Invesco Perpetual Select risk assets outperform over interim period – Invesco Perpetual Select has published its interim results for the six months to 30 November 2019. But first, a bit more on the company: The company’s investment objective is to provide shareholders with a choice of investment strategies and policies, each intended to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns. The company’s share capital comprises […]
The renewable energy infrastructure company, SDCL Energy Efficiency Income (SEIT), has finalised the acquisition of a 50% interest in Primary Energy, a portfolio of recycled energy and cogeneration projects located in Indiana, USA, for an equity cash value of around $110m. The deal was initially announced on 30 December 2019 – you can read more on it […]
In QuotedData’s other news 4 February 2020 Gore Street Energy Storage is raising money – £1.5m has been promised by two specialist ESG funds and they are subscribing for shares at 95.5p (the last published NAV). The fund is asking other professional investors whether they want to buy shares at the same time. The money will […]
Tritax Big Box REIT said it was looking to recycle capital from the sale of specific assets in order to fund its development pipeline. In a trading update, the group said it was targeting an average yield on cost of between 6% and 8% across its developments, well above the group’s current portfolio valuation yield of 4.5%. […]
Tritax EuroBox has acquired two recently developed prime logistics properties and development land in Poland for €66.8m. The purchase of the assets, which are located in Strykow, near Lodz in Central Poland, reflects a net initial yield of 6.1%. Tritax EuroBox also has the option to buy development land adjacent to one of the buildings […]
In QuotedData’s other news 3 February 2020 BlackRock Throgmorton is asking shareholders for permission to issue more shares, having resold 5.5m of the 7m shares it was holding in Treasury. Ioannis Papalekas, the CEO of Globalworth has sold his entire stake in the company for €244.6m. he also freed up another €39m by selling the company […]
Surprise oversubscribe for BG European tender – As part of the process of taking on the management of European Investment Trust, Baillie Gifford agreed to hold a tender to allow shareholders that did not want to remain in the trust an exit. In the event 21,528,812 ordinary shares, approximately 53.5% of the issued share capital, were […]
Tufton makes first sales – Tufton Oceanic Assets has sold three General Cargo vessels for $19.3m. The divestment reduces the company’s fleet from seventeen to fourteen vessels. The realised yield and IRR exceed the targets expressed in Tufton Oceanic’s prospectus dated 25 September 2018. This is the company’s first divestment. It goes on to say that […]
US Solar fraud investigation – The board of US Solar Fund found out yesterday that its investment manager, New Energy Solar Manager, has been the victim of a fraud in relation to contracted construction payments totalling $6.9 million. The payments were made from the US bank account of a USF project company to a third party […]
Fidelity Special Values gets new co-manager – Fidelity Special Values says that Jonathan Winton has been appointed as co-portfolio manager alongside Alex Wright. This will take effect from 3 February 2020. Alex Wright remains the lead manager and accountable for portfolio construction. Fidelity is appointing co-managers across its business. Mr Winton joined Fidelity as an analyst in […]
Impact Healthcare REIT, which owns a portfolio of UK healthcare real estate assets, has reported a slight increase in its net asset value (NAV) in the three month period to the end of December 2019. The group’s NAV at 31 December 2019 was £340.7m or 106.81 pence per share, compared to £303.7m or 106.00 pence per share at 30 […]
West End of London landlord Shaftesbury bucked the trend of retail negativity and reported a strong Christmas trading period. The company, which owns a 15.2-acre portfolio in the heart of the West End including Carnaby Street, said early data indicated retailers and food and beverage operators in its portfolio saw turnover and footfall growth in […]
In QuotedData’s other news 31 January 2020 Fidelity Asian Values confirms that with effect from 1 February 2020 its comparative index (performance benchmark) will be the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Small Cap Index (net) total return (in Sterling terms) PRS REIT’s NAV has slipped a little, from 95.8p at the end of June 2019 […]
Syncona updates on Autolus – Autolus Therapeutics, a key holding for Syncona, has announced additional data regarding its ongoing Phase 1/2 clinical trial of its next-generation programmed T cell therapy, AUTO3, to treat adults with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL). The data is to be presented in a keynote lecture titled “Improved CAR T […]
US Solar picks up 177MW across 22 projects – US Solar Fund is buying an approximately 177MW portfolio of twenty-two operating utility-scale solar power projects located in North Carolina, Oregon, and California. The vendor is Heelstone Renewable Energ, a leading developer of renewable energy projects in the United States, having developed over 60 projects with an aggregate […]
