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20 Mar 2015

International Public Partnerships invests in second school project

International Public Partnerships has followed up its investment in schools in the North East with a £10.2m investment in the Amber schools project which covers schools in Hertfordshire, Luton and Reading. The project will support the development of seven secondary schools on existing sites. Total capital expenditure on the schools in this batch is £144 […]

20 Mar 2015

Alliance versus Elliott – with updates

Alliance Trust has published its rejection of Elliott’s proposals. for the sake of completeness we have reproduced the entire statement below but the thrust of it is that Elliott’s nominees wouldn’t be independent, would have a short-term agenda, might initiate moves that could threaten the dividend and the jobs of 250 Alliance Trust employees. They […]

19 Mar 2015

India Capital Growth reaps rewards of resurgent stock market

India Capital Growth’s net asset value rose by 50.3% over the course of 2014, an impressive result but unfortunately quite a bit less than the company’s benchmark, the BSE Mid Cap Index, which returned 63.2%. The MSCI India index returned 28.75 over the same period. The Chairman makes the point that the BSE Index contains a number of […]

19 Mar 2015

EPE Special Opportunities benefits from disposals

EPE Special Opportunities saw its net asset value rise by 5% over the year to the end of January 2015 but this modest increased was dwarfed by a 31% rise in its share price. They have £9.96m in net cash in the portfolio, plenty they say, to fund new investment opportunities. Major exits from the […]

19 Mar 2015

Henderson High Income outperforms, cuts fees

Henderson High Income’s results for the year that finished on 31 December 2014 are quite good. The total return on net assets was 7.5% and the return to shareholders was 8.1%. these figures compare to a return on their benchmark,  a composite of 80% of the FTSE All-Share Index (total return) and 20% of the […]

19 Mar 2015

EP Global nervous about the US

Edinburgh Partners Global Opportunities returned 2.2% on net assets over the course of 2014, better than the 1.2% return on the FTSE All-Share index but well behind the 11.3% returned generated by the FTSE All-World Index. The Board aims to pay a dividend of 3.3p for the year (from revenues of 3.7p). The portfolio’s focus […]

17 Mar 2015

Black Sea Property keen to start investing again

Black Sea Property has sent its shareholders a circular to convene an extraordinary general meeting at which it wants them to approve proposals to recommence investment activities in the residential real estate, holiday homes, commercial real estate and distressed real estate markets of Bulgaria, to adopt a new investing policy, appoint a new investment advisor, extend the […]

17 Mar 2015

Juridica NAV falls as fees rise

Juridica has published results for the year ended 31 December 2014. Over this period the net asset value fell from $2.02 to $1.66. 31 cents of this fall relates to a distribution (20p = 31 cents) made to shareholders so the loss on the net asset value over the year was 5 cents. The 5 […]

16 Mar 2015

Good stock picking benefits Fidelity European Values

Over the course of 2014 Fidelity European Values generated a total return on net assets of 5.1% – well ahead of the 0.2% return generated by the FTSE All-World Europe ex UK Index, its benchmark. Shareholders did even better as the fund’s discount narrowed from 7.9% to 4.6%, pushing the return to shareholders up to […]

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