Over the six months to the end of June 2015, Acencia Debt Strategies (which is now reporting its results in US dollars for the first time) saw total return on net asset value of 1.8% to US$1.73 (NAV was flat – return is down to dividends paid). Total Shareholder returns were up 0.1% per cent to a share […]
GCP Infrastructure has completed a transaction subscribing for a loan note to be used to fund biomass plants, with a term of 17 years and a value of up to £62.9m, £36.6m of which was advanced at completion and the remainder is expected to be drawn down over the next few months subject to various conditions. The Loan […]
NewRiver Retail is buying 158 pubs from Punch Taverns for £53.5m which equates to a net initial yield of 13.61%. The projected annual profit before tax of the portfolio is circa £6m, which will generate a cash on cash equity return in excess of 20%. The acquisition of the portfolio includes circa £0.5m of fixtures, […]
Avarae Global Coins reports results for the year ended 31 March 2015. Its NAV per share increased to 14.9 pence (2014: 14.5 pence). It made sales of £630,000. Profit on ordinary activities of increased more than 50% to £380,000 up from £250,000. The full year dividend is maintained at 0.15 pence per share. The carrying value of their […]
John Laing Infrastructure Fund Limited has entered into a five year£180m Revolving Credit Facility with Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC , ING Bank and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. This facility replaces the existing £150m facility with RBS, Lloyds and ING, with no cancellation fees payable. The margin on the new facility is 1.75% over LIBOR making both the margin and associated commitment fees significantly lower […]
3i Infrastructure is investing £23m to take a 50% stake in the West of Duddon Sands offshore transmission project. The vendors are Dong Energy and Scottish Power Renewables. The remaining equity in the project will be acquired by Macquarie Capital. The consortium was selected as preferred bidder following a competitive tender run by Ofgem in July 2014. The project […]
Tritax Big Box REIT’s results for the first half of 2015 show a 14.8% uplift in its EPRA NAV, a 13.9% improvement in is EPRA earnings per share (to 2.3p) and a 62% hike in the interim dividend from 1.85p to 3p as they progress towards paying their target 6p per annum. The fund expanded […]
Hg Capital delivered a 3.8% return on net assets for the six months ended 30 June 2015 and the return to shareholders for the period was 7.2%. By comparison, the return on the FTSE All-Share Index for the period was 3.0%. The valuation uplift was driven by a combination of growth within the businesses of […]
Phaunos Timber reports on progress within the underlying portfolio for the first six months of 2015 but a fall in NAV on the back of the strengthening of the US dollar. At a timber operating level the Group showed a profit for the first time. This amounted to $1.7m for the period (30 Jun 2014: […]
Vietnam Holding has published results for the year ended 30 June 2015. It had a very good year with the NAV rising by 9.0% to $2.093 and a share price increase of 23.3% to $1.803. The Vietnam All Share Index increased by just 1.4%. as you can see from the numbers, the discount narrowed considerably over the […]
