Caledonia Investments acquires minority stake in BioAgilytix – Caledonia has invested a minority stake in US-based pharmaceutical services business BioAgilytix, which specialises in bioanalytical testing solutions for molecule research and development. Caledonia has invested alongside Cobepa (a Belgium and US-based investment company), which it has a 5% shareholding in. BioAgilytix has offices in Raleigh, North […]
Schroder Real Estate sells Basingstoke warehouse – On 7 March 2019, the UK-focused REIT announced that it has scheduled sale of its Basingstoke retail warehouse for 29 March 2019. The sale has been confirmed for £12m, which compares to an independent valuation of the property at 2018 year end, pricing it at £12.5m. This reflects […]
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income makes first US acquisition – SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEIT), which listed on the London Stock Exchange on 11 December 2018 having raised £100m from its IPO, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of a 71% interest in a high-quality Combined Heat and Power (“CHP”) portfolio. The portfolio consists […]
Symphony International suffering, NAV and share price decline sharply – Symphony International Holdings has realised a substantial loss on both share price and NAV in their 2018 results. NAV declined 24% in 2018, moving from $1.27 per share to $0.96 per share, a roughly 24% decrease. This comes as a result of one of the […]
ScotGems reports losses in year-end results – ScotGems plc has announced their results for the year ended 31 December 2018. The company’s objective is to invest in diverse, small cap companies for long term results. The company reportedly was 72.3% invested by 31 December 2018. Since its inception in June 2017, the share price has […]
Secure Income has landmark acquisition year – Results for the 2018 year have been published today for Secure Income REIT. EPRA NAV in total returns terms for the year increased 11.9%, with shareholder returns increasing by 8.3% alongside it. This is starkly different from the UK REIT sector, which returned -13.0% for shareholders on average. […]
Tritax Big Box expands portfolio in 2018 – Tritax Big Box has released its 2018 results today. Some of the highlights are: dividends declared in 2018 totalled 6.70p per share, meeting its target. The earnings per share increased by 8.0% to 6.88p per share in 2018. EPRA NAV per share increased 7.4% resulting in a […]
Foresight Solar 2018 results published: Things looking up Foresight Solar has announced its results for the 2018 year, and things are looking up. NAV has increased to £610.3m from £481.3m in the previous year, and NAV per share increased to 111.2p from 107.0p (a 4.9% increase in total return terms). This was essentially due to […]
Aberdeen Standard European Logistics secures debt facility – Aberdeen Standard European Logistics Income has completed the purchase of its property in Erlensee, Germany (gross value EUR33.3 million / net initial yield of 5.2%) and has now completed the acquisition of the freehold logistics warehouse near Krakow, Poland f (net value of EUR24.5 million / net initial yield […]
Apax Global Alpha has strong results despite market negativity – Apax Global Alpha has announced its 2018 results today. NAV return in total terms was +7.1% or +5.4% in constant currency (which adjusts figures to remove the impact of foreign exchange rates). This demonstrates a solid performance of the private equity portfolio and a strong contribution […]
Biopharma Credit increases diversity of portfolio – BioPharma Credit has published their annual report for the 2018 year. They have invested in three new companies totalling $494 million which greatly increased the scale and diversity of their portfolio. They have also deployed a further $164 million to support previous investment agreements. Tesaro Inc. was acquired […]
RIT Capital Partners outperforms equity markets in 2018 results – RIT Capital Partners has released its results for the 2018 year. In summary, the NAV per share returned 0.8% in total return terms, which outperformed equity markets. Their investments beat RIT’s equity index benchmark (the MSCI All Country World Index in sterling and local currencies) by […]
Greencoat plans fundraise after transformational year – Greencoat Renewables has published its first set of results since listing. Highlights are: Acquisition of ten wind generation assets during 2018, increasing the portfolio to twelve wind farms in total, and increasing net generating capacity from 137MW to 384MW €883.5 million of gross asset value as at 31 […]
Syncona’s Nightstar Therapeutics to be acquired for $877m – Syncona Limited founded Nightstar Therapeutics in 2013, with an original investment of £56.4m. Syncona’s holding of Nightstar at the time of sale was £254.6m, a £135.4m uplift previous valuation. This results in a 4.5x multiple on Syncona’s original investment and an internal rate of return (IRR) […]
Alpha Real sells Monk Bridge residential site – Alpha Real Trust has announced the sale of its residential development site, “Monk Bridge” in Leeds to Highline Holdings Limited and Whitehall Holdings Limited, wholly-owned subsidiary entities of City Developments Limited for a total transaction value of £15.4 million. Alpha Real bought the development site in December 2015 […]
Ashoka India Equity lags index and discount widens – Over the period from launch (on 6 July 2018) to 31 December 2018, Ashoka India Equity lagged its benchmark, returning -8.7% in share price terms and -0.3% in NAV terms versus a 3.1% return for the MSCI India IMI Index. The chairman says that the main […]
Jeroen Huysinga moving to charity sector – The board of JPMorgan Global Growth & Income has announced that Jeroen Huysinga, the company’s joint portfolio manager will be retiring from JPMorgan after 22 years’ service to pursue a Masters degree in charity finance and administration and then a role in the charity sector. Jeroen’s specific portfolio management […]
Scottish American maintains inflation busting dividend increases – Scottish American delivered a share price total return of -1.6% and an NAV total return of -2.4% for 2018. Global equities, as measured by the MSCI World Index, fell by 3.4%. The full year dividend will be 11.5p per share, 3.6% higher than the 2017 dividend of 11.1p. The […]
TRIG buys Jadraas wind farm in Sweden – The Renewables Infrastructure Group (“TRIG”) has exchanged contracts to acquire a 100% interest in the Jädraås wind farm, an operational onshore wind farm with a capacity of 212.85MW for a consideration of approximately EUR207 million on an unlevered basis. The wind farm is located near Ockelbo, north of Stockholm […]
Alliance Trust’s equity portfolio underperformed in 2018 – Alliance Trust has published results for 2018. Highlights were: Total shareholