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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 […]

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 […]

16 Mar 2015

Marwyn vehicle linked to webuyanycar.com

Haversham Holdings, which Marwyn invested in on its listing last year, has been linked to a £1.2bn bid for British Car Auctions, the owners of the webuyanycar.com website. An article in today’s Times  says the two companies are in advanced talks. Haversham Holdings has confirmed that it is in “very advanced discussions which might lead to […]

16 Mar 2015

Real Estate Investors shifts dividend up a gear

Real Estate Investors says its EPRA net asset value rose by 4% over the course of 2014 – from 59.1p to 61.3p. Its EPRA earnings per share were negative although less so than in 2013 – loss per share of 0.3p vs. 0.4p in 2013. The dividend has been hiked by 50% however to make […]

16 Mar 2015

RAB Special Situations edges closer to wind up

RAB Special Situations’ results for 2014 show its net asset value falling from 16.83p to 11.43p – almost a third. 1.36p of the fall came from preparing the accounts on the basis that the fund is no longer a going concern. This was done on the basis that the Board thinks shareholders will vote against […]

16 Mar 2015

Alliance Trust targeted by Elliott

Elliott Advisors, which holds a 12% stake in Alliance Trust, has today called for three directors of its choosing to be put onto the Alliance Trust Board. They say they have concerns over corporate governance which they have raised with the company but didn’t feel they were getting a meaningful response. The three nominees are Anthony […]

13 Mar 2015

Investment trusts over 20 years

New research has revealed which investment trust sectors have delivered most for investors over the past 20 years and which have left them short changed. http://www.portfolio-adviser.com/news/product-news/top-investments-trusts-of-last-20-years-revealed

13 Mar 2015

Alpha Pyrenees edges closer to negative net assets

Alpha Pyrenees has published results for the year that ended on 31 December 2014. The fund’s net asset value has been declining in recent years – falling from 28.5p at the end of June 2013 to 22.8p at 31 December 2013 to 12p at 30 June 2014 and finally 6p at 31 December 2014. The […]

13 Mar 2015

Oil price fall hurts Canadian and General

For the year to the end of December 2014, Canadian and General’s net asset value per share total return was 8.4% and the return to shareholders was 13.3%. By comparison, the total return of its benchmark, the S&P/TSX Composite Index, was 10.6% during the same period. During 2014, CGI paid two regular quarterly taxable dividends that aggregated to $0.24 per common […]

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