News

01 May 2015

Aberdeen Latin American Income not sure it can meet dividend target

Aberdeen Latin American Income has published interim results covering the six months that ended on 28 February 2015. Over that period the fund generated a return on net assets of -19.1% and the return to shareholders was -18.6%, both worse than the return on their benchmark – a blend of the MSCI EM Latin American 10/40 […]

30 Apr 2015

Nimrod buys multi-role support vessel

Nimrod Sea Assets is paying $8m for a 50% stake in a multi-ole support vessel – EDT Jane – and will charter the asset to EDT Offshore Ltd on a bareboat charter party deal lasting between five and ten years depending on purchase options the charterer can exercise. They say EDT Offshore Ltd is an […]

29 Apr 2015

Summit Germany busy investing proceeds of fund raising

Summit Germany says its EPRA net asset value rose by 24% to 87 cents over the course of 2014 and earnings per share almost tripled to 23.7 cents as rents rose and occupancy hit 90.4%. They paid dividends of 2.85 cents for 2014 and are announcing a quarterly dividend of 0.77 cents today. the plan […]

29 Apr 2015

Phaunos pares back NAV to core

Phaunos Timber results for 2014 show the asset value falling from 78 cents to 57 cents and its share price falling from 49 cents to 37 cents. They aren’t paying a dividend. Part of the fall in the net asset value can be attributed to the dilutive issue of 30m shares at 40 cents during […]

29 Apr 2015

GRIT to exercise self help in face of prolonged bear market

Global Resources Investment Trust’s net asset value fell by 22.6% over the six months that ended 28 February 2015. The share price fell by 38.2% however and has fallen further since the end of the period. The manager notes than we are in the fourth year of a bear market in commodities, making it one […]

29 Apr 2015

Acencia says managers seeing many attractive opportunities

Acencia Debt Strategies says its net asset value, adjusted for dividends, increased by 4.9% over the course of 2014 and its share price grew by 8.0%. They are paying a dividend of 1.95p for the period. Notable investments include the Lehman estate (which is gradually working its way through liquidation) – they say the process is slow and litigious […]

29 Apr 2015

Tritax buys B&Q depot

Tritax Big Box REIT has announced that it is buying the B&Q Core Products Regional Distribution Centre at Worksop, Nottingham for £89.75m. The price is equivalent to a net initial yield of 5.13%. Constructed in 2005 for B&Q, the property is of a high specification and incorporates modern design features including cross docking, eaves height of […]

29 Apr 2015

Redefine NAV climbs 8%

Redefine International has reported earnings per share up 5.2%, net asset value up 8.3% and a dividend up to 1.6p from 1.5p for the six month period ended 28 February 2015. Following the capital raising they have just completed the LTV ratio is 45.1% and they reckon they have cash of £72.5m available to invest. […]