BEE : Tough year for Baring Emerging Europe Over the year to the end of September 2014 Baring Emerging Europe’s net asset value fell from 846.2p to 695.9p – on a total return basis a fall of 15.9%. This was 2.6% worse than their benchmark (the MSCI Emerging Markets Europe 10/40 Index) which fell by 13.3%. The […]
CEB : CEB Resources benefits from Mariola sale The net asset value of CEB Resources rose from 0.329 cents per share to 0.454 cents per share over the six months that ended on 31 October 2014, an increase of 38.3%. The main driver for this was the realisation of an $851,000 profit on its holding in Carbon Investment […]
CLDN : Caledonia sitting on sizeable war chest Caledonia’s net asset value rose by 4.6% in total return terms over the half year to the end of September 2014. The interim dividend was increased from 13.4p to 13.8p. Caledonia, which organises its portfolio into a number of discrete pools, says that the growth came from the […]
NII : New India beats rising market New India Investment Trust reported a 21.5% total return on its net asset value over the six months ended 30 September 2014, ahead of the MSCI India Index which rose by 18.6%. The fund’s discount has narrowed noticeably as well from 14.6% at the start of the period to something […]
JESC : JPMorgan European Smaller Companies caught out by two IPOs JPMorgan European Smaller Companies results for the half year to the end of September 2014 have been published. The net asset value total return was a negative 16.6% – some 7.1% less than the return on the fund’s benchmark, the Euromoney Smaller European Companies […]
KIT : Pharma exposure helps Keystone post market-beating figures Keystone has published its annual results. these cover the year that ended on 30 September 2014. Over that period the fund’s net asset value total return was 12.5%. The share price though returned just 7.4% as the discount widened from 0.8% to 5.4%. Both measures outperformed […]
LMP : LondonMetric sells Bishop Auckland Retail Park LondonMetric Property is selling Bishop Auckland Retail Park to Standard Life Investments for £23.6m The price works out at an initial yield of 5.27%. LMP bought the land for £2.3m and then spent £15.8m over the course of 2012 and 2013 developing the site and so the […]
APEF : Aberdeen Private Equity benefits from internet exposure Aberdeen Private Equity Fund’s net asset value rose by 4.6p or 4.2% over the six months that ended 30 September 2014. Taken with the interim dividend of 2p, the total return on net assets was 6.1%. The strengthening US dollar contributed about 0.7p to this. A couple […]
TFIF : TwentyFour Income increases CLO exposure as spreads widen Over the six months to the end of September 2014 TwentyFour Income Fund generated a total return of 6.5% on its net assets. It is paying quarterly dividends of 1.5p, in-line with forecast of 6p dividends for the year as a whole. They say the […]
LTI : Lindsell Train insures their key men Over the six months to the end of September 2014 the total return on Lindsell Train’s net asset value was 8.7% – a lot better than its benchmark (the index of the annual average yield on the UK 2.5% Consolidated Loan Stock) which returned 2.1% and better […]
