Investment Company News

11 Mar 2015

HICL and INPP invest in schools

International Public Partnerships is investing c£8m and HICL Infrastructure is investing £7.2m to take equity stakes (45% in HICL’s case) in a £103m project -the Priority Schools Building Programme (“PSBP”) North East Batch Project. The national PSBP has been set up to address the needs of the schools most in need of urgent repair and will build or […]

11 Mar 2015

Witan outperforms again

Witan’s results for the year ended 31 December 2014 show them generating a return on net assets of 6.6%, 1.1% ahead of their benchmark (a composite of four different regional FTSE All-World Indices) and well ahead of the 1.2% return on the FTSE All-Share Index. The share price total return was 15.1%, enhanced by the move […]

10 Mar 2015

Updata and wesupply drive NAV growth at LMS Capital

LMS Capital is continuing the process of realising its portfolio and handing back the proceeds to shareholders. Its net asset value rose from 88p to 93p over the course of 2014. They handed back £40m to shareholders by way of a tender offer. They made sales totalling £45.9m, £31.8m of this came from the sale […]

10 Mar 2015

Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller to embrace income focus

Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies, which has long been plagued by a wide discount, is to switch focus to become an income fund. The Board, chaired by Ian Barby (pictured), consulted holders of more than 50% of the shares before making this proposal. The first element of this switch is a more than doubling of the dividend […]

10 Mar 2015

Murray International results don’t explain underperformance

Murray International’s results for the year ended 31 December 2014 have been published. Over the year the total return on net assets was 3% and the return to shareholders was 1.7%, unfortunately both these figures were behind the 7.5% return on the company’s benchmark (40% of the FTSE World UK Index and 60% of the […]

10 Mar 2015

Empiric continues spending spree with Aberdeen buy

Empiric Student Property has acquired a student accommodation development in Aberdeen: Spital Court Studios. The deal is to buy the freehold of a forward funded development in Aberdeen currently being developed into purpose-built student accommodation by local developer, Scape Homes. The site is located on the corner of St Peter Street and St Peter Lane, within half a mile […]

10 Mar 2015

SEGRO sells Milan office park for €119m

SEGRO has sold Energy Park, its recently completed office development outside Milan to Hines Italia SGR for €118.7m. This price is 5% more than their value at the end of December 2014 and works out at a 7.3% initial yield. Energy Park is a fully-let, 61,400 sqm suburban office park built by SEGRO and completed […]

09 Mar 2015

JPMorgan Claverhouse appoints Board Apprentice

JPMorgan Claverhouse beat the FTSE All-Share index over 2014 by a narrow margin – delivering a total return on net assets of 2.1% vs. the Index’s 1.2%. The return to shareholders was 4% however as the fund’s discount narrowed from 3.4% to 5.4%. The total dividend for the year was upped from 19.5p to 20.0p. […]

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