HICL Infrastructure has released its results for the year ended 31 March 2014. The net asset value rose from 116.4p to 123.1p over the period and this, coupled with a dividend of 7.1p meant the total return on net assets was 11.9%. In the current year HICL Infrastructure is switching to paying quarterly dividends and […]
Real Estate Investors has bought three properties – City Gate House in Leicester (cost £1.8m, initial yield 8.75% – let to government), a building let to WH Smiths in High Street, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire (cost £500,000, initial yield 10.4%) and a 6 acre site earmarked for residential development – the former Sandwell College campus in Smethwick, Sandwell […]
European Investment Trust has published figures for the half year ended 31 March 2014 that show the net asset value total return for the period was 13.9% – some way ahead of the FTSE All-World Europe ex UK Index which returned 7.7%. the discount narrowed from 10.9% to 9.7% so the share price did even […]
Eastern European Property has released figures to the end of December 2013. These are quite out of date now but they show the net asset value was just about static – rising slightly from 105.03p to 105.19p. The discount widened however as the share price fell to 70.75p from 87.5p. Over 2013 they sold £2.5m […]
Over the year to end March 2014, Great Portland Estates saw its EPRA NAV rise by 27.6% to 569p. Properties were revalued upwards by 18.7% – the bulk of this return came from the profit generated by their developments (95 Wigmore Street, City Tower EC2 and 240 Blackfriars Road were all completed during the year). […]
BlackRock Frontiers, managed by Sam Vecht (pictured), says that over the six months ended 31 March 2014 the total return on its net asset value was 7.8% in Sterling (11.0% in US dollars). The return lagged that of the MSCI Frontiers Index which returned 11.2% in Sterling and 14.4% in US dollars. The report attributes the […]
JP Morgan Income & Capital Trust, managed by Sarah Emly (pictured) and John Baker, has released results for the year ended 28 February 2014. These show the overall fund outperforming its benchmark by 6.4%. The total assets generated a total return of 18.4% over the year compared to 12.0% for the benchmark of 90% FTSE350 Index and […]
Lowland has released its results for the half year ended 31 March 2014. Over that period the total return on the net asset value was 7.3% and the total return to shareholders was 7.5%. The quarterly dividend has been upped to 9p per quarter from 8.5p. The report says that some money from strongly performing […]
CQS Rig has been told by its largest shareholders, CQS (UK) LLP, CQS Asset Management Limited and CQS Cayman LP, that they would support a voluntary liquidation of the company. Together they hold 65.5% of the shares and a liquidation resolution would require 75% of those voting to vote in favour so it seems likely […]
Big Yellow has released its results for the year ended 31 March 2014. The net asset value grew from 419.2p to 446.5p (7% uplift). The dividend was raised by a significant margin – from 11.0p to 16.4p, an uplift of 49%. Occupancy rose to 69.8% from 64.8% and average rents rose by 6%. Gearing fell […]
