Investment Company News

01 Mar 2017
Pacific Horizon’s biotech positions and Samsung underweight lead to modest underperformance

Pacific Horizon’s biotech positions and Samsung underweight lead to modest underperformance

Pacific Horizon (PHI), managed by Ewan Markson-Brown (pictured), has announced its interim results for the six months ended 31 January 2017. During the period, the Trust’s NAV total return was 9.7%. The share price total return was 8.0% as the discount widened from 10.1% to 11.4%. The Trust says that, over the same period the […]

01 Mar 2017

Riverstone Energy strong NAV growth, of 26.1%, driven by the sale of Rock Oil and valuation uplifts

Riverstone Energy (RSE) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2016. During the period, RSE saws its NAV increase by 26.1% to $20.11 per share and that the impact of Brexit, through the devaluation of sterling, contributed to the sterling NAV per share increasing by 50.5% to £5.47. RSE says that […]

01 Mar 2017

Symphony International sees NAV fall reflecting uncertainties towards the end of 2016

Symphony International Holdings Limited (SIHL) has announced its results for the year ended 31 December 2016. During the period, SIHL’s fully diluted NAV per share fell by 7.9% to US$1.1988. The company’s chairman, Pierangelo Bottinelli, says that 2016 was a volatile year but that Asia experienced more of an impact in the fourth quarter as […]

01 Mar 2017

Board of Tritax Big Box REIT secures new £90m loan facility

Tritax Big Box REIT has announced that it has agreed a new long-term, interest only, fixed rate term loan facility of £90 million with PGIM Real Estate Finance, secured against a portfolio of three standing assets and one forward funded asset. The 10-year Facility, which will be drawn in full immediately, is repayable on 2 […]

28 Feb 2017

Another good year of performance for Rights and Issues

Rights and Issues says 2016 proved to be a very strange year. the UK market rose by 12.5% and the small cap market by 11% but, once the fall in sterling following the June referendum result is factored in, a more sombre picture emerges. By contrast, the net asset value of the fund’s Income shares increased by 29.5% to 2002.2p. […]

28 Feb 2017

Fundsmith Emerging caught by Indian demonetisation

Fundsmith Emerging Equities returned 12% in NAV terms over the course of 2016. This was well behind the return on the MSCI Emerging and Frontier Markets Index (measured on a net sterling adjusted basis) which returned 32.4%. Shareholders were also affected by a narrowing of the premium. Returns to shareholders were 10.5%. The Board has […]

28 Feb 2017

Scottish Mortgage makes FTSE100

Scottish Mortgage will be promoted to the FTSE100 list Update 1 March Scottish Mortgage announces that, in recognition of its continued growth and success, there will be a cut in the annual management fees for the company, effective from 1 April 2017. Scottish Mortgage already enjoys one of the lowest ongoing charges levels in the […]

28 Feb 2017

RIT Capital ups exposure to absolute return and credit

RIT Capital Partners says its net asset value per share increased to 1,730 pence during 2016, representing a return of 12.1%. Its shares traded at a premium which averaged 4.6% during the course of the year and total shareholder returns amounted to 14.2%. The dividend was edged up to 31p from 30p. They intend to pay a […]

28 Feb 2017

Law Debenture says tax changes will hit its distributable income

Law Debenture says its net asset value total return for the year to 31 December 2016 was up 16.9%, compared to a total return of 16.8% for the UK market. Revenue return per share was 18.56p (excluding group charges of 2.60p), an increase of 2.5% over the previous year, as a result of a 1.2% […]

28 Feb 2017

Cash drag holds back earnings at Primary Health Properties

Primary Health Properties says its EPRA NAV per share increased from 87.7p to 91.1p over the course of 2016. The dividend was raised from 5p to 5.125p. The first quarterly dividend of the new year has been set at 1.31pEPRA earnings per share were lower at 4.8p, down from 4.9p on the back of increased […]