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12 Jul 2016

Aberdeen New Dawn’s performance hurt by commodity price collapse

Aberdeen New Dawn has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 April 2016. During the year, the trust’s NAV fell by 15.4% to 179.4p per share (2015 saw an increase of 17.1%) while the share price fell by 15.1% to 156.0p (2015 saw a rise of 14.3%), all in total return terms. The share […]

12 Jul 2016

Redefine International updates on progress with the Aegon UK portfolio

Redefine International has provided an update on the progress it is making on asset management initiatives on its recently acquired Aegon UK (AUK) portfolio. The company says that it is making good progress that is ahead of initial expectations. In summary, since the EU referendum result, the company has completed two leases totalling £0.6m, which […]

12 Jul 2016

Aberdeen Private Equity performance driven by underlying investments and currency movements

Aberdeen Private Equity has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2016. During the year the fund’s NAV per share increased by 4.6% to 133.33p and, including the 2.2p dividend paid in September 2015, shareholders received a NAV total return of 6.6% (2015: 18.2%). The company says that NAV performance was driven […]

07 Jul 2016

Riverstone Energy to invest $175m in Centennial Resource Development

Riverstone Energy has announced that it has signed an agreement, alongside other funds affiliated with Riverstone Holdings, LLC, to acquire a majority stake in Centennial Resource Development LLC from NGP Energy Capital and certain other related coinvestment funds. Centennial is an exploration and production company focused on the acquisition and development of oil and liquids-rich […]

04 Jul 2016

Fair Oaks Income updates on distribution policy, share buyback and capital returns

Fair Oaks Income Fund has announced that the commitment period of the Master Fund, in which it is invested, ended on 12 June 2016. Reflecting this, the board says that it intends to continue to pay eleven monthly dividends of 0.7 US cents per share and a twelfth interim dividend, “representing an amount in aggregate […]

29 Jun 2016

Infrastructure India completes sale of toll road stake

Infrastructure India has announced that it has completed the sale of its entire 26 per cent interest in Western MP Infrastructure & Toll Roads Private Limited. The transaction was originally announced on 8 April 2016 and completed on 28 June 2016. Western MP Infrastructure & Toll Roads operates a 125km toll road in the central […]

23 Jun 2016

Better Capital’s 2009 Cell makes good progress but 2012 Cell disappoints

Better Capital PCC has announced its final results for both its 2009 cell and 2012 cell for the year ended 31 March 2016. The company says that the 2009 Cell made good progress during the year and that this was mainly driven by Gardner’s sustained solid performance. It also says that the disposal of Santia, […]

23 Jun 2016

Industrial Multi Property responds on J Stocks proposals

Industrial Multi Property Trust (IMPT) has published the text of a letter it is sending to its shareholders to update them regarding the proposals the company has received from J Stocks. Rather than cut and paste it, we have attached a pdf of the announcement here. 20160623 Industrial Multi Property – RNS About IMPT IMPT (formerly Alpha UK […]

23 Jun 2016

F&C Global Smaller Companies outperformance aided by sterling weakness

F&C Global Smaller Companies, chaired by Anthony Townsend (pictured), has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 April 2016. During the period, the trust provided an NAV total return of 3.5% beating its benchmark (a 70%/30% blend of the MSCI All Country World ex UK Small Cap Index and Numis UK Smaller Companies Index), […]

16 Jun 2016

Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust prepares to launch its zero discount policy

Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust has announced that it has submitted a blocklisting application for 3,989,636 new ordinary shares (10% of the trust’s existing share capital). The trust says that block listing will be used for the purposes of operating its discount (and premium) control mechanism policy, details of which were announced on 10 […]