BYG : Big Yellow expanding in Oxford and Cambridge Big Yellow has announced its interim figures for the six months ended 30 September 2014. Big Yellow’s net asset value rose from 436.3p to 461.9p and its interim dividend was raised from 10.1p to 13.0p. Year on year occupancy increased from 70.5% to 75.2% and they drove […]
FCSS : Fidelity China boosted by Alibaba Fidelity China Special Situations beat the MSCI China Index by 6.7% over the six months ended 30 September 2014, returning 16.8% vs. 10.1% for the Index. The company’s shares returned 14.3% as the discount widened a little – from 9.6% to 11.7%. Fairly high levels of gearing boosted […]
FRCL : Foreign & Colonial to redeem its debenture Foreign & Colonial has £110m of debenture stock outstanding that was issued in 1989 and falls due for repayment on 31 December 2014. The Board have announced today that this will be redeemed at par on 31 December. This is good news for ordinary shareholders as […]
HICL : Good first half for HICL driven by imminent disposal HICL Infrastructure’s interims for the six months ended 30 September show a decent increase in the net asset value over the period. The net assets value rose by 7.4% to 130.5p and the dividend was increased to 3.62p from 3.5p the previous year – they […]
BKSA : Black Sea Property requisition The Board of Black Sea Property has published a response to a requisition it has received requesting that it not wind up, recommence investing in Bulgarian property and appoint a new fund manager. The response is quite detailed so we have reproduced it in full below. Dear Shareholders, Fitel Nominees, […]
PCTN : Good first half for Picton Picton Property Income’s net asset value rose from 56p to 62p over the six months that finished on 30 September 2014, aided by an uplift in the value of the property portfolio of 6.8%. They are maintaining the interim dividend at 1.5p. This translate into a return on net […]
MCKS : McKay Securities busy investing cash raised in February McKay Securities has published its interim report which covers the six months that ended on 30 September 2014. Over that period McKay’s EPRA net asset value rose by 5.7%, driven by a 4.8% return on its property portfolio. McKay is maintaining its interim dividend at […]
AJIT : Early success for Aberdeen Japan Aberdeen Japan has beaten its new benchmark index by some margin since it adopted its new mandate in October 2013. Over that period its net asset value rose by 17.6% vs. a 3.5% increase in the TOPIX Index. Over the six months that ended on 30 September 2014 […]
BLND : Above market growth in asset value for British Land British Land’s interim report for the six months ended 30 September 2014 shows 11.8% growth in its net asset value to 769p with property values up 7.2% and total returns on property of 9.8% for the period. Underlying profits were 6.2% ahead at £155m, with […]
SCF : Schroder Income Growth change to investment policy Schroder Income Growth’s annual report for the year that ended on 31 August 2014 is out. they upped the dividend by 3.1% (well ahead of the 1.5% increase in the CPI – inflation beating dividend increases are part of Schroder Income Growth’s objective). The total return […]
