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16 Mar 2016

India Capital Growth beats benchmark but discount widens

India Capital Growth outperformed its benchmark, the S&P BSE Mid Cap Index, over the course of 2015 – generating a return on net assets of 8.6% against a 7.7% return on the index. Unfortunately though the discount widened from 18.7% to 24.4% and so the share price was up 1%. With the exception of Financials, […]

15 Mar 2016

Greencoat UK Wind and partners buy half of Clyde wind farm

Greencoat UK Wind has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire 49.9% of Clyde Windfarm (Scotland) Limited from SSE for a headline consideration of £355m, together with GMPF & LPFA Infrastructure LLP, the infrastructure investment joint venture between Greater Manchester Pension Fund and London Pensions Fund Authority. UKW will acquire 28.2% of […]

15 Mar 2016

Hansteen posts 17% return for 2015

Hansteen’s results for the year ended 31 December 2015 have been published. Its EPRA NAV per share increased by 9% to 111p to give a total return of 17.3%. Full year dividend increased by 5.0% to 5.25p per share. The Normalised Income Profit or NIP, which excludes profits or losses from the sale of properties, essentially […]

15 Mar 2016

NB Private Equity reports record distributions in 2015

NB Private Equity reports that, at  31 December 2015, its NAV per Share was $14.35, up from $14.24 NAV per Share at 31 December 2014. this translated into a 4.9% NAV total return during 2015. They say this was driven by unrealised gains on private equity and public holdings as well as cash and payment-in-kind (“PIK”) interest on its income investment portfolio. […]

15 Mar 2016

Fidelity European Values beats benchmark in 2015

Fidelity European Values say that, for the year ended 31 December 2015, the net asset value total return was 6.9%, outperforming its Benchmark Index, the FTSE World Europe (ex UK) Index, which returned 5.3%. The share price total return over this period was 9.2%, ahead of the NAV return as a consequence of the level of discount […]

14 Mar 2016

Real Estate Investors makes a good start to life as a REIT

Real Estate Investors has published results for the year ended 31 December 2015 – its first year of operations as a REIT. The EPRA NAV per share rose by 5% to 64.5p from 61.3p.   EPRA earnings per share were 0.81p (2014: loss 0.36p). This was on the back of a 38% increase in rental income to £8.4m. The total dividend per […]

14 Mar 2016

Murray International scraps performance fee after disappointing year

Murray International had a poor year in 2015. The Chairman said he was disappointed to report that the NAV not only underperformed its benchmark in 2015 but also declined in absolute terms. He says a NAV total return of -7.8% inclusive of a 3.3% dividend increase (46.5p vs. 45p in 2014) compared unfavourably with a benchmark total return […]

14 Mar 2016

Global Resources to pay back convertibles

Global Resources Investment Trust has not been able to come to an agreement with Primestar Energy FZE and LIM Asia Multi-Strategy Fund Inc. relating inter alia to the subscription, open offer and early redemption of loan notes and the reduction of the required coverage ratio (4:1 assets to loan notes). The assets of the fund […]

11 Mar 2016

Starwood lends against Dublin apartments

Starwood European Real Estate Finance has announced that on 10 March 2016 it advanced a EUR7.9 million whole loan relating to the acquisition of 44 apartments in South Dublin, the Republic of Ireland. The sponsor is a highly regarded local investor that is an existing borrower of the Company. The transaction represents the Company’s third […]