Investment Company News

14 Apr 2015

M&A activity produces great results for International Biotechnology

International Biotechnology’s results for the six months ended 28 February 2015 are out and they show that the fund had a fantastic time with the net asset value rising by 44.5%. The share price was up 57.4% over this period as they bought back 23% of the company to cut the discount from 21.5% to […]

13 Apr 2015

Qatar Investment Fund discontinuation vote proposals

Qatar Investment Fund has a discontinuation vote scheduled this year. The Board is thinking about conducting a tender offer at a 1% discount to net asset value (less associated expenses) for 10% to 15% of the fund. They are working this out on a sliding scale whereby if the fund trades at an average discount […]

13 Apr 2015

NextEnergy Solar adds a further 45MWp

NextEnergy Solar is spending up to £54.7m to acquire two plants with a total generating capacity of 45.4MWp. The deals are a share purchase agreement to acquire the operational 33.7MWp Glebe Farm solar power plant in Bedfordshire for up to £40.5m and a share purchase agreement signed to acquire the operational 11.7MWp Hawkers Farm solar […]

13 Apr 2015

Witan takes out long-term borrowing

Witan Investment Trust has today agreed to issue a £21m fixed rate 20 year secured private placement note at a coupon of 3.29% and a £54m fixed rate 30 year secured private placement note at a coupon of 3.47%. They say the purpose of this transaction is to obtain fixed rate long dated Sterling denominated […]

10 Apr 2015

Manager compensates JPMorgan Senior Secured after hedging error

JPMorgan Senior Secured Loan has received £1.686m in compensation from JPMorgan after an error led to losses of that amount on the company’s currency hedging. This pushes the NAV back up to 97.58p (including accrued income) and the shares trade at a 5.3% discount to this. JPSL : Manager compensates JPMorgan Senior Secured after hedging […]

10 Apr 2015

VPC Specialty Lending Investments invests in Avant

VPC Specialty Lending Investments has made a new investment of c£11.7m by way of a balance sheet loan to Avant, Inc., a Chicago-based financial technology platform offering consumer credit. Victory Park Capital Advisors, LLC, the Company’s investment manager, has been an early financial partner of Avant since it began offering consumer credit in early 2013. […]

10 Apr 2015

Infrastructure India sets up incentive scheme for director

Infrastructure India has announced that its logistics terminal in Bangalore is now up and running. They have agreed a ten year business plan for Distribution Logistics Infrastructure Private Limited, the 99.9% subsidiary that is running the business. Vikram Viswanath, a non-executive director of Infrastructure India, is taking up the role of “Advisor” to the management team of […]

10 Apr 2015

Tritax buys Brakes distribution centre

Tritax Big Box REIT is paying £37.2m to acquire the Brakes Brothers distribution centre in Flex Meadow, Harlow. the price is equivalent to a net initial yield of 5%. They say the centre is strategically positioned in a core South East location, close to the M11, the M25 and Central London, providing distribution reach across […]

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