EP Global Opportunities made 26.9% on net assets over the course of 2016. The dividend for the year was 5.3p. The return was a bit behind that of the All-World Index which returned 29.6%. The manger’s report says that US exploration and production company, Apache, was one of the best performing stocks in the portfolio in […]
Secure Income REIT has published its results for the year ended 31 December 2016. EPRA NAV per share was up 14.4% to 323.6p and adjusted EPRA EPS was up over 330% to 11.3p for the year (from 2.6p). Quarterly distributions commenced in August 2016 and the company is currently yielding an annualised 4.1% on 31 December 2016 EPRA NAV. […]
Capital & Regional has announced results for the year ended 30 December 2016. EPRA NAV fell to 68p from 71p while adjusted earnings per share rose by 11.7% to 3.8p (based on earnings of £26.8m, also up 11.7%), allowing them to fully fund a dividend of 3.39p, up 8.7% on the previous year. The chairman says […]
Target Healthcare REIT has completed the acquisition of two purpose built care homes in the village of Three Legged Cross near Wimborne, Dorset for an undisclosed price. The two homes are adjacent to each other and comprise a total of 70 bedrooms. Acorn Lodge was built in 2012 and has a total of 26 bedrooms with […]
European Assets delivered a 7.4% return on NAV for the year ended 31 December 2016 compared to a 23.3% return on the Euromoney Smaller European Companies Index. The Board has already announced a total dividend for 2017 of Euro 0.7884 per share (2016: Euro 0.912 per share, net of Dutch withholding tax) will be paid. This […]
Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust has, through the Dunedin Buyout Fund III, invested GBP5.9 million in Forensic Risk Alliance. Dunedin Enterprise will have an interest of 6.5% in the company. Forensic Risk Alliance is an international consultancy business that provides forensic accounting, data analytics and e-discovery expertise to help businesses manage risk in an increasingly regulated global […]
GCP Student Living plc has exchanged contracts to secure the acquisition of Woburn Place, a private student accommodation asset located at a prime central London position in Bloomsbury, WC1. Woburn Place, which is currently owned and operated by Unite Students, is within short walking distance of University College London (c.38,000 students from 150 countries), SOAS […]
SME Loan Fund says that demand from investors to participate in the secondary placing of the 25,270,763 shares in SMEF held by GLI Finance Limited has significantly exceeded the number of SMEF shares available and, accordingly, investor participations are being scaled back. The secondary placing will be completed today. GLI Finance has agreed to acquire for cash the loans […]
Foreign & Colonial (FRCL) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2016. During a year that the Trust’s chairman describes as being extraordinary, in terms of political events, stock market returns and sterling weakness, FRCL has provided an NAV total return of 23.9% and a share price total return of 23.7%. […]
Aberdeen UK Tracker Trust has announced that it has published a circular to Shareholders in connection with its proposals to reconstruct and wind-up the company. These proposals relate to its previous announcement on 30 November 2016, that its board had agreed heads of terms for a merger with Aberdeen Diversified Income and Growth Trust (ADIGT) […]
