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06 Mar 2017

Blackstone / GSO Loan Financing raises €72.8m from placing

Blackstone / GSO Loan Financing has announced the result of its placing of Euro ordinary shares, which were issued under its placing programme. The Placing raised €72.8m (before costs and expenses) through the issue of 71,380,746 new Euro ordinary shares at a price of €1.02 per share. The Placing price represents a premium of approximately […]

06 Mar 2017

Sirius Real Estate moves to a Premium Main Market listing on the LSE and a secondary listing on the JSE

Sirius Real Estate’s shares have been admitted to the premium segment of the London Stock Exchange’ main market for listed securities and have transferred from the Alt-X market of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange to its Main Board. SRE’s board expect this to have a number of benefits including: a more appropriate platform for the continued […]

06 Mar 2017

BP Marsh announces policy to buyback shares when the discount is greater than 25%

BP Marsh & Partners has announced details of a share buyback policy. The company says that it is its ‘custom and intention, when the share price drops to more than 25% below its published Net Asset Value, to buy small parcels of shares and place them into Treasury and decide at a later point what […]

03 Mar 2017

New Star benefits from overseas exposure but some funds lagged cyclical rally

New Star has announced its interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2016. During the period, the Trust provided an NAV Total return of 10.35%, whilst its share price returned 24.3%, reflecting a narrowing of the discount from 39.5% to 31.7%. The Trust says that, in comparison, the Investment Association’s Mixed Investment 40-85% […]

03 Mar 2017

Foresight Solar announces Fund raising, placing programme and secondary listing on JSE

Foresight Solar (FSFL) has announced a range of measures. These include its intention to raise in excess of £50 million by way of an Initial Placing and Offer for Subscription, a secondary listing on the main board of the JSE (Johannesburg Stock Exchange) and Private Placement in South Africa. FSFL’s board also says that it […]

03 Mar 2017

Electra in line to receive £66m from Axio’s sale of RISI

Epiris, the manager of Electra Private Equity, has announce that its portfolio company, AXIO Group, has agreed to sell RISI, an information provider for the global forest products industry, to Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (Euromoney) for $125 million. Espiris says that the sale, which remains subject to regulatory approvals, would be the sixth major realisation […]

01 Mar 2017

Symphony International sees NAV fall reflecting uncertainties towards the end of 2016

Symphony International Holdings Limited (SIHL) has announced its results for the year ended 31 December 2016. During the period, SIHL’s fully diluted NAV per share fell by 7.9% to US$1.1988. The company’s chairman, Pierangelo Bottinelli, says that 2016 was a volatile year but that Asia experienced more of an impact in the fourth quarter as […]

01 Mar 2017

Board of Tritax Big Box REIT secures new £90m loan facility

Tritax Big Box REIT has announced that it has agreed a new long-term, interest only, fixed rate term loan facility of £90 million with PGIM Real Estate Finance, secured against a portfolio of three standing assets and one forward funded asset. The 10-year Facility, which will be drawn in full immediately, is repayable on 2 […]

01 Mar 2017

Pacific Horizon’s biotech positions and Samsung underweight lead to modest underperformance

Pacific Horizon (PHI), managed by Ewan Markson-Brown (pictured), has announced its interim results for the six months ended 31 January 2017. During the period, the Trust’s NAV total return was 9.7%. The share price total return was 8.0% as the discount widened from 10.1% to 11.4%. The Trust says that, over the same period the […]

01 Mar 2017

Riverstone Energy strong NAV growth, of 26.1%, driven by the sale of Rock Oil and valuation uplifts

Riverstone Energy (RSE) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2016. During the period, RSE saws its NAV increase by 26.1% to $20.11 per share and that the impact of Brexit, through the devaluation of sterling, contributed to the sterling NAV per share increasing by 50.5% to £5.47. RSE says that […]