Investment Company News

23 Dec 2015

Oil prices hit Schroder UK Mid Cap

Over the year to the end of September 2015, Schroder UK Mid Cap Fund’s net asset value produced a total return of 8.2%, compared to a total return of 12.7% for its benchmark, the FTSE 250 (ex-Investment Companies) Index. The share price produced a total return of 5.0%. The full year dividend increased 8.2% to […]

22 Dec 2015

Hg Capital Trust to invest in Denmark’s Zitcom and ScanNet

Hg Capital Trust has announced that its manager, Hg Capital, has made investments in Zitcom and ScanNet, two leading Danish hosting and cloud solutions providers. The terms of the transactions were not disclosed. Hg Capital Trust will invest in Zitcom and ScanNet, alongside other institutional clients of Hg Capital, who will participate through the Mercury […]

22 Dec 2015

Highcroft sells Listed Kingston-on-Thames shop property for £1.125m

Highcroft Investment has announced that Rodenhurst Estates Limited (a property owning subsidiary of Highcroft Investments PLC) has agreed the sale of a freehold building in Market Place, Kingston upon Thames to a private investor for £1.125m (a 61% premium over its 31 December 2014 valuation of £700k). The property comprises a listed shop property fronting […]

22 Dec 2015

Leaf Clean Energy seeking damages of US$126m for Invenergy Wind

Leaf Clean Energy has announced that, on 22 December 2015, it filed a complaint against its investee, Invenergy Wind LLC (“Invenergy”), in the Delaware Court of Chancery in Delaware, USA. The complaint seeks payment by Invenergy to Leaf Clean Energy of US$126.0m. Rather than cut and paste the text, we have attached a pdf of the […]

22 Dec 2015

No more WIND – Renewable Energy Generation to delist in January

Renewable Energy Generation has announced that it has completed the sale of its assets and will delisting from the London Stock Exchange on 5 January 2016. The last day of dealing in the company’s ordinary shares, on AIM, will be 4 January 2016. No more WIND – Renewable Energy Generation to delist in January : […]

22 Dec 2015

Schroder European Real Estate makes first property purchase

Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust has announce that it has exchanged contracts to purchase freehold office property located in Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris) for €37.5m. The purchase is the company’s first since its launch (the company listed on the London Stock Exchange on 9 December 2015) and the purchase price represents a net initial yield of […]

22 Dec 2015

Schroder Real Estate sells Technology House in Fleet for £2.2m

Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust has announced that has exchanged unconditional contracts to sell Technology House in Fleet (pictured) for £2.2m. This is a marked premium (83%) to an independent valuation of the property as at 30 September 2015 of £1.2 million. The trust says that the buyer has paid a non-refundable deposit of £220,000 […]

22 Dec 2015

Drum Income Plus REIT acquires Lakeside 5500 in Cheadle, Manchester for £5.5m

Drum Income Plus REIT has announced that it has exchange of contracts to purchase Lakeside 5500 (pictured), a multi-let office development, in Cheadle, Manchester, for £5.475m. the company says that key tenants Micron Europe Limited and Agilent Technologies LDA UK Limited and that the purchase price reflects a yield of 7.82%. Drum Income Plus REIT […]

22 Dec 2015

Hansteen acquires a further 5.3% of The Ashtenne Industrial Fund for £15.4m

Hansteen has announced that it has acquired a further 31.6m units in the Ashtenne Industrial Fund for £15.4m in cash, reflecting a price of 0.4869 pence per unit. The price represents an effective 5% discount to Hansteen’s carrying value for the Fund as at 30 June 2015. This acquisition represents 5.3% of the units of […]

21 Dec 2015

Custodian REIT acquires Phoenix Leisure park, Crewe, for £6.6m

Custodian REIT has announced that it has acquired the Phoenix Leisure Park, Crewe (pictured), which comprises four freehold units occupied by Pizza Hut, Mecca Bingo, Odeon Cinemas and MFA Bowl. The park, which is near Grand Junction Retail Park and within walking distance of the town centre and railway station, covers 55,713 sq ft. The […]