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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
F&C Managed Portfolio reports that, for the company’s financial year to 31 May 2016, the NAV total return (i.e. adding dividends paid to capital performance) was -4.8% for the Income shares and -4.5% for the Growth shares which represented outperformance against the -6.3% total return for the FTSE All-Share Index, the benchmark index for both […]