Diverse Income Trust interim results for the six months ended 30 November 2014 show the fund generating a return on net assets of -3.2% and a return to shareholders of -1.9%. the first half dividend rose from 0.8p to 0.9p. The fund is skewed towards smaller companies relative to the FTSE All-Share Index and this accounts […]
Jupiter European Opportunities has announced interim results for the six months to the end of November 2014. The fund outperformed its benchmark, delivering a 3.4% return on NAV as compared to a 0.4% fall in the FTSE Word Europe ex UK Index. The shares moved from trading at a small premium to trading at a […]
With remarkable efficiency, VietNam Holding has just published its interim report for the six months that ended on 31 December 2014. Over the second half of 2014 the fund generated NAV growth of 7.2% to reach $2.059 and the share price rose by 15.9% to hit $1.695, a 17.7% discount to NAV. They bought […]
Ludgate Environmental’s interim results, covering the second half of 2014, show the net asset value falling from 70.7p to 59p. The company is now focused on realising its portfolio over the next couple of years, with the aim of winding up by 30 June 2018. The report says they reorganised their interest in shares of Rapid […]
The Board of Pacific Assets Trust has announced that, with effect from 1 February 2015, the management fee will be changed to 0.9% of net assets and there will no longer be a performance fee. Previously the fee was 0.75% plus a 12.5% performance fee of 12.5% on outperformance of MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index plus a hurdle of 1.75% over a […]
JPMorgan Russian announced its results for the period that ended on 31 October 2014 on 27 January. Unsurprisingly, given the political and economic backdrop, it wasn’t a great year for Russian equities, the MSCI Russian 10/40 Equity Indices Index, fell 21.0% over the year. However the return to shareholders and the net asset value total […]
Aberforth Geared Income’s interims for the six months ended 31 December show a fall in total assets of 1% over the period which translated (adjusting for the gearing effect of the company’s zero dividend preference shares) into a fall in the ordinary share NAV of 3% – the share price came off 2.3%. By comparison, […]
Henderson Smaller Companies published its interim report yesterday. This covers the six month period that ended on 30 November 2014, a period that saw the Numis Smaller Companies ex Investment Companies Index fall by 4.6% in total return terms. Henderson Smaller Companies did well then to manage a fall of 1.2% in NAV total return and […]
LXB Retail Properties has given more information about one of the disposals it highlighted in its announcement on 18 December. It is selling land earmarked for residential development and a Sainsbury’s foodstore in Sutton for £47.8m and expects to get the first £23m of this in cash by May 2015. The Sutton investments comprise a […]
Alpha Real Trust has been awarded the equivalent of £9.2m by the International Chamber of Commerce in its dispute with its joint venture partner, Logix Group, over Galaxia – the development that they were supposed to be working on together in an 11.2 acre Special Economic Zone, in NOIDA, the National Capital Region, India. The […]
