Investment Company News

25 Feb 2015

Renewables Infrastructure in line with expectations

The Renewables Infrastructure Group has announced results for the year ended 31 December 2014. Over the period the net asset value rose slightly from 99p to 99.3p, the company paid total dividends for the year of 6.08p and the total return to shareholders was 7.5% – well ahead of the 1.2% return on the FTSE […]

25 Feb 2015

Boardroom shake up at Dolphin Capital

Dolphin Capital has announced this morning that “Following consultation with the majority of the Company’s shareholders, the Investment Manager, its Nominated Adviser and the existing Board, the new members of the Board and their respective roles will be as follows: Laurence Geller, Independent Non-executive Chairman; Robert Heller, Independent Non-executive Director; Graham Warner, Non-executive Director; Mark […]

25 Feb 2015

Sherborne threatens new requisition for Electra

Sherborne Investors has written to the Board of Electra proposing a resumption of discussions about board representation and participation in an expanded review of options to increase Electra’s shareholder value and threatening to requisition a meeting of shareholders if Ian Brindle, Edward Bramson and a new independent director aren’t appointed to the board of Electra. Given the resounding rejection […]

25 Feb 2015

Hotel and Restaurant business boosts Symphony’s NAV

Symphony International Holdings Limited has published Q4 figures and full year results for the year ended 31 December 2014. At 31 December 2014 the net asset value was US$705,412,021 and NAV per share was US$1.3473. This compares to NAV and NAV per share of US$767,400,667 and US$1.4657, respectively, at 30 September 2014 and represents a 14.6% increase […]

24 Feb 2015

Temple Bar sitting on cash

Temple Bar has published results for the year ended 31 De ember 2014. Over the period the fund returned -1.7% on net assets, behind the 1.2% return on the fund’s benchmark index, the FTSE All-Share. The fund borrowed £50m for 15 years in 2013 but still hasn’t spent any of the money on equities, the […]

24 Feb 2015

Sanditon benefits from oil service shorts

Sanditon has published its first set of interims since listing. Having started operations with a net asset value of 98.7p, the fund ended 2014 with a net asset value of 99.2p. At one point on the period though the net asset value had touched 103.1p. The fund kept its net exposure to the market fairly […]

24 Feb 2015

Qatar Investment Fund outperforms

Qatar Investment Fund reported NAV growth of 8.6% for the second half of 2014, compared to a 6.9% increase in the Qatar Exchange Index. They paid a dividend of 3.5 cents per share. the discount widened to 12.1% meaning that the return to shareholders was 5.1%. The Qatar Exchange was the only one in the […]

24 Feb 2015

Baker Steel makes significant progress on expansion plans

At Baker Steel Resources Trust’s EGM held on Monday 23 February all the resolutions were passed. the issue price for shares available under the open offer was 36.2p and 3,368,488 new shares are being issued in response to that (the share price is still c10% below the 36.2p level so the low level of take up is maybe […]

24 Feb 2015

BlackRock Latin outperforms a falling market

BlackRock Latin American has published its  results for the year that ended on 31 December 2014. over that period the fund outperformed its benchmark. The total return on net assets was -9.3% – better than the -12% return on the MSCI Latin America Index. the return to shareholders was -4.0%. The final dividend is being […]

24 Feb 2015

F&C UK Real Estate beats IPD over H2 2014

F&C UK Real Estate figures for the six months ended 31 December 2014 have been published. The fund did well over the period – the total return to shareholders was 15% and this came from an 11.9% return on net assets and an increase in the premium that its shares trade on from +0.7% to […]

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