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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 […]

13 Mar 2015

Japan Residential hints at planned reforms

Japan Residential Investment Company has published results for the year ended 30 November 2014 that show its net asset value fell by 2.6p to 56.1p. This fall was entirely down to the weakness of the yen against sterling. in yen terms the net asset value rose by 5.7% over the year. The dividend for the […]

13 Mar 2015

Shin Nippon suffers as discount widens

Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon has published results for the year ended 31 January 2015. The company’s net asset value return lagged that of the MSCI Japan Small Cap Index by 1.5% over the year, returning 11.7% against the Index’s 13.2%. Shareholders suffered as the company’s shares went from a premium to a discount of 6.6% – […]

12 Mar 2015

NextEnergy Solar expands Bilsham and adds another plant

NextEnergy Solar is paying £3.2m to expand its existing plant at Bilsham by 2.6MWp and up to a further £22.9m to acquire 21.2MWp Langenhoe solar power plant in Essex which is being constructed under an Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract negotiated by NESF’s investment adviser, NextEnergy Capital Limited. Langenhoe was connected to the grid on 4 March 2015. Langenhoe will […]

12 Mar 2015

HICL adds to schools exposure again

HICL Infrastructure has announced the acquisition of three stakes in BSF (Building Schools for the Future) projects – the predecessors of the PF2 type deals announced yesterday. The stakes it’s buying are a n40% interest in the Salford & Wigan Phase 1 BSF([1]) Project, a 40% interest in the Salford & Wigan Phase 2 BSF […]

11 Mar 2015

NB Private Equity has profitable and transformational year

NB Private Equity has announced results for the year ended 31 December 2014 and an estimated net asset value for 28 February 2015. The total return on net asset value over the course of 2014 was 16.2%. The discount narrowed and this propelled the total return to shareholders up to 26.9%. They say strong performance […]

11 Mar 2015

HICL and INPP invest in schools

International Public Partnerships is investing c£8m and HICL Infrastructure is investing £7.2m to take equity stakes (45% in HICL’s case) in a £103m project -the Priority Schools Building Programme (“PSBP”) North East Batch Project. The national PSBP has been set up to address the needs of the schools most in need of urgent repair and will build or […]

11 Mar 2015

Witan outperforms again

Witan’s results for the year ended 31 December 2014 show them generating a return on net assets of 6.6%, 1.1% ahead of their benchmark (a composite of four different regional FTSE All-World Indices) and well ahead of the 1.2% return on the FTSE All-Share Index. The share price total return was 15.1%, enhanced by the move […]

10 Mar 2015

Updata and wesupply drive NAV growth at LMS Capital

LMS Capital is continuing the process of realising its portfolio and handing back the proceeds to shareholders. Its net asset value rose from 88p to 93p over the course of 2014. They handed back £40m to shareholders by way of a tender offer. They made sales totalling £45.9m, £31.8m of this came from the sale […]

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