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 […]
Empiric Student Property has published its interim results covering the six months ended 31 December 2015. The Group’s basic EPRA earnings per share for the period were 0.70p per share (31 December 2014: 0.11p per share). The basic EPRA NAV per share as at 31 December 2015 was 105.6p (30 June 2015: 103.4p). They have […]
RIT Capital results for 2015 show a share price total return of 22.7% (as they moved from a discount of 5.8% to a premium of 6.9%) and a net asset value per share return of 8.1%. This compares well to the return on RPI plus 3% which was 4.2% for the year and the return on the […]
Mid Wynd International reports that its net asset value total return for the second half of 2015 was 5.1 per cent, compared to the total return of 1.5 per cent produced by the MSCI All Country World Index. They have declared an interim dividend of 1.65 pence per share (2015: 1.35 pence per share). Demand for their […]
Qatar Investment Fund results for the six months ended 31 December 2015 show its net asset value per share fell 16.3% while the Qatar Exchange Index fell 14.5% and MSCI Emerging Markets Index fell 18.6% over the same period. Following a narrowing of the discount, the QIF share price fell 11.1%. They paid a 4 cent dividend […]
Henderson Diversified Income results covering the year ended 31 October 2015 have been published. The net asset value per ordinary share decreased slightly from 88.82p to 88.36p over the year as did the share price from 91.25p to 90.50p. The aggregated revenue return was 5.16p per ordinary share and dividends were maintained with a total […]
Elephant Capital’s net asset value rose from 35p to 36p over the year that ended on 31 August 2015. Air Works India (Engineering) Private Limited has been performing satisfactorily and exhibited operational strength during the period. It has been valued at £3.1m based on an independent third party valuation, compared to £3.05m at 31 August […]
BlackRock World Mining’s results for the year ended 31 December 2015 reflect th poor performance of the mining sector. The fund’s NAV total return was -35.3%, the share price return was -37.0% and the benchmark, the Euromoney Global Mining Index, was down 36.9%. the discount widened from 11.9% to 15.0%. The dividend was maintained at […]
Montanaro European Smaller Companies Trust has announced that it has entered into a €10m term loan facility agreement with ING Bank N.V., London Branch (“ING”) for the purpose of pursuing its investment objective. The facility has been fully drawn down today and is in addition to the existing €15m term loan facility the Company already has […]
Jupiter US Smaller Companies reports that its NAV per share fell 4.8% in the six month period to 31 December 2015, compared to a drop of 3.3% in the Company’s benchmark, the sterling-adjusted Russell 2000. The worst performing sector in the six month period was energy, falling 41% as oil prices collapsed once again, after […]
