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31 Jul 2015

Nicholas Price to takeover as manager of Fidelity Japanese Values

Fidelity Japanese Values has announced that Nicholas Price (pictured) will be taking over, as manager of the trust, from 1 September 2015. He replaces Shinji Higaki who has managed the portfolio for eight years. Nicholas has over 20 years’ experience in the Japanese equity market. He joined Fidelity’s Tokyo office in 1993 as a research analyst […]

21 Jul 2015

Temple Bar beats FTSE All-Share during H1

Temple Bar, managed by Alastair Mundy (pictured) has released its interim results for the half year ended 30 June 2015. During this time, the trusts NAV total return of 4.5% beat that of the FTSE All-Share Index of 1.5%. The biggest contributor during the period was TNT Express, which received a bid from Fedex, whilst building products […]

21 Jul 2015

CEB Resources posts loss of US$122k

CEB Resources has published its results for the year ended 30 April 2015. These show a loss in the period of US$ 122,000 with the NAV per share decreasing from 0.3 US cents in April 2014 to 0.2 US cents in April 2015. During the year, the company exited all of its coal investments in Poland and Australia […]

21 Jul 2015

NextEnergy Solar secures finance for Cock Hill and Llwyndu projects

NextEnergy Solar Fund has announced that it has signed a £22.7m debt facility with NIBC Bank. This has been drawn down in full to finance its Cock Hill and Llwyndu projects (the total investment in the projects combined amounts to £32.7m). The facility has a 12-month duration, with a further 12-month extension available. The company […]

21 Jul 2015

Fair Oaks is considering a C-share issue

Fair Oaks Income Fund announced on 22 June 2015 that it was giving consideration to potentially issuing some ordinary shares or C-shares. The company has now followed this up with an announcement that, following consultation with certain existing and potential shareholders, it is making arrangements for a potential issue of up to 200 million C Shares at an […]

21 Jul 2015

Shaftesbury Board does not recommend Lee Family offer

Shaftesbury, the REIT focused on London’s West End, saw an announcement yesterday from entities controlled by the ‘Lee Family’ (principally through Mr Samuel Tak Lee) of a tender offer to acquire up to 9.3% of the shares in Shaftesbury at a price of 888p per share. If the tender is successful, the Lee family will control 13.2% […]

21 Jul 2015

Starwood increases size of placing to £24m

Starwood European Real Estate announced yesterday (20 July 2015) a placing to raise up to £15m before costs with the proceeds of the placing to be used to fund a loan currently in execution and other transactions that the Investment Adviser believes have a high probability of execution in the short term. Starwood has subsequently announced today […]

22 May 2015

Henderson value trust underperformance masks portfolio developments

Henderson Value Trust interim results for the half-year ended 31 March 2015 show a NAV total return of 0.4% which compares against a 12.4% rise in its FTSE World Index benchmark. However, the managers that this this masks some encouraging developments within the investment portfolio. They say that new investments made by Henderson, which were in […]

22 May 2015

Sirius Real Estate posts 26% like for like profit growth

Sirius Real Estate has announced its full year results for the year ended 13 March 2015. The company completed a dual listing on the Alternative Exchange of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in December 2014 and, at the same time, raised €40m to support the expansion of the property portfolio. The company has since announced the acquisition of […]