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02 Jun 2016

Fidelity China wants to invest more in unlisted companies

Fidelity China Special Situations has published results for the year ended 31 March 2016. For the year under review, the company’s NAV total return increased by 0.02% while the share price total return fell by 4.53%. The Benchmark Index, MSCI China, fell by 16.17%. The Board recommends a dividend of 1.80 pence (2015: 1.30 pence) per share for the year […]

01 Jun 2016

Schroder UK Mid Cap scraps performance fee

Schroder UK Mid Cap has published results for the six months ended 31 March 2016. The company’s net asset value produced a total return of 3.0%, compared to a total return of 2.2% for the company’s benchmark, the FTSE 250 (ex Investment Companies) Index. However the performance of the company’s share price disappointed during the period, […]

01 Jun 2016

Industrial Multi Property has approach for whole portfolio

The Board of Industrial Multi Property Trust notes a press comment today and announces that it has received an unsolicited proposal from a third party to acquire the entire property portfolio of the Company by way of a sale and purchase agreement. The Board considers that the Proposal undervalued the Company’s assets significantly and therefore has […]

01 Jun 2016

Dunedin Enterprise invests in Kingsbridge

Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust has, through the Dunedin Buyout Fund III, invested GBP4.2 million in Kingsbridge Risk Solutions. Dunedin Enterprise will have an interest of 13.0% in Kingsbridge. Founded by the current CEO Steve Wynne in 2001, Kingsbridge is the UK’s market-leading provider of insurance services that are tailored to meet the needs of contractors, freelancers […]

01 Jun 2016

Increased focus on distribution for LondonMetric

Over the year to 31 March 2016, LondonMetric Property’s EPRA NAV increased from 140.6 to 1467.7. EPRA earnings increased from £40.9m to £48.5m which equates to an earnings per share increase from 6.6p to 7.8p. The dividend has been increased to 7.25p from 7.0p. They are implementing a policy of paying quarterly dividends the first […]

01 Jun 2016

Takeovers boost Capital Gearing

Capital Gearing Trust says, as at 5 April 2016, the net asset value per share was 3,382p compared to 3,297p a year earlier. Although an increase across the year of 2.6% might be seen as modest, this achievement is more creditable when measured against, for example, the decline in the FTSE All-Share Index of 9.3% […]

01 Jun 2016

Currency hedge knocks Aberdeen Japan’s performance

Aberdeen Japan has announced results for the year ended 31 March 2016,  over the year, the net asset value returned -6.2%, compared to the benchmark Topix return of -1.7%, in sterling terms.  They say this 4.5% NAV underperformance is largely due to a loss on the currency hedge almost all of which came in the first quarter […]

31 May 2016

RIT Capital Partners says Alliance Trust approach “very preliminary”

Alliance Trust has made an announcement in response to the press speculation over the weekend. They say, as communicated to shareholders in October of last year and more recently at the time of the publication of the annual results in March this year, a number of significant changes to Alliance Trust have been implemented in […]

31 May 2016

AEW UK REIT now fully invested

The Board of AEW UK REIT has announced the acquisition of two mixed use assets in Nottingham and Blackpool for a total of GBP13.2m, net of acquisition costs.  With these two acquisitions the Company has now fully invested its equity capital and is geared to 20% of Gross Asset Value, in line with its investment […]