Investment Company News

13 Nov 2015

LXB Retail gets planning permission for Living Villages concept

LXB Retail Properties has published an update on further pre-lets at a number of the Group’s investment properties and on planning consent for the Group’s first Living Villages project. Living Villages – Higher Newham, Truro The Strategic Planning Committee at Cornwall Council recently resolved to grant planning permission for the Group’s Higher Newham Farm proposals […]

13 Nov 2015

Empiric Student Property to acquire 155 George Street in Glasgow

Empiric student property has announced that it has exchanged contracts, subject to planning, on a forward funded development in Glasgow. The scheme, known as 155 George Street (pictured), is an 89 bed premium student accommodation development. The total investment is £9.6m, which is to be invested in stages against development milestones. Empiric is to acquire the […]

13 Nov 2015

Standard Life Property Income publishes proposals

Following on from its announcement at the end of September, Standard Life Property Investments has published details of its £100m fund raising and acquisition of a Jersey Property Unit Trust (JPUT). Standard Life Property Investments  has entered into the conditional Acquisition Agreement in relation to the acquisition of a new portfolio of 22 UK commercial real […]

13 Nov 2015

Kuala Innovations trading at enormous premium

Kuala Innovations has published interim figures covering the six months to the end of September 2015. Over the six months the NAV rose from 1.69p to 2.57p. the company made a loss for the period of 0.46p. The uplift largely reflects share issues the company made at 5p per share during the period. Since then the company has […]

12 Nov 2015

Good stock selection delivers for Standard Life Equity Income

Standard Life Equity Income has announced results for the year ended 30 September 2015. Over that period, the fund’s total return on net assets was an impressive 14.1% as compared to a -2.3% return on the FTSE All-Share Index. The Chairman believes that good stock selection and being prepared to hold a portfolio which is […]

12 Nov 2015

Greencoat UK Wind proposes to raise £50m through placing to institutions

Greencoat UK Wind proposes to raise £50m. Greencoat UK Wind has announced that it intends to raise up to £50m through a placing of its ordinary shares by way of a tap issue to institutional investors. Tim Ingram, Chairman of the company, has said that they are currently working towards a particular acquisition and that […]

12 Nov 2015

Assura repays £181m of long term debt

Assura has announced that, following its recent equity raise, it has repaid £181m of long term debt held by Aviva Commercial Finance, with associated early repayment costs of £34m. The weighted average interest rate on the loans redeemed was 5.4%. This repayment is in line with the debt reduction plan announced in the company’s prospectus […]

12 Nov 2015

Global Resources 9% Convertible holders agree a reduced coverage ratio until January

Global Resources Investment Trust announced on the 2 November that, as a result of its NAV falling to 34.58p per share, its total assets equated to 3.94x the value of its convertible. One of the covenants that GRIT has been obliged to abide by, since the convertibles were issued, is that the asset cover on the convertibles should […]

12 Nov 2015

Martin Currie Asia Unconstrained suffers from weakness in Asian markets

Martin Currie Asia Unconstrained (formerly Martin Currie Pacific) has announced its interim results for the half-year ended 30 September 2015. During the period the trust, managed by Andrew Graham (pictured), has reportedly given up most of the gains made in the previous financial year to 31 March 2015.  On a total return basis, the trust’s NAV […]