Electra has raised €72m from the redemption of preferred equity and from the sale of c28% of its 15% equity interest in Allflex. This is equivalent to a return of 0.8x cost. the retained stake in Allflex has a value, implied by this transaction, of €78m (£65m). Together this repreents a 48% uplift to the […]
Miton Global Opportunities has released results for the year ended 30 April 2016. The net asset value per share rose to 182.4p, a total return of 0.4% – there is no dividend. The manager says the company’s shares ended the financial year standing at an all-time high, moving from 162.75p to 164.25p during the year. […]
John Laing Environmental has announced the acquisition of Dungavel Wind Farm from John Laing Group for a cash consideration, including working capital, of GBP38.2 million. Dungavel Wind Farm is located in South Lanarkshire, South-West Scotland and comprises 13 Vestas 2MW V80 turbines with a total generating capacity of 26MW and is accredited for 0.9 ROCs. […]
Wolf Minerals reports that tungsten prices improved in Q2 16 with the ammonium paratungstate (APT) price reaching US$225/mtu in May, up from an average of US$172/mtu for the March quarter. APT is the main traded intermediary tungsten product on which tungsten concentrate prices are based. The company notes, however, that the price remains some US$160/mtu […]
Lazard World Trust Fund announced two years ago that it intended to commence paying dividends, for the first time in the Fund’s history. The Fund was one of the few funds in the global growth sector which did not pay any dividend and a number of potential investors questioned why this was the case. While the […]
The Board of Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust has announced the completion of the acquisition of two grocery anchored retail investments located in Rennes and Anglet (near Biarritz), France. The freehold properties are located in established retail parks which benefit from strong local catchments. The acquisition has been made in a joint venture with […]
International Public Partnerships Limited has announced that it has acquired an additional interest in the Wolverhampton Building Schools for the Future (“BSF”) project. INPP will commit a further GBP7.2 million to acquire Carillion Private Finance’s 72% direct investment, growing the Company’s existing 10% investment in the Project to 82%. The opportunity to acquire the additional […]
Picton Property Income has announced results for the year ended 31 March 2016. The EPRA NAV increased by 12.7% to 77 pence per share. EPRA earnings increased by 30.1% to GBP19.9 million, equivalent to EPS of 3.7 pence per share (up 8.3% on the year before). The dividend has been increased by 10% to 3.3p. The total […]
The year to the end of April was a difficult one for Asian funds. Invesco Asia outperformed however, returning -7.1% on net assets against -14.3% for the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index. The return to shareholders was -10.3% (the discount widened from 9.8% to 13.1%). The dividend is being maintained at 3.65p. At the […]
Global Resources Investment Trust says it has entered into a legally binding subscription agreement with RDP Fund Management LLP under which RDP has agreed conditionally to subscribe (subject to having the right to assign some or all of the right to subscribe) for a total of 40,000,000 new ordinary shares of GBP0.01 in GRIT (plus warrants) at […]
