News

26 Feb 2015

Ottoman Fund reacts after share price plunge

Ottoman Fund has made a statement after its share price took a nose dive – releasing its Chairman’s statement early, in advance of figures due out tomorrow. The statement summarises disposals made in the portfolio to date, highlights the chance that they may have to sell their Alanya holiday units for less than their reported […]

25 Feb 2015

Boardroom shake up at Dolphin Capital

Dolphin Capital has announced this morning that “Following consultation with the majority of the Company’s shareholders, the Investment Manager, its Nominated Adviser and the existing Board, the new members of the Board and their respective roles will be as follows: Laurence Geller, Independent Non-executive Chairman; Robert Heller, Independent Non-executive Director; Graham Warner, Non-executive Director; Mark […]

25 Feb 2015

Sherborne threatens new requisition for Electra

Sherborne Investors has written to the Board of Electra proposing a resumption of discussions about board representation and participation in an expanded review of options to increase Electra’s shareholder value and threatening to requisition a meeting of shareholders if Ian Brindle, Edward Bramson and a new independent director aren’t appointed to the board of Electra. Given the resounding rejection […]

25 Feb 2015

Hotel and Restaurant business boosts Symphony’s NAV

Symphony International Holdings Limited has published Q4 figures and full year results for the year ended 31 December 2014. At 31 December 2014 the net asset value was US$705,412,021 and NAV per share was US$1.3473. This compares to NAV and NAV per share of US$767,400,667 and US$1.4657, respectively, at 30 September 2014 and represents a 14.6% increase […]

25 Feb 2015

Jupiter US Smaller let down by oil E&P exposure

Jupiter US Smaller Companies has announced interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2014. Over this period the fund underperformed its benchmark, the Russell 2000 index, by 6% – the NAV rose b y 4.7% vs. a 10.7% increase in the Index (in Sterling terms). The report says the main reason for this […]

25 Feb 2015

Change of name and lower fees for New City High Yield

New City High Yield’s interim results statement for the six months ended 31 December 2014 shows the company generating a negative return on net assets of -2.1% but a return shareholders of +2.1% as the company moved to trade on a higher premium. The net asset value slipped by 5.8% but the dividend was increased by […]

25 Feb 2015

Renewables Infrastructure in line with expectations

The Renewables Infrastructure Group has announced results for the year ended 31 December 2014. Over the period the net asset value rose slightly from 99p to 99.3p, the company paid total dividends for the year of 6.08p and the total return to shareholders was 7.5% – well ahead of the 1.2% return on the FTSE […]

24 Feb 2015

Temple Bar sitting on cash

Temple Bar has published results for the year ended 31 De ember 2014. Over the period the fund returned -1.7% on net assets, behind the 1.2% return on the fund’s benchmark index, the FTSE All-Share. The fund borrowed £50m for 15 years in 2013 but still hasn’t spent any of the money on equities, the […]

24 Feb 2015

Sanditon benefits from oil service shorts

Sanditon has published its first set of interims since listing. Having started operations with a net asset value of 98.7p, the fund ended 2014 with a net asset value of 99.2p. At one point on the period though the net asset value had touched 103.1p. The fund kept its net exposure to the market fairly […]