Investment Company News

04 Mar 2016

Things looking up at Alliance Trust

Alliance Trust reports a 5.4% total return on net assets and a 10.7% return to shareholders for the year ended 31 December 2015 this compares to the MSCI ACWI benchmark return of 3.8%. The total dividend is 12.43p, up 0.4% on 2014. Alliance Trust Investments (ATI) generated net inflows of £81m, ending the year with […]

03 Mar 2016

Change of name and manager for Aberdeen Smaller Companies High Income

Aberdeen Smaller Companies High Income reports that its net asset value on a total return basis increased by 13.4% over the twelve months to 31 December 2015.  This compares with a rise in the FTSE SmallCap (excluding investment companies) Index of 13.0%. The FTSE 100 Index fell by 1.3%. The narrowing of the discount, to 13.6% at […]

03 Mar 2016

Secure Income REIT looks to broaden shareholder base

Secure Income REIT has published results for the year ended 31 December 2015. Over the period, the EPRA NAV rose by 9.4% to 282.8 pence per share (after incurring early debt repayment costs amounting to nearly 16% of EPRA NAV as at 31 December 2014). EPRA earnings per share for the period were 2.6p. They intend to pay quarterly […]

03 Mar 2016

Cash flowing back to Mithras

Mithras has reported a 6.7% uplift in its NAV and a 2.8% increase in its share price over the year ended 31 December 2015 (as the discount widened from 12.1% to 15.3%). the Board has recommended a final dividend totalling 1.0 pence per share (2014: 1.0 pence). Cash distributions received by the Company amounted to […]

02 Mar 2016

Property and equity returns help Scottish American beat benchmark

Scottish American’s results for 2015 show its net asset value (NAV) total return (capital and income) for the year was 5.9% and the share price total return was 9.2%: the total return from the global equity market was 4.1%. The full year dividend will be 10.70p per share, 1.9% higher than the 2014 dividend of 10.50p and […]

02 Mar 2016

Symphony NAV slips a little in 2015

Symphony International Holdings Limited has announced results for the year ended 31 December 2015. The NAV attributable to the ordinary shares on 31 December 2015 was US$1.3172 per share (US$1.3011 per share on a fully diluted basis). This represents a 2.2% decline over the NAV per share of US$1.3473 at 31 December 2014 (US$1.3356 per […]

02 Mar 2016

Seneca Global Income and Growth gets new co-manager

The Board of Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust plc (the Trust) is pleased to announce that Peter Elston has been appointed a named fund manager alongside Alan Borrows. Peter Elston joined Seneca Investment Managers in November 2014, as Chief Investment Officer and is also responsible for Seneca Investment Managers’ clients’ asset allocation. As previously announced, […]

02 Mar 2016

City Natural Resources benefits from narrowing discount

City Natural Resources has published interims for the six months ended 31 December 2015. The Chairman’s statement opens thus: “It is five years since I last wrote to you with unqualified good news and I am very much afraid that the six months under review continues what has been a dismal run, with no let-up […]