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11 Aug 2015

Premier Energy & Water says utilities pull back has created opportunities

Premier Energy & Water has published its interim accounts, covering the six months to the end of June 2015. The period was a difficult one for the global utilities market, as evidenced by a -7.5% return on the FTSE All-World Utilities Index but Premier Energy & Water did much better than this with a return […]

11 Aug 2015

Stratex confirms mineralisation over 1.2 km strike at Madina Bafé prospect, Senegal

Stratex International has completed a trenching programme at the Madina Bafé prospect at its 85%-owned Dalafin gold project, in Senegal. Channel-sampling results include 4.0 m at a grade of 1.40 g/t gold and 6.0 m at 0.86 g/t gold in highly weathered material (ie potentially leached and thus lower grade than unweathered material). The company […]

10 Aug 2015

Peer-to-peer lending leads bumper investment trust fundraising

http://www.fundweb.co.uk/news-and-analysis/peer-to-peer-lending-leads-bumper-investment-trust-fundraising/2023047.article The peer-to-peer focused P2P Global led investment trust fundraising for July, which was another bumper month for assets raised, reaching £1.6bn. Research from QuotedData found that July was another big month for money raised, higher than the £1bn raised in June and the £870m in May.

10 Aug 2015

Glencore closes South African coal mine

Glencore has put a number of its opencast operations, and large portions of the coal processing plants, at its Optimum colliery, in South Africa, on care and maintenance and is retrenching 600-700 workers. This comes as the company commences “business rescue” proceedings for Optimum. Optimum supplies coal to the Hendrina power station owned by State […]

10 Aug 2015

Industrial Multi Property shares soar on talk of refinancing

Industrial Multi Property Trust has published an update on its position as at 31 March 2015 and been speculating about its future. They last refinanced the company at the end of December 2013. At that time occupancy within the portfolio stood at 84.6%. They have made modest improvements to this level since then and occupancy was […]

07 Aug 2015

JPMorgan Global Emerging Markets Income gets new co-manager

The Board of JPMorgan Global Emerging Markets Income Trust has announced the addition of Amit Mehta to the Company’s investment management team with immediate effect. The Company is currently managed by Omar Negyal and Richard Titherington, who are part of J.P.Morgan Asset Management’s Emerging Markets & Asia Pacific Equities team, which has members in offices across […]

07 Aug 2015

Claverhouse beats UK market in H1

JPMorgan Claverhouse beat the FTSE All-Share Index over the first half of 2015, posting a 4.2% return on net assets as compared to a 3.0% return on the benchmark. The discount to net asset value at which the Company’s shares trade widened out from 3.4% at the end of the last financial year to 6.6% […]

07 Aug 2015

JPMorgan American edges ahead of S&P500

JPMorgan American just edged ahead of its benchmark in H1 2015 in what turned out to be a flat period for the US market – JPMorgan American’s net asset value return was 0.5% as compared to a 0.2% return on the S&P500 Index. The manager says that the portfolio benefitted from strong stock selection in the health […]

07 Aug 2015

AEW UK REIT buys retail park

AEW UK REIT is spending £7.15m to buy Valley Retail Park. Valley Retail Park, Newtownabbey is located on the northern side of Belfast with good accessibility to the M2, M5 and A2. The site extends to circa 7 acres and the scheme provides 100,413 sq ft arranged over 7 modern purpose built retail warehouse units […]