RM Secured Direct Lending on track for March C share conversion – RM Secured Direct Lending has published results covering the period from launch to the end of December 2017. RM Secured Direct Lending plc listed on the premium segment of the main market of the London Stock Exchange on 15 December 2016, issuing 50,300,000 Ordinary […]
$300m C share issue planned for BioPharma Credit – BioPharma Credit has released its first annual results, covering the period from launch to 31 December 2017. The NAV at the end of the period was $1.0091, up from 98 cents immediately after launch. The original target was to pay a 4% dividend per annum. It declared interim […]
Foreign & Colonial will change name after 150 years – Foreign & Colonial, which is marking its 150th anniversary, has published results for the year ended 31 December 2017. The year was a good one for F&C’s shareholders. A share price total return of 21% and an NAV total return of 16.9% were both well ahead of […]
Tritax Big Box REIT sees Brexit silver lining – Tritax Big Box REIT has released its results for 2017. Highlights are: Dividends declared in relation to 2017 totalled 6.40 pence per share, in line with targets. Progressive dividend target of 6.70 pence per share announced for 2018. EPRA net asset value per share increased by 10.3% to […]
LXi increases dividend target – The board of LXi REIT (LXI) has announce that the Company has increased its dividend target. The target is being introduced over two time periods. The first one is from the IPO (27 February 2017) to 31 March 2018, when the target total dividend has been increased by 33.3% to 4.0 pence per […]
Stock Split on the cards at European Assets Trust – 2017 was a good year for European smaller companies and for European Assets Trust (EAT). In its final report for the year ended 31 December 2017, the company recorded a share price return of +35.8% and a NAV total return of 22.6%. This compares to the total return […]
OPG Power Ventures weighs on Premier Global Infrastructure returns – Premier Global Infrastructure Trust has published results for the year ended 31 December 2017. The NAV total return for the year was 1.7% which compares to a return of 6.0% on the All-World Utilities Index and 13.8% for the broader All World Index. The discount […]
Aberdeen Smaller Companies returns twice as much as benchmark – Aberdeen Smaller Companies has published results for the year ended 31 December 2017. The company’s NAV rose by 32.9% for the year ended 31 December 2017, on a total return basis, compared to the performance of its benchmark, the Small Cap (ex investment trusts) Index, which […]
Investment Trust Insider on Bluefield Solar – James Carthew: the high-yield solar fund basking in UK’s rays With the ‘Beast from the East’ receding it is time to think about spring and sunshine, specifically Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF), the only one of the renewable energy investment companies I own. It has been a great […]
Currency movements negatively impact Apax’s NAV – Apax Global Alpha gives liquid exposure to the expertise of Apax Partners (Apax), the global private equity firm. In their annual report dated 31 December 2017, the portfolio was allocated between 65% in private equity and 35% in “derived investments”, which they describe as investments in equities and debt derived from the insights […]
