DP Aircraft One, which owns two Dreamliners (Boeing 787s) that are leased to Norwegian Air Shuttle, has announced its first set of results covering the period from 5 July 2013 (when it was incorporated), through its launch in October 2013 and up to the 31 December 2014. The net asset value at the end of the period […]
Brevan Howard Global reports net asset value growth of 2.5% for the US dollar share class and 2.1% for the Sterling share class. The Chairman makes the point that “An investment in the shares of BH Global is intended to be a portfolio diversifier that is only modestly correlated with equity markets and is subject […]
John Laing Infrastructure’s results for the period ended 31 December 2014 have been published. Its net asset value rose by 2.3% to 109.3p. A combination of dividends and a rising premium helped push the total shareholder return up to 12.6%. They increased the final dividend by 3.85% to 3.375p making a total dividend of 6.625p for the […]
SVG Capital has announced results for the thirteen months ended 31 January 2015. Over the period the company’s net asset value rose by 14% to 588p (from a total return on the investment portfolio of 17%). £330m of cash was generated by the portfolio during the period and the company returned £205m to shareholders – £100m via tenders and […]
Public Service Properties has announced its results for the year ended 31 December 2014. These have in large measure been superseded by the sale of its UK care home market and ancillary businesses for cash on 4 March 2015 and the sale of three of its German care homes in November 2014 and January 2015. […]
The Renewables Infrastructure Group is paying £8.6m to buy the Four Burrows solar farm in Cornwall. The plant has a generating capacity of 7.2MWp. It is located near Truro and is already operational – and has been since January 2015. It should qualify under the 1.4 ROC subsidy regime therefore but, if it doesn’t, the […]
Crystal Amber’s net asset value fell by 5% over the second half of 2014 to 152.7p – the total return was -4.7%. The NAV move lags the return on comparable indices – a total return of -0.5% for the FTSE Small Cap Index, 3.8% for the FTSE 250 and -4.1% for the Numis Smaller Companies […]
Trading Emissions has drawn up its accounts under IFRS10 for the first time and has restated its figures for previous years accordingly. On the new basis, its net asset value fell from 15.2p to 15.1p over the second half of 2014. The fall is largely down to increased provisions for legal expenses. The Chinese counterparties to […]
Invesco Income Growth’s Board has negotiated a change to the management fee. With effect from 1 April 2015, the fee will be 0.65% on the first £150m of market capitalisation and 0.55% above this level. The fee was 0.7% up to £100m, 0.6% on the next £50m and 0.55% on the next £50m and was based on funds […]
Dunedin Enterprise has reported a -0.4% total return on net assets for the year ended 31 December 2014. However the share price fell as the fund’s discount widened and the return to shareholders was -15.8%. The discount stood at 33% when they published these figures. They are paying a final dividend of 4.7p. The fund […]
