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27 Feb 2015

Altin publishes details of latest capital return

Altin’s Board is planning to reduce the capital of the company by buying back up to 10% (382,386 shares) by issuing  tradable put options to the share-holders. Every shareholder  will receive one put option per Altin share held, free of charge.  Ten put options entitle the holder to offer one Altin share  to Altin for […]

27 Feb 2015

Bluefield Solar confident on dividend despite power price falls

Bluefield Solar Income Fund has announced its interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2014. Over the period the fund expanded by £131m through a placing of new shares but the fund’s net asset value per share fell from 102.96p to 101.34p. They paid an interim dividend of 3.25p during the period and say […]

27 Feb 2015

Macau Property Opportunities shrugs off falling NAV – looks to future

Macau Property Opportunities results for the six months ended 31 December 2014 have been published. Over the period the fund’s net asset value fell by 3.6% to $4.71 on property valuations down 2.1% to $547.6m (on an IFRS basis, where assets held for sale are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, the […]

26 Feb 2015

Pantheon close to £1bn of assets

Pantheon International Participations’ interim figures, covering the second half of 2014, are pretty good. The net asset value rose by 11% and the share price by 10% (over a time when the FTSE All-Share didn’t deliver much of a return and the MSCI World returned 9.7%). The net asset value is now just shy of £1bn […]

26 Feb 2015

Candover NAV hit by Expro

Candover’s results for 2014 show a 24% fall in its net asset value from 715p to 545p almost all of which was down to a £35.2m fall in the value of their holding in Expro International (the consequence of the effect of the fall in the oil price on valuations of other oil service companies), […]

26 Feb 2015

City Natural suffers as commodities fall

City Natural Resources’ net asset value fell by 19.3% to 125.9p over the course of 2014. By contrast their benchmark index (a composite of 2/3 the Euromoney Global Mining Index and 1/3 the Credit Suisse High Yield Index) fell by 9.7% (with the mining index falling by 15.5% and the high yield index rising by 5.7%). […]

26 Feb 2015

SQN passes half way mark on investing IPO proceeds

SQN Asset Finance Income has published its first set of figures since listing in the middle of last year. by the end of December 2014 the fund had invested about half the £150m it raised in July 2014 in 22 investments. The net asset value at the end of the year was 98.92p and the […]

26 Feb 2015

Kennedy Wilson Europe spends £1.5bn in ten months

Kennedy Wilson Europe has published its first set of accounts covering the period from its launch until the end of December 2014. They raised £1,315m of equity during the period. The EPRA NAV at the end of the period was £1,382m or £10.27 per share. They had properties in the portfolio valued at £1,489m and […]

26 Feb 2015

Sherborne reports disappointing results

Sherborne Investors results for the year ended 31 December 2014 show the fund generating a return of 11.16% on net assets over the year. This is a lot better than the return on the FTSE All-Share Index but Sherborne Investors has just one investment – Electra Private Equity. Electra’s share price rose by 27% over […]