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05 May 2015

GLI Finance invests in Funding Options

GLI Finance is investing £1.25m in ordinary shares and £0.75m in preference shares issued by Funding Options. They’ll get a 28.9% stake in the company. Funding Options uses proprietary online technology to scan the alternative finance market for the most suitable funding options available. Mixing sophisticated matchmaking tools, accessible expert support and practical education materials, […]

01 May 2015

Ukraine Opportunities considering change of strategy

Ukraine Opportunity results reflect the turmoil that that country has been through over the course of 2014. Over the year the net asset value fell by 45%. The share price move wasn’t quite so bad however – it fell by 19.5% to end the year on a discount of 13.2% rather than the 40% it […]

01 May 2015

Schroder Income Growth stock selection adds value

Schroder Income Growth interims for the six months ended 28 February 2015 were published last night. The fund outperformed the FTSE All-Share Index, achieving a net asset value total return of 7.9% versus the 4.1% recorded by the Index. At the same time, the Company’s share price produced a total return of 6.0%, with the […]

01 May 2015

Strong year for entertainment One not fully reflected in Marwyn results

Marwyn Value Investors’ 2014 results show the NAV rose by 14.5% over the year. The bulk of Marwyn’s net asset value is invested in Entertainment One (ETO). During the twelve month period to 31 December 2014, ETO’s share price increased from 259.2p to 322.4p, an increase of 24.38%. It is hard to tell from the accounts […]

01 May 2015

Carador beats loan and high yield indices in 2014

Carador has published its results for 2014. The statement says risk assets and sub-investment grade corporate credit markets in particular experienced considerable price volatility with the Credit Suisse Indices for both leveraged loans and high yield bonds delivering just 2.1% and 1.9%, respectively. Against this backdrop, the Company delivered a 6.3% total shareholder return in 2014, outperforming the […]

01 May 2015

Blackstone/GSO says everything going according to plan

Blackstone/GSO Loan Financing has published its first set of results covering the period from incorporation, through IPO on 23 July 2014 to the end of December 2014. By the end of the year they were only 32% invested and even now this only up to 51% but they knew it would take time and say […]

01 May 2015

Africa Opportunity hit by commodity price falls

Africa Opportunity Fund’s results for 2014 show its net asset value fell by 17% over the year. Its C shares (it raised more cash in April 2014) saw their net asset value fall by 9% by the end of the year. The C share money is some way off being invested. As at 31 December 2014, […]

01 May 2015

Aberdeen Latin American Income not sure it can meet dividend target

Aberdeen Latin American Income has published interim results covering the six months that ended on 28 February 2015. Over that period the fund generated a return on net assets of -19.1% and the return to shareholders was -18.6%, both worse than the return on their benchmark – a blend of the MSCI EM Latin American 10/40 […]

30 Apr 2015

Nimrod buys multi-role support vessel

Nimrod Sea Assets is paying $8m for a 50% stake in a multi-ole support vessel – EDT Jane – and will charter the asset to EDT Offshore Ltd on a bareboat charter party deal lasting between five and ten years depending on purchase options the charterer can exercise. They say EDT Offshore Ltd is an […]

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