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05 Mar 2014
Starwood European secures new loans in 2018 results

Starwood European Real Estate Finance

Starwood European Real Estate Finance is providing a €14.3m facility to enable the purchase of an office building in Amsterdam fully occupied by UPC Nederlands. They say the return on the facility will be ‘solid single digit’. With this deal,  SWEF has now made eight investments adding up to a total value of £168m or 72% of net […]

04 Mar 2014

LMS Capital : LMS – annual results

Over the year ended 31 December 2013 LMS capital’s net asset value rose from 85p to 88p. £35m was handed back to shareholders via a tender offer, funded by £44m of cash exits from portfolio positions.

04 Mar 2014

BlackRock Throgmorton : THRG – manager on sabbatical

Richard Plackett, manager of BlackRock Throgmorton, will take a six month sabbatical starting 1 April 2014. Ralph Cox (manager of BlackRock UK Smaller Companies fund) is taking over responsibility for the CFD portfolio

04 Mar 2014

Foreign & Colonial : FRCL – annual results

Foreign & Colonial Investment trust has released its results for the year ended 31 December 2013. In total return terms, the net asset value returned 21.4% vs. 21.0% for the FTSE All-World Index. At the same time F&C has announced that Jeremy Tigue is stepping down as manager of the fund at the end of […]

03 Mar 2014

Aurora Russia : AURR – disposal

Aurora Russia has sold its interest in OJSC Flexbank for RUR189.1m (£3.2m) gross = RUR172.2m (£2.9m) after expenses. At the same time mortgages held by Flexbank with a nominal value of £2.4m have been transferred to another Aurora Russia subsidiary, Kreditmart Finance Limited and these will be sold in due course (possibly at a discount […]

03 Mar 2014

Qannas Investments : QIL – sale

Qannas Investments Limited has announced that it has sold a 29,000 sq ft plot in the Reem Island project, off the coast of Abu Dhabi, for AED22.7m. The plot was bough for AED12.0m in May 2013. One pound = 6.14 UAE Dirhams so the profit on the deal is £1.74m

03 Mar 2014

F&C UK Real Estate : FCRE – sales

F&C UK Real Estate has sold two properties – Swift House, Cosford Lane, Rugby – an industrial property let to Premier Foods – and Unit 1, King George Close, Romford – an industrial property let to Crystal Windows and Doors. The Rugby property fetched £5.25m against a £5.3m end December 2013 valuation and the Romford […]

03 Mar 2014

Scottish Mortgage : SMT – fee change

The Board of Scottish Mortgage, led by John Scott (pictured), has negotiated a reduction in the management fee from 0.32% to 0.3% on total assets less current liabilities.

28 Feb 2014

Harbourvest Senior Loans Europe : HSLE – new manager

Harbourvest Senior Loans Europe has appointed Spire Partners LLP as sub-advisers to the fund and intends that they will replace Harbourvest as managers of the fund in due course. Spire (Jonathan Russell (pictured), Philip Bennett-Britton and Oliver Drummond Smith) are introducing themselves to shareholders and will be asking them whether they believe the fund’s investment […]

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