Investment Company News

11 Feb 2014

SEGRO : SRGO – logistics partnership buys European portfolio

SEGRO European Logistics partnership, a vehicle that SEGRO owns 50% of and manages, is acquiring a portfolio of 14 logistics assets located across Germany, Poland and France for €472m. The whole portfolio comprises 679,000 sqm of lettable space (including one facility under construction) and 51ha of development land in Germany. Excluding the property being built (which they […]

10 Feb 2014

BlackRock Throgmorton Trust : THRG – final results

Over the year ended 30 November 2013 Throgmorton managed to generate a 52.3% total return to shareholders as the NAV returned 40.1% and the discount narrowed. The equivalent return on the Numis Smaller Companies plus AIM (excluding investment companies) Index – THRG’s benchmark – was 31.6%. the performance was good enough to generate a performance […]

10 Feb 2014

ARC Capital Holdings : ARCH – resignation of manager

Following last week’s announcement of a dispute between ARC Capital and its manager, ARCH has today announced that the manager has resigned with immediate effect. ARC Capital say though that they understood that the manager had to give them six months notice under the terms of the management agreement.

07 Feb 2014

Origo Partners : OPP – convertible ZDPs

Origo issued 60m convertible ZDPs in March 2011. These mature in September 2017 and, according to the articles says Origo, on a change of control of Origo these are automatically convertible into ordinary shares. Following an acquisition, Brooks Macdonald Group controls 85.7% of the convertible ZDPs. Brooks Macdonald say they should have an option to redeem the convertible ZDPs on a […]

07 Feb 2014

Schroder Real Estate : SREI – deals

Schroder Real Estate has bought Morgan Sindall House in Rugby for £3.95m (an initial yield of 8%) and sold its stake in the Merchant Property unit trust (which holds a portfolio of Travis Perkins builders merchants) for £3.25m

07 Feb 2014

JP Morgan US Smaller : JUSC – share split

JP Morgan US Smaller Companies investment trust is planning to try to raise some more money and split its shares so that for each existing share shareholders will get ten new ones. The Board is asking shareholders to approve the issue of new shares up to an amount equivalent to 20% of the existing share […]

06 Feb 2014

Foresight Solar : FSFL – buys new plant

Foresight Solar is buying a 10.7MW solar power plant – Hunters Race on 12.4ha of a former quarry in West Sussex. Altogether FSFL now has 137.4MW of generating capacity across seven plants. Only one 32MW plant, in Leicestershire, is currently delivering energy to the grid. However Castle Eaton and High Penn are expected to be grid connected […]

06 Feb 2014

Ottoman Fund : OTM – sale of land

The Ottoman Fund has sold 505,694 sqm of land at $101 sqm for a total of $51m and given the buyers the chance to buy the remaining land for a further $32m. Tax on the sale of the initial parcel is estimated at $1.3m and in due course the Board say they will announce a […]

06 Feb 2014

Northern Investor : NRI – planning £14m tender

Northern Investors will return £14.1m to shareholders via a tender. Shareholders must apply to take part by 11am on 28 February, the tender will hopefully be approved at a meeting on 3 March and tendering shareholders will get their cash on or after 7 March

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