News

19 Sep 2016

Oakley Capital Investments benefits from fund performance and sterling weakness post Brexit

Oakley Capital Investments Limited (OCL) has announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2016. During the period, the company’s NAV increased by 7.5% to £2.15 per share. The company says that 15p uplift in NAV per share is attributable to the strong performance of the underlying Funds and favourable exchange rate […]

14 Sep 2016

NB Private Equity Partners sees strong demand for ZDP rollover and placing

NB Private Equity Partners has announced that it has issued 50m new 2022 Zero Dividend Preference Shares (2022 ZDP shares), at 100p each, raising £50m. The issue was conducted by way of a rollover offer of the company’s 2017 ZDP Shares, into 2022 ZDP Shares, and an offer for subscription and the initial placing of […]

14 Sep 2016

Fair Oaks Income announces first details of first redemption

Fair Oaks Income Fund has announced that, further to the announcement it made on 4 July 2016 regarding its intention to return capital to Shareholders, it will return $5,930,400 (equivalent to 1.849 cents per share) on 29 September by way of a compulsory partial redemption of shares (the First Redemption). The company says that the […]

14 Sep 2016

Empiric Student Property doubles in size

Empiric Student Property has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2016. The company grew its portfolio significantly during the year, from £251.3m to £523.9m, funded by £286.4m of gross equity proceeds and a further £120m of debt. As a result, the company says that its portfolio of purpose-built student accommodation increased […]

13 Sep 2016

JZ Capital Partners sells its minority stake in Winn Group

JZ Capital Partners has announced that it has closed the sale of its minority stake in Winn Group, held through the EuroMicrocap Fund 2010, L.P. to a major financial institution for €20.8m ($23m) following the receipt of regulatory approval. Founded in 2002, Winn is a Newcastle-based UK legal services firm specialising in personal injury cases. […]

13 Sep 2016

Oakley’s Inspired makes three further school acquisitions

Oakley Capital Investments Limited (OCIL) has announced that it has been informed that Inspired, which it describes as a ‘premium schools organisation in Europe, Australia, Africa and Latin America’, has completed the acquisitions of the International School of Europe Group (ISE), St Louis School (St. Louis) and St John’s International School (St. John’s). Oakley Capital […]

09 Sep 2016

Foresight Solar Fund raises £28.9m from sale of treasury shares

Foresight Solar Fund has announced the results of its placing of 28.2m treasury shares. Then placing, which was originally announced on 5 September 2016, was oversubscribed and £28.9m of gross proceeds have been raised. The fund says that a total of 28,152,143 Ordinary Shares will be sold out of Treasury at the Placing price of […]

09 Sep 2016

Derwent London sells leasehold interest in 75 Wells Street, W1, for £40.9m

Derwent London has announced that it has sold its long leasehold interest in 75 Wells Street, London W1, for £40.9m before costs. The purchaser was a private investor and the company says that the sale price was in line with December 2015 and June 2016 valuations. According to Derwent London, 75 Wells Street (pictured) is […]

07 Sep 2016

Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust markedly beats IPD in H1

Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust, managed by Jason Baggaley (pictured), has announced its results for the six months ended 30 June 2016. During the period, the trust provided an NAV total return of 2.3% although NAV per share fell from 82.2p per share, as at 31 December 2015, to 81.8p per share as at 30 […]