Investment Company News

24 Nov 2015

BACIT to start paying management fees

BACIT is proposing that it start paying management fees. These won’t be huge and the investment policy – that it will invest in underlying funds on a “gross return” basis, that it will invest up to 1% a year of its net asset value in drug development projects and that it will donate 1% a year of […]

24 Nov 2015

Tobacco exposure drives Perpetual Income & Growth’s outperformance

Perpetual Income & Growth has published interim figures for the six months ended 30 September 2015. The FTSE All-Share Index returned -7.2% over this period but Perpetual Income & Growth returned -0.2% on net assets and the return to shareholders was +2.4% (the shares moved from a 3% discount to 0.1% discount). The dividend for […]

23 Nov 2015

SEGRO acquires three fully-let logistics buildings for €92.7m

SEGRO has announced that it has acquired a portfolio of three, fully-let logistics buildings, in the Netherlands, for €92.7m. The portfolio, which has a total of104,000 square metres of space, has been acquired from the private Dutch developer, Dok Vast. The company says that the purchase price equates to a net initial yield of 6.1 […]

23 Nov 2015

Marwyn Value Investors raises £50m through conditional placing

Marwyn Value Investors has announce that, under the terms of its conditional placing (announced on 19 November), 22,727,273 ordinary shares in the have been conditionally placed at a price of 220p per share with institutional investors. Completion of the placing, which has conditionally raised £50m, remains subject to a number of conditions including approval at […]

23 Nov 2015

Riverstone Energy to raise up to £65m and increase its stake in Canadian International oil

Riverstone Energy has announced a dilutive share issue. It intends to raise up to £65m through a placing and open offer at £8 per share and intends to use up to US$67m of the proceedes to increase its stake in Canadian International Oil Corp. The open offer, due to launch on 23 November 2015, is being […]

23 Nov 2015

JPMorgan European Smaller Companies beats benchmark on the back of good stock selection

JPMorgan European Smaller Companies, chaired by Carolan Dobson (pictured), has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the trust provided a total return of 2.4% outperforming the company’s benchmark, the Euromoney Smaller European Companies (ex UK) Index, which lost 3.8% in total return terms. The company says that the […]

23 Nov 2015

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies benefits from good stock selection and a favourable style tailwind

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies, managed by Anna Lunden (pictured), has announced it interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company provided NAV and share price total returns of 12.5% and 14.7% respectively. These are both ahead of the performance of its Numis Smaller Companies Index benchmark, which returned […]

23 Nov 2015

Sirius Real Estate sees 5.5% increase in NAV during H1 with reduced interest cost and acquisitions still to kick in

Sirius Real Estate has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company’s adjusted net asset value per share increased by 5.5% to 50.13c (31 March 2015: 47.51c) despite the payment of €7.6m in early termination fees for the repayment of loans from Macquarie, which the company says […]