UK Commercial Property Trust Limited has announced that on 24 June 2016 it completed the sale of Dolphin House, an office in Sunbury-on-Thames, having also completed the sale, earlier in the month, of 6 Arlington Street, in London’s St James’s. The sales were completed in two separate transactions for a total consideration of GBP45.6 million, […]
Picton Property Income has announced results for the year ended 31 March 2016. The EPRA NAV increased by 12.7% to 77 pence per share. EPRA earnings increased by 30.1% to GBP19.9 million, equivalent to EPS of 3.7 pence per share (up 8.3% on the year before). The dividend has been increased by 10% to 3.3p. The total […]
The year to the end of April was a difficult one for Asian funds. Invesco Asia outperformed however, returning -7.1% on net assets against -14.3% for the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index. The return to shareholders was -10.3% (the discount widened from 9.8% to 13.1%). The dividend is being maintained at 3.65p. At the […]
Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment Company beat its benchmark over the six months ended 30 April 2016. The company’s net asset value total return for the period was 6.1%, comparing favourably with a return of 5.6% from the benchmark index, the MSCI Emerging Markets Net Total Return Index (in sterling terms). The share price total return […]
Over the six months to the end of March 2016 Geiger Counter’s net asset value rose by 28.9%. The Company’s share price lagged the increase in the net asset value rising 11.5 per cent over the six months. As a result the discount widened to reach 25.7 per cent at the end of March. The […]
Jupiter Green has published results for the year ending 31 March 2016. During the period under review, the total return on the net assets, adjusted for share cancellations decreased by 1.0 per cent. This compares with a decrease in the Company’s benchmark index, the MSCI World Small Cap Index Total Return of 2.4 per cent. […]
Target Healthcare REIT Limited has announced that it has completed the acquisition of a modern, purpose built care home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire for approximately GBP7.9 million including acquisition costs. The home was completed in 2010 and the striking modern design was award-nominated. It comprises 66 bedrooms with full en-suite bathrooms with wetroom showers, spread over […]
Funding Circle SME Income Fund has published its first set off accounts, covering the period from launch to 31 March 2016. At the end of the period the NAV was 98.85p and the share price 93p putting the shares on a 5.9% discount. They said at IPO that they were targeting an annual dividend of […]
F&C Global Smaller Companies, chaired by Anthony Townsend (pictured), has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 April 2016. During the period, the trust provided an NAV total return of 3.5% beating its benchmark (a 70%/30% blend of the MSCI All Country World ex UK Small Cap Index and Numis UK Smaller Companies Index), […]
The Brunner Investment Trust announced today that Lucy Macdonald, who has been co-managing Brunner since 2005, will become the manager of the Trust from 23 June 2016. This follows the departure of Jeremy Thomas who has been co-managing the Trust with Lucy since 2010. Lucy is Chief Investment Officer, Global Equities at Allianz Global investors […]
