Investment Company News

17 Feb 2016

Schroder European Real Estate buys two office buildings

Schroder European Real Estate announced yesterday that contracts have been exchanged for the purchase of two office buildings located in Germany’s leading office markets Stuttgart and Hamburg, for a total of EUR28.9 million at a blended net initial yield of 6.0%. The assets are fully income producing and multi-let to a combination of governmental and […]

17 Feb 2016

Herald benefits heavily from takeovers, more focus on the US going forward

Herald Investment Trust has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2015. During the period, the company’s NAV grew by 8.4% to 881.8p per share, whilst its share price grew by 13.1% to 745.3p reflecting a narrowing of the discount from 19.0% to 15.5%. Both the share price and the NAV beat […]

17 Feb 2016

Miton UK MicroCap’s C share issue raises £28m

Miton UK MicroCap, managed by Gervais Williams (pictured), has announced that pursuant to the placing, offer for subscription and intermediaries offer of C shares (as described in its prospectus published on 4 February 2016) it has raised gross proceeds of £28m with net proceeds expected to be approximately £27.4m. The company says that applications received under the […]

16 Feb 2016

GLI Finance publishes NAV update

GLI Finance has updated its NAV and given some information on the progress of the review of its business post the departure of its previous chief executive. There’s a lot in the announcement so we reproduce it in full below. “Confirmation of permanent CEO, Strategic Review and NAV Update  The Executive team  The Board of […]

16 Feb 2016

Hammerson figures edge upwards

Hammerson announced its results yesterday. The highlights were an 11.3% uplift in its EPRA NAV, a 12.6% increase in its adjusted earnings per share to 23.9p on the back of a 4.3% improvement in net rental income (2.3% like for like). Overall occupancy rose from 97.5% to 97.7%. Retail sales at their centres rose by […]

16 Feb 2016

Regional REIT to pay quarterly dividends

Regional REIT’s Board has announced that it intends to increase the frequency of dividend payments and move to the payment of quarterly dividends with effect from the financial year beginning 1 January 2016. Further details on the quarterly dividends are expected to be announced alongside the publication of the Company’s results ending 31 December 2015. […]

16 Feb 2016

Murray Income beats All-Share in H2 2015

Murray Income says, over the 6 months ended 31 December 2015, the Company’s net asset value (“NAV”) per share fell by 1.0% on a total return basis outperforming the FTSE All-Share Index which fell by 2.0%. The Company’s share price ended the period at a discount to NAV of 8.0%, compared to 6.9% at 30 June […]

15 Feb 2016

Hansteen increases its holding to 82.8% of the Ashtenne Industrial Fund

Hansteen Holdings has announced that it has acquired a further 5.5 million units in the Ashtenne Industrial Fund from clients of CBRE Investors for £2.5m cash, which reflects a price of 46.06p per unit. The company says that the acquisition represents 0.9% of the units in issue and increases Hansteen’s holding in the Ashtenne Industrial […]

15 Feb 2016

HgCapital purchases majority stake in Citation

HgCapital, the Manager of HgCapital Trust has announced that it has made a majority investment in Citation, which they describe as one of the UK’s leading providers of Health & Safety, HR, Employment Law and ISO services to SMEs. HgCapital will assume majority ownership from ECI Partners, investing alongside the existing management team. The terms […]

15 Feb 2016

Katherine Garrett-Cox to leave Alliance Trust Investments in March 2016

Alliance Trust has announced that Katherine Garrett-Cox (pictured) will stand down as chief executive of its management company, Alliance Trust Investments Limited (also a subsidiary of Alliance Trust ), and will be leaving the company on 11 March 2016. The company says that this follows discussions between the Board and Katherine about the future requirement […]