News

17 Feb 2016

Redefine International raises £115m through a placing

Redefine International has announced the completion of the Placing, which has raised gross proceeds of approximately £115m (net proceeds approximately £109m). A total of 270,588,236 new Ordinary Shares are being issued under the placing. These shares, in aggregate, represent approximately 15.32% of the company’s issued ordinary share capital immediately following admission of the shares. The […]

17 Feb 2016

Herald benefits heavily from takeovers, more focus on the US going forward

Herald Investment Trust has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2015. During the period, the company’s NAV grew by 8.4% to 881.8p per share, whilst its share price grew by 13.1% to 745.3p reflecting a narrowing of the discount from 19.0% to 15.5%. Both the share price and the NAV beat […]

17 Feb 2016

Miton UK MicroCap’s C share issue raises £28m

Miton UK MicroCap, managed by Gervais Williams (pictured), has announced that pursuant to the placing, offer for subscription and intermediaries offer of C shares (as described in its prospectus published on 4 February 2016) it has raised gross proceeds of £28m with net proceeds expected to be approximately £27.4m. The company says that applications received under the […]

15 Feb 2016

Hansteen increases its holding to 82.8% of the Ashtenne Industrial Fund

Hansteen Holdings has announced that it has acquired a further 5.5 million units in the Ashtenne Industrial Fund from clients of CBRE Investors for £2.5m cash, which reflects a price of 46.06p per unit. The company says that the acquisition represents 0.9% of the units in issue and increases Hansteen’s holding in the Ashtenne Industrial […]

15 Feb 2016

HgCapital purchases majority stake in Citation

HgCapital, the Manager of HgCapital Trust has announced that it has made a majority investment in Citation, which they describe as one of the UK’s leading providers of Health & Safety, HR, Employment Law and ISO services to SMEs. HgCapital will assume majority ownership from ECI Partners, investing alongside the existing management team. The terms […]

15 Feb 2016

Katherine Garrett-Cox to leave Alliance Trust Investments in March 2016

Alliance Trust has announced that Katherine Garrett-Cox (pictured) will stand down as chief executive of its management company, Alliance Trust Investments Limited (also a subsidiary of Alliance Trust ), and will be leaving the company on 11 March 2016. The company says that this follows discussions between the Board and Katherine about the future requirement […]

11 Feb 2016

Target Healthcare REIT to acquire care home in Bricket Wood, St Albans

Target Healthcare REIT has announced that it has exchanged contracts to acquire a 12-bed specialist care home in Bricket Wood, St Albans for approximately £2.3m (including acquisition costs). The transaction is expected to complete after the expiration of a “planning judicial review period” in March. Following this, Target is to acquire the care home, which […]

10 Feb 2016

MedicX acquiring new primary care centre in Brynhyfryd, Swansea

MedicX Fund has announced that it has acquired a new primary healthcare centre, in Brynhyfryd, Swansea, by way of forward funding. The property is due to be completed in January 2017 and will be let to a GP practice, the Abertawe Bro Mogannwg University Health Board and a pharmacist. The company says that all leases […]

08 Feb 2016

GLI Finance calls EGM to approve Somerston deal

GLI Finance has announced that, following its previous announcement on 21 December 2015 regarding the development of a strategic relationship with the Somerston Group of companies, that it has agreed binding terms with Golf Investments (a newly formed special purpose vehicle that is part of the Somerston Group). Somerston will be providing finance to GLI […]

08 Feb 2016

Juridica in cost cutting mode

Following an announcement on 18 November 2015, from Juridica Investments, that it would no longer make new investments and would be conducting a review of its cost structure, its board have now announced amendments to its fee structure and measures that the company says will reduce its fixed costs going forward. The board says that, […]