Lowland, managed by James Henderson (pictured), has published its results for the year that ended on 30 September 2014. Over this period the fund generated a total return on net assets of 5.7% – a little bit below the return on the FTSE All-Share Index of 6.1%. The dividend was increased by 8.8% to 37p, paid […]
Crystal Amber, managed by Richard Bernstein (pictured), has been consulting its shareholders about expanding the fund. Crystal Amber buys stakes in companies that it thinks can benefit from a bit of self-help or active engagement by Crystal Amber. It points to its three year track record (65% NAV growth and 85% share price growth) and says […]
MedicX has published results for the year ended 30 September 2014. Over that period its net asset value fell from 69.4p to 65.3p – about 6%. It paid dividends of 5.8p (up from 5.7p for the year before), so the total return on NAV was positive but these dividends were not covered by earnings and […]
Promethean has announced that it will enter voluntary liquidation and its shares have been suspended from trading on AIM. Grant Thornton were appointed as liquidators. The proceeds will be returned to shareholders PTH : Another minnow disappearing
Tritax Big Box REIT has announced the acquisition of two more distribution centres – one at Dove Valley Park, Derby and the other at Trafford Park in Manchester for a combined price of £55.1m, equivalent to a blended net initial yield of 6.53%, assuming 5.8% purchase costs. Completion of both purchases is expected to take place by 12 […]
Standard Life European Private Equity Trust has published its results for the year that ended 30 September 2014. the total return on its net asset value for the year was 7.7%. They are paying a dividend of 5p per share and the Board have said they intend to try to at least maintain that level […]
Over the year to the end of October 2014 Scottish Investment Trust generated a return of 1% on net assets – in-line with the return on the FTSE All-Share Index over that period but well behind the 8.8% return posted by the FTSE All World Index (a large proportion of SCIN’s assets are invested overseas). […]
Foresight Solar is to buy Landmead, the UK’s largest solar farm. Located in East Hanney, Oxfordshire and currently under construction, this 46MWp farm is expected to be grid-connected later this month and so should qualify for a subsidy at a rate of 1.4 ROCs. With this deal, Foresight will now own farms capable of generating 213MWp […]
Globalworth Real Estate has announced that it is buying Nusco Tower for €46m and a parcel of land for €4m. The Tower deal won’t complete until Q2 2015. GWI : Globalworth buys Nusco Tower, a 20 storey office block on Gara Herastrau, the same street as Globalworth’s recent acquisition, Green Court Building A. Nusco Tower has circa […]
Blackstar Group is planning to buy 100% of Times Media Group and 22.9% of Kagiso Tiso Holdings in exchange for cash and shares in Blackstar. Following the completion of the transaction, Blackstar will change its name to “Tiso Blackstar group SE” Blackstar already owns 32.5% of Times Media Group. To buy the remainder Blackstar will […]
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