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01 Dec 2015

BlueCrest All Blue looks set to wind up

BlueCrest Capital Management has announced that they intend to return all external money to investors and just manage their own. The implication of this is that BlueCrest AllBlue will follow BlueCrest BlueTrend into liquidation. The full text of their announcement is given below: The Company has today received a notification from BlueCrest Capital Management Limited […]

01 Dec 2015

Amedeo Air Four buys another A380

As anticipated in Amedeo Air Four’s Prospectus from April 2015, Amedeo Air Four Plus Limited, via its wholly-owned subsidiary AA4P Delta Limited, has bought, directly from Airbus, one A380 aircraft bearing manufacturer’s serial number 201. The deal was completed on 30 November at a net cost to the company of $275,000,000.  In accordance with the investment […]

30 Nov 2015

Keystone profits from tobacco exposure

Keystone Investment Trust has published its accounts for the year ended 30 September 2015. On a total return basis (i.e. including income), the FTSE All-Share Index returned -2.3% over the year. Keystone however managed a return on net assets of 6.4% and a return to shareholders of 7.3%. The base dividend was increased slightly from […]

30 Nov 2015

Hg Capital takes stake in EidosMedia

HgCapital, the Manager of HgCapital Trust plc, has announced it will has taken a majority stake in EidosMedia, a leading global provider of digital publishing solutions. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. HgCapital Trust plc will invest in EidosMedia, headquartered in Milan, alongside other institutional clients of HgCapital, who will participate through the HgCapital 7 Fund.  […]

27 Nov 2015

Pacific Alliance China Land agrees Wal-Mart deal

Pacific Alliance China Land has announced that its jv partner, China Resources, has agreed with Wal-Mart China Holdings that it will sell Wal-Mart the remainder of its interest in Project Malls for RMB248m (US$38.9m). 50% of the consideration will be released to China Resources from escrow with the state owned exchange within 10 business days after […]

27 Nov 2015

Lindsell Train warns on dangers of very high premium

Lindsell Train Investment Trust’s interim report, covering the six months to the end of September 2015, shows the fund moving to a significant premium. Today this is 34%. The Chairman’s statement reiterates previous warnings to new investors of the dangers of buying stock at very high premiums. The net asset value just about beat the benchmark – […]

25 Nov 2015

Better Capital’s 2012 Cell posts 22.1% NAV decline during half-year

Better Capital PCC has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015 for both the 2009 Cell and the 2012 Cell. During the period the NAV for the 2009 Cell has increased by 0.7% to £264.2m whilst the NAV for the 2012 cell has fallen by 22.1% to £263.3m. The decline in […]

25 Nov 2015

Japan Residential received new approach at 73.5p

Japan Residential Investment Company (JRIC) has announced today that, following the announcement, on 13 November 2015, that Nikko III Pte. Ltd. and JRIC had reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash offer by Nikko III Pte, for the entire issued and to be issued share capital of JRIC (at 72p in cash per […]

24 Nov 2015

BACIT to start paying management fees

BACIT is proposing that it start paying management fees. These won’t be huge and the investment policy – that it will invest in underlying funds on a “gross return” basis, that it will invest up to 1% a year of its net asset value in drug development projects and that it will donate 1% a year of […]

24 Nov 2015

Chenavari Capital Solutions seeks to extend investment period

Chenavari Capital Solutions has announced that it intends to seek shareholder approval for the extension of its investment period for up to 12 months to 31 December 2016 at an EGM scheduled for the 18 December 2015. In the Company’s prospectus, published in connection with its IPO, the Company stated that, following 31 December 2015, […]