Investment Company News

19 Jun 2017

Utilico Emerging lags rising global emerging index

Utilico Emerging lags rising global emerging index as shareholders trail MSCI return by 12.2%. Utilico Emerging has announced an NAV total return (adjusted for the exercise of subscription shares) of 26.2% for the full year to 31 March 2017. However, someone who just held the ordinary shares and no subscription shares would have made a […]

19 Jun 2017

John Laing Environmental extends credit facility

John Laing Environmental extends credit facility for a further year – John Laing Environmental Assets, the listed environmental infrastructure fund, has signed a new three-year (with an uncommitted option to extend for a further year) facilities agreement which provides for a committed revolving credit facility of GBP130 million and an uncommitted accordion facility of up to […]

19 Jun 2017

Workspace Group selling third phase of Bow Enterprise Park for £6.3m

Workspace Group (Workspace) has announced that it has exchanged contracts for the disposal of the third and final phase of the mixed-use redevelopment of Bow Enterprise Park, E3. It says that the final phase of the redevelopment, comprising 130 residential units, has been sold for £6.3m in cash and the return of a new 40,000 […]

19 Jun 2017

Polar Capital raises £59.4m for Healthcare Trust

Polar Capital raises £59.4m for Healthcare Trust. Results of the Open Offer, Offer for Subscription and Initial Placing of New Ordinary Shares New ordinary shares will be issued under the initial placing at 213.8p, (this price is calculated as the prevailing Net Asset Value as at the close of business on 15 June 2017 plus the Placing […]

19 Jun 2017

Hansteen completes €1.28bn disposal of German and Dutch portfolios

  Hansteen Holdings has announced that it has completed the disposal of its German and Dutch portfolios for €1.28 billion. The sale, originally announced on 20 March 2017, is entities owned by funds advised by affiliates of The Blackstone Group L.P. and M7 Real Estate. Hansteen says that the transaction has resulted in net cash […]

19 Jun 2017

HgCapital invests in business messaging service, Esendex

HgCapital invests in business messaging service, Esendex – HgCapital, the Manager of HgCapital Trust, has today announced an investment in Esendex, a leading provider of mission-critical business messaging services across Europe. On completion of the transaction, Esendex will be merged with existing Mercury portfolio company Mobyt, which provides similar business messaging services in Italy and France. […]

16 Jun 2017

LMS Capital assessing tender proposals in light of YesTo realisation

LMS Capital has announced that it has been informed by the general partner of the San Francisco Equity Partners Funds (SFEP Funds) that the funds have received cash proceeds from a partial realisation of holdings in YesTo and that the general partner intends shortly, to make a distribution. LMS Capital says that, whilst it not […]

16 Jun 2017

Adamas Finance Asia receives circa US$8.6m in relation to put option

Adamas Finance Asia has announced that, further to its previous announcement on 24 February 2017 in relation to the proposed disposal of its interest in the Tian Tong Shan Villa Project, the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Lead Winner Limited, has received a payment of HKD$52,353,176 (approximately US$6.8 million) in final settlement of the amount due […]

16 Jun 2017

NewRiver REIT raises £225m at 335p per share

NewRiver REIT has announced the results of its capital raising, which was conducted as an accelerated book build. It says that subject to the necessary resolutions being passed at the General Meeting ,which is expected to be convened to be held on or around 4 July 2017, in aggregate, 67,164,179 New Ordinary Shares are to […]