Investment Company News

30 May 2014

Martin Currie Pacific Trust : MCP – change of remit and tender

Martin Currie Pacific Trust, the last of the pan Asia including Japan funds, is planning to drop Japan from its remit and move to an Asia ex Japan and Australasian strategy. It wants the new portfolio to be completely unconstrained from any benchmark and so is proposing to measure its future performance against the GDP growth […]

30 May 2014

Standard Life European Private Equity : SEP – interims

Standard Life European Private Equity, chaired by Ed Warner OBE (pictured), has published figures for the six months ended 31 March 2014. Over that period the company’s net asset value rose by 3.6% to 252.2p which, taking into account income earned in the period, translates into a net asset value total return of 5.5%. The share […]

30 May 2014

Harbourvest Global Private Equity : HVPE – annual results

Harbourvest Global Private Equity has published its results for the year that ended 31 January 2014. Over the year the net asset value grew by 15% to hit $14.38 ($1,167m). They say venture investments and investments in the US did best during the year. By contrast the MSCI World Index rose by 10.4% over this […]

30 May 2014

MedicX Fund : MXF – interim results

MedicX Fund has published its interim results covering the six months ended 31 March 2014. Over the period its net asset value, calculated with debt at fair value, fell from 69.4p to 68.6p. The quarterly dividend is now running at 1.45p per share, implying a full year dividend of 5.8p – marginally up from 5.7p […]

30 May 2014

Chenavari Capital Solutions : CCSL – initial results

Chenavari Capital Solutions has published its first set of results. These cover the period from 12 July 2013 to 31 March 2014. Chenavari Capital Solutions was admitted to listing on 7 October 2013, raising £130m. The net asset value at the end of the period was 100.91p – a 3.0% increase on the initial value […]

29 May 2014

Tamar European Industrial Fund : TEIF – sells Swedish property

Tamar European Industrial Fund has sold a property in Sweden for £7.94m. The property is a 25,000 sq m warehouse located in Kungsbacka (south of Gothenburg) let to Blondie Logistics and Santa Maria AB. The sale price equates to an initial yield of 11.0%. This was 1.6% below the last valuation for the asset in […]

29 May 2014

Shires Income : SHRS – annual results

Over the year to the end of March 2014, Shires Income, managed by Ed Beal, delivered a total return on net assets of 11.5% – ahead of the 8.8% return on its benchmark, the FTSE All-Share Index. Shires Income’s rating improved over the period and so the return to shareholders was 14.0%. The dividend was maintained at […]

29 May 2014

Electra Private Equity : ELTA – interim results

Electra Private Equity has released its interim statement. This covers the six month period ended 31 March 2014. Over the period Electra’s net asset value rose by 5.4% to 2,914p, driven in part by gains in the valuations of Axio Data and Park Resorts. Electra outperformed the FTSE All-Share Index, which rose by 4.8%. Electra’s share price […]

29 May 2014

International Oil & Gas Technology : OGT – court case

On 22 May International Oil & Gas Technology announced that the English Commercial court ruled that the claim brought against the company by the former manager, QOGT Inc, for alleged wrongful termination of the investment management and advisory agreement had failed in its entirety. International Oil & Gas Technology will have its costs paid by QOGT. A counter claim brought […]

29 May 2014

Ecofin Water & Power Opportunities : ECWO – interim results

Ecofin Water & Power Opportunities generated a total return of 9.0% on shareholders’ funds for the six months ended 31 March 2014. With the gearing effect of the zeros, the return on net assets for ordinary shareholders was 12.3% and the total return for ordinary shareholders was 13.4% as the discount on the ordinary shares […]

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