Investment Company News

09 Dec 2014

Italian property fund is Terra Catalysts’ last material holding

Terra Catalyst Fund‘s sole remaining material holding is its  72.4% holding in Spazio Investments NV, an Italian registered Fund which invests in Italian property. This follows on from the sale of TCF’s holdings in the Tamar European Industrial Fund and Rugby estates earlier this year. Spazio is being held on TCF’s balance sheet at €6.43, unchanged […]

09 Dec 2014

Summit Germany – manager believes market is moving towards best year since 2007

Summit Germany, the German commercial real estate company, has provided a trading update with a number of key developments. The first is that it has agreed terms to refinance €268m of its €309m debt facilities. This includes a new €240m, 7 year, 3.4% debt facility (the current loan is at 3.9%) which is expected to be in place by […]

09 Dec 2014

Another year of outperformance for Finsbury Growth & Income

Finsbury Growth & Income Trust, managed by Nick Train (pictured), has published its annual results for the year ended 30 September 3014, which confirm another year of outperformance relative to its FTSE All-Share Benchmark. FGT provided an NAV total return of 8.6%, comfortably ahead of the benchmark’s 6.1%.  A second interim dividend of 6.2p has been […]

09 Dec 2014

Another minnow disappearing

Promethean has announced that it will enter voluntary liquidation and its shares have been suspended from trading on AIM. Grant Thornton were appointed as liquidators. The proceeds will be returned to shareholders PTH : Another minnow disappearing

08 Dec 2014

Tritax buys two more distribution centres

Tritax Big Box REIT has announced the acquisition of two more distribution centres – one at Dove Valley Park,  Derby and the other at Trafford Park in Manchester for a combined price of £55.1m, equivalent to a blended net initial yield of 6.53%, assuming 5.8% purchase costs. Completion of both purchases is expected to take place by 12 […]

08 Dec 2014

Standard Life European Private Equity results

Standard Life European Private Equity Trust has published its results for the year that ended 30 September 2014. the total return on its net asset value for the year was 7.7%. They are paying a dividend of 5p per share and the Board have said they intend to try to at least maintain that level […]

08 Dec 2014

Scottish Investment Trust let down by US underweight and Oil exposure

Over the year to the end of October 2014 Scottish Investment Trust generated a return of 1% on net assets – in-line with the return on the FTSE All-Share Index over that period but well behind the 8.8% return posted by the FTSE All World Index (a large proportion of SCIN’s assets are invested overseas). […]

08 Dec 2014

Foresight Solar buys UK’s largest solar farm

Foresight Solar is to buy Landmead, the UK’s largest solar farm. Located in East Hanney, Oxfordshire and currently under construction, this 46MWp farm is expected to be grid-connected later this month and so should qualify for a subsidy at a rate of 1.4 ROCs. With this deal, Foresight will now own farms capable of generating 213MWp […]

08 Dec 2014

Globalworth buys Nusco Tower

Globalworth Real Estate has announced that it is buying Nusco Tower for €46m and a parcel of land for €4m. The Tower deal won’t complete until Q2 2015. GWI : Globalworth buys Nusco Tower, a 20 storey office block on Gara Herastrau, the same street as Globalworth’s recent acquisition, Green Court Building A. Nusco Tower has circa […]

08 Dec 2014

Takeover and merger deals planned for Blackstar

Blackstar Group is planning to buy 100% of Times Media Group and 22.9% of Kagiso Tiso Holdings in exchange for cash and shares in Blackstar. Following the completion of the transaction, Blackstar will change its name to “Tiso Blackstar group SE” Blackstar already owns 32.5% of Times Media Group. To buy the remainder Blackstar will […]