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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 […]

20 Nov 2015

Biotech Growth Trust shrugs off drug pricing fears

Biotech shares were weak in the six months that ended 30 September 2015. Biotech Growth Trust reports that its NAV fell by 18.6% over this period, 5% more than the 13.6% fall in the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index. The company’s shares fell by 19.3%. The Chairman said the fall in the value of many biotechnology companies […]

20 Nov 2015

BlueCrest All Blue continuation vote triggered

BlueCrest All Blue says its rolling 12 month discount floor provision has been triggered for its Sterling class of shares (the discount, based on the October month end figure, was too wide). This requires, in accordance with the Company’s articles of association, a continuation vote to be proposed for this class by way of ordinary resolution. […]

20 Nov 2015

Templeton Emerging suffers in EM sell-off

Templeton Emerging Markets has published results covering the six month period that ended on 30 September 2015. emerging markets had a tough time during this period, selling-off sharply and underperforming developed markets by 9.1% (comparing the two relevant MSCI Indices). Over the six months the fund generated a negative total return on net assets and underperformed […]

19 Nov 2015

Marwyn Value Investors to raise a minimum £50m, new distribution policy

Marywn Value Investors has announced that it is proposing to raise a minimum of £50m through a placing, at a price of 220p per share. The company says that the book-build has secured substantial anchor orders from existing and new shareholders to support the minimum fund raise and that the book will be kept open […]

19 Nov 2015

Juridica throws in the towel

Juridica has announced that it is throwing in the towel and will shift into realisation mode. The Company will not make new investments (other than for funding existing investments in the Company’s portfolio where such funding is reasonably required to realise maximum shareholder value) and will seek to return capital to shareholders in the most […]

19 Nov 2015

Custodian REIT to acquire 11 UK commercial properties for £64.9m

Custodian REIT has announced that it has exchanged contracts to acquire a portfolio of 11 UK commercial properties for an aggregate consideration of £69.4m. Simultaneously, the company has also announced that it has entered into an agreement to extend its existing revolving credit facility with Lloyds Bank from £25m to £35m whilst extending the termination […]

18 Nov 2015

Good year for Schroder Income Growth as celebrates 20 years of dividend increases

Schroder Income Growth Fund has announced results for the year ended 31 August 2015. During the year under review, the net asset value produced a total return of 3.1%, comparing favourably to a total return of -2.3% for the FTSE All-Share Index. The share price total return for the year was 5.1% as the net […]