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20 Jun 2014

Metro Baltic Horizons : MET – annual results

Metro Baltic Horizons has published its accounts for the year that ended 31 December 2013, back then its net asset value was €0.21 . It sold its last property in April 2013 but in 2014 it got €3.6m in settlements from its previous auditor and members of its previous board Before that, in July this year, Metro […]

19 Jun 2014

DCG Iris : IRIS – liquidation proposals

DCG Iris has announced that it is planning to put proposals to shareholders to wind up the company. The Directors say that the fund was too small (£68m). Returns were in line with its original projections – annualised 4.6% at 30 April 2014. However, in our view, the fund was always likely to be vulnerable […]

19 Jun 2014

Nimrod Sea Assets : NSA

Nimrod Sea Assets has made its first purchase – buying a share in three vessels for $6.7m. The vessels – the Swiber Elsie-Marie, the Swiber Anne Christine and the Swiber Mary-Ann are 10800 BHP AHTS / Supply vessels and are on a bareboat charter to Swiber, a Singaporean listed off-shore contractor, until 2019/20.

19 Jun 2014

Kimberly Enterprises : KBE – change of management

Kimberly Enterprises has appointed Liron Or as Chief Executive Officer. He replaces Gad Raveh who resigned after Engel General Developers (who hold 68% of Kimberly’s shares) called an EGM to dismiss him and M Naveh from the Company’s management Board.

19 Jun 2014

JPMorgan Russian : JRS – interims

The interim figures published by JPMorgan Russian today cover the six months ended 30 April 2014 – a period when investors shunned Russian investments. The net asset value fell by 28.4% on a total return basis and the share price fell by 27.6% (leaving the fund on a 10% discount). The performance was a little […]

19 Jun 2014

CQS Rig : RIG – interims

CQS Rig has released its interim figures for the half year to 31 March 2014. The net asset value rose marginally from 35.65p to 35.75p (total return, including income of 2.7%). The share price was unchanged. CQS Rig is facing a liquidation vote in the near future.

19 Jun 2014

The Bankers Investment Trust : BNKR – interims

The Bankers Investment Trust, managed by Alex Crooke, has published its interim accounts for the six months that ended on 30 April 2014. The net asset value fell over the period by 2.2% while the FTSE All-Share Index rose by 1.0%. The statement attributes this to currency moves (a common complaint in many recent results announcements […]

19 Jun 2014

Harbourvest Senior Loans Europe : HSLE – cash return

Harbourvest Senior Loans Europe has received proceeds of loan refinancing totalling £15.7m and has decided to use that money to return 11.24p per share to shareholders. They have also announced more details of the new investment management agreement with Spire Partners – Spire will get an incentive fee on loan realisations between now and 31 December […]

18 Jun 2014

European Convergence Development Property : ECDC – results

European Convergence Development Property has published its results for the year ended 31 December 2013. Its net asset value fell during that time to €0.2883 (down from €0.3010). One of its investments delisted after the year end and another was written down to zero. The Board has concluded that shareholders have no appetite for the […]