Investment Company News

20 Apr 2016

JPMorgan Elect is rollover vehicle for JPMorgan Income & Growth

The Board of JPMorgan Elect has announced that heads of terms have been agreed with the board of JPMorgan Income & Growth Investment Trust in relation to that company’s forthcoming reconstruction. JPMorgan Income & Growth, with £67.4m of net assets, has a fixed life and is due to wind up on or around 30 November […]

19 Apr 2016

Widening discount lets down Threadneedle UK Select

Threadneedle UK Select Trust’s net asset value total return was 5.7% for 2015, which compares favourably with the 1.0% total return from the FTSE All-Share Index, the benchmark against which the investment manager’s performance is measured. During the year under review, the share price decreased by 2.9% from 171.5p to 166.5p and the discount at which the […]

19 Apr 2016

HICL buys into road project

HICL Infrastructure Company Limited has announced the acquisition of a 30% interest in the M1-A1 Link Road (Lofthouse to Bramham) DBFO Road Project from Balfour Beatty plc for £14.5m. The project is a 30 year shadow toll PFI concession for the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of a motorway linking the M1, M621 and […]

19 Apr 2016

NB Global Floating Rate Income reports flat return for 2015

Between 31 December 2014 and 31 December 2015, NB Global Floating Rate Income’s NAV per share dropped by 3.77% and 3.56% for the U.S. Dollar Ordinary Share and Sterling Ordinary Share, respectively. The NAV return plus dividends declared in the year was 0.08% and 0.32% for the U.S. Dollar Ordinary Shares and Sterling Ordinary Shares, […]

19 Apr 2016

Bluefield Solar buys a plant in Derby

The Board of the Bluefield Solar Income Fund Limited has entered into a binding sale and purchase agreement to acquire a 4.1 megawatt peak (“MWp”) ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (“PV”) plant and announces the successful connection prior to 31 March 2016 of the construction assets previously acquired. Bluefiled Solar Income has acquired Bluefield Harrier Limited for £14.4m (including working […]

19 Apr 2016

Standard Life Investments Property Income had a great 2015

Standard Life Investments Property Income delivered both strong NAV and share price performance over the course of 2015. The NAV total return for the year was 15.5%, driven by strong capital growth in the property portfolio. The share price total return was 15.5% and the Company’s shares continued to trade at a premium to NAV of […]

19 Apr 2016

Jupiter Dividend & Growth beats UK market by some margin

Jupiter Dividend & Growth Trust outperformed the FTSE All-Share Index by some margin in 2015 – the total assets rose by 6.9% against a 2.5% fall in the index (both capital only).  The fund has zero dividend preference shares, whose net asset value rose by 7%; ordinary income shares, whose asset value rose marginally from […]

19 Apr 2016

Third Point Offshore NAV slips in 2015

During 2015, the Third Point Offshore’s net asset value depreciated approximately 3% across both share classes (-2.58% on the US dollar share class and -2.92% on the Sterling share class). The performance was driven primarily by negative returns in the long equity portfolio managed by Third Point LLC (the “Investment Manager”) in the volatile investment environment […]

19 Apr 2016

LIM Asia sets out its case against Atlantis Japan

  LIM Asia Multi Strategy has published its reasons for requisitioning a meeting to restructure Atlantis Japan. We reproduce this in full below: “Proposal for the reconstruction and/or liquidation of Atlantis Japan Growth Fund Limited (“Atlantis Japan” or “the Fund”) LIM Advisors has published a letter to shareholders of Atlantis Japan (“Shareholders”), detailing its concerns […]

18 Apr 2016

Custodian buys retail property in Chester

Custodian REIT has acquired a high street retail unit in Chester, let to TSB Limited and Ciel (Concessions) Limited (trading as Chesca).  The property is located in the city centre on the pedestrianised Eastgate Street near Cath Kidston, Jack Wills, Kuoni Travel, H Samuel, Fat Face and Jaeger. The tenants’ leases expire between September 2019 […]