News

24 Jan 2017

Aberforth Geared Income benefits from strong performance of small cap stocks

Aberforth Geared Income Trust (AGIT) has announced its interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2016. During the period, AGIT’s total asset total return (its ungeared portfolio performance) was 17.4%. However, with the benefit of the gearing provided by the ZDP share, in a rising market, the ordinary share’s net asset value total […]

24 Jan 2017

Oakley Capital Investments Limited proposes treasury share placing

Oakley Capital Investments Limited (OCIL) has announced a placing of up to 17 million treasury shares in the Company. The placing will be priced at 157 pence per treasury share and will be conducted by means of an accelerated bookbuild to institutional investors. OCIL says that the final number of treasury shares and the price […]

24 Jan 2017

Henderson Smaller Companies modestly underperforms benchmark but grows dividend 25%

Henderson Smaller Companies has announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 November 2016. During the period, the trust provided and an NAV total return of 1.4% and a share price total return of 2.0%, thereby underperforming its benchmark, The Numis Smaller Companies (excluding Investment Companies) Index, which provided a total return of […]

19 Jan 2017

John Laing Environmental Assets proposes £25m fund raise

John Laing Environmental Assets (JLEN) has announced that it is proposing to raise £25m by way of an initial placing under its placing programme, the prospectus for which was published on 16 December 2016. It intends to use the net proceeds to fund a near term pipeline of opportunities across the Solar, Wind and Biomass […]

18 Jan 2017

Juridica’s manager sees change of owner

Juridica Investments (JIL) has announced that it has been informed of a change in ownership at Juridica Asset Management Limited (JAML), its investment manager. It says that, effective 11 January 2017, Richard Fields, founder and sole owner of JAML, sold the entirety of his interest to John Sicilian. John Sicilian and William Yuen previously had […]

18 Jan 2017

Dolphin Capital Investors disposes of interest in Pearl Island

Dolphin Capital Investors (Dolphin) has announced that it has entered into an agreement for the disposal of its 60% interest in Pearl Island, a private island development off the coast of Panama, to Grivalia Hospitality S.A. (Grivalia). Dolphin is to receive a cash consideration of €27m, before related tax and fees, which it says represents […]

18 Jan 2017

Redefine International completes €106m disposal of German office portfolio

Redefine International (RDI) has announced that it has completed the sale of four German office assets for a gross consideration of €106m. The assets, which it says were disposed of via a share sale, were held in a joint venture with the Menora Mivtachim Group (Menora). RDI has earned an IRR of 27% on the […]

17 Jan 2017

Acorn Income Fund sees 91.4% of ZDP holders opt for continuation

On 29 November 2016, Acorn Income Fund’s (AIF’s) Board announced proposals including the extension of the life of the existing ZDP Shares to 28 February 2022; a Continuation Offer to ZDP Shareholders whereby such holders were given an opportunity to either receive their 2017 Final Capital Entitlement in cash on 31 January 2017 or to […]

17 Jan 2017

Empiric Student Property acquires Foss Studios in York for £23.3m

Empiric Student Property (Empiric) has announced that it has acquired the freehold of a 220 bed student accommodation scheme, Foss Studios, in York for £23.3m (excluding costs). Empiric says that Foss Studios was completed for the 2015/16 academic year and comprises 220 large, well specified, studio rooms across three purpose built buildings. The scheme is […]

17 Jan 2017

Standard Life Investments Property Income sells The Quadrangle, Cheltenham, for £11.075m

Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust has announced that it has completed the sale of The Quadrangle, in Cheltenham, for £11.075m. The Quadrangle is a 1970s office block that extends to approximately 58,900sqft. The Trust acquired The Quadrangle in Dec 2015 as part of the Pearl portfolio for £10.05m including costs. The property was single […]