Investment Company News

21 Jul 2016

NB Distressed Debt to cancel CISE listing

NB Distressed Debt has announced its intention to cancel the listing of it shares on the Channel Islands Stock Exchange (CISE). The Company’s Shares are currently admitted to the SFS (Specialist Fund Section) of the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market and are also listed on the CISE. The Board says that one of the key […]

21 Jul 2016

John Laing Infrastructure Fund adds to Barcelona line 9 holdings

John Laing Infrastructure Fund has announce that, in accordance with the agreement that it announced on the 5 May 2016, it has now completed the acquisition of an additional 13.5% interest in the Barcelona Metro Stations Line 9 Section II project (pictured) and a 13.5% interest in the Barcelona Metro Stations Line 9 Section IV […]

20 Jul 2016

JPMorgan Brazil underperforms during a challenging year

JPMorgan Brazil has announced its final results for the year ended 30 April 2016. During the period, the trust provided and NAV total return of minus 14.4%, underperforming the benchmark, the MSCI Brazil 10/40 Index which returned minus 10.9%. Over the year the Company’s share price discount widened from 6.4% to 10.6% and, reflecting this, […]

20 Jul 2016

Invesco subscribes for 76.7% of Funding Circle SME Income Fund’s £14.5m placing

Funding Circle SME Income Fund has announced the results of its recent placing. 14,285,000 ordinary shares were placed at a price of £1.0153, raising gross proceeds of £14,503,561. The new shares are expected to be admitted to the LSE’s main market on 25 July 2016. The company says that two of the investors who participated […]

20 Jul 2016

Allianz Technology underperforms benchmark as investors seek safer stocks

Allianz Technology Trust has announced its interim results for the six months ended 31 May 2016. During the period the Trust’s NAV fell by 1.5% to 665.1p and its share price fell by 5.4% to 598.0p, both of which underperformed the trust’s benchmark, the Dow Jones World Technology Index, which increased by 2.7%. The discount […]

19 Jul 2016

Empiric Student Property puts financing in place for five forward funded assets

Empiric Student Property has announced that it has agreed a new £32.8m loan facility with AIB Group (UK). The Facility, which is secured against a portfolio of five forward funded assets, is a development loan which will be drawn down in agreed stages. The practical completion of all five forward funded assets expected by July […]

19 Jul 2016

Hammerson sells Manor Walks Shopping Centre, Cramlington, for £78m

Hammerson has announced that it has exchanged contracts for the sale of Manor Walks Shopping Centre, Cramlington, Northumberland to Arch Commercial Enterprise Ltd for £78m. Manor Walks adjoins Westmorland Retail Park and the two schemes form the core retail offer for Cramlington town centre situated nine miles north of Newcastle. Hammerson says that, further to […]

19 Jul 2016

Drum Income Plus REIT acquires 3 Lochside Way, Edinburgh Park, for £4.5m

Drum Income Plus REIT (DRIP REIT) has announced that it has acquired 3 Lochside Way, Edinburgh Park, for £4.5m. It says that the property is a 24,000 square foot Grade A office building, prominently situated, on Central Scotland’s premier business park with Lockheed Martin, Exception and GL Industrial Services as key tenants. The company says […]

18 Jul 2016

Hansteen gains power to manage and control the Ashtenne Industrial Fund’s activities

Hansteen has announced that it has acquired 66.7% of the share capital of Ashtenne Industrial Fund (General Partner) Limited from Norwich Union (Shareholder GP) Limited for £0.12 million in cash. Hansteen say that the net assets of the General Partner, at 31 December 2015, were £0.17 m and the profits for the year ended 31 […]