The Board of Ground Rents Income believes that the ability to utilise borrowings in addition to equity, and to leverage assets over a longer term period, will allow the Company to take advantage of attractively priced debt currently available to it, and provide greater flexibility now that the Company’s equity is fully invested, to allow the […]
Henderson Diversified Income Limited is mulling a change to its corporate structure (currently it invests through a Luxembourg subsidiary). Since it was launched, there have been a number of developments in Luxembourg tax legislation and practice, in particular in relation to transfer pricing. The OECD has recently introduced the BEPS (base erosion profit shifting) framework under […]
The Board of Invesco Perpetual Select Trust has announced that, with effect from 4 October the management of the Company’s UK Equity portfolio will pass to James Goldstone. James has 15 years’ industry experience and has worked closely alongside Mark Barnett for the last four years. He currently manages circa GBP160 million in UK Equity Pension Fund and […]
Baillie Gifford Japan Trust PLC outperformed its benchmark index over the year to 31 August 2016 by 4 percentage points. Net asset value per share, after deducting borrowings at fair value, rose 25.7%, while the TOPIX index gained 21.5%. In this period the Company’s share price increased by 16.3%. Having traded at a premium for most […]
SVG Capital has provided an update regarding the proposed sale of the company’s investment portfolio and wind down. The Board says that it has agreed in principle the key commercial terms of a proposed sale of 100% of the investment portfolio to funds managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Alternative Investments & Manager Selection Group […]
3i Infrastructure has announced that it has committed to invest €6.5m in the A27/A1 primary Public Private Partnership project in the Netherlands. The company is investing as part of a consortium, 3Angle B.V. (3Angle), which also comprises Heijmans Capital (a joint venture between Heijmans and 3i Infrastructure) and Fluor Infrastructure. This investment is 3i Infrastructure’s […]
For the year ended 30 June 2016 Bluefield Solar Income Fund reports that its NAV fell to 99.39p from 103.58p. It paid dividends totalling 7.25p, ahead of expectations. The share price at the end of June was 99.75p, a small premium to NAV, but since the end of the year, the shares have rebounded and currently […]
Electra Partners is pleased to announce that, following the successful initial public offering (“IPO”) of its portfolio company Premier Asset Management Group PLC, it expects to partially realise Electra Private Equity PLC’s (“Electra”) investment in the business. Based on the offer price, Electra’s investment in Premier has a value of GBP46 million, an uplift of […]
Project Finance Investments Limited has announced that it has made a 16 year loan in an amount of up to GBP12.8 million to finance the construction and operation of a care home which, upon completion in 2017/18, will comprise c. 67 units. The loan is secured by way of first ranking charges against the property […]
HarbourVest has made a statement to the effect that it notes that despite the Board of SVG Capital stating on 3 October 2016 that it would be in a position to update Shareholders as to its discussions with other parties by this morning, no announcement has been made. This came out at 13:14 today. SVG […]