ICG Longbow lends against Bristol office block – ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments has completed a new GBP16.2 million loan facility to an affiliate of Affinity Global Real Estate. The loan, which is secured by a first mortgage over a multi-let office property in Bristol, comprises an initial advance of GBP14.2 million, at an […]
Sirius Real Estate buys Hamburg business park – Sirius Real Estate says that on 1 March 2018, it acquired a business park in Schenefeld, a town on the edge of Hamburg, for €15.1 million (including acquisition costs). The Schenefeld business park has been acquired at an EPRA net initial yield of 7.8% and follows on from […]
3i Infrastructure funds Infinis investment in Alkane Energy – 3i Infrastructure intends to increase its investment in Infinis by c. £125 million to fund Infinis’s acquisition of Alkane Energy, an independent power generator from both coal mine methane and reserve power operations and the largest generator from coal mine methane in the UK. Completion is […]
Hg Capital goes large – Hg Capital Trust has announced plans to invest in much larger deals than it has done to date. Hg Capital has announced results for the year ended 31 December 2017. It delivered a 21.5% return on NAV and a 19.5% return to shareholders over the period as the NAV rose to […]
CVC Credit Partners reports another strong year – CVC Credit Partners European Opportunities posted a positive set of numbers for the year to 31 December 2017 . The NAV total return per share for GBP share class (CCPG) and EUR share class (CCPE) increased by 9.69% and 8.84% respectively over the period. This is within […]
Triple Point report busy first six months – The managers of the social housing REIT, Triple Point Social Housing (SOHO) have not been resting on their laurels. They have acquired 116 properties (828 units) with average property value of £1.2 m and an aggregate purchase price of £131.8 m (including costs). The geographic split of the properties is […]
ScotGems taking own good time to find best long-term stocks – ScotGems (SGEM) was launched at the end of June 2017 and has released its first formal final report for the period up to 31st December. In that short time period, the fund managers have been investing £50.3 million from the initial fundraising and a further […]
Swiss trusts top performers among bio sector specialists in Feb – Switzerland’s HBM Healthcare Investments (HBMN.S) and BB Biotech (BBB.S) were the best performing biotech/pharma specialist investment trusts in February and indeed were the only ones of the 13 monitored by Marten & Co to have recorded any increase in NAV (in sterling terms) in the month. However, […]
Marwyn announces Safe Harbour float – Safe Harbour Holdings plc has today announced its intention to float on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange, raising a further £22.7m, with backing from a number of institutional investors, and bringing the total funds raised to date to £32.7m. Safe Harbour has been established with the […]
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square tender blocked by Dutch authorities – the tender offer for $300m worth of Pershing Square Holding’s publicly traded shares announced on 2 January 2018 will not proceed. The company says that the Dutch Authority for Financial Markets’ ( Autoriteit Financiële Markten , “AFM”) interpretation of certain applicable rules regarding the proposed tender offer make […]
