TCA : Terra Capital changes to management arrangements The management fee payable to the Investment Manager shall be reduced with effect from 1 January 2015 from 2 per cent. per annum of the net asset value of the Company to 1.25 per cent of the net asset value of the Company and the level of […]
POL : Polo Resources invests in Weatherly International Polo Resources is investing in copper miner, Weatherly International. Weatherly is an AIM traded mining development and exploration company focusing on copper in Namibia. Weatherly’s copper portfolio includes the following assets in Namibia: two mines named Otjihase and Matchless which are in production; Tschudi – an open […]
EPIC : Ediston Property buys initial portfolio Ediston Property, which listed on 28 October, has announced that it has completed the purchase of its initial property portfolio for £76.7m. The portfolio comprises, offices at 145 Morrison Street, Edinburgh; Offices at St Philips Point, Temple Row, Birmingham; Offices at Phoenix, Station Road, Reading; a retail park in Rhyl, […]
QIL : Qannas investing in Hard Rock Cafes Qannas Investments is funding the establishment of three Hard Rock cafes in Eastern Europe the first of which is to be located in the Atlas Capital Centar in Podgorica, Montenegro. Qannas is putting up $3m to fund the development. They say the running of the café will sit within […]
SMT : Strong performance helps Scottish Mortgage become no.1 Scottish Mortgage beat the FTSE All-Share Index by some margin over the six months that ended on 30 September 2014. Over that period the total return on net assets was 9.0% vs. 4.4% for the index. What’s more, the fund’s rating improved so that the return […]
RSE : Riverstone Energy says CNOR investing in Tourmaline Canadian Non-Operated Resources Corp, which Riverstone funded in August 2014, is investing to take a 25% interest in Tourmaline Oil’s Peace River High operated area in Alberta, Canada. They get 25% of the existing complex (all lands, wells, production, reserves, and facilities) for C$500m. Tourmaline will use the […]
SOI : Scottish Oriental Income lags benchmark marginally Schroder Oriental Income’s results for the year ended 31 August 2014 have been published this morning. It just failed to match the return on its benchmark index, the MSCI All Countries Pacific ex Japan, delivering a total return of 10.9% for the period vs. the index’s 11.3%. […]
AGR : Assura adds another 11 medical centres Assura Group is buying a portfolio of 11 medical centres for £63.6m. The 11 medical centres have an average lot size of £5.7m, an unexpired lease term of 20.3 years and the majority are under five years old. The centres support the work of approximately 90 GPs […]
3IN : 3i Infrastructure makes 10% in first half Strong performance from 3i Infrastructure’s European portfolio and rolling stock investments helped drive a 10.6% return on net assets for the fund for the six months that ended on 30th September. 3i Infrastructure holds two rail rolling stock investments – Eversholt Rail and XLT. Strong competition […]
HNE : Henderson Eurotrust writes down OW Bunker Henderson Eurotrust is writing down the value of its investment in OW Bunker to zero. this was 1.13% of the portfolio at 31 October 2014. The reason for the write down says HNE is that fraud has been discovered in OW Bunker’s Singaporean subsidiary. The write down […]