UK Commercial Property Trust has announced that it has acquired Ventura Park in Hertfordshire for £67.1m through a swap transaction with SEGRO plc, which also comprises the sale to SEGRO of a 298,850 sq ft Asda Distribution Centre in Northampton for £31m. UK Commercial Property Trust paid the £36.1m difference from its existing cash resources. Ventura […]
New Star Investment Trust’s net asset value rose by 4.8% over the year to the end of June 2015 and its share price was 2.8% higher. This compares to a 6.7% return for the IA Mixed Investment 40% – 85% Shares sector and a 10.1% return on the MSCI AC World Index. Shareholders will get a […]
Nord Gold, one of the fastest growing gold companies in the world, updated investors on the company’s plans on Monday during the first morning of the prestigious Denver Gold Forum, in Denver, US. Since producing 193 koz in 2008, the company’s gold production has grown at a compound annual growth rate of 31% to 985 […]
City of London beat the FTSE All-Share Index over the year ended 30 June 2015, delivering a total return on net assets of 6.4% and a return to shareholders of 7.2% against a 2.6% return for the index. The NAV and shareholder return were in the same ball park as the 7.0% return posted by the UK […]
Strategic Equity Capital (which we recently published a note on) has announced results for the year ended 30 June 2015. The Company’s Net Asset Value Total Return per share was 25.8% over the twelve months ended 30 June 2015, exceeding the comparable FTSE Smaller Companies ex Investment Companies Index by 17.4% over the same period. Shareholders did much […]
Electra has announced that yesterday afternoon it received from Pershing Nominees Limited on behalf of Sherborne Investors (“Sherborne”) a requisition for a General Meeting at which resolutions will be proposed seeking to appoint Edward Bramson and Ian Brindle to the Board of Electra. As shareholders are aware, this is the second time Sherborne has sought […]
Last night Advance Frontier Markets published results for the year ended 30 June 2015. Over that period the fund’s net asset value fell by 11.2% and the share price fell by 10.9%. The MSCI Frontier Markets Net Total Return Index declined by 13.9% over the period. The manager says asset allocation, manager selection and discount movements […]
Globalworth Real Estate has released its interims covering the six months ended 30 June 2015 and a trading update that covers the period to the middle of September. On 15 September the portfolio had a gross lettable area of 335,883sqm, a value of €808.4m and the projected value once all developments have been completed was […]
SQN Asset Finance has published its first annual report covering the period from launch in July 2014 to the end of June 2015. At the end of June SQN had a market cap of £193.3m, assets of £178.9m, an NAV per share of 99.93p and had paid dividends totalling 4.28p. The share price at the […]
Town Centre Securities has published results for the year ended 30 June 2015. It is reporting an 11.7% increase in NAV to 344p, a maintained dividend of 10.44p (which was covered 1.16x by underlying earnings per share of 12.1p – down from 14.4p the previous year). The total return to shareholders was 19%. Like-for-like property […]
