Tritax Big Box REIT (Tritax) has announce that it has completed the land purchase and exchanged contracts to provide forward funding for the development of a new distribution centre at Signia Park, Didcot, Oxfordshire. The development is pre-let to Hachette UK Ltd (Hachette UK), a UK publishing company whose ultimate parent is Lagardere SCA. The […]
Over the six months to 31st December 2016, JPMorgan Emerging Market’s benchmark index, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (in sterling terms), rose 13.0%. For the same period, the company produced a total return on net assets of +7.4%. The return to shareholders over the first half of the financial year was higher, at +10.2%. This reflects a […]
Over the six months to 30 November 2016 the Net Asset Value per share of Jupiter European Opportunities rose by 1.2 per cent. This performance was behind the return on the benchmark index, which increased by 10.9 per cent. over the same period. It would be tempting to attribute this short period of underperformance to […]
Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust has completed the purchase of an industrial investment in Sunderland for GBP5.5m, representing an initial yield of 6.4%. The property is located close to the Nissan assembly plant and is let for a further 5 years to a major supplier for Nissan. The property has planning permission for a […]
LondonMetric Property has announced the acquisitions of a regional distribution warehouse in Wakefield for £9.5 million and a last mile distribution warehouse in Dartford for £6.3 million; reflecting a blended NIY of 5.8% and a reversionary yield of 6.4%. At Wakefield, LondonMetric has acquired a well specified 120,000 sq ft regional warehouse located on a […]
The Renewables Infrastructure Group has announced a total shareholder return for 2016 of 15.7% on a share price basis and 9.3% on a NAV basis. The NAV rose to 100.1p (2015: 99.0p). Excluding the impact of the accelerated payment of an additional quarter’s dividend during the year, NAV per share increased by 2.6p. Dividends of […]
Alliance Trust has released a statement in an attempt to clear up any perceived conflict of interest in the appointment of Willis Towers Watson. We have reproduced this in full below: As announced in May 2016, the Board of Alliance Trust undertook a Strategic Review of the Trust to determine its future direction. The Board […]
The SME Loan Fund is in discussions regarding proposals which it thinks, if implemented, should: address investors’ concerns regarding conflicts of interest between the Company, its current investment manager and its largest shareholder; provide the Company with access to a broader range of investment management skills through the appointment of SQN Capital Management, LLC (“SQN”) […]
The Board of Strategic Equity Capital understands that Harwood Capital Management and its representatives, of their own volition, are speaking to the company’s shareholders with a view to promoting a scheme that would result in Harwood, or an affiliate thereof, managing some or all of the company’s assets. The Board has been informed that Stuart […]
SEGRO says its EPRA NAV per share up was 8.0 per cent to 500 pence over the course of 2016. They say this was driven by a 4.8 per cent like-for-like increase in the value of the portfolio, reflecting development gains, UK rental growth and asset management activities. The 4.8% increase comprises a 4.5 per […]
