Investment Company News

09 Jun 2015

Ediston buys B&Q Extra Retail Warehouse

Ediston Property has announced the acquisition of a B&Q Extra Retail Warehouse in Coatbridge, Scotland for £16.8m. The acquisition price is equivalent to a net initial yield of 7.46%. The property extends to 103,000 sq. ft., plus a garden centre and builders’ yard, with parking for 600 cars, on a site of 4.27 acres. It is […]

09 Jun 2015

BBGI buys rest of prison project

BBGI SICAV has announced the acquisition of the remaining 50% it didn’t already own in the Northern Territories Secure Facilities PPP Project in Australia. The Northern Territory Secure Facilities is a new 1,000 bed correctional facility, located on a greenfield site at Holtze, near Darwin, Australia. NTSF became operational in 2014 and allows Northern Territory […]

09 Jun 2015

JPMorgan European benefits from strong stock selection

JPMorgan European has announced results for the year ended 31 March 2015. The report says that both the growth and income pool outperformed their benchmark (MSCI Europe ex UK) over the year with the Growth shares producing a total return of +14.5% and the Income shares a total return of +15.4%, compared with 7.0% for the […]

09 Jun 2015

UK Commercial Property cashes in retail assets

UK Commercial Property has announced the sale of two assets from its retail portfolio, 176-206 Kensington High Street, London and 134-138 North Street, Brighton in two separate transactions for a total consideration of £82.7m, which is marginally ahead of their aggregate valuation as at 31 March 2015. The assets have been deemed to be non-core to […]

09 Jun 2015

Custodian REIT dividend target on track

Custodian REIT has published its first set of results covering the 53 weeks to the end of March 2015. Over this period the NAV rose by 3.2% to 101.3p and the NAV total return was 7%. They paid dividends of 3.75p in the period and are proposing a final dividend of 1.5p to make a […]

08 Jun 2015

Origo results reflect difficult year for commodities in 2014

Origo Partners has published results for the year to the end of December 2014. Over the course of 2014 the net asset value fell by 60% but, of course, this was a long time ago now. Towards the end of the period the fund switched to focus on realising its portfolio. Since the end of […]

08 Jun 2015

Personal Assets maintains high liquidity levels

Personal Assets’ results for the year ended 30 April 2015 have been published and they show that the net asset value rose by 4.8% in capital terms vs. 3.9% for the FTSE All-Share Index. In price terms Personal Assets rose by 5.7% as they moved from a 0.6% discount to a 0.2% premium. The quarterly dividends for the […]

08 Jun 2015

EIH says Evolvence India just about fully invested

EIH has published its results for the year ended 31 December 2014. The figures are a long way out of date now but for what it’s worth, the net asset value fell from 74.7 cents to 49.8 cents over the year but 26 cents of this move relates to a distribution they made to shareholders […]