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23 Nov 2015

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies benefits from good stock selection and a favourable style tailwind

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies, managed by Anna Lunden (pictured), has announced it interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company provided NAV and share price total returns of 12.5% and 14.7% respectively. These are both ahead of the performance of its Numis Smaller Companies Index benchmark, which returned […]

23 Nov 2015

Sirius Real Estate sees 5.5% increase in NAV during H1 with reduced interest cost and acquisitions still to kick in

Sirius Real Estate has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company’s adjusted net asset value per share increased by 5.5% to 50.13c (31 March 2015: 47.51c) despite the payment of €7.6m in early termination fees for the repayment of loans from Macquarie, which the company says […]

23 Nov 2015

Drum Income Plus REIT purchases Monteith House in Glasgow for £5.75m

Drum Income Plus REIT has announced the acquisition of multi-let office investment Monteith House in Glasgow for a consideration of £5.75m. Monteith House is an office development located in George Square, in the centre of Glasgow, whose key tenants include VisitScotland and Skills Development Scotland. The company says that the purchase price reflects a yield […]

23 Nov 2015

Invesco Perpetual Enhanced Income prioritising revenue generation whilst remaining defensively positioned

Invesco Perpetual Enhanced Income Limited has announced its annual results for the 12-months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the NAV per share fell 5.4% whilst its share price fell 6.2%. However, including income, the Company’s portfolio has generated a NAV total return of +1.5%. The company says that this compares to a total […]

23 Nov 2015

World trust fund trading at highest combined discount (34.3%) since the financial crisis

World Trust Fund has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company’s NAV per share fell 12.9% b(in Sterling terms) modestly outperforming both the MSCI AC World Index (ex USA) Index, which fell 13.5% but underperforming the MSCI AC World Index, which fell 11.0%. The share price […]

23 Nov 2015

SEGRO acquires three fully-let logistics buildings for €92.7m

SEGRO has announced that it has acquired a portfolio of three, fully-let logistics buildings, in the Netherlands, for €92.7m. The portfolio, which has a total of104,000 square metres of space, has been acquired from the private Dutch developer, Dok Vast. The company says that the purchase price equates to a net initial yield of 6.1 […]

19 Nov 2015

Marwyn Value Investors to raise a minimum £50m, new distribution policy

Marywn Value Investors has announced that it is proposing to raise a minimum of £50m through a placing, at a price of 220p per share. The company says that the book-build has secured substantial anchor orders from existing and new shareholders to support the minimum fund raise and that the book will be kept open […]

19 Nov 2015

Fidelity China Special Sits benefits from strong stock selection and timely gearing reduction

Fidelity China Special Situations, managed by Dale Nicholls (pictured), has announced its results for the half-year ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company’s NAV fell by 14.1% and the share price by 16.2%, both beating the performance of the Benchmark MSCI China Index, which fell 19.7%. The company’s outperformance was primarily due to […]

19 Nov 2015

Caledonia bolstered by the performance of its unquoteds

Caledonia Investments has released its interim report for the six-months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company’s NAV total return per share was -3.8%. The share price also fell (4.4%) and, at the half-year end, the discount was 21.0%, slightly improved on the 21.5% at the beginning of the period. The company says […]

19 Nov 2015

TwentyFour Income Fund to propose amendments to investment policy by the end of November

TwentyFour Income Fund has released its interim results for the half-year ended 30 September 2015. During the period the company provided an NAV total return of -1.6%. The Company’s shares have continued to trade at a premium, as they have done since launch, with the average premium during the period being 5.9%. The Board anticipates […]