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04 Mar 2016

Capital & Regional announces big hike in dividend

Capital & Regional has announced its full year results to 30 December 2015 together with the £10.5m acquisition of a further property in Hemel Hempstead and the selection of Barratt London as the preferred development partner for the proposed extension of The Mall, Walthamstow to provide 92,000 sq ft of new retail space and over […]

03 Mar 2016

Change of name and manager for Aberdeen Smaller Companies High Income

Aberdeen Smaller Companies High Income reports that its net asset value on a total return basis increased by 13.4% over the twelve months to 31 December 2015.  This compares with a rise in the FTSE SmallCap (excluding investment companies) Index of 13.0%. The FTSE 100 Index fell by 1.3%. The narrowing of the discount, to 13.6% at […]

03 Mar 2016

Secure Income REIT looks to broaden shareholder base

Secure Income REIT has published results for the year ended 31 December 2015. Over the period, the EPRA NAV rose by 9.4% to 282.8 pence per share (after incurring early debt repayment costs amounting to nearly 16% of EPRA NAV as at 31 December 2014). EPRA earnings per share for the period were 2.6p. They intend to pay quarterly […]

03 Mar 2016

Cash flowing back to Mithras

Mithras has reported a 6.7% uplift in its NAV and a 2.8% increase in its share price over the year ended 31 December 2015 (as the discount widened from 12.1% to 15.3%). the Board has recommended a final dividend totalling 1.0 pence per share (2014: 1.0 pence). Cash distributions received by the Company amounted to […]

02 Mar 2016

Symphony NAV slips a little in 2015

Symphony International Holdings Limited has announced results for the year ended 31 December 2015. The NAV attributable to the ordinary shares on 31 December 2015 was US$1.3172 per share (US$1.3011 per share on a fully diluted basis). This represents a 2.2% decline over the NAV per share of US$1.3473 at 31 December 2014 (US$1.3356 per […]

02 Mar 2016

Seneca Global Income and Growth gets new co-manager

The Board of Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust plc (the Trust) is pleased to announce that Peter Elston has been appointed a named fund manager alongside Alan Borrows. Peter Elston joined Seneca Investment Managers in November 2014, as Chief Investment Officer and is also responsible for Seneca Investment Managers’ clients’ asset allocation. As previously announced, […]

02 Mar 2016

Project Finance ups dividend target

Project Finance has announced an increase of 25% to the Company’s stated annualised dividend target for its first financial period to 31 December 2016. As set out in the prospectus published on 29 September 2015, the Company was targeting an annualised dividend yield of 4% (on the IPO issue price of 100p per share) in the […]

02 Mar 2016

Property and equity returns help Scottish American beat benchmark

Scottish American’s results for 2015 show its net asset value (NAV) total return (capital and income) for the year was 5.9% and the share price total return was 9.2%: the total return from the global equity market was 4.1%. The full year dividend will be 10.70p per share, 1.9% higher than the 2014 dividend of 10.50p and […]