Over the first half of 2015 Herald Investment Trust’s total return was 7.9% and the share price return was 8.0%. These figures compare to an 8.3% return on the Numis Smaller Companies plus AIM Index and a 6% return on the Russell 2000 small cap. technology Index. The report says they saw a steady stream […]
Vietnam Infrastructure has completed its restructuring whereby investors get shares in a new company, Vietnam Infrastructure Listed, which invests via an open-ended fund, in addition to their shares in Vietnam Infrastructure, which gets renamed as Vietnam Infrastructure Private equity shares and is gradually wound up over the next couple of years. VNI / VNIL : […]
Spark Ventures has raised £10.1m from a placing of stock, a further £3.8m from stock swaps and will raise up to £3.1m via an open offer. They plan to put the money towards a new investment strategy and appoint Gresham House as its investment adviser. Gresham House is buying into Spark Ventures’ outgoing management company, SPARK […]
Aurora Russia has published results covering the year to the end of March 2015. The net asset value fell from 27.9p to 17.5p over the period. A large chunk of the decline relates to the fall in the Rouble Sterling exchange rate and a fall in the value of the company’s stake in Unistream from £8m […]
BlackRock World Mining made a $12m investment in Avanco Resources (a Brazilian copper play) in August 2014. Today it has announced the receipt of $4m from the company which is the first payment under the royalty contract. They say Avanco successfully completed an equity raising earlier in the year, which combined with the $12 million BlackRock […]
http://www.moneyobserver.com/news/21-07-2015/discount-trends-big-names-big-prices Investment trusts with big name managers saw their share prices soar over the second quarter as investors sought out the best active management.
UK smaller companies funds feature quite prevalently in the lists on the back of a decisive election result in the UK and some funds close to the end of their lives made significant progress during the quarter for stock specific reasons. http://whichinvestmenttrust.com/the-investment-trust-winners-and-losers-in-q2/
Fresnillo, the world’s largest primary silver miner, has announced first half silver production results up almost 11% from the corresponding period of 2014. The company produced 23.9 Moz of silver in the six months to end June 2015 as its Saucito II mine, Mexico, commenced production. Full year silver production guidance remains on track at […]
Dexion Absolute has consulted shareholders about its idea to amend its investment strategy and decided not to take it forward. Instead the directors have said that if any class of shares trades at an average 5% discount or wider for the three months from 1 July 2015 to 30 September 2015 or from 1 January 2016 […]
The international gold price was fixed in London this morning at US$1,096.80/oz; the lowest am fixing since March 2010. The gold price declined 4% at the beginning of this week after heavy selling in thin markets. Bloomberg reports that a Goldman Sachs analyst is predicting that gold could fall below US$1,000/oz on a more positive […]
