AGR : Assura adds four medical centres Assura Group is buying one medical centre and has completed the development of three others. The developments cost £11m to build and are located in Lanchester, Market Weighton and Blaenavon. The acquisition is of a medical centre in Wellington and cost £1.75m. The developments are let for an average […]
ERE : Eredene Capital to conduct tender and leave AIM Eredene Capital has announced that it will use the proceeds of recent disposals to fund a tender offer for shareholders – the terms of which are an offer for 12% of the company at 10p per share (vs. the current share price of 4.75p) – […]
IBT : International Biotech fee cut International Biotechnology Trust has announced its results for the year that ended on 31 August 2014. They show the net asset value rising by 26.4% which lags the return on the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index which returned 33.2% in Sterling terms. Shareholders were impacted by a widening of IBT’s discount […]
THRL : Target Healthcare REIT invests in Yorkshire and Lancashire Target Healthcare REIT has announced that it has bought three purpose built care homes located in Yorkshire and Lancashire for a total of £13.3m The three homes are in Fleetwood, Lancashire (pictured); Rastrick, West Yorkshire; and Sutton-in-Craven, North Yorkshire. Between them they have a total […]
HSTN : Hansteen sells industrial portfolio Hansteen Holdings has sold its interest in the the Hansteen UK Industrial Property Unit Trust for £146.1m. The deal was done in two parts with Brockton Capital LLP (“Brockton Capital”) in a partnership with Dunedin Property paying £110.5m for the portfolio excluding Saltley Business Park and a separate 50/50 joint venture between […]
FSV : Fidelity Special Values maintains run of outperformance Fidelity Special Values managed to beat the FTSE All-Share Index over the year to the end of August 2014, the third successive year that it has done so, delivering a total return of 10.7% on net assets vs. a return of 10.3% for the index. The fund’s […]
FAIR : Fair Oaks 88% committed Fair Oaks Income Fund says it plans to acquire $26m of equity notes that make up 51% of the equity of a new CLO, Covenant Credit Partners CLO II Ltd. Covenant Credit Partners CLO II Ltd is a $500m CLO backed by a portfolio of broadly syndicated secured loans to […]
BKSA : Black Sea Property requisition The board of Black Sea Property has received a requisition from Fitel Nominees Limited seeking to requisition an extraordinary general meeting of the Company for the purpose of considering resolutions to remove the entire board other than Antony Gardner-Hillman and to appoint Trevor Hunt and Alexander Borrelli as directors. […]
SDU : Schroder UK Growth sticks with Schroders The Board of Schroder UK Growth has been mulling who should be managing the fund post the departure of Julie Dean from Schroders (she has just turned up at Sanditon) and has decided to retain Schroders as the manager. The day-today manager of the fund will be […]
BSET : British Assets moves to BlackRock British Assets Trust has announced that, following a review by the Board, it will move its management contract from F&C to BlackRock. At the same time shareholders will be asked to vote in favour of the adoption of a new investment objective and policy for the fund. They […]
