Globalworth Real Estate Investments Ltd has announced the acquisition of Skanska’s second building in the Green Court Bucharest project. The gross transaction value is approximately Euro 47 million. Closing of the acquisition is expected in December 2015. Green Court Bucharest is a prestigious, newly built class-A office park comprising three buildings, strategically located in Bucharest’s new […]
Ranger Direct Lending, which listed in May and is still only 76% invested (as at 9 November), says it is planning a C share issue to raise up to £135m. They say they anticipate full deployment of Ranger’s equity capital by early December, within its stated target of fully deploying the net proceeds raised at IPO […]
Securities Trust of Scotland generated a return on net assets of -10.7% over the six months ended 30 September 2015. By contrast, the fund’s benchmark, MSCI World High Dividend Yield Index, returned -9.1%. The discount widened from 5.75 to 7.5% and so the return to shareholders was -12.5%. The dividend was increased from 2.3p to […]
British Empire underperformed its benchmark over the year that ended on 30 September 2015, delivering a total return on net assets of -8.3% against a -5.6% return for the MSCI All Country World ex-US Index. The Morningstar Investment Trust Global Index rose by 3.7% over the period. The discount widened slightly from 10.3% to 11.6% (despite them […]
Empiric Student Property is paying £40m to acquire Windsor house in Cardiff. The property, which is Empiric’s fourth acquisition in Cardiff, is located directly opposite the Group’s existing Summit House property on Windsor Place, in the city centre within a ten-minute walk from the University of Cardiff. Cardiff is also home to Cardiff Metropolitan University […]
AEW UK REIT has announced that it has secured a £40m 5 year term loan facility with RBS International. AEW UK REIT has approximately £81m invested. It will use the Facility to continue its investment process once net IPO proceeds have been fully invested and to provide gearing of up to 20% loan to Net Asset […]
Project Finance Investments has been announcing a series of deals as it deploys the money it raised in its IPO. All of the investments are made through Loan Notes issued by Project Finance Investments (UK) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. On 5 November it said it had committed to subscribe for a […]
JPMorgan Overseas, managed by Jeroen Huysinga (pictured), has announced that shareholders have approved the sub-division of the company’s 25p ordinary shares, on a five for one basis, into 5p ordinary shares. The sub-division is to take place following admission of any new shares to be issued in connection with the final exercise of the Company’s subscription […]
Capital Gearing has announced interim results covering the six months to 5 October 2015. As at that date, the net asset value per share was 3,240.5p compared to 3,297.6p at the last year end on 5 April 2015, a decline of 1.7%. This compares with declines of 6.5% in the FTSE All-Share index and of […]
Henderson Far East Income has announced its results for the year ended 31 August 2015. During the period the company’s NAV total return was -11.5%, marginally outperforming its benchmark, the FTSE All-World Asia Pacific ex Japan Index, which returned -11.8%. The company moved from trading at a 0.4% premium to a 0.9% premium during the […]