Investment Company News

27 Jun 2014

Secure Property Development & Investment : SPDI – results

Secure Property Development & Investment has published its results for 2013. The fully diluted net asset value at the end of December 2013 was $1.62 – down from $2.67 at the end of 2012 – the main cause of this was a substantial dilutive equity issue. Occupancy at their Terminal Bovary property was 100%at the year […]

26 Jun 2014

PME Africa : PMEA – results and acquisition

PME Africa has published its results for the year ended 31 December 2013 and has also announced that it intends to make a transformative deal that would result in it becoming a trading company. Over 2013 PMEA’s net asset value rose to $0.46 from $0.39. It bought back a quarter of its share capital at […]

26 Jun 2014

Treveria : TRV – annual report

Treveria has published its results for 2013. Excluding deferred tax, the net asset value of Treveria fell from €0.232 to €0.080 over the year to the end of December 2013. Part of this fall is accounted for by distributions made to shareholders of 3.25 cents and 1.25 cents in March and November 2013. The bulk […]

25 Jun 2014

BlackRock Income & Growth : BRIG – interim results

BlackRock Income & Growth has published figures for the six months to the end of April 2014. The net asset value total return for the period was 4.1% vs. 2.6% for the FTSE All-Share Index. The return to shareholders was 2.6% (the discount widened from 0.9% to 2.4%). The dividend was increased by 10% to 2.2p. […]

25 Jun 2014

Greencoat UK Wind : UKW – new acquisitions

Greencoat UK Wind is buying two wind farms, dipping into its credit line to do so (it will have borrowed £135m after the transactions complete – about 27% of gross assets) Kildrummy has a capacity of 18.4MW and was commissioned in May 2013. The farm, which is in Aberdeenshire, has a forecast net load factor […]

25 Jun 2014

Trading Emissions : TRE – carbon arbitration

Trading Emissions is in dispute with Chinese counterparties to CER (Certified Emission Reduction) Transaction Agreements. Two claims came in in March – these total €6m and were disclosed in Trading Emission’s accounts. On 23 June they received claims totalling €18m relating to four agreements. The company thinks these claims are “unjustified and is rigorously defending them”.

25 Jun 2014

Land Securities : LAND – acquisition

After selling a shopping centre in Sunderland, Land Securities is spending the proceeds on a 30% stake in Bluewater. The purchase price is £656m, the seller is Lend Lease and Land securities are also paying £40m for the rights to manage the whole centre and the adjoining land (110 acres). The purchase price equates to […]

25 Jun 2014

Gresham House : GHE – alternative proposals

Gresham House has announced that a group of individuals have come forward with a set of proposals to put to Gresham’s shareholders as an alternative to liquidating the fund. The group consists of Tony Dalwood (ex manager of Strategic Equity Capital), Michael Phillips (ex chief executive of Iimia – which is now Miton, Anthony Townsend (ex […]

25 Jun 2014

Dunedin Enterprise : DNE – acquisition

Dunedin Enterprise is making a £5.9m investment in EV Offshore Limited which designs, manufactures and provides high performance, ruggedised video cameras that are used to diagnose and analyse problems in oil and gas wells. EV Offshore is based in Aberdeen and Norwich and exports around the world.

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