Investment Company News

20 Feb 2014

Redefine International : RDI – planning placing

Redefine International has announced that it hopes to issue 86.6m shares or 7.5% of its issued share capital to fund some tidying up of minority interests in its portfolio, c£10m of redevelopment opportunities in its German retail portfolio, repaying a £20m debt facility and fund potential acquisitions. The fund raising exercise will take place in […]

20 Feb 2014

Picton Property : PCTN – disposals

Picton Property has sold its leasehold interest in 28 Austin Friars, EC2 (pictured) and a retail property in George Street, Richmond for a combined total of £6m – Picton bought these in 2010 for £3.6m.

20 Feb 2014

EPE Special Opportunities : ESO

EPE Special Opportunities has sold its interest in Bighead Holdings – getting £4m for its stake. Bighead makes a variety of fasteners – www.bighead.co.uk. The stake in Bighead was valued at £3m in EPE Special Opportunities’ last set of accounts. Overall, including income, ESO says it made 3.6x its money on its original investment and say […]

19 Feb 2014

Globalworth Real Estate : GWI – acquisition

Globalworth Real Estate has bought Tower Center International – the second tallest building in Bucharest with 24,711 sqm of space over 26 floors. The €58m cost is being settled in part through the issue of new shares – the terms of the deal were outlined in Globalworth Real estate’s prospectus released in September 2013

19 Feb 2014

City of London : CTY – interim results

City of London has released figures for the six months ended 31 December 2013. Over that period the total return on City of London’s net asset value was 23.8% – well ahead of the equivalent return on the FTSE All-Share Index of 17.9% but 2.2% behind the average UK Growth & Income Investment Trust. CTY’s […]

19 Feb 2014

Altus Resource Capital : ARCL – interim results

Over the second half of 2013 Altus Resource Capital’s net asset value rose by 1.3%. This improvement in the asset value was achieved despite a fall in the gold price of 2.3% over the period and falls in the FTSE Gold Mines Index and S&P TSX Gold Index of 8.6% and 2.9% respectively.  

19 Feb 2014

Bluefield Solar : BSIF – acquisition and fund raising

Bluefield Solar is buying its ninth solar plant, a 19MW facility north of Swindon. The plant will cost £21m and will be connected to the grid in March. It is eligible for government subsidy (qualifying for 1.6 renewable obligation certificates). BSIF cash £14m of cash so to fund the balance of the deal it needs […]

19 Feb 2014

Mucklow (A&J) Group : MKLW – interim results

Figures announced for the six months ended 31 December 2013 disclose  a fall in earnings per share for the period (from 11.4p to 10.4p) but an uplift in Mucklow’s EPRA NAV from 305p to 317p. Net debt rose slightly but not enough to shift the gearing ratio from its level of 41%. The vacancy rate […]