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30 Jul 2015

Tiso Blackstar ups stake in Robor

Tiso Blackstar says it will increase its interest in Robor from 19.4% to 51%. Tiso Blackstar will purchase additional ordinary shares in Robor from certain existing Robor shareholders for a consideration of R29.6m (£1.5m) which will be settled through the issue of new Tiso Blackstar shares at intrinsic net asset value per share. Established in 1922, Robor […]

30 Jul 2015

Wolf Minerals’ UK tungsten mine on schedule for September production

Wolf Minerals reports that commissioning of its Hemerdon tungsten/tin project continues on schedule with the first ore introduced into the plant in June 2015. The company expects the engineering construction firm to complete ‘Performance Tests’ in August before handing over the operation with first product scheduled for delivery to customers in September. Thereafter Wolf will […]

29 Jul 2015

Phoenix Spree buys Friedrichshain apartment complex

Phoenix Spree Deutschland has announced the acquisition of an apartment complex located in Friedrichshain, Berlin. The purchase price is €16m which works out at a price per square metre of €2,580 or a prospective gross yield of 4.8%. they say the deal will increase the Fund’s rental income by c. 6%. The apartment complex is located […]

29 Jul 2015

Vedanta starts development of US$630 million zinc mine

Vedanta Resources has started to develop the US$630 million Gamsberg zinc project, in South Africa, located some 20 km east of its existing polymetallic underground Black Mountain mine. The open pit mine, which is expected to produce its first ore in early 2018, will produce a zinc concentrate, which it will deliver to the company’s refinery […]

29 Jul 2015

M&G High Income wants to use derivatives

M&G High Income Investment Trust has announced results for the year ended 31 May 2015. On a net asset value basis, each Package Unit delivered a total return of 8.8% over the 12 months to 31 May 2015. This was above the returns of the FTSE 350 Higher Yield Index and the FTSE All-Share Index, which […]

29 Jul 2015

Aberforth Geared Income thinking about its future

Aberforth Geared Income has announced results for the year ended 30 June 2015. The return on the portfolio for the period was 15.4% which compares well to a 2.6% return on the FTSE All-Share Index and 10.4% on the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding investment companies). The return due to the zeros was 6.75% so […]

29 Jul 2015

British Land sells 39 Victoria Street

British Land has announced that it has exchanged contracts for the sale of 39 Victoria Street, SW1 to Singaporean property company Ho Bee Land for a gross purchase price of £144m (net price of c. £139m after deduction of rent free top up).  Ho Bee Land is quoted on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange […]

29 Jul 2015

Riverstone Energy now fully committed

Riverstone Energy reports a 2.25% uplift in its NAV for the six months ended 30 June 2015. They say assets at the end of the period were worth $1.244bn or $16.36 per share. they invested another $180m over the period taking the amount invested to 46% of their available capital. Commitments in the period totalled […]

29 Jul 2015

BBGI buys two schools projects

BBGI has signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement with John Graham Holdings Limited to acquire 100% of the equity and subordinated debt interests in two educational PPP projects in Northern Ireland. Belfast Metropolitan College is an educational campus comprising two five-storey teaching facilities and a two-storey engineering facility with associated car parking and a landscaped […]

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