Investment Company News

11 Apr 2017

Taliesin reports 27% increase in NAV for 2016

Taliesin Property Fund reports that it s adjusted NAV per share rose 27.5% in 2016 to end the year at EUR37.53 (31 December 2015 EUR29.44, reflecting the EUR2 per share return of capital to shareholders during the period). On an EPRA basis, NAV per share was EUR36.87 at the end of 2016 (31 December 2015 EUR29.10). […]

11 Apr 2017

LXi building portfolio

The Board of LXi REIT has announced that: the Company has exchanged contracts to forward purchase the new Premier Inn hotel and Beefeater restaurant currently under construction at Spanish City Promenade, Whitley Bay, North Tyneside (the “Premier Inn Property”); and the Company has now completed on the acquisitions of the GE Oil & Gas facility […]

10 Apr 2017

Funding Circle SME Income’s C Share raises £142m

Funding Circle SME Income Fund (FCIF) has announced that its recent C share placing has seen 142,000,000 C Shares placed raising gross proceeds of £142 million. The net proceeds of the issue are to be used to purchase investments originated by Funding, save to the extent that some will be retained for working capital purposes, […]

10 Apr 2017

Industrial Multi Property Trust convenes EGM for 11 May 2017

Industrial Multi Property Trust is convening an Extraordinary General Meeting on 11 May 2017. The notice for the EGM includes four ordinary resolutions, including three requisitioned by Alpha Real Trust and one proposed by the Board of the Company. These are detailed below. The ordinary resolutions requisitioned by Alpha Real Trust: (1) THAT the Company […]

10 Apr 2017

SVG Capital returns £299m through undersubscribed tender offer

SVG Capital has announced the results of its Tender Offer which closed on 7 April 2017. The company says that 41,762,005 Ordinary Shares were validly tendered and will be purchased at a price per Ordinary Share of 715 pence, for a total cost of £298,598,335.75. This represents approximately 63.8 per cent. of the issued share […]

07 Apr 2017

Redefine International to acquire control of Leopard portfolio for €49m

Redefine International has announced that it has reached a conditional agreement to acquire control of the German Leopard Portfolio joint venture, in which it holds an existing 50 per cent. equity interest, for an aggregate consideration of €49 million (€49.4 million including transaction costs). Following the acquisition, Redefine International will hold an effective 94 per […]

07 Apr 2017

Electra Private Equity to receive £40m from the sale of its remaining stake in Hollywood Bowl

Epiris, the manager of Electra Private Equity (Electra), has announced that it has sold its remaining stake in Hollywood Bowl. Electra is to receive £40 million from the sale. This reportedly represents a small decrease in Electra’s NAV on the valuation of the investment at 30 September 2016 but, inclusive of proceeds already received, Espiris […]

07 Apr 2017

Custodian REIT announces new £50m term loan facility

Custodian REIT has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Aviva Investors Real Estate Finance (Aviva) for Aviva to provide it with a new term loan facility of £50m. The facility comprising two tranches: Tranche 1 is for £35m and Tranche 2 is for £15m. Custodian REIT says that it drew down Tranche […]

07 Apr 2017

Phoenix Spree Deutschland exits all of its Nuremberg and Fürth properties for €35.25m

Phoenix Spree Deutschland has announce that it has exchanged contracts to sell a portfolio of 17 non-core properties in Nuremberg and Fürth for an aggregate cash consideration of €35.25m. The properties were acquired in 2007 and 2008 for an aggregate purchase price of €13.9m and the sale proceeds represent an 11% premium to the 31 […]

07 Apr 2017

Scottish Mortgage raises £125 million in private debt placement

Scottish Mortgage has announced that it has agreed to raise a total of £125 million in long term, fixed rate, senior, unsecured private placement notes, denominated in sterling. The funds raised will be used to retire, in part, an existing bank debt facility of US$165 million which is to due to mature in early April […]