 31 July 2015. They say that over the period the NAV increased modestly to 100.12p. The shares traded in a range of 101.25p to 106.25p, they are currently 106p, maintaining a small premium to NAV throughout. The Company paid a first interim dividend of 1.5p for the […]

24 Sep 2015

Mercantile outperforming in 2015

Over the six months ended 31 July 2015, Mercantile managed to generate a return on net assets of 15.0%, 3.9% more than the 11.1% return posted by the FTSE All-Share ex FTSE100 and Investment Companies Index that the fund uses as a benchmark. the return to shareholders was 15.6%. They have paid 20p in dividends so far […]

23 Sep 2015

Gresham sells building site in Merseyside

Gresham House has sold a large part of its site at Newton le Willows, Merseyside and announced interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2015. 25.8 acres of the site at Newton-le-Willows has been sold to Persimmon Homes Ltd. The transaction will realise a total of £7.25m net. A deposit and initial payment of £944,610 has been […]

22 Sep 2015

Tritax investing in TK Maxx warehouse

Tritax Big Box REIT has announced that it has completed the land purchase and entered into contracts to provide forward funding for the development of a new regional distribution facility, pre-let in its entirety to TJX UK (“TK Maxx”), a major retailer of branded apparel and home fashions in the UK and Ireland. The investment price […]

22 Sep 2015

GLI fund launch complete

GLI Finance’s new investment company, GLI Alternative Finance, raised £52.7m, a large proportion of which came from GLI Finance itself as it swapped loans on its balance sheet for shares in the new fund. The new fund will start trading tomorrow (23 September). The intention is to expand the fund with a series of C […]

22 Sep 2015

Utilico plans name change as it moves away from utilities

Utilico is reporting a return on net assets of 6.4% for the year to the end of June 2015, ahead of the 2.6% return on the FTSE All-Share Index. However the discount widened from 22.8% to 30.8% over the year and so the return to shareholders was negative – the share price fell by 8.6% […]

21 Sep 2015

Nord Gold updates investors on growth projects

Nord Gold, one of the fastest growing gold companies in the world, updated investors on the company’s plans on Monday during the first morning of the prestigious Denver Gold Forum, in Denver, US. Since producing 193 koz in 2008, the company’s gold production has grown at a compound annual growth rate of 31% to 985 […]

21 Sep 2015

Cambria Africa suspends shares again

After trading for just a few days, Cambria Africa has asked that its shares be suspended again “pending clarification of a dispute in relation to a material agreement”. We will have to wait to see what this means. UPDATE 30 September 2015 The dispute relates to the secured loan agreements held with Consilium Corporate Recovery […]

21 Sep 2015

UK Commercial Property and SEGRO swap assets

UK Commercial Property Trust has announced that it has acquired Ventura Park in Hertfordshire for £67.1m through a swap transaction with SEGRO plc, which also comprises the sale to SEGRO of a 298,850 sq ft Asda Distribution Centre in Northampton for £31m.  UK Commercial Property Trust paid the £36.1m difference from its existing cash resources. Ventura […]