Investment Company News

18 Mar 2016

Atlantis Japan Growth Fund under attack from LIM Asia Multi-Strategy Fund

Atlantis Japan Growth Fund has announced that, on 17 March 2016, it received from LIM Asia Multi-Strategy Fund Inc. (a registered holder of more than 10% of the issued share capital), a requisition to convene a general meeting of the company. The company says that the purpose of the requisitioned meeting is to consider a […]

18 Mar 2016

Funding Circle SME Income’s negotiations with the European Investment Bank are at an advanced stage

Funding Circle SME Income Fund has announced that, further to the statement made in the its prospectus relating to a possible participation in a financing project with the European Investment Bank, negotiations have reached an advance stage and they say they are working towards a completion of such an arrangement in the second quarter of […]

18 Mar 2016

JPMorgan Global Convertible Income – not as defensive as they’d hoped for

JPMorgan Global Convertible Income Fund has released its interim results for the half-year ended 31 December 2015. During the period, the company’s NAV total return was -3.4% and the share price total return was -7.8%. The company says that whilst NAV performance was stronger than the broader convertibles market, the concurrence of declines in equity […]

17 Mar 2016

LondonMetric Property buys three distribution warehouses

LondonMetric Property has announced that it has acquired three distribution warehouses for £21.8m, totalling 212,600 sq ft and reflecting a net initial yield (“NIY”) of 6.6%, which contractually rises to 6.9% within two years. The warehouses are located in Castle Donington, Royston and Hemel Hempstead and are let to toy retailer Hamleys, Howdens and Goodrich respectively for […]

17 Mar 2016

GLI Finance announces a new £15m credit facility and repays the £30m Sancus loan

GLI Finance, headed up by CEO Andy Whelan (pictured), has confirmed that it has now entered entered into a new 1 year loan, for £14.86m, at an interest rate of 8.75%. The company say that it has repaid its existing £30m loan facility with Sancus, which had been incurring an interest rate of 11%. GLI Finance’s Board […]

17 Mar 2016

ICG Longbow lends against Lancashire industrial estates

After the repayment of the Mansion loan, as notified on 8 March 2016, the ICG Longbow has redeployed the proceeds through the completion of a new £22.4m loan to Commercial Regional Space Limited and affiliates on 16 March 2016. The loan has a maturity date of April 2019 and represents 19.96% of the Company’s gross assets […]

17 Mar 2016

John Laing Environmetal acquires Pylle Southern Solar Park for £6.1m

John Laing Environmental Assets has announced the acquisition of Pylle Southern Solar Park, near Shepton Mallet in Somerset, for £6.1m (including working capital). The company has also extended its revolving credit facility from £50m to £65m. Commissioning of the solar park was completed in December 2015 and it has a total generating capacity of 4.99MW. […]

16 Mar 2016

Henderson High Income impresses in 2015

Henderson High Income generated an NAV return of 7.6% over the year ended 31 December 2015 while its benchmark, 80% of the FTSE All-Share Index (total return) and 20% of the Merrill Lynch Sterling Non-Gilts Index (total return), returned 0.9%. The return to shareholders was 6.6%. The dividend was increased from 8.6p to 8.9p. This […]

16 Mar 2016

Tritax Big Box NAV jumps 16% in 2015

Tritax Big Box REIT reports that its EPRA net asset value per share increased by 17.11 pence (or 15.91%) to 124.68 pence (31 December 2014: 107.57 pence) over the course of 2015. This works out as a total return for the year of 19.4%, compared to the FTSE EPRA/NAREIT UK REITs Index of 10.5%. Dividends […]

16 Mar 2016

European Assets hikes dividend by 20%

European Assets Trust recorded a Sterling net asset value total return for the year of +20.5% (26.9% in Euro terms), a Sterling share price return of +20.4% and a Euro dividend increase of +20.3% for the year ended 31 December 2015. The Euromoney Smaller European Companies (ex UK) Index returned 17.2% (23.4% in Euro terms). The Board […]