Personal Assets Trust has published its results covering the year ended 30 April 2014. Over the year the company’s net asset value fell by 5.1%. Over the past three years Personal Assets Trust has underperformed both inflation and the FTSE All-Share Index. The problem, says Sebastian Lyon – the fund manager, has been the funds […]
Perpetual Income & Growth has published its annual accounts for the year that ended on 31 March 2014. Over that period Perpetual Income & Growth outperformed its benchmark (the FTSE All-Share Index) by some margin, delivering a total return on net assets of 18.8% at the portfolio level and 19.4% including the effects of marking its […]
Martin Currie Pacific has published its results for the thirteen months that ended on 31 March 2014. The Company has changed its year end from end February to end March hence the thirteen month period. Over the period the total return on net assets was -10.7% – an underperformance of the MSCI All Countries Asia […]
Workspace Group has announced results for the year ended 31 March 2014. Over the year its EPRA net asset value rose by 43% to £4.96 and they raised the total dividend for the year by 10% to 10.63p . The rise in the net asset value was driven by a 27% increase in the valuation […]
Tritax Big Box REIT has refinanced two recent acquisitions – the Marks & Spencer East Midlands Distribution Centre at Castle Donington, Leicestershire and the Tesco Distribution Centre at Southmead Industrial Estate, Didcot. Barclays Bank is providing loans of £49.3m and £12.2m respectively, secured individually on the assets. They are paying slightly more for the M&S centre financing […]
Terra Capital has published its results for the year ended 31 December 2013. While somewhat out of date now, the figures show a 10% increase in Terra Capital’s net asset value to 96 cents per share. The Chairman draws attention to the fact that this was achieved despite not being fully invested throughout 2013 – he […]
Standard Life Inv Property Income has sold its largest investment – a logistics unit in Bolton let to Tesco. The price it got for the property was £16m which equates to a yield of 7.25%. The reason for the sale, says Jason Baggaley, Standard Life inv Property Income’s manager, is that Tesco’s lease on the property […]
Henderson Diversified Income has published its interim accounts covering the six months to the end of April 2014. Over that period the fund generated a total return on net assets of 4.7%. The share price did not keep pace with the net asset value so the return to shareholders was 3.5%. The fund targets returns of 1.25% over LIBOR […]
LondonMetric Property plc has sold a 22,000 sq. ft. retail development in Berkhamsted let to M&S Simply Food and Costa Coffee at a price equivalent to an initial yield of 4.5%; is getting £15.2m for its Odeon Multiplex in Huddersfield (an initial yield of 6.1%); and is selling three DFS warehouse units in Ashby, Droitwich and Bury […]
Dragon Ukrainian Properties & Development has published results for the year ended 31 December 2013. These show its net asset value falling from $1.65 to $1.48 as they were hit by falling property valuations, notably in the value of their land bank, and also by the fall in value of the Hryvnya, the Ukrainian currency. […]
