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10 Nov 2015

Hg selling Casa Reha

Hg Capital has announced that it has agreed the sale of Casa Reha, a leading private German provider of elderly care services, specialising in high quality, assisted living, to Euronext-listed Korian, a leading European provider of elderly health care services. Completion is subject to regulatory approval. Hg Capital Trust will realise cash proceeds of approximately […]

10 Nov 2015

Globalworth buys Green Court Bucharest Building B

Globalworth Real Estate Investments Ltd has announced the acquisition of Skanska’s second building in the Green Court Bucharest project. The gross transaction value is approximately Euro 47 million. Closing of the acquisition is expected in December 2015. Green Court Bucharest is a prestigious, newly built class-A office park comprising three buildings, strategically located in Bucharest’s new […]

09 Nov 2015

British Empire hit by oil and commodity exposure

British Empire underperformed its benchmark over the year that ended on 30 September 2015, delivering a total return on net assets of -8.3% against a -5.6% return for the MSCI All Country World ex-US Index. The Morningstar Investment Trust Global Index rose by 3.7% over the period. The discount widened slightly from 10.3% to 11.6% (despite them […]

09 Nov 2015

Empiric Student property expands in Cardiff

Empiric Student Property is paying £40m to acquire Windsor house in Cardiff. The property, which is Empiric’s fourth acquisition in Cardiff, is located directly opposite the Group’s existing Summit House property on Windsor Place, in the city centre within a ten-minute walk from the University of Cardiff.  Cardiff is also home to Cardiff Metropolitan University […]

06 Nov 2015

Kennedy Wilson Europe issues €300m bond, part of £2bn programme

Kennedy Wilson Europe is offering €300m of 3.25% senior unsecured notes due 2025 as the first part of a £2bn programme of bond issuance announced yesterday. The Euro Medium Term Note Programme allows Kennedy Wilson Europe to issue, from time to time, up to £2,000,000,000 of various types of debt securities in certain markets and currencies. Kennedy […]

06 Nov 2015

Project Finance deploying capital

Project Finance Investments has been announcing a series of deals as it deploys the money it raised in its IPO. All of the investments are made through Loan Notes issued by Project Finance Investments (UK) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. On 5 November it said it had committed to subscribe for a […]

06 Nov 2015

Scottish Mortgage now 10% in unlisted investments

Scottish Mortgage has reported interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2015. It was a period of falling markets – the FTSE All-World Index fell by 11.8%. Scottish Mortgage did a little better, its NAV fell by 10.9% over the period and the share price fell by 9.7%. The interim dividend is being […]

05 Nov 2015

International Biotech reports impressive results

International Biotechnology Trust has announced results for the year ended 31 August 2015. Over this period the NAV return was 48.2% which compares very favourably to the return on IBT’s benchmark, NASDAQ Biotechnology Index, which returned 33.6%. The share price did even better as the discount narrowed from 20.5% to 6.0% and shareholders got a return […]

05 Nov 2015

Sherborne wins!

Shareholders in British private equity firm Electra voted in favour of activist investor Edward Bramson and Sherborne’s Chairman, Ian Brindle being appointed to the board at a general meeting today. Shareholders voted 53.5 percent in favour of the resolution by Bramson’s investment vehicle Sherborne to appoint Bramson to the board. Sherborne Investors, which owns 30 per […]

02 Nov 2015

Custodian REIT acquires Torquay property and development land in Stevenage

Custodian REIT has announced that it has acquired the ground floor and part of the first floor of a leisure development in Abbey Sands, Torquay (pictured). The investment comprises four food and drink outlets on the seafront, close to the marina and town centre, let to Le Bistro Pierre Limited, Las Iguanas Limited, Loungers Limited […]