Investment Company News

08 Aug 2014

New name and new objective for Investors in Global Real Estate

New name and new objective for Investors in Global Real Estate IGRE : Investors in Global Real Estate plans to change its name to Schroder Global Real Estate Securities (provided shareholders approve that is). The change reflects the appointment of Schroders as managers of the fund earlier this month. The Board, following conversations with Schroders, […]

08 Aug 2014

Invista European shaves €5m off debt pile with Spanish sale

IERE : Invista European shaves €5m off debt pile with Spanish sale Invista European Real Estate, managed by Ludovic Berard (pictured), has sold a logistics asset in Alovera, Spain for €12.2m. Their plan is to use €7m of the proceeds from the sale to fund capital expenditure that they have planned elsewhere in their portfolio and […]

08 Aug 2014

Renewables Infrastructure buys three more solar parks

TRIG : Renewables Infrastructure buys three more solar parks The Renewables Infrastructure Group has acquired three operational solar parks in Dorset, Norfolk and Cornwall. Combined the parks have the capacity to generate 56.6MW. Parley Court Farm in Dorset is a 24.2MW plant built by Isolux Corsan and attracts a subsidy of 1.6 ROCs. Egmere Airfield […]

08 Aug 2014

Dolphin Capital refinances its Amanzoe project

DCI : Dolphin Capital refinances its Amanzoe project Dolphin Capital has announced that Colony Capital will loan Dolphin’s Amanzoe project €40m. The money will be used to return a €10m deposit from Archimedia, repay a loan from Dolphin Capital and finance the extension of the project. Amanzoe is an Aman beach club, spa, villa and hotel […]

07 Aug 2014

Kennedy Wilson Europe buys exposure to 99 assets in four months

KWE : Kennedy Wilson Europe buys exposure to 99 assets in four months – and keeps going Kennedy Wilson Europe has published its first set of figures since listing late in February 2014 (the second largest real estate IPO on the LSE ever). They show that by the end of June 2014 it had spent […]

07 Aug 2014

NewRiver Retail sells Bramley Shopping Centre in Leeds

NRR: NewRiver Retail sells Bramley Shopping Centre in Leeds Bramley Shopping Centre has 54 units spread across 121,342 sq ft. The units are let top the likes of Tesco, Farmfoods, Boots, Bright House, Greggs and Pound Stretcher. NewRiver Retail bought the property in 2010 as part of a package of five centres and, over the […]

07 Aug 2014

John Laing Environmental says fire will not affect dividend

JLEN : John Laing Environmental says fire will not affect dividend A fire that struck John Laing Environmental’s Frog Island Mechanical Biological Treatment Facility in East London has been brought under control. The full extent of the damage is still being assessed. The facility is fully insured and John Laing Environmental says it expects the […]

07 Aug 2014

JPMorgan American technology overweight pays off

JAM : JPMorgan American technology overweight pays off JPMorgan American, managed by Garrett Fish (pictured), has published its interims for the period to end June 2014. It outperformed its benchmark over this period, delivering a net asset value total return of 4.1% vs. a 3.6% return on the S&P500 Index. The return to shareholders was 4.2%. […]

06 Aug 2014

IEM: Impax Environmental Markets says not holding Tesla unhelpful

Impax Environmental Markets says not holding Tesla unhelpful Impax Environmental Markets has published results for the first six months of 2014. Over this period the total return on the net asset value was 2.9% and the return to shareholders was 2.8%. This represents an underperformance of the FTSE ET100 Index (which returned 5.9%) but is […]

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