Investment Company News

22 Jun 2016

John Laing Infrastructure – changes to management services agreements

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 […]

22 Jun 2016

Utilico Emerging’s portfolio beats benchmark by big margin

Utilico Emerging Markets recovered nearly all the losses it suffered in the first six months of the financial year and ended the year to 31 March 2016 almost unchanged at 202.52p. Based on a total return to an ordinary shareholder who received one subscription share for every five shares held, the total return on basic […]

21 Jun 2016

Woodford comments on Circassia

In its latest blog, Woodford Patient Capital has commented on the dramatic fall in the price of its largest investment, Circassia. You can read the blog in full here. “[Circassia] has this morning announced the failure of its high-profile phase III study into its cat allergy vaccine. This is undoubtedly a disappointing development. We had high […]

21 Jun 2016

Custodian REIT buys £11.5m property portfolio

Custodian REIT has announced the acquisition of an GBP11.5 million portfolio of three properties. The Portfolio comprises: a 25,471 sq ft office on Pegasus Business Park, Castle Donington, adjacent to East Midlands Airport and Junction 23A of the M1, let to National Grid plc with an unexpired lease term of 6.2 years; a 16,470 sq […]

21 Jun 2016

F&C Commercial Property extends borrowing facilities

The Board of F&C Commercial Property has announced that it has agreed amended financing arrangements with Barclays Bank PLC to the existing GBP50 million term loan facility between SCP Estate Holdings Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, and Barclays which was repayable in June 2017. The amended arrangements extend the repayment date of the […]

20 Jun 2016

Ecofin Water & Power sells Direct Energie stake

Ecofin Water & Power Opportunities has announced the successful placement of its entire equity holding in Direct Energie, representing 4.37% of Direct Energie’s share capital. Pursuant to the placing, the sale of this holding, which represented 8.2% of the Company’s portfolio at 15 June, 2016, will raise GBP34.9 million.  By 15 June, 2016, the shares […]

20 Jun 2016

GCP Student Living funds Wembley development

The Directors of GCP Student Living plc have announced that the Group has taken advantage of a rare opportunity to acquire a large scale, modern, purpose-built private student residential accommodation forward-funded development in London. The Directors believe that London retains a unique supply-demand imbalance for private student residential accommodation in the UK, with a shortage […]

20 Jun 2016

Intu takes full ownership of Merry Hill

intu properties announces that it has exchanged contracts with the Queensland Investment Corporation (“QIC”) to acquire the remaining 50 per cent of the Merry Hill estate for GBP410 million before expenses. This represents an income yield of 5.2 per cent, based on net rental income of GBP43 million. The estate comprises the intu Merry Hill […]

20 Jun 2016

Funding Circle completes EIB deal

Funding Circle SME Income Fund Limited has announced that the company has now entered into a formal agreement with Funding Circle Limited and the European Investment Bank (“EIB”). The EIB will provide a GBP100 million loan to advance credit to UK SME loans via the Funding Circle marketplace. The Company will contribute GBP25 million to the […]

20 Jun 2016

Hammerson sells Thurrock Shopping Park

Hammerson plc ) has exchanged contracts and completed the sale of Thurrock Shopping Park, Essex, to TH Real Estate for GBP93 million. The park comprises two retail schemes with net internal area of 25,500m(2) and is situated next to junction 31 of the M25. Tenants include M&S, Gap, Pets at Home, Decathlon, Boots, Evans Cycles […]