Investment Company News

22 Feb 2016

CVC Credit Partners not seeing deterioration of credit quality

CVC Credit Partners reports an increase in its NAVs from €1.0247 to €1.0257 for its Euro share class and 102.87p to 103.52p for its Sterling share class over the course of 2015. The share prices of the two share classes fell by 2.9% and 4.0% respectively. Dividends totalling 5 cents / 5p were also paid. […]

22 Feb 2016

Amedeo Air Four Plus buys fifth A380

Amedeo Air Four Plus Limited, via its wholly-owned subsidiary AA4P Epsilon Limited, on 19 February 2016 purchased directly from Airbus one A380 aircraft bearing manufacturer’s serial number 206 at a net cost to the Company of US$275 million.  The Aircraft is the Fifth Asset to be acquired by the Company. Following acquisition of the Aircraft, AA4P Epsilon […]

22 Feb 2016

Ecofin continuation vote fixed for 14 June

The Board of Ecofin Power & Water Opportunities has announced that the continuation vote referred to in the Chairman’s statement in the company’s annual report will take place at a General Meeting expected to be held on Tuesday, 14 June, 2016. As explained in the Chairman’s statement in the annual report, the Board is currently considering […]

22 Feb 2016

UK Floods take edge off good year for CatCo

CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund has published its Annual Report. For the year ended 31 December 2015, it achieved a net NAV return for shareholders of 11.58%, exceeding the target annual net return of LIBOR plus 9 to 12% per annum. CATCo also outperformed the industry benchmark, the Eurekahedge ILS Advisors Index, by 7.31%. They say […]

22 Feb 2016

BlueCrest holders to benefit from CDS litigation

  BlueCrest Capital Management Limited has made a statement which we reproduce below: “CDS Settlement  Dear Investor,  We are writing to inform you of a positive development that we believe will affect the BlueCrest managed funds listed below.  As you may have read in the press, there has been a recent settlement of a U.S. […]

22 Feb 2016

Dunedin Enterprise sells CitySprint

Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust says its largest investment, CitySprint, has been realised with a portion of the proceeds being rolled over into a new company (“New CitySprint”). The realisation of CitySprint values the company at £175m and generates proceeds of £26.1m for Dunedin Enterprise. This compares to a valuation at 30 September 2015 of £23.2m. […]

22 Feb 2016

M&G High Income to offer rollover options next year

M&G High Income says, on a net asset value basis, each Package Unit  delivered a negative total return of 3.6% over the  six months to 30 November 2015. This was above the  returns of the FTSE 350 Higher Yield Index and the FTSE All-Share Index, which were a negative 9.4% and  6.4% respectively over the same period. Over the six months […]

22 Feb 2016

Brunner matches benchmark in 2015

Brunner says that over the course of 2015, on a total return basis, its NAV increased by 1.7%, slightly underperforming its benchmark which returned 1.8%. The total dividend payment for 2015 was 15.3p, an increase of 2.0% on last year. There was no report from the managers in the announcement but, looking at the full annual […]

22 Feb 2016

SQN on target as it prepares to deploy C share cash

SQN Asset Finance Income paid dividends totalling 6.26p during the second half of 2015 while its NAV edged off a little, falling from 99.93p to 99.84p. The share price rose by a quarter of a penny to 108p. the weighted average yield of the portfolio remains above 9.5% and the average term of their leases […]