F&C UK Real Estate, managed by Ian McBryde (pictured), announced in its interim results, released on 29 September, that the Board had been considering refinancing the company’s existing loan facility with Lloyds Bank, which is due for repayment in January 2017, and had agreed terms to refinance this through a new long-term term loan facility with Canada […]
Great Portland Estates has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015. During this period, the company’s EPRA NAV per share has increased 14% to £8.08. The company’s EPRA profit before tax of £24.3m for the period is up 15.7% year-on-year whilst its EPRA EPS of 6.9p is an increase of 16.9%. […]
Workspace Group has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015. During the period the company’s EPRA NAV per share increased by 12.7% to £ 7.92 (from £7.03 as at 31 March 2015). Within this, the underlying property valuation has increased by 9.6% £1,6312m (31 March 2015: £1,423m). Profit before tax for […]
Schroder Oriental Income Fund, chaired by Robert Sinclair (pictured), has announced its results for the year ended 31 August 2015, during which the company’s NAV fell by 5.8% and its share price by 6.1%. However these are both appreciably ahead of the performance of the Company’s reference index, the MSCI AC Pacific (ex Japan) Index, […]
Northern Investors has released its interim report for the half-year ended 30 September 2015. The company continues to follow its realisation strategy and, during the period, the number of holdings in the portfolio was reduced further from 15 to 12. Investment sales during the period generated total cash proceeds of £2.5m. The NAV per share […]
JPMorgan Japanese, managed by Nicholas Weindling (Pictured), has announced its final results for the year ended 30 September 2015 during which the companies NAV rose 14.7% (total return in sterling terms), outperforming its benchmark TOPIX index, which returned 6.0%. The share price performance was stronger returning 19.5% during the year. Over three years the Company’s […]
Gabelli Value Plus+ Trust has announced its first set of interim results for the period between 19 February and 30 September 2015. During the period the trust’s NAV fell 6.4% in total return terms underperforming the S&P 500 which fell 5.5% during the period (in Sterling adjusted terms). Share price total return during the period […]
Chelverton Growth Trust has announced results for the year ended 31 August 2015. Unfortunately the fund underperformed its benchmark index – the net asset value rose by 6.95% while the MSCI UK Small cap Index rose by 9.77%. Since the year end though they have had some good news as their largest investment (37% of […]
Hg Capital has announced that it has agreed the sale of Casa Reha, a leading private German provider of elderly care services, specialising in high quality, assisted living, to Euronext-listed Korian, a leading European provider of elderly health care services. Completion is subject to regulatory approval. Hg Capital Trust will realise cash proceeds of approximately […]
Land Securities has announced interim results covering the six months ended 30 September 2015. The adjusted diluted NAV rose 5.7% to 1367p (total return 7.0%) while the adjusted diluted EPS rose by 8.4% to 23.2p helped by a fall in vacant space within the portfolio (from 3.2% to 2.8%). The dividend is being increased by 3.2% […]