Investment Company News

23 May 2014

SECURE Property Development & Investment : SPDI – acquisition

SECURE Property Development & Investment PLC has announced  that it has bought Innovations logistics park in Bucharest, Romania, for €12.6m; funded by €4.4m of cash resources, by issuing 785,000 redeemable shares and with bank debt. The logistics park has 17,000 sqm of gross leasable area and is located in Clinceni in Bucharest, which benefits from being on the Bucharest ring road, […]

22 May 2014

Henderson Value Trust : HVTR – interims

Henderson Value Trust has released its interim results for the half year to end March 2014. The net asset value barely changed over the period – rising from 290.2p to 290.8p but the share price fell from 245p to 240p meaning that the discount widened to 17.5%. The 1.1% total return on net assets underperformed […]

22 May 2014

F&C Capital & Income Investment Trust : FCI – interims

F&C Capital & Income Investment Trust, managed by Julian Cane (pictured), generated a total return on net assets of 3.9% for the six months ended 31 March 2014 – lagging the 4.8% return on the FTSE All-Share Index. The trust’s rating improved however and this generated a return to shareholders of 5.4%. The quarterly dividends for […]

22 May 2014

Local Shopping REIT : LSR – half year results

Local Shopping REIT has released its results for the six months ended 31 March 2014. The net asset value rose from 41p to 43p during the period while the adjusted NAV (excluding liabilities arising from derivative financial instruments) rose to 49p (corrected by LSR on 23 May) from 48p. Property values in the portfolio rose by 0.1% on average. […]

22 May 2014

JP Morgan Private Equity : JPEL – part sale of investment

JP Morgan Private Equity has announced that it has sold part of its stake in Terra Firma Deutsche Annington (the largest holding in the portfolio). Deutsche Annington is the largest investor in German real estate with almost 175,000 residential units. JP Morgan Private Equity acquired its stake in two chunks – one in 2006 and a […]

22 May 2014

Max Property : MAX – final results

Max Property has published its results for the year ended 31 March 2014. Over the year its EPRA NAV has risen by 21% from 136.5p to 164.5p on the back of a 12.4% uplift in the value of its property portfolio which, with income, translated into a 19.3% ungeared return on property. Within this its […]

21 May 2014

Kennedy Wilson Europe : KWE – acquisition

Kennedy Wilson Europe is paying Bank of Scotland up to £93.5m to acquire a portfolio of loans all of which are in receivership. The passing rents on the portfolio are £7m. The portfolio is spread across England and comprises “high tech properties”.

21 May 2014

BlackRock Frontiers : BRFI – interims

BlackRock Frontiers, managed by Sam Vecht (pictured), says that over the six months ended 31 March 2014 the total return on its net asset value was 7.8% in Sterling (11.0% in US dollars). The return lagged that of the MSCI Frontiers Index which returned 11.2% in Sterling and 14.4% in US dollars. The report attributes the […]

21 May 2014

JP Morgan Income & Capital Trust : JPI, JPIZ, JPIU – final results

JP Morgan Income & Capital Trust, managed by Sarah Emly (pictured) and John Baker,  has released results for the year ended 28 February 2014. These show the overall fund outperforming its benchmark by 6.4%. The total assets generated a total return of 18.4% over the year compared to 12.0% for the benchmark of 90% FTSE350 Index and […]

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