Investment Company News

21 Jul 2015

Shaftesbury Board does not recommend Lee Family offer

Shaftesbury, the REIT focused on London’s West End, saw an announcement yesterday from entities controlled by the ‘Lee Family’ (principally through Mr Samuel Tak Lee) of a tender offer to acquire up to 9.3% of the shares in Shaftesbury at a price of 888p per share. If the tender is successful, the Lee family will control 13.2% […]

21 Jul 2015

Starwood increases size of placing to £24m

Starwood European Real Estate announced yesterday (20 July 2015) a placing to raise up to £15m before costs with the proceeds of the placing to be used to fund a loan currently in execution and other transactions that the Investment Adviser believes have a high probability of execution in the short term. Starwood has subsequently announced today […]

21 Jul 2015

Temple Bar beats FTSE All-Share during H1

Temple Bar, managed by Alastair Mundy (pictured) has released its interim results for the half year ended 30 June 2015. During this time, the trusts NAV total return of 4.5% beat that of the FTSE All-Share Index of 1.5%. The biggest contributor during the period was TNT Express, which received a bid from Fedex, whilst building products […]

21 Jul 2015

CEB Resources posts loss of US$122k

CEB Resources has published its results for the year ended 30 April 2015. These show a loss in the period of US$ 122,000 with the NAV per share decreasing from 0.3 US cents in April 2014 to 0.2 US cents in April 2015. During the year, the company exited all of its coal investments in Poland and Australia […]

21 Jul 2015

NextEnergy Solar secures finance for Cock Hill and Llwyndu projects

NextEnergy Solar Fund has announced that it has signed a £22.7m debt facility with NIBC Bank. This has been drawn down in full to finance its Cock Hill and Llwyndu projects (the total investment in the projects combined amounts to £32.7m). The facility has a 12-month duration, with a further 12-month extension available. The company […]

20 Jul 2015

Schroder Real Estate beats IPD index

Schroder Real Estate has published results for the year ended 31 March 2015. The NAV total return for the year was 24.4% which includes an 18.7% capital uplift in the NAV to 57.7p. In addition the NAV has risen further in Q2 2015 to hit 59.1p. The dividend for the year was 2.48p (down from […]

20 Jul 2015

Nimrod Sea Assets struggling in face of falling oil price

Nimrod Sea Assets has published its first set of results covering the period from 1 March 2014 to 31 March 2015. The fund has 54% of its capital invested in seven companies holding nine vessels. The falling oil price has led to problems of varying degrees across six of the seven investments. The two most serious […]

17 Jul 2015

World Trust’s biotech and China holdings help outperformance

World Trust Fund has announced results for the year ended 31 March 2015 that show it outperforming the MSCI All Country World Index and the MSCI All Country World ex USA Index. Over the year the fund returned 24.2% on net assets and 25.4% on share price as compared to 11.2% for the ex USA […]

17 Jul 2015

Alpha Pyrenees sells Cordoba retail park

Alpha Pyrenees has sold the Connecta Retail Park investment in Córdoba, one of the principal cities in the Andalucia region, for €15.3m – 100k more than its 31 December 2014 valuation. The property totals approximately 16,880 square metres and is located on the Avenida de Cadiz, the main access route from the A4 motorway to the […]

17 Jul 2015

HICL buying Mountie HQ

HICL Infrastructure has announced the proposed acquisition of a 99.9% interest in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ‘E’ Division Headquarters P3 Project (“RCMP”) in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada for consideration of approximately C$53m. The Project is being acquired from the InfraRed Infrastructure Fund III, a fund managed by HICL’s Investment Adviser; and therefore, as a matter […]