David Smith has been appointed co-manager of Henderson High Income – to work alongside Alex Crooke. David has worked for Henderson Global Investors for the past 11 years and has been a fund manager since 2008.
China Private equity has announced that it is buying four domestic Chinese businesses. The deals are large enough to constitute a reverse takeover under the AIM rules and so CPEH will suspend its shares and prepare a new admission document encompassing the proposed transaction. To finance the transaction, CPEH needs to raise £3m by issuing […]
UCP’s results for the half year ended 30 September 2013 show a fall in the NAV per share from 58p to 52p, despite an increase in the value of UCP’s property portfolio. The fall is largely attributable to the decline in the value of the Indian Rupee over the period. UCP reports increased lettings and rents […]
Using some of the cash it recently raised, BBGI has completed the acquisitions of a 58.8% interest in the E18 road between Grimstad and Kristiansand in Norway, a 24.5% equity and 40% loan interest in Mersey Care mental Health Hospital and a 100% interest in Tor Bank School.
Over the year to the end of June 2013 SAPO’s NAV fell from 87p to 69p. In part thanks to a fall in the value of the Rand.
DUPD’s interest in Henryland Group, a “big box” retail company, has been sold at a substantial discount to DUPD’s valuation at end of June 2013 – the whole asset fetched $23.7m vs. a 30 June valuation of $30.9m – DUPD owned 38%. The statement gives no reason for the substantial change in the valuation.
JRIC has bought a 61 unit apartment complex in East Village Sannomiya for Y796m. The estimated prospective net operating yield is 5.9%.
Globalworth Real Estate has bought Bucharest One – a 20 storey, 48,732 sqm office development that will be the second highest tower in Bucharest once complete. The tower is expected to be complete by Q3 2015.
MedicX has bought a primary healthcare centre in Ynyshir, Porth for £1.6m
BSIF is acquiring three additional solar plants in Hampshire, Norfolk and Glamorgan and plans to extend a plant in Oxfordshire – total cost £38.5m. Following this BSIF will have invested over 75% of the money it raised and will have investments in plants capable of generating 81MW.
