Investment Company News

01 May 2015

Strong year for entertainment One not fully reflected in Marwyn results

Marwyn Value Investors’ 2014 results show the NAV rose by 14.5% over the year. The bulk of Marwyn’s net asset value is invested in Entertainment One (ETO). During the twelve month period to 31 December 2014, ETO’s share price increased from 259.2p to 322.4p, an increase of 24.38%. It is hard to tell from the accounts […]

01 May 2015

Carador beats loan and high yield indices in 2014

Carador has published its results for 2014. The statement says risk assets and sub-investment grade corporate credit markets in particular experienced considerable price volatility with the Credit Suisse Indices for both leveraged loans and high yield bonds delivering just 2.1% and 1.9%, respectively. Against this backdrop, the Company delivered a 6.3% total shareholder return in 2014, outperforming the […]

01 May 2015

Blackstone/GSO says everything going according to plan

Blackstone/GSO Loan Financing has published its first set of results covering the period from incorporation, through IPO on 23 July 2014 to the end of December 2014. By the end of the year they were only 32% invested and even now this only up to 51% but they knew it would take time and say […]

01 May 2015

Africa Opportunity hit by commodity price falls

Africa Opportunity Fund’s results for 2014 show its net asset value fell by 17% over the year. Its C shares (it raised more cash in April 2014) saw their net asset value fall by 9% by the end of the year. The C share money is some way off being invested. As at 31 December 2014, […]

30 Apr 2015

Chinese underweight contributes to Edinburgh Dragon’s mild underperformance

Edinburgh Dragon‘s recent half yearly results report a rise in NAV of 3.7% during the six-months to 28 February 2015, underperforming its MSCI All-Countries Asia (ex-Japan) Index which rose 5.9% (all in Sterling adjusted terms). The company reports that this was due to be underweight China (the Chinese stock market outperformed the broader region during […]

30 Apr 2015

JZ Capital acquires Danish Van leasing company

JZ Capital Partners has announced the acquisition of S.A.C, an operational van leasing company based to the south of Copenhagen in Denmark. S.A.C. is JZCP’s first Danish investment. S.A.C’s is engaged in flexible short and long term leases (the average lease period is approximately four years). The company controls the full life cycle of its product, including procurement, financing, service & […]

30 Apr 2015

Masawara posts 16.5% increase in equity during 2014

Masawara has published its final results for the year that ended 31 December 2014. During the period, shareholders’ equity rose by 16.5% to $84.6m. This $12m increase offsets the $9.6m fall that the company suffered during 2013. The company says that key contributors to this were the disposal of Masawara Energy Mauritius Limited at the beginning […]

30 Apr 2015

New Thai lags strong Thai market

Aberdeen New Thai results for the year ended 28 February 2015 have been published. The Thai market did well over the period, aided by a strong Baht, and the SET (Stock Exchange of Thailand) Index returned 35.3%. Aberdeen New Thai’s net asset value return lagged this a little, returning 31.9%. The shares did slightly better, returning 32.2%. […]

30 Apr 2015

Geron driving British & American NAV

British & American’s asset value (adjusted for the dilutive effects of the company’s preference share) fell from 88p to 78p over the year that ended on 31 December 2014. If the preference shares are valued at par the NAV fall was from 84p to 69p. The dividend was increased from 5.1p to 5.3p. The report […]

30 Apr 2015

Nimrod buys multi-role support vessel

Nimrod Sea Assets is paying $8m for a 50% stake in a multi-ole support vessel – EDT Jane – and will charter the asset to EDT Offshore Ltd on a bareboat charter party deal lasting between five and ten years depending on purchase options the charterer can exercise. They say EDT Offshore Ltd is an […]