Further to its announcement on 18 March of the board’s intention to put proposals to shareholders for a manage wind-down of the trust, Dunedin Enterprise has now announced its proposals. Is summary, a general meeting is being convened for 11 March for the purpose of putting proposals to shareholders to change the trust’s investment policy […]
Empiric Student Property has announced that it has entered into a nomination agreement with the University of Bath in respect of three operating properties and two forward committed assets in Bath. The three operating properties are Piccadilly Place (pictured), Canal Bridge and Widcombe Wharf, whilst the two forward committed assets (due for completion in September 2016) […]
Baring Emerging Europe, managed by Matthias Siller (pictured) has announced that that an agreement has been reached with Baring Fund Managers Limited to remove the performance fee element of the management agreement with effect from 31 March 2016. Under the previous arrangement, Barings was entitled to a performance fee payable at the rate of 10% […]
BH Macro has announced that it proposes to make a tender offer to acquire up to 25% of the issued shares of each share class of the company. The company says that it is making the tender offer in order to provide shareholders with an opportunity for more liquidity than is offered by on-market purchases […]
NextEnergy Solar has announced the acquisition of a portfolio of five operating plants totalling 84.2MWp for £97.9m. Completion is expected by mid April. The portfolio comprises Great Wilbraham (38.1MWp), Branston (18.9MWp), Bottom Plain (10.1MWp), Emberton (9.0MWp) and Berwick (8.2MWp). All these plants are connected and accredited under 1.4 Renewable Obligation Certificate (“ROC”) regime. NESF has put in […]
F&C Commercial Property reports that its net asset value total return for the year was 15.9 per cent and the share price total return was 2.8 per cent. The total return from the portfolio was 14.3 per cent, which compares favourably with a total return of 13.3 per cent from the Investment Property Databank (‘IPD’) […]
Project Finance Investments Limited has announced two loans of up to cGBP26m in aggregate to finance construction projects for a private residential care home and a municipal recycling facility. The terms of the loans are c.17 years and c.15 years respectively. Each loan is secured by way of a first ranking charge against the relevant […]
Menhaden Capital published its first set of results on 31 March 2016. these cover the period from its incorporation, through its listing on 31 July 2015 and up to 31 December 2015. Menhaden’s net asset value decreased from 97.7p (post IPO expenses of 2.3p) to 83.9p, representing a decline of 14.1% for the five months […]
The Board of Aberdeen Private Equity Fund Limited has announced that it has signed a supplemental agreement to amend the terms of its existing secured £15m multi-currency revolving credit facility with Lloyds Bank plc to a secured £40m four year multi-currency revolving credit facility. The facility will be available for general corporate and working capital purposes in accordance […]
Pacific Assets say that, during the year ended 31 January 2016, the company’s net asset value per share total return was -6.6%. For comparison, the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index, measured on a total return, sterling adjusted basis, fell by 13.1%. A narrowing of the discount of the company’s share price to its net […]