NRR : NewRiver raising £75m to buy out joint venture partner NewRiver Retail is raising £75m via a placing of new shares to fund the acquisition of the 90% stake it doesn’t already own in the “NewRiver Retail Property Unit Trust” – the cost of which will be £71m. The underlying property portfolio comprises five shopping centres and […]
BRFI : Relatively poor year for BlackRock Frontiers BlackRock Frontier Markets generated a total return on net assets of 21.1% over the year to the end of September 2014 which is good in absolute terms, a lot better than the MSCI Emerging markets Index which returned 4.2% but well behind its benchmark, the MSCI Frontier […]
Empiric Student Property has announced it has made a further investment in Exeter. It is spending £4.5m to buy Dean Clarke Lofts, a 30 bed, loft-style student accommodation block. It is a conversion of a Grade 2 listed, Georgian building on Southernhay Gardens in Exeter. It was completed in August 2013 and comprises 30 beds […]
JGC : Whole Foods holds back Jupiter Green Jupiter Green’s net asset value total return was -2.0% over the six months to the end of September 2014, a little less than the MSCI World Small cap. Index which returned -1.6% and the FTSE ET100 Index which was flat. The shares moved from trading at a discount to […]
JLIF bidding for Balfour Beatty PPP assets John Laing infrastructure has announced that it is considering bidding for Balfour Beatty’s PPP portfolio (all the public private partnership / public finance initiative type deals that Balfour Beatty has on its balance sheet). JLIF is thinking about offering c£1bn in cash for these and would raise fresh […]
WWH : InterMune helps drive good Worldwide Healthcare result Worldwide Healthcare powered ahead over the six months ended 30 September as the net asset value delivered a total return of 16.8%. The rating stayed more or less the same so the return to shareholders was 16.2%. by contrast the benchmark index (MSCI World Health Care) returned 11.5% […]
MVI : Marwyn Value sells Breedon Aggregates Marwyn Value Investments has got cash equivalent to 3.7x their total investment in Breedon Aggregates – the stake was sold for £51.3m and MVI’s share of that is £43.5m. They first invested in the company as Marwyn Materials in 2008. The return works out as a IRR of […]
SRE : Transformative deal for Sirius Real Estate Sirius Real Estate has announced that it is raising €40m through a private placing, getting a secondary listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and acquiring a €76m mixed use German property portfolio. Sirius has placed 105,263,158 new ordinary shares at a price of 38 cents per ordinary share to […]
JETG / JETI : Mixed fortunes for the two JPMorgan European pools JPMorgan European Investment trust interim results announcement covering the six months that finished on 30 September 2014 has been published. For the growth portfolio (JETG) there was a negative return on net assets of 4.5% – an underperformance of its benchmark, the MSCI Europe ex […]
BBOX : Tritax raises £110m and spends £22m Tritax Big Box REIT has announced that it has raised £110m by placing 104.77m shares at 105p. It has also said that it has exchanged contracts on a Tesco retail distribution warehouse for which they are paying £22.45m, equivalent to a net initial yield of 8.25%. The […]
