Foresight Solar Fund Limited has reached financial close on a £160m long-term debt facility. This facility will wholly refinance their £150m short-term acquisition facility currently in place. The long-term facility will be provided by Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions (“MIDIS”) and Abbey National Treasury Services (“Santander”) as follows: Tranche Amount Tenor Coupon/Margin Fixed-rate […]
The Chairman of Aberdeen Asian Income, Peter Arthur, says its performance was disappointing over the year that ended on 31 December 2015. The net asset value per Ordinary Shares (“NAV”) fell by 9.9%, trailing the 3.9% decline in the MSCI All Country Asia Pacific ex-Japan Index. The share price fell by 16.8% on a total return basis […]
Randgold Resources has reported attributable gold reserves at the end of 2015 of 14.6 Moz, a 3.5% reduction after depletion from the previous year. The average grade of reserves remained at 3.6 g/t using a gold price of US$1,000/oz. The largest reserve base is at Kibali, (45%-owned) in DRC, where reserves were 4.7 Moz of […]
The Board of Empiric Student Property has announced that the group has acquired the land and entered into a forward funded development agreement for a 115 bed, premium student accommodation development in York for a total funding commitment of £11.1m. The property, Empiric’s first in York, is located between York city centre and the University of […]
Aseana Properties Limited announces that it has agreed to dispose of the Aloft Kuala Lumpur Sentral Hotel to Prosper Group Holdings Limited. The gross transaction value is approximately RM418.7 million (approx. US$104.6 million), which includes the purchase of the entire issued share capital of ASPL M3B Limited and Iringan Flora Sdn Bhd (the “Aloft Companies”), and […]
Dunedin Income & Growth says it recorded its first year of negative absolute returns since the banking crisis of 2008/09 with a NAV Total Return of -11.5%. This meant it underperformed the FTSE All-Share Index by 6.9%. The Board is proposing a final dividend of 3.675p per share which will make a total dividend of 11.4p […]
Asian Total Return says, during the year ended 31 December 2015, it produced a net asset value total return of 2.9%, compared to a total return of -4.1% by the Reference Index and a total return of -1.8% from the average peer group NAV. The Board has declared a final dividend of 3.80p per share for the […]
BlackRock Emerging Europe’s net asset value per share fell by 10.1% in US Dollar terms (4.8% in sterling terms) over the year to the end of January 2016 which compared favourably with the benchmark net return of -14.2% in US Dollar terms (-9.1% in sterling terms). The share price fell by 9.9% (-4.6% in sterling terms) […]
Fidelity Asian Values says, over the six months to 31 January 2016, the company’s net asset value strongly outperformed the MSCI All Countries Asia ex Japan Index. The company’s NAV returned 3.1%, compared with a fall of 6.6% for the index. The share price return was 1.2%, the discount having widened from 10.7% at the start […]
For the six months ended 31st January 2016, JPMorgan Global Emerging Markets Income reported a 12.9% decrease in net assets per share. This compares with a decrease of 8.7% from the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (in sterling, with net dividends reinvested). The Chairman’s statement describes this as disappointing. The company’s share price has now moved […]
