BlackRock Income Strategies has announced its final results for the year ended 30 September 2015. The period was one that a saw a number of key developments for the trust. A new multi-strategy investment policy was adopted, investment management responsibility was moved from F&C to BlackRock, a nil discount policy was adopted, a tender mechanism […]
Online estate agency, Purplebricks, has announced that it has conditionally raised £58.1m before expenses from an institutional placing for its upcoming float on AIM. The company, which is expected to list on 17 December, is expected to have an opening market capitalisation of £240.3m. Woodford Patient Capital Trust, managed by Neil Woodford (pictured) has an investment […]
CVC Credit Partners European Opportunities has announced that it intends to place up to 20 million Euro ordinary shares, currently held in treasury, at a price of between 0.25 % and 1.00 % premium to the Company’s NAV per share. The Placing will be based on the NAV of the Company as at 30 November […]
John Laing Environmental Assets has announced that it has purchased the Burton Wold Extension Wind Farm from John Laing Group plc for a cash consideration, including working capital, of £21.8m. The wind farm is located near Burton Latimer in Northamptonshire and comprises nine General Electric 1.6MW-100 turbines with a total generating capacity of 14.4MW. The […]
Qannas Investments Limited has announced the results of its tender offer to purchase up to 8,414,968 ordinary shares at a tender price of US$0.95 per ordinary share (approximately US$7.99 million in total). The Company says that that a total of 8,414,968 Ordinary Shares have been tendered and that tenders for up to 10.77% of shareholders’ […]
Better Capital PCC has announced that its 2009 Fund (BECAP Fund LP) has disposed of its interests in Santia Holdco Limited, together with its wider trading group, Santia. Santia is a provider of health & safety and accreditation services, which was acquired on 1 February 2011 from the administrators of Connaught plc. Santia was sold […]
Bluefield Solar Income Fund has announced that, following its placing and offer for subscription, it has received commitments for 30,098,639 new ordinary shares under the placing and 901,361 new ordinary shares under the offer for subscription. As such, 31.0m new ordinary shares are to be issued at a price of 102p per share, raising gross […]
Monks Investment Trust has announced its interim results for the six months ended 31 October 2015. Over the period, the company’s NAV lost 3.5% in total return terms, modestly outperforming the FTSE World Index which lost 4.3% (all in sterling terms). Reflecting a modest widening of the discount during the period, the share price total […]
LondonMetric Property has announces that it has sold its PC World property in Hove to clients of Aberdeen Asset Management PLC for £13.6m, reflecting a net initial yield of 5.4%. LondonMetric acquired the asset for £8.1m and recently signed a new 15 year lease (with a break at 10 years) with PC World at a […]
Renewable Energy Generation has provided an update on the proposed sale of the Group’s Business to a fund managed by BlackRock, which values the company’s equity, before exit costs, at £64.5m. The board is recommending that shareholders approve the proposals related to the transaction and an EGM is being convened on 18 December 2015. If […]
