Investment Company News

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 […]

28 Jul 2016

JZ Capital invests in Oncology Services International

JZ Capital Partners Limited has closed an investment in Oncology Services International, Inc., its third investment through the Jordan Health Products platform. Jordan Health Products was formed in 2015 by Jordan Industries International, LLC and JZ Capital Partners to develop and execute a strategic build-up in the highly fragmented US healthcare equipment market. JZ Capital Partners invested $4.529 million in […]

28 Jul 2016

Gresham House to take on LMS Capital

LMS Capital  has announced proposals to change its investment policy and to return up to GBP6 million to Shareholders through a tender offer and repurchase of up to 7.72% of the issued share capital of the Company at a 5 per cent. discount to its net asset value per share as at 30 June 2016. If the […]

28 Jul 2016

Seneca Global Income & Growth gets debt facility for DCM

Seneca Global Income & Growth has announced that it has put in place an extension of GBP4 million to its existing rolling debt facility making the total facility available GBP11 million. This extension to the facility is on similar commercial terms to the facility announced on 2 November 2015 and the margin on the total […]

28 Jul 2016

Hg sells SFC Koenig

HgCapital, the Manager of HgCapital Trust, has announced that it has agreed the sale of SFC KOENIG, a Switzerland-based, leading provider of high-quality, sealing and flow control technology, to IDEX, a producer of highly engineered fluidics systems and components in the USA. Completion is subject to, amongst other things, regulatory approval. The Trust will realise […]

28 Jul 2016