Phoenix Spree Deutschland, the UK listed investment company specialising in Berlin residential real estate, questions Berlin Senate’s competency regarding proposed rent controls in the city. The company said it had concerns over whether the Berlin Senate, which passed a draft bill for rents to be frozen for five years in November 2019 and is expected to […]
Aberforth overcomes market’s growth bias – Aberforth Smaller Companies beat its benchmark over the year ended 31 December 2019, returning 26.9% against 25.2% for the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding investment companies). A dramatic narrowing of the discount translated into a 39.8% return for shareholders. The underlying dividend is up 5.8% to 32p and there is […]
In QuotedData’s other news 30 January 2020 Duke Royalty has made a £7.7m follow-on investment in Bakhchysarai (Ireland) which is building a recruitment business in Ireland and the UK. It now has £9.4m invested in the business. Bakhchysarai is using the money to buy PE Global, a specialist recruitment agency that provides staffing and recruitment services primarily […]
Regional REIT beat its benchmark index in 2019 and increased property portfolio value by 9.7%. In a market update, the group said total shareholder return (with dividends reinvested) during the year was 32.5%, ahead of the FTSE EPRA NAREIT UK Index that was at 30.6%. The group paid dividends of 8.20p in the year, a […]
In QuotedData’s other news 29 January 2020 SQN Asset Finance Income’s board set a deadline of Friday 31st January for proposals for the future of the fund The share prices of Asian and Chinese funds appear to have stabilised this morning after sharp falls on worries about the coronavirus. JPMorgan Chinese is trading at 340p, down […]
JLEN NAV impacted by power price fall – JLEN’s NAV has dropped from 104.7p to 101.8p over the final three months of 2019. The reason is a fall in assumptions about long-term power prices – a topic we covered in another story this morning – “electricity price forecasts have reduced by c. 7.5% from the […]
Civitas NAV edges up despite inflation fall – Civitas Social Housing has announced its NAV at the end of December 2019 and it has edged up from 107.23p at the end of September to 107.55p at 31 December. This is despite an increase in the net initial yield used to value the portfolio from 5.28% […]
Renewable energy funds under attack from brokers – Shares in many renewable energy funds slumped yesterday as first Chris Brown of JPMorgan and then Matthew Hose of Jefferies said they were overvalued. Their analysis (which we can’t show you and you can’t get hold of unless you work for a large investment firm and pay […]
SEGRO’s chief investment officer has stepped down from the board and will leave the business in April 2020. Phil Redding, who has been at the group for 24 years and on the board since 2013, had been an instrumental part in SEGRO’s portfolio re-positioning exercise which saw the group sell, acquire or develop more than £8bn […]
JLEN gets diversified exposure to new build assets – JLEN has made a €25m commitment to Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners SCSp (“FEIP”), a Luxembourg limited partnership investment vehicle. The majority of the partnership’s investments will be in construction-stage European renewable energy generation infrastructure such as wind farms and solar parks, and FEIP will also have an […]
GRIT Real Estate completes on Senegal hotel Club Med Cap Skirring Hotel GRIT will end up paying €16.2m for the Club Med Cap Skirring hotel in Senegal. A completion agreement was signed on 27 January 2020 with Club Med SAS and the fund took transfer of the shares in the controlling company and effective ownership […]
Invesco Income Growth faces continuation vote – The board of Invesco Income Growth Trust says it will put a continuation vote to shareholders in the trust at the time of the next AGM to be held in September 2020. While the directors believe that shareholders want the company to keep going, the persistently wide discount might suggest otherwise. […]
In QuotedData’s other news 27 January 2020, it is a quiet day UIL Limited is selling its investment in Optal Limited, its fourth largest holding (7.3% of the portfolio) and largest unlisted investment. Optal is a digital payment solutions company offering virtual account numbers, and credit and debit solutions for large scale payments in the travel, […]
The UK-focused renewables energy infrastructure fund, Bluefield Solar (BSIF), has made its first acquisition of 2020. On 20 January 2020, BSIF completed the acquisitions of three operational ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) plants. Two of the plants, Gretton and Thornton are based in England, and the third, Wormit, is based in Scotland. The three plants provide 13.5 megawatt peak (MWp) of 1.3 Renewable Obligation Certificate (ROC) capacity. They were acquired for a cash consideration […]
In QuotedData’s other news 24 January – Following on from its anaerobic digestion problems, SQN Asset Finance Income (SQN) has announced that its board has taken the decision to conduct a strategic review of the company’s operations. This will be wide- ranging to include the provision of investment management services.. Warehouse REIT (WHR), the specialist […]
