BlackRock Latin American benefitted from the recovery in regional stock markets over the six months ended 30 June 2016 but underperformed its benchmark. The MSCI EM Latin America Index ended the period up by 25.7% in US dollar terms (38.6% in sterling terms). By comparison the NAV increased by 23.0% in US dollar terms (35.6% in […]
Over the year to the end of June 2016, Murray Income Trust’s net asset value (total return) outperformed its benchmark, rising by 5.9%, compared to 2.2% for the FTSE All-Share Index. The Board is recommending a final dividend of 11.25p, which makes a total for the year of 32.25p, an increase of 0.8%. The shares produced a […]
Foresight Solar Fund has announced the results of its placing of 28.2m treasury shares. Then placing, which was originally announced on 5 September 2016, was oversubscribed and £28.9m of gross proceeds have been raised. The fund says that a total of 28,152,143 Ordinary Shares will be sold out of Treasury at the Placing price of […]
Derwent London has announced that it has sold its long leasehold interest in 75 Wells Street, London W1, for £40.9m before costs. The purchaser was a private investor and the company says that the sale price was in line with December 2015 and June 2016 valuations. According to Derwent London, 75 Wells Street (pictured) is […]
Martin Currie Global Portfolio has announced results for the six months ended 31 July 2016. It underperformed its benchmark, the FTSE World Index, over this period. Its net asset value increased by 17.6% on a total return basis and the share price total return was 19.8%, compared to the benchmark return of 20.3%. The total dividend for […]
Over the six months ended 30 June 2016, Aberdeen Small Companies Income’s NAV was down 6.3% on a total return basis, underperforming its benchmark, the FTSE Small Cap ex-IT index, which was down 4.6% on the same basis. The equity portfolio contributed a return, relative to the index, of -1.0%, offset slightly by a positive […]
EPE Special Opportunities has announced interim results for the six months ended 31 July 2016. The NAV at 31 July 2016 was 187.89 pence per share, an increase of 17.4% on the NAV per share of 160.00 pence as at 31 January 2016. The share price at 31 July 2016 was 148.50 pence, representing an increase of 19.3% on the […]
Secure Income REIT has announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2016. These show a 6.2% increase in its EPRA NAV to 300.2 pence per share and a near doubling of its adjusted EPRA EPS to 5.4p, up from 2.9p in the six months to 31 December 2015 and (0.3)p in the six […]
Over the year to the end of June 2016 Aberdeen Frontier Markets’ net asset value per share and share price declined by 13.6% and 16.0% respectively compared to a decline of 12.1% in the MSCI Frontier Markets Net Total Return Index. The Board is proposing to pay an initial dividend in respect of the second half […]
Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust, managed by Jason Baggaley (pictured), has announced its results for the six months ended 30 June 2016. During the period, the trust provided an NAV total return of 2.3% although NAV per share fell from 82.2p per share, as at 31 December 2015, to 81.8p per share as at 30 […]
