Following the sale of its property portfolio to Kildare Partners (announced in June 2015) Invesco Property Income has, as anticipated, delisted from the London Stock Exchange. The company is in wind-up and all of the proceeds from the sale were to be used to pay back the company’s lenders. Invesco Property Income Trust was a property […]
On 26 October 2015, Caledonia Investments announced that it had agreed to acquire Gala Bingo Holdings Limited, the UK’s largest retail bingo operator, from Gala Coral Group, in a transaction which valued the business at £241m. The acquisition was conditional on change of control approval by the Gambling Commission, which has now been granted, and […]
The board of Schroder Global Real Estate Securities has announced that a scheme for liquidating the company is to be put to shareholders for approval. They say that it is expected that the proposals will offer an opportunity for shareholders to retain their exposure to the same asset class through one or more open-ended vehicles […]
Hammerson has announced that it has exchanged contracts for the sale of two assets for a total of £87m. This includes its wholly owned shopping centre Monument Mall in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (pictured), which is being sold to Standard Life Investments UK Property Fund for gross proceeds of £75m. Monument Mall was acquired in 2011 for £28m and […]
Henderson Alternative Strategies Trust has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the Company delivered a NAV total return of -5.0% compared with a 0.8% rise in its FTSE World Total Return Index global equity benchmark. However, the board say that they are very encouraged to see that […]
The Local Shopping REIT has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2015. Profit for the financial period was £0.02m or 0.02 pence per share (2014: £1.21m or 1.5 pence per share). However, this marked drop reflects the sale of two of the Company’s property-holding subsidiaries, NOS 2 Limited and NOS 3 […]
Polar Capital Global Healthcare Growth & Income Trust has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2015. In what was a volatile year for the trust, its NAV total return was 8.2% thereby modestly underperforming its benchmark, the MSCI Global Healthcare Index, which returned 9.6%. The discount to NAV narrowed by 2% […]
On 1 October 2015, Alliance Trust announced a series of changes that its said were designed to enhance shareholder value. In advance of the end of the financial year on 31 December 2015, the company has provided an update on the progress that has been made on implementing these changes. Rather than copying and pasting […]
Law Debenture Corporation has announced that its Group Managing Director, Caroline Banszky (pictured) has, after thirteen years as the Group’s MD, given notice of her intention to retire from her role by 31 October 2016. She will also step down as a director of the Corporation at that time. The Nominations Committee of the board […]
LMS Capital has announced the results of its tender offer that was previously announced on 27 November 2015. The latest tender is the fourth the company has made since the approval of its realisation strategy in November 2011. The tender price was 96p and 130,363,380 ordinary shares were validly tendered. The basic entitlement is 28.7% […]
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