F&C Commercial Property Trust’s results for 2014 are good. The fund’s property portfolio beat the IPD Index by 2.4%, delivering a return of 20.3% compared to 17.9% for the benchmark. This helped generate a return on net assets of 22.1%. The return to shareholders was a little lower however, 18.8% as the company moved to […]
Riverstone Energy is contributing up to $167m towards what could be a $500m investment in Three Rivers Natural Resource Holdings III LLC, a newly-formed, Austin (Texas) -based oil and gas company. Three Rivers III is the third partnership between funds managed or advised by Riverstone and Three Rivers III’s management team. The first two have sold substantially […]
LXB Retail Properties has been hinting at an imminent disposal of two other large assets following on from the sale of their investment in Sutton. today they have announced the sale of their investments at Biggleswade and Rushden. They’ll get £58.5m for Biggleswade now, a further £10.2m when phase one of that development is completed (on […]
John Laing Infrastructure has announced that David Marshall, who heads up the team at John Laing Capital Management alongside Andrew Charlesworth, the investment adviser to the Company, has decided to retire and will therefore be leaving JLCM with effect from 1 July 2015. Andrew Charlesworth is staying on. JLIF : David Marshall retiring from […]
City Merchants High Yield generated a 5% return in net assets and an 8.5% return to shareholders over 2014. The dividend was maintained at 10p. The shares moved from trading at a 0.1% discount to a 3.2% premium. The portfolio has a weighting in subordinated debt issued by European banks. This fell in value over […]
Fair Oaks Income has announced results for the period ended 31 December 2014. The company listed in June 2014. Over the period from launch to the end of the year, the NAV return was 4.2% and the share price return 4.3%. They paid a first dividend of 4.25 cents per share and have switched since to paying […]
Golden Prospect Precious Metals published its annual report for the year ended 31 December 2014 yesterday. it says much about the fund’s performance that it doesn’t get a mention in the Chairman’s statement and is a throw away last line in the manager’s report “The fund NAV ended the year at 31p, a decline of […]
Acorn Income Fund released results for the year ended 31 December 2014 yesterday. Over 2014 the total return on gross assets was -0.4%. This compares to a -1.8% return on the Numis Smaller Companies ex Investment Companies Index, a -2.7% return on the FTSE Small Cap. ex Investment Companies Index and a 1.2% return on the […]
John Laing Environmental is buying a solar park and two wind farms off John Laing Group for £42.54m. They are funding the transaction from their £50m credit facility. The solar park deal relates to Branden solar park where they are buying a 64% stake. Branden Solar comprises two separate solar parks located near Bodmin in Cornwall, with […]
JZ Capital Partners and their property partner, RedSky, are paying $97.4m to acquire 2621 NW 2nd Avenue located in Miami’s Wynwood neighbourhood and 1 NE 40th Street and 35 NE 40th Street (site of the Oak Tavern, pictured), two properties located in the Design District neighbourhood of Miami, Florida. JZ’s share of the purchase price was $4209m […]
