Investment Company News

16 Jun 2016

Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust prepares to launch its zero discount policy

Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust has announced that it has submitted a blocklisting application for 3,989,636 new ordinary shares (10% of the trust’s existing share capital). The trust says that block listing will be used for the purposes of operating its discount (and premium) control mechanism policy, details of which were announced on 10 […]

16 Jun 2016

Considerable NAV growth in first half for Safestore

Safestore’s EPRA NAV rose by 18.8% over the six months ended 30 April 2016 and the interim dividend was raised by 20% to 3.6p. Underlying, like-for-like EBITDA rose by 12.7% to £29.3m as occupancy rose by 2% to 70.9% and average storage rates rose by 4.7% to £26.02. Safestore has delivered a strong financial performance […]

16 Jun 2016

Invesco’s Rhys Davies promoted to portfolio manager for City Merchants High Yield

City Merchants High Yield Trust has announced that Rhys Davies (pictured) has been promoted to portfolio manager with effect from 14 June 2016. Rhys has been deputy portfolio manager of the trust since 2 June 2014, having joined Invesco in 2002. He will co-manage the trust’s portfolio alongside Paul Causer and Paul Read. Invesco’s Rhys […]

16 Jun 2016

Aurora publishes first annual report since new manager

Aurora Investment Trust has published its first annual report since the management of the company was passed to Phoenix Asset Management. The report covers the year ended 29 February 2016 – Phoenix took up the reins on 28 January 2016 so most of the performance of the fund over this period is attributable to the […]

16 Jun 2016

CC Japan Income posts inaugural results

CC Japan Income & Growth Trust has published inaugural results covering the period from its launch on 15 December 2015 to the end of April 2016. At the end of April the NAV was 103.92p and the share price 107.25p. On a total return basis the fund had outperformed the Topix Index, returning 3.9% against […]

16 Jun 2016

Hg Capital selling Mainio Vire

HgCapital, the Manager of HgCapital Trust plc, has announced that it has agreed the sale of Mainio Vire, a leading provider of elderly care, mental health and home services in Finland, to Mehiläinen, a private provider of social and health care services also based in Finland. Completion is subject to regulatory approval. Based on the […]

15 Jun 2016

Starwood European Real Estate Finance provides a €31.2m loan for Dublin logistics assets

Starwood European Real Estate Finance has announced that it has committed to a €31.2m five year floating rate whole loan to support the acquisition of a portfolio of fully let prime logistics assets in Dublin. The Loan has an initial drawdown of €17.6m with the remaining €13.6m to be advanced in conjunction with the deferred […]

15 Jun 2016

New India benefits from resilient holdings

New India Investment Trust has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2016. During the year the trust provided an NAV total return of -6.1% and, reflecting a widening of the discount during the period (from 8.7% to 13.5%), a share price total return of -11.0% (all in sterling terms). This compares […]

15 Jun 2016

SEGRO transfers big box warehouses and development land into the SELP JV

SEGRO has announced that it has transferred a portfolio big box warehouses and development land into its SELP joint Venture (SELP or the SEGRO European Logistics Partnership is a 50:50 joint venture between SEGRO and a Canadian Pension Fund) for €89.4m. SEGRO’s strategy is to hold Continental European big box warehouses and development land primarily […]

14 Jun 2016

Sequoia Economic Infrastructure eyes “exceedingly large” target market

Sequoia Economic Infrastructure has published its first set of accounts since its initial IPO – covering the period from incorporation on 30 December 2014, through its initial flotation on 3 March 2015 through to the end of March 2016. The company’s NAV rose moderately from 98.0p per ordinary share to 98.2p. Since the IPO and […]