Investment Company News

09 Jul 2014

Empiric Student Property : ESP – new project in Southampton

Empiric Student Property has entered into a 50:50 joint venture with Revcap advisors to acquire a project that is building a 158 bed student accommodation project in Southampton. The building, Brunswick House on Brunswick Place, Southampton, is a former commercial property. The joint venture is paying £3.575m for the building which will be redeveloped and is […]

08 Jul 2014

Trading Emissions : TRE – disposal

Trading Emissions has sold its interest in EWG Slupsk Sp. z o.o. to Pakenham Sp. z o.o., a Polish special purpose vehicle owned and controlled by Winergy Last Mile Ltd. EWG Slupsk is developing 98 wind turbines across 8 wind farm clusters located in Northern Poland with an expected final capacity of 253.5MW. The project has a grid connection […]

08 Jul 2014

Midas Income & Growth : MIGT – annual results

Midas Income & Growth, managed by Alan Borrows (pictured) and Simon Callow has released its results for the year that ended on 30 April 2014. The total return on the net asset value for the year was 7.2% – well ahead of the company’s benchmark (LIBOR +3%) which, because LIBOR is so low, returned 3.6%. The Board […]

08 Jul 2014

All Asia Asset Capital : AAA – new investment

All Asia Asset Capital is upping its stake in power producer, Andaman Power and Utility Company, from 2.5% to 7% – issuing 11m new shares to the vendor (5.24% of the company) and paying $550,000 in cash. Andaman Power and Utility is focused on Thailand and Myanmar. It has done a deal with Aggreko to […]

08 Jul 2014

Tritax Big Box REIT : BBOX – expansion

Tritax Big Box REIT has published a prospectus and a circular as it prepares to try to raise c£150m this month and up to a further £350m thereafter. They have said that they intend to move to a listing on the main market as part of this deal. They have also declared their first dividend […]

08 Jul 2014

Highcroft Investments : HCFT – disposal

Highcroft Investments has sold a property it owns in Beckenham for £1m. The 5,913 sq ft building is let to Superdrug on a rent of £72,000 on a deal that expires in June 2018. The sale price was 25% more than its valuation at 31 December 2013. Highcroft intends to use the sale proceeds to invest […]

07 Jul 2014

SVM UK Emerging : SVM – results

SVM UK Emerging, co-managed by Margaret Lawson (pictured) and Colin McLean, has published its results for the year that ended 31 March 2014. Over the year the net asset value generated a total return of 37.2% – over 20% ahead of the company’s benchmark (the IMA UK All Companies Sector) which returned 17.1%. The return to shareholders […]

07 Jul 2014

Empiric Student Property : ESP – acquisition

Empiric Student Property has bought a development of an 86 bedroom student accommodation block being constructed on the site of a former cinema in Buccleuch Street in Edinburgh (next to the University of Edinburgh). Empiric has bought the freehold of the site from Cruden Homes (East) who are building the project for a cost of […]

07 Jul 2014

SEGRO : SGRO – disposal

SEGRO has sold Pegasus Park in Brussels for €83.4m (no change on the valuation as at 31 December 2013). The property generated a yield, after admin costs, of 9.0%. Pegasus park is an 81,500 sqm office park close to Brussels airport. The high yield reflects the vacancy rate – about 20% – and relatively short […]

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