John Laing Infrastructure has announced that David Marshall, who heads up the team at John Laing Capital Management alongside Andrew Charlesworth, the investment adviser to the Company, has decided to retire and will therefore be leaving JLCM with effect from 1 July 2015. Andrew Charlesworth is staying on. JLIF : David Marshall retiring from […]
City Merchants High Yield generated a 5% return in net assets and an 8.5% return to shareholders over 2014. The dividend was maintained at 10p. The shares moved from trading at a 0.1% discount to a 3.2% premium. The portfolio has a weighting in subordinated debt issued by European banks. This fell in value over […]
Fair Oaks Income has announced results for the period ended 31 December 2014. The company listed in June 2014. Over the period from launch to the end of the year, the NAV return was 4.2% and the share price return 4.3%. They paid a first dividend of 4.25 cents per share and have switched since to paying […]
Golden Prospect Precious Metals published its annual report for the year ended 31 December 2014 yesterday. it says much about the fund’s performance that it doesn’t get a mention in the Chairman’s statement and is a throw away last line in the manager’s report “The fund NAV ended the year at 31p, a decline of […]
Acorn Income Fund released results for the year ended 31 December 2014 yesterday. Over 2014 the total return on gross assets was -0.4%. This compares to a -1.8% return on the Numis Smaller Companies ex Investment Companies Index, a -2.7% return on the FTSE Small Cap. ex Investment Companies Index and a 1.2% return on the […]
JPMorgan American’s results for 2014 show the fund just beat its benchmark, the US market, as measured by the S&P 500 total return Index in sterling terms, provided a return of 20.4%. By contrast the net asset value total return was 20.8%. The share price return was 22.6%. They are paying a dividend of 3.25p for […]
Impax Environmental Markets results for 2014 show that the fund underperformed its benchmark over the period – the net asset value and share price returns were both 1.7% as compared to the FTSE ET100 Index which returned 4.1%. Environmental stocks also lagged wider markets – the MSCI World Index returned 10.6%. The dividend was increased […]
Fidelity Japanese Values has published results for the year ended 31 December 2014. Over the year the fund’s net asset value rose by 3.1%, underperforming the Russell Nomura Mid/Small Cap Index which rose by 5.1% but beating the TOPIX which rose by 0.7% and the fund’s peer group which delivered a 0.5% increase in NAV on […]
John Laing Environmental is buying a solar park and two wind farms off John Laing Group for £42.54m. They are funding the transaction from their £50m credit facility. The solar park deal relates to Branden solar park where they are buying a 64% stake. Branden Solar comprises two separate solar parks located near Bodmin in Cornwall, with […]
JZ Capital Partners and their property partner, RedSky, are paying $97.4m to acquire 2621 NW 2nd Avenue located in Miami’s Wynwood neighbourhood and 1 NE 40th Street and 35 NE 40th Street (site of the Oak Tavern, pictured), two properties located in the Design District neighbourhood of Miami, Florida. JZ’s share of the purchase price was $4209m […]
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