Golden Prospect has appointed Keith Watson to work alongside Will Smith as co-manager of the portfolio. Keith was a senior natural resource analyst at Mirabaud Securities and before that had research jobs at Evolution, Dresdner Kleinwort Wassertein, Commerzbank, Credit Suisse/BZW and worked as a portfolio manager and research analyst at Scottish Amicable.
JLIF has made a few minor changes to its investment policy. The fund will in future be able to invest up to 30% in projects under construction (up from 15%). QD comment: investing in assets under construction increases the risk profile of the fund but could increase the return. Invest up to 10% of the portfolio […]
Bankers results for the year to the end of October 2013 show a 23.8% uplift in its net asset value and a closing of its discount, enabling a 33.9% share price return to investors and sufficient demand for its shares to allow it to issue 350,000 in the period. This was the first time Bankers has issued […]
BRCI’s manager who has managed the fund since it was launched in 2005, Richard Davis, has stepped down as portfolio manager. The Board have agreed with BlackRock that the new manager will be Olivia Ker, assisted by Thomas Holl who was also deputy manager to Richard Davis.
JP Morgan Income & Growth has announced that its manager Neil Nuttall is leaving JP Morgan and so is giving up his job as manager of JIGI. The Board has agreed with JP Morgan that the management of the fund will pass to James Elliot and Katy Thorneycroft.
VNL has sold its stake in Vina Properties which owns a 5 star hotel located in Ho Chi Minh City. The hotel fetched $16.1m, 19% more than its value in the NAV at the end of December 2013
Electra has announced that it has invested £85m in Hotter Shoes. The acquisition will have no immediate impact on Electra’s net asset value. Hotter Shoes is the UK’s largest manufacturer of shoes, has 59 own stores, sells through another 200 outlets and has a large online presence. If you are curious, the easiest thing to […]
ARC Capital has sold its stake in Ningxia Xiajin Dairy, the largest manufacturer of dairy products in Ningxia province, for $30m – 1.7x the price ARC paid for it but just 80% of its estimated value at 30 September 2013.
PVF will return $58m to shareholders by way of a compulsory redemption of capital which will retire 26.29% of its share capital. Shareholders will get their cash on 6 February 2014.
NB Distressed Debt is ready to make its first distributions to shareholders. These will be done via compulsory redemptions of shares – $28m in the case of NBDD (the original fund) or $0.2255 per share and $20.9m in the case of NBDX (the continuation fund) or $0.0593 per share. For NBDD the money comes from […]
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