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 […]
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”.
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 […]
Land Securities has sold the 550,000 sq ft Bridges shopping centre in Sunderland for £152m – equivalent to an initial yield of 6.9%. Land Securities bought the centre in 1993 but is selling as it says the centre does not fall within its strategic focus and so it is taking advantage of strong market conditions to sell […]
Utilico Emerging Markets has announced its results covering the year that ended 31 March 2014. The net asset value fell over the period but outperformed the MSCI Emerging Markets total Return Index (which fell by 9.6% vs. UEM’s fall of 3.4%). They say Sterling strength took 14.2% off their performance for the year. Revenue declined […]
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies’ results for the year ended 31 March 2014 show the fund lagging the Numis Smaller Companies Index by some margin – generating a return on net assets of 11% vs. 23% for the benchmark. The discount did narrow however (from 16% to 13%) and so the return to shareholders was 16%. […]
Lindsell Train Investment Trust has published results for the year that ended 31 March 2014. These show that the net asset value return for the year was 13.0% vs. 4.3% for the fund’s benchmark and 9% for the MSCI World Index (in Sterling terms). The share price did even better – generating a return of 16.0% […]
Phaunos Timber Fund announced this morning that it intends to appoint Stafford Timberland Limited as managers of the fund. They want to press on with restructuring the company and stick to the planned continuation vote in 2016. Phaunos say they will not be updating the net asset value before the annual valuation date at 31 […]
Hansa Trust has published its annual results for the year that ended on 31 March 2014. It announced a the results of a strategic review in April that will, over time, change the way that the company is managed in the future. Over the year Hansa’s net asset value rose by 12.3% while the FTSE All-Share Index […]
The year to 31 March 2014 saw Aberdeen Private Equity’s net asset value little changed – generating a negative net asset value return of 0.2%. The share price total return though was -10.0%. Good performance from Thoma Bravo IX – as it exited Roadnet (vehicle routing and scheduling software) and Entrust (a digital security business); Northzone VI – on continuing progress at […]
