https://www.sharesmagazine.co.uk/articles/feast-on-dividends We explore what’s on the menu for investors wanting to earn a tasty income via stocks, funds and ETFs Bank of England governor Mark Carney’s hint earlier that interest rates could start rising by the ‘turn of the year’ is unlikely to dampen the attraction of equities as a core source of income for […]
Ukraine Opportunities reports that its NAV fell from $3.567 to $3.20 over the first half of 2015. The share price move was more dramatic – a fall from $3.10 to $2.20 – as the discount moved from 13.2% to 33.5%. The Board made the following statement: “Having consulted with its major shareholders, and taking into […]
Starwood European Real Estate Finance has published its interim results covering the six month period to the end of June 2015. As at 30 June 2015, the Net Asset Value was 99.94 pence per Ordinary Share and the share price was 107.25 pence. The Board believes that competition to provide loans is increasing and Starwood […]
A quick summary of interim results for periods ended 30 June 2015 announced on 26 August 2015 APAX Global Alpha reported its first set of results since listing. Its NAV was up 8% over H1 2015 t0 €1.79. BH Global said at the six month stage on 30 June 2015 the Net Asset Value per […]
Hansteen is raising £40m at 110p per share to help fund the acquisition of a further £103.7m of units (35.7% of the fund) in the Ashtenne Industrial Fund. They say the deal represents an acquisition of £156.8m of UK industrial property valued at a yield of 8.3 per cent. The price is an effective c.5% discount […]
F&C Commercial Property Trust says it returned 8.2% on net assets over the first half of 2015. The return to shareholders was 5.7%. Shareholders got six, monthly dividends of 0.5p – keeping them on rack for their 6p target dividend for the year. The return on the property portfolio was 7.4%, ahead of the total […]
VPC Speciality Lending has published its first set of figures covering the period from launch to 30 June 2015. The net asset value at the end of the period was 99.62p and the share price was 102p. The first interim dividend of 0.9p was declared in August. The proceeds of the IPO had been fully […]
Pan African Resources has cautioned that one of the business partners of its Phoenix Platinum Mining subsidiary has entered into ‘Business Rescue’ in South Africa. Business Rescue is a statutory means of enabling a financially distressed company to continue business, under the supervision of a Business Rescue Practitioner, protected from its creditors. The company in […]
Symphony International says its NAV fell 5.9% to $1.2685 from $1.3473 over the first half of 2015. Symphony’s share price was $0.75 at the period end. The discount to NAV that Symphony’s share price traded on 30 June 2015 was 40.9%. They say the change in NAV was predominantly due to a weakening of the share prices […]
NB Distressed Debt said a difficult market environment led to falls in NAVs across its portfolios. It exited five investments during the first six months of 2015 which generated total returns of $9.3 million over the life of the investments. Over the first half of 2015, NB Distressed Debt distributed a further $30m to investors in the […]
