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.
LMP has sold its Odeon Multiplex in Dudley for £7.7m, equivalent to a yield of 5.95% (falling to 5.8% in June). LMP bought the cinema as part of a package of ten. these were acquired in November 2013 for £80.6m, equivalent to an initial yield of 7.2%.
HICL has invested in two new investments – Holdfast Training Services (a 30 year concession to design, build, refurbish and maintain 32 buildings, 21 refurbishments and five training areas across the UK for the Royal School of Military Engineering) and the Sheffield BSF Schools Project (a 27 year PFI deal to build, finance, maintain and […]
VNH has announced interim results covering the six month period ended 31 December 2013. During this period the benchmark index, the VNI, rose by 5.4% in US dollar terms, by contrast, VNI’s net asset value rose by 13.2%. VNH’s discount widened however, its share price rose by just 3.4% .
BlackRock Commodities Income’s full year results for the 12 months to the end of November 2013 reflect a difficult period for investors in commodity related assets but were well ahead of its benchmark. The net asset value total return was a decline of 5.9%. the share price return was negative 6.0%. By contrast the Euromoney Global Mining […]
DREF has announced today that the master fund has realised three of its mezzanine loan investments (numbered one, three and eight – DREF does not report who it lends money to but these borrowers were against a retail property in Denmark, against eight hotels in Germany and against an office and light industrial park in France). […]
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 […]
