Investment Company News

08 Dec 2015

Early days for K&C REIT

K&C REIT, which was admitted to AIM on 3 July 2015, has released its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2015. On its admission to AIM, the Group issued 43,035,622 ordinary shares, including 35,663,400 shares issued at 10 pence per share pursuant to a fundraising, generating gross cash proceeds of £3,566,340. Shortly after […]

08 Dec 2015

JPMorgan Private Equity confirms move to Fortress

JPMorgan Private Equity has announced that, further to its announcement on 27 October 2015 (regarding the spin-out of the company’s investment management team from J.P. Morgan Asset Management to an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group LLC) the company has now been advised that a definitive agreement in relation to the transfer has been signed. As […]

08 Dec 2015

Alpha Pyrenees sells five French properties

Alpha Pyrenees announces today that it has sold a portfolio of five properties in France totalling approximately 127,850 square metres for €142.7 million. The properties included in the portfolio were the Trust’s largest property, the Villarceaux-Nozay Business Park let to Alcatel-Lucent, and the Trust’s properties at Evreux, Goussainville, Roissy-en-France and Nimes. The purchaser is an […]

07 Dec 2015

Derwent London sells Wedge House for £33.5m

Derwent London has announced the sale of old Wedge House, 40 Blackfriars Road SE1, a 38,700 sq ft vacant freehold office building, for £33.5m before costs to Ennismore. Derwent, in collaboration with Ennismore, obtained planning permission this summer for a 110,000 sq ft hotel and office scheme at the site. Ennismore will now undertake the […]

07 Dec 2015

Phoenix Spree buys in Berlin

Phoenix Spree Deutschland has exchanged contracts to buy four properties in Berlin and has sold two buildings in Nürnberg at a significant premium to book value. The four Berlin properties were bought for an aggregate consideration of €R19.8m (£14m), excluding acquisition costs; representing a price per square metre of €1,640. The deal covers 150 residential and 10 commercial units […]

07 Dec 2015

Scottish Investment Trust cuts borrowings

Scottish Investment Trust announced a cut in its borrowings yesterday as it purchased in the market for cancellation 21,188,000 5.75% Secured Bonds 2030. Upon cancellation 82,827,000 5.75% Secured Bonds 2030 will remain in issue. Today it has announced results for the year ended 31 October 2015. The total return on net assets was 4.0% while the share […]

07 Dec 2015

Candover sells Stork

Candover Investments says Arle Capital Partners has agreed to sell Stork to Fluor Corporation for an enterprise value of €695m. The sale of Stork, provider of knowledge-based asset integrity services, completes the full exit of the investments held through Stork Holding BV following the sale of Fokker Technologies earlier this year to GKN plc for €706m. The […]

07 Dec 2015

Standard Life European Private Equity hit by widening discount

Standard Life European Private Equity has announced results for the year ended 30 September 2015. The net asset value total return for the year was 11.9 but the closing share price was 214.0p, a decrease of 7.0% over the year and a discount of 24.0% to NAV. The dividend was increased from 5p to 5.25p. […]

07 Dec 2015

Seneca Global Income & Growth outperforms indices and competitors

Seneca Global Income & Growth reports an NAV total return of -1.3% for the six months ended 31 October 2015. This is below the return on its benchmark of 1.8%. However SIGT has outperformed most indices and its competitors. On a capital only basis Seneca Global Income & Growth reported a 3.2% fall in NAV as compared to a 7.3% fall […]