Jupiter European has released results for the half year to 30 November 2013. Over the period the fund lagged the return on the FTSE World Europe ex UK index – the NAV returned 3.6% while the index returned 6.8%. The Board say relative performance has improved since the end of the period and now for […]
FSFL has announced that it expects all its IPO proceeds to be invested in fully operational and grid connected assets by the end of Q1 2014. The company’s largest asset, Wymeswold in Leicestershire (pictured), is generating electricity at rates 15% ahead of target. Foresight also say that they are on-track to pay the planned 6p per […]
DIVI’s interim accounts covering the six months ended 30 November 2013 show its net asset value rising by 19.2% – a good result when compared to the FTSE All-Share Index (up 2.1% or the FTSE Small cap ex Investment companies (up 15.9%). This translated into a 21.6% return for shareholders as the shares finished the […]
International Public partnership is buying all but 3% of a PPP project that is building a 55,000 sqm office for the Federal German Ministry of Education & Research in Berlin (estimated completion is July 2014). The cost to INPP is €11.9m.
IIT has announced its final results for the 12 months ended 30 November 2013. Over the year Independent’s net asset value total return (including income) was 20.2%. By comparison the FTSE All-Share Index returned 19.8% and the FTSE World Index 22.5% over the same period. IIT’s discount narrowed during the year, boosting the return to shareholders to […]
New River Retail has raised £85m of extra capital in a placing. 32m new shares were issued at 265 pence per share. The new shares will start trading on 21 February 2014. NRR is a real estate investment trust (REIT) specialising in retail property. It describes itself as one of the UK’s largest value-creating owners and […]
Midas Income & Growth has announced that Miton Capital Partners, the fund’s manager, has been sold by Miton Group : MGR to Seneca Investment Managers Limited, part of Seneca Partners Group, based in Liverpool. The fund will continue to be managed by Alan Borrows, assisted by Simon Callow. The Board is happy that Seneca will be […]
DCG Iris, a fund investing in insurance-linked contracts, has today released its interim results for the six months ended 30 November 2013. On 30 November IRIS’s NAV was 99.46p, slightly below the level at close of business on 31 May 2013 when the NAV was 99.79p. Including income however the total return for the period […]
Redefine has sold St. Anne’s House, Croydon (an empty 75,000 sq ft 1960’s office building with planning permission to convert into a 144 bedroom hotel and 46 residential units) for £8.4m – that is £3.4m than the value Redefine ascribed to it in its valuation at the end of August 2013.
Qatar Investment Fund has released its Q4 2013 report (not its annual results). Over 2013 the NAV rose by 25.5%, just behind the Qatar Exchange Index which rose by 26.2%.
