Investment Company News

07 Aug 2015

AEW UK REIT buys retail park

AEW UK REIT is spending £7.15m to buy Valley Retail Park. Valley Retail Park, Newtownabbey is located on the northern side of Belfast with good accessibility to the M2, M5 and A2. The site extends to circa 7 acres and the scheme provides 100,413 sq ft arranged over 7 modern purpose built retail warehouse units […]

07 Aug 2015

Phaunos jv partner pays of debt in NZ subsidiary

Phaunos Timber Fund Limited has announced that agreement in principle has been reached with Rayonier, Phaunos’ joint venture partner in the Matariki Forestry Group, for Rayonier to provide a capital infusion for the repayment of all outstanding amounts under its existing NZ$235m credit facility and for general purposes.  The investment by Rayonier into the Matariki JV […]

07 Aug 2015

Sherborne Investors reiterates pledge not to bid for Electra

Sherborne’s net asset value fell by 1.5% over the six months ended 30 June 2015 to a level of 104.47p. The shares were trading at a discount of 3.3% to this NAV at the end of the period but the share price had climbed by 6.3% over the first half. By contrast Electra‘s shares rose by 4.9% […]

07 Aug 2015

JPMorgan Global Emerging Markets Income gets new co-manager

The Board of JPMorgan Global Emerging Markets Income Trust has announced the addition of Amit Mehta to the Company’s investment management team with immediate effect. The Company is currently managed by Omar Negyal and Richard Titherington, who are part of J.P.Morgan Asset Management’s Emerging Markets & Asia Pacific Equities team, which has members in offices across […]

07 Aug 2015

Claverhouse beats UK market in H1

JPMorgan Claverhouse beat the FTSE All-Share Index over the first half of 2015, posting a 4.2% return on net assets as compared to a 3.0% return on the benchmark. The discount to net asset value at which the Company’s shares trade widened out from 3.4% at the end of the last financial year to 6.6% […]

07 Aug 2015

JPMorgan American edges ahead of S&P500

JPMorgan American just edged ahead of its benchmark in H1 2015 in what turned out to be a flat period for the US market – JPMorgan American’s net asset value return was 0.5% as compared to a 0.2% return on the S&P500 Index. The manager says that the portfolio benefitted from strong stock selection in the health […]

06 Aug 2015

Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate announces 25% increase in quarterly dividend

Kennedy Wilson Real Estate Europe, in releasing its interim results for half year ended 30 June 2015, have announced that the quarterly dividend is increasing by 25%, over the previous quarter, to 10p per share. The company say that this will be 40p per share annualised, which the board advise is a sustainable dividend level […]

05 Aug 2015

Miton Worldwide Growth – Sink or swim? Realisation opportunity in 2018

Miton Worldwide Growth, managed by Nick greenwood (pictured), has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 April 2015. During the year, the trust’s NAV per share grew by 8.5% to 181.63p whilst its share price grew by 8.9% beating the FTSE All-Share Index, which rose 7.5% during the same period. The discount narrowed marginally […]

05 Aug 2015

Foresight Solar on track to pay a 6.1p dividend for the current year

Foresight Solar Fund has announced its interim results for the half year ended 30 June 2015. The fund’s NAV increased from £209.8m to £277.9m (24.5%) although NAV per share fell 2.3% from 100.9p to 98.6p. Reported profit for the period was £5.38m and earnings per share was 2.32p. A second quarterly dividend of 1.52p is […]

05 Aug 2015

Electra agrees the sale of Nuaire for £145m

Electra Private Equity has announced that it has agreed to sell its interest in ventilation systems manufacturer Nuaire to Polypipe Group in a deal valued at approximately £145m. On completion of the transaction, which is expected during August, Electra is to receive proceeds of approximately £72m. This represents an uplift of £24 million, or 50% on the […]