Investment Company News

15 May 2015

North Atlantic sitting on £73m war chest

North Atlantic Smaller Companies’ figures for the year ended 31 January 2015 show the fund generating a return on net assets of 13.5% and a return to shareholders of 15.3% (benefiting from a narrowing of the discount from 21.5% to 19.7%). These numbers are ahead of the Russell 2000 Index, which returned 12.5% and the 2.9% […]

15 May 2015

River & Mercantile edges ahead in first reporting period

River & Mercantile Micro Cap has issued its first interim results, covering the period from incorporation, through its launch on 2 December 2014 through to the end of March 2015. Over that period its net asset value total return was 5.3%, just ahead of the 5% return posted by its benchmark. The return to shareholders […]

15 May 2015

Strong stock selection benefits Henderson European Focus

Henderson European Focus Trust outperformed its benchmark over the six months ended 31 March 2015, generating a return on net assets of 14% compared to a 10.0% return on the FTSE World Europe ex UK Index. Shareholders did even better than that as the discount narrowed, giving them a return of 16.9%. The interim dividend […]

15 May 2015

Highcroft buys Wisbech retail park

Highcroft Investments has acquired the entire issued share capital of B L (Wisbech) Ltd together with its wholly owned subsidiary Belgrave Land (Wisbech) Ltd from its six private shareholders. B L (Wisbech) Ltd and Belgrave Land (Wisbech) Ltd own a single asset, the Belgrave Retail Park in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, which comprises a freehold retail warehouse park totalling 56,082 […]

15 May 2015

New Look sale adds £15m to SVG

SVG Capital has announced this morning that funds advised by Permira have signed a definitive agreement to sell New Look to Brait SA. The transaction values SVG Capital’s holding in New Look at £37 million, a £15 million uplift (8p per share) to the 31 January 2015 valuation of £22 million. New Look is a leading […]

15 May 2015

INPP is investing in another OFTO project

International Public Partnerships Limited, “INPP”, has announced that Transmission Capital Partners, the consortium comprising INPP, Amber Infrastructure and Transmission Investment has been appointed as preferred bidder for the long-term license and operation of a further offshore transmission project. The latest scheme, comprising the transmission cable connection to Westermost Rough Offshore Wind Farm represents the sixth such project […]

14 May 2015

Alliance Trust buying Stocktrade

Alliance Trust is to buy Stocktrade from Brewin Dolphin in an effort to bolster its Alliance Trust Savings business. They say the deal has the potential to add more than 48,000 new customers and  £4.6bn of new assets into ATS across three main channels; direct customers, intermediary customers and strategic partnerships. The purchase price is […]

14 May 2015

British Land results reflect strong development profits

British Land’s results for the year ended 31 March 2015 have been published. The EPRA NAV rose by 20.5% to 829p. They have declared a quarterly dividend of 6.92p; bringing the full year to 27.68p (2014: 27.0p) and the first quarter dividend for the new financial year will be 7.09p, an increase of 2.5%. The NAV increase […]