Brian O’Neill will retire as manager of Henderson Global on 31 January 2014 after 30 years of managing the fund; Brian is one of the longest serving investment managers in the closed-end fund world. He will be replaced by Wouter Volckaert. Wouter only recently joined Henderson; he was a Global equity fund manager at Morgan […]
CTY has borrowed £35m at a fixed rate of 4.53% repayable on 22 January 2029 (via an issue of private placement notes)
Results for the year ended 30 September 2013. RIG’s NAV increased from 34.72p to 35.65p – shareholders total return in NAV terms was 7.2%. The various members of the CQS Group own 68.7% of RIG’s shares between them (CQS Cayman LP made a mandatory offer for RIG’s shares last year). There is a continuation vote […]
Schroder Real Estate buys 244-248D Commercial Road, Portsmouth (a 27,359 sq ft retail parade let to Sportsdirect.com, Mothercare, Tui and the Gold Centre) and for £7.2m. The initial yield on the purchase price is 8.3%.
Interim results for the half year ended 31 October 2013. NAV rose by 12.6%, well ahead of the Dow Jones World Technology Index which returned 8.9% in sterling terms. The fund moved from trading at a discount to trading at a premium to NAV and so the share price return was 17.1% over the period. […]
Interim results for IIP for six months ended 30 September 2013. NAV falls to 63p from 78p. Fall in value of Indian rupee and increase in the Indian risk free rate (used to value investments) unhelpful, Vikram Logistics having difficulty in getting disbursement of approved debt which is holding up construction. Stakeholders in Shree Maheshwar Hydel Power […]
Qannas has sold its entire holding of shares in Rak Petroleum for $6.66m (bought for $3.85m). QIL NAV now $0.92.
Results for year ended 30 September 2013 show total shareholder return of 13.1%. Quarterly dividends running at 1.425p per quarter, equivalent to a yield of 7.1%. c70% of dividend covered by underlying earnings, NAV fell from 63.7p to 63.1p per share.
Marwyn has written off its investment in Silverdell. this will take 6.47p off the NAV.
Results for the year ended 30 September 2013 show a net asset value total return of 16.9% and a share price total return of 9.7% as the discount (calculated with debt at fair value) expanded from 20% to 28.4%. The full year dividend was maintained at 10.5p per share (net revenue was less than 65% of […]
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