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19 Dec 2016

Caledonia sells its stake in Park Holidays UK for £197m in cash

Caledonia Investments has announced that it has agreed terms for the sale of Park Holidays UK, reportedly the UK’s third largest holiday park operator, to Tiger Bidco Limited, a special purpose vehicle incorporated by Intermediate Capital Group plc, for a headline enterprise value of £362m. Caledonia says that it will receive £197m in cash, net […]

19 Dec 2016

Electra to receive proceeds of c £405m from the sale of Parkdean resorts

Epiris, the manager of Electra Private Equity, has announced that it has agreed the sale of Parkdean Resorts, a leading UK operator of caravan holiday parks, to Onex Corporation, for £1.35 billion. Espiris says that it anticipates that the transaction will close in the first quarter of 2017, subject to customary regulatory approvals. Espiris says […]

16 Dec 2016

Oakley Capital Investments announces maiden dividend of 4.5p

Oakley Capital Investments has announced that it is declaring its maiden dividend of 4.5p per share in respect of the 2016 financial year. The dividend will be paid on 30 January 2017 to shareholders registered on 30 December 2016. Thereafter, its Board says that it will adopt a dividend policy which takes into account the […]

15 Dec 2016

Alliance Trust completes strategic review

Alliance Trust has made an announcement regarding the outcome of its strategic review. Rather than cut and paste it, we have attached a pdf of the announcement here: 20161215-atst-rns-outcome-of-strategic-review Alliance Trust completes strategic review : ATST

14 Dec 2016

New City Energy to wind up

New City Energy’s board of directors has been reviewing, with the investment manager, the future prospects of the company ahead of the next continuation vote. Given the current market capitalisation of the company, the prevailing share price discount and the short to medium term outlook for the oil price, the board has decided that it would be […]

13 Dec 2016

MedicX delivers double digit return

Over the year to the end of September 2016 MedicX‘s EPRA net asset value rose by 3.4% to 73.2p. Together with the dividend, the total return on net assets was 11.8%. EPRA earnings per share rose from 3.7p to 3.8p. The total dividend for the year was 5.95p, up from 5.9p for the year before. […]

13 Dec 2016

Oryx run of outperformance continues

Oryx International Growth reports that for the six months ended 30 September 2016 its net asset value rose by 10.7%, beating the Small Cap Index by over 4.5%. The rise in the NAV over the last five years now equals 114% as against 77% for the index. The report says that the increase in the net […]

13 Dec 2016

Ediston Property sees NAV rise over year

Ediston Property’s NAV total return for the year ended 30 September 2016 was 6.1% (based on a year end EPRA NAV of 107.07p). During the year the share price mostly traded in a relatively tight band around the stated NAV. At the start of the year it was at a 2.3% premium and at the year end […]

13 Dec 2016

Chenavari to switch to realisation mode

Chenavari Capital Solutions has announced its intention to cease making any further investments with immediate effect and from 1 January 2017 will commence a realisation period which will include the return of unencumbered cash balances to shareholders. Further announcements will be made prior to each individual return of cash. Background Prior to its initial public offering […]

13 Dec 2016

New co-manager on Lowland

Lowland Investment Company says that its net asset total return for the year ended 30 September 2016 was 12.2% which compares to a 16.8% return for the UK market and an 8.6% return on the Numis Smaller Companies Index. The total dividend for the year will be 45p, which is an increase of 9.8% over […]