Investment Company News

01 Aug 2016

European Real Estate Investment Trust to return €20.7m following Panrico sale

European Real Estate Investment Trust has announced that it is to return €20.7m to shareholders by way of a compulsory partial redemption of shares. The capital return, which is equivalent to 115 pence per share, follows the sale of Panrico on 11 August 2016. The company says that the return represents a substantial proportion of […]

01 Aug 2016

Seneca Global Income & Growth goes live with zero discount policy

Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust has announced that its new discount control mechanism (DCM), which is designed to ensure that the company trades close to net asset value, takes effect from 1 August 2016. The policy is described in more detail in the company’s most recent annual results but, in summary, the company will […]

29 Jul 2016

Intu says too early to tell what impact Brexit will have

Intu says its NAV (adjusted and diluted) barely changed (up to 405p from 404p) and like-for-like net rental income increased by 7.5 per cent in the first six months of 2016, reflecting increased occupancy, improving rental levels from new lettings and rent reviews and the benefits of unit reconfigurations. They signed 98 long-term leases (82 in the […]

29 Jul 2016

Custodian REIT sells Dudley hotel

Custodian REIT has sold a 22,317 sq ft hotel on Castlegate Business and Leisure Park, Dudley for GBP4.45 million, GBP0.34 million ahead of the 31 March 2016 valuation.  The property is let to Premier Inn Hotels Limited on a lease expiring in 2038. The property was part of the initial portfolio acquired on the Company’s admission […]

29 Jul 2016

Invesco Perpetual Select results

Invesco Perpetual Select has published its annual report for the year that ended on 31 May 2016. The NAV total return of the UK Equity Portfolio over the year was -1.4%, which compares with the total return of -6.3% posted by the FTSE All-Share Index. The NAV total return of the Global Equity Income Portfolio over […]

29 Jul 2016

Fidelity Japanese Values has great first half

Fidelity Japanese Values says the NAV of the company increased by 15.1% in sterling terms over the six months to 30 June 2016, outperforming the Russell Nomura Mid/Small Cap Index, which gained by 7.0% during the same period, and performing in line with the peer group, which achieved a 15% uplift. The excess return generated […]

29 Jul 2016

Henderson High Income confident of maintaining dividend for now

Henderson High Income says, during the challenging six months to 30 June 2016, the Company delivered a net asset value total return of -0.65%, underperforming the benchmark total return of 4.87% for the same period.  The premium at which the Company’s  shares traded to their net asset value narrowed and fell to a discount of […]

29 Jul 2016

Law Debenture swaps Henderson OEICs for Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies

Law Debenture says its Net Asset Value total return for the six months to 30 June 2016 was 1.5%, compared to a total return of 4.3% for the FTSE Actuaries All-Share Index. Most of this underperformance arose from the movement in fair value of our long term debt as a result of lower gilt yields. […]

29 Jul 2016

Foreign and Colonial plans dividend increase in 2016

Foreign and Colonial’s 7.7% NAV return for the first six months of 2016 compared favourably to returns of its peers although it lagged the 12.0% rise in the FTSE All World Index over the period.  Shareholder returns were 3.0% as uncertainty over Brexit led to a general widening in discounts across the sector, with the discount […]

29 Jul 2016

Scottish American ahead in H1

Scottish American says the net asset value total return for the first six months of 2016 was 14.0% and the share price total return was 12.0%. The total return of the global equities, as measured by the FTSE All World Index in sterling, was 12.0%. Over the six month period 235,000 shares were issued at a […]