Investment Company News

17 Dec 2013

Midas Income & Growth : MIGT – interim results

Over the six months to end October 2013 MIGT delivered an NAV return of 6.8% – well ahead of its objective which is to beat 3 month LIBOR +3% with low volatility (MIGT’s annualised volatility was 8.3% over the period vs. 12.8% for the FTSE All-Share Index). MIGT’s Chairman has said that he believes the […]

17 Dec 2013

F&C Global Smaller Companies : FCS – interim results

Results for the six months ended 31 October 2013 show an NAV return of 10.5% vs. a benchmark return of 10.8%. The share price return was 9.4%. The Board has increased the interim dividend by 25% to 2.5p per share.

17 Dec 2013

Geiger Counter : GCL – annual results

Geiger Counter has published its results for the year ended 30 September 2013. Over the year GCL’s NAV fell by 29% and its share price by 24%. The main problem for the fund (which is focused on the uranium market) has been the consequences of the Fukushima disaster on the current and potentially the future […]

17 Dec 2013

VinaLand : VNL – issues ZDPs at 8% GRY

VNL has raised £15m by issuing zero dividend preference shares with a life of three years and repayable at 126p, equivalent to a gross redemption yield of 8%.

17 Dec 2013

Aberdeen New Dawn : ABD – interim results

Results for the six months ended 31 October 2013 show the fund underperforming its benchmark, the MSCI All Countries Asia Pacific ex Japan Index. Over the period ABD’s NAV fell by 4.4%, its share price by 7.9% and the index by 1.8%. The manager attributes this, in part, to ABD’s asset allocation (which is driven by […]

17 Dec 2013

Redefine International : RDI – sells two properties

Redefine has sold two sites in Harrow for £13.77m (12.4% more than their valuation at the end of August 2013). The sites have been acquired by Redrow Homes.

16 Dec 2013

GCP Infrastructure : GCP

GCP released results for the year ended 30 September 2013. It generated a return to shareholders of 9.8% – 7.6% of which came in the form of dividends – the NAV at the end of September was 104.3p. GCP will move to making quarterly dividend payments. the proceeds of the last issue are substantially invested […]

16 Dec 2013

Tamar European Industrial : TEIF – sale and bank facility

TEIF has sold an asset in Sweden (a 2,963 sqm light industrial building in Angelholm)  for £0.98m – a small premium to its latest valuation. TEIF has also extended repayment of a €71m loan secured against assets in France, Belgium and Holland to July 2015. The new cost of this facility is 7.66% per annum including fees.

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