Hansa Trust, which has published results for the year ended 31 March 2016, says it has had a challenging year, particularly due to its exposure to the Brazilian market and the economic woes that Brazil continues to face. However, there have been a number of bright spots within the portfolio. The NAV has fallen from 1138.6p […]
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 […]
Gresham House Strategic has announced results for the year ended 31 March 2016. Since the new managers were appointed the NAV has returned 1.0% against a return of -2.8% for the FTSE Small cap. and -5.4% for the FTSE All-Share Index. Although they committed to distribute 50% of capital realisation gains through dividend, the board decided that for […]
Better Capital PCC has announced its final results for both its 2009 cell and 2012 cell for the year ended 31 March 2016. The company says that the 2009 Cell made good progress during the year and that this was mainly driven by Gardner’s sustained solid performance. It also says that the disposal of Santia, […]
Following on from its announcement in March, Safestore says the condition necessary to acquire Space Maker Stores Limited has been satisfied and completion of the acquisition is expected by 29 July 2016. The acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive to Group earnings per share from completion and will support the Group’s future dividend capacity. […]
John Laing Infrastructure has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Equitix to sell its entire 50% equity and sub-ordinated debt interest in the Newham Hospital PPP project and its entire 40% equity and sub-ordinated debt interest in the Barnsley BSF project, for a combined consideration of GBP43.3 million. The decision to divest […]
Picton Property has entered into a five year GBP27 million revolving credit facility (“RCF”) with Santander Corporate & Commercial Banking. The RCF, which is similar to the facility set up in March 2015, will provide the Group with greater operational flexibility. In addition to existing undrawn facilities, it can be used to meet the repayment […]
NewRiver Retail Limited has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Cuckoo Bridge Retail Park, Dumfries off-market from a large listed property company for a total consideration of GBP20.2 million. The acquisition equates to a net initial yield of 7.05%, an equivalent yield of 7.87% and a reversionary yield of 7.93%, with net rental income at […]
John Laing Infrastructure Fund Ltd notes that earlier today John Laing Group plc announced the conditional sale of its Project Management Services activities in the UK to HCP Management Services. The announcement explains that 62 of John Laing’s Management Services Agreements (“MSAs”) will, subject to John Laing obtaining consents at project level, transfer to HCP […]
