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16 Dec 2016

GCP Student Living raises £23m from oversubscribed placing and plans new placing programme for 2017

GCP Student Living has announced the results of its placing, which it says was substantially oversubscribed. As a result of the placing, which raised raise gross proceeds of £23m, the company is issuing 16,428,572 ‘placing shares’ at 140p per share. The company says that, following the issue of the placing shares, the 2016 placing programme […]

16 Dec 2016

Dunedin Smaller Companies benefits from holding a range of businesses with exposure to diverse end-markets

Dunedin Smaller Companies Investment Trust has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 October 2016. During the period, the company provided an NAV total return of 7.0% and a share price total return of 4.1%. According to the company, this compares against a total return of 6.7% for its benchmark index, the FTSE […]

16 Dec 2016

SVG Capital announces tender offer results

SVG Capital has announced the results of its tender offer, the details of which were set out in the company’s shareholder circular published by the Company on 17 November 2016. The company says that 122,492,644 ordinary shares were validly tendered and, following application of the scale-back mechanism, 48,951,048 ordinary shares will be purchased at a […]

16 Dec 2016

Oakley Capital Investments announces maiden dividend of 4.5p

Oakley Capital Investments has announced that it is declaring its maiden dividend of 4.5p per share in respect of the 2016 financial year. The dividend will be paid on 30 January 2017 to shareholders registered on 30 December 2016. Thereafter, its Board says that it will adopt a dividend policy which takes into account the […]

15 Dec 2016
15 Dec 2016

Green REIT lets 32 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 and acquires 164 acres at Dublin Airport

Green REIT has announced that it has signed an agreement to lease the entire of its newly-developed office building at 32 Molesworth Street in Dublin 2 (pictured), which comprises approximately 2,973 square meters (32,000 square feet) of lettable area. The agreement is for 20 years, which the company says is with an international services provider, […]

15 Dec 2016

Alliance Trust completes strategic review

Alliance Trust has made an announcement regarding the outcome of its strategic review. Rather than cut and paste it, we have attached a pdf of the announcement here: 20161215-atst-rns-outcome-of-strategic-review Alliance Trust completes strategic review : ATST

15 Dec 2016

Baring Emerging Europe proposes tender offer, investment policy changes and changes to its DCM

Baring Emerging Europe has announced proposals to return capital to shareholders through a tender offer of up to 10 per cent. of the issued share capital of the Company at a 2.5 per cent. discount to net asset value per share as at 24 January 2017. The Company is also proposing a change of its […]

15 Dec 2016

F&C Global Smaller Companies broadly in line with benchmark during first half

F&C Global Smaller Companies has announced its interim results for the half-year ended 31 October 2016. During the period, the company has provided an NAV total return of 18.0% and a share price total return of 17.4%. The returns are modestly below that of the company’s benchmark index, which is calculated from the returns of […]

14 Dec 2016

GCP returns 15.6% during year and continues to grow

GCP Infrastructure Investments has announced its annual results for the year ended 03 September 2016. During the year, the company says it provided a share price total return of 15.6% and a total return since its IPO of 91.1%. Profit for the year was £54.4m, an increase of 11.7% year-on-year (2015: £48.7m), and the company […]