Investment Company News

14 Apr 2014

F&C Commercial Property Trust : FCPT – results

F&C Commercial Property Trust, managed by Richard Kirby, has announced results for the year ended 31 December 2013 that show the fund delivering a net asset value total return of 13.0% for the year – better than the 10.9% return generated by the IPD Quarterly Universe. The company has a sizeable cash pile to deploy which, […]

11 Apr 2014

Utilico Emerging Markets : UEM – funding and the future

Utilico Emerging Markets is considering putting long-term finance in place with the aim of securing fixed rate funding at an attractive rate. Before it does so it wants to make sure that shareholders are happy with the idea and therefore is proposing to hold a continuation vote now and get shareholders to agree that the […]

11 Apr 2014

El Oro : ELX – interim results

El Oro has published its interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2013. The net asset value at the end of the period was 95.0p up from 92.0p at the end of June 2013.  

11 Apr 2014

John Laing Environmental Assets : JLEN – acquisitions

John Laing Environmental has announced that it has completed on its deals to acquire Amber Solar, Castle Pill & Ferndale Wind and Bilsthorpe Wind projects from the John Laing Group. They already tied up the acquisitions of the Dumfries & Galloway Waste, Hall Farm Wind and Tay Wastewater Projects and so John Laing Environmental has now […]

10 Apr 2014

Henderson Far East Income : HFEL – interims

Henderson Far East Income, managed by Michael Kerley (pictured), underperformed its benchmark by a little over the six months to the end of February 2014; its net asset value total return was -2.6% vs. -0.8% for the FTSE All World Asia Pacific ex Japan Index. The first two quarterly dividends have been maintained at 4.4p per […]

09 Apr 2014

Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies : IPU – annual results

Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies has released its annual results for the year ended 31 January 2014. Over that period Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies achieved a net asset value total return of 31.4% – marginally behind that of the benchmark (the Numis Smaller Companies ex Investment Companies Index returned 31.8%). The discount widened slightly from 13.7% to […]

09 Apr 2014

Dexion Trading : DTL – in liquidation

Dexion Trading has announced that today’s EGM approved the winding up of the company and liquidators have been appointed. The Directors were persuaded to go down this route after a recent tender offer was significantly oversubscribed.

08 Apr 2014

Summit Germany : SMTG – deals

Summit Germany has announced two deals. For the largest of these they are paying €45.5m to acquire a loan facility with a face value of €74m secured against 11 properties that Summit Germany used to own. Effectively Summit will now control these properties. The portfolio consists of nine office buildings and two retail properties with a total lettable area […]

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