3i has announced that it completed the sale of 3i Debt Management to Investcorp. The transaction generates total cash proceeds to 3i of £270 million, of which £34 million relates to the repayment of loans provided to 3i Debt Management to fund two CLO warehouses, and an exceptional profit on disposal of £47 million, which […]
Blackstone / GSO Loan Financing has announced the result of its placing of Euro ordinary shares, which were issued under its placing programme. The Placing raised €72.8m (before costs and expenses) through the issue of 71,380,746 new Euro ordinary shares at a price of €1.02 per share. The Placing price represents a premium of approximately […]
Sirius Real Estate’s shares have been admitted to the premium segment of the London Stock Exchange’ main market for listed securities and have transferred from the Alt-X market of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange to its Main Board. SRE’s board expect this to have a number of benefits including: a more appropriate platform for the continued […]
BP Marsh & Partners has announced details of a share buyback policy. The company says that it is its ‘custom and intention, when the share price drops to more than 25% below its published Net Asset Value, to buy small parcels of shares and place them into Treasury and decide at a later point what […]
Macau Property Opportunities Fund Limited has announced results for the period ended 31 December 2016. MPO’s portfolio value appreciated 2.9% over the six-month period to US$405.0 million. Adjusted NAV per share improved 2.4% in H2 2016 to US$3.03 (245 pence*) per share. IFRS NAV increased 4.2% to US$111.1 million or US$1.45 (118 pence*) per share during the […]
New Star has announced its interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2016. During the period, the Trust provided an NAV Total return of 10.35%, whilst its share price returned 24.3%, reflecting a narrowing of the discount from 39.5% to 31.7%. The Trust says that, in comparison, the Investment Association’s Mixed Investment 40-85% […]
Foresight Solar (FSFL) has announced a range of measures. These include its intention to raise in excess of £50 million by way of an Initial Placing and Offer for Subscription, a secondary listing on the main board of the JSE (Johannesburg Stock Exchange) and Private Placement in South Africa. FSFL’s board also says that it […]
Epiris, the manager of Electra Private Equity, has announce that its portfolio company, AXIO Group, has agreed to sell RISI, an information provider for the global forest products industry, to Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (Euromoney) for $125 million. Espiris says that the sale, which remains subject to regulatory approvals, would be the sixth major realisation […]
For the year ended 31 December 2016 CatCo Reinsurance Opportunities achieved a net return for shareholders of 8.12 percent for the ordinary shares and 7.27 percent for the C shares. This is despite the number of significant catastrophic events that occurred during the year, making 2016 the worst year for insured losses since 2012 (Source: […]
FastForward Innovations Ltd has today reached agreement with Blue Star Capital PLC to sell its entire holding of 1,471 shares in investee company SatoshiPay Ltd. The disposal is conditional on Blue Star’s shareholders approving the issue of 268,213,880 consideration shares as the consideration will be satisfied via the issue of new shares in Blue Star. The price […]
