Empiric Student Property has announced that it has acquired Pennine House, a 127 bed student accommodation property in Leeds, for £17.8 million (excluding costs). The property comprises a mix of studios and two-bed en-suite apartments across eight floors together with communal facilities including a gym, cinema room, study rooms and a common room. The property […]
JPMorgan Claverhouse has announced changes to its investment management fee arrangements, which it says are intended to be more appropriate for attracting private wealth and retail investors. With effect from 1st July 2016, the investment trust’s performance fee will be terminated and the management fee will be charged at an amended annual rate of 0.60% […]
Secure Property Development & Invest has announced that it has signed heads of terms, with Temania Enterprises Ltd, for the sale of its Kiev based warehouse, Terminal Brovary, at a Gross Asset Value exceeding US$16m (before deducting the outstanding EBRD attached loan). The company says that, as completion of the disposal is subject to a […]
Tetragon Financial Group Master Fund, a subsidiary of Tetragon Financial Group, has announced the Final Results of its tender offer (a modified Dutch auction) to purchase shares in Tetragon Financial Group Limited. In accordance with the terms of the Offer, the Master Fund has accepted for purchase 9,999,997 TFG non-voting shares at a purchase price […]
Templeton Emerging Markets has published its results for the year ended 31 March 2016. TEMIT’s benchmark index declined by 8.8%. Unfortunately, the NAV suffered a much worse decline of 17.1% and the return to shareholders was -17.0% (all figures on a total return basis). Without the gains from share buy backs, the relative performance would have been rather worse. The […]
Workspace has published results for the year ended 31 March 2016. At the end of the period, the EPRA NAV per share was GBP9.23, an increase of 31.3% over the year. The Board is recommending an increase in the final dividend to 10.19p per share. This represents an increase in the total dividend for the […]
Canadian General Investments, Limited announced today that it has entered into an agreement with a Canadian chartered bank for a $75 million three-year fixed rate secured credit facility. Proceeds from the facility will be used to fund the previously announced June 10, 2016 redemption of its $75 million 3.90% Cumulative Redeemable Class A Preference Shares, […]
Monks lagged its benchmark a little over the year to 30 April 2016 – the first year that a new investment team, led by Charles Plowden, has been in charge of the portfolio. Monks’ net asset value total return was minus 0.4% compared to a total return of 0.5% for the FTSE World Index (in sterling […]
Bluefield Solar is seeking approval from shareholders for an amendment to the company’s investment policy which would, if approved, enable it to incur long term structural debt at the holding company level. The existing investment policy envisages that Bluefield Solar will only use short term debt at the holding company level. Shareholders should note that the proposed […]
Perpetual Income & Growth has published results for the year ended 31 March 2016. Over that period its net asset value was unchanged. By contrast, the return on the FTSE All-Share Index was -3.9%. The discount widened however and so the return to shareholders was -2.9%. The dividend was increased by 4.1% to 12.8p and […]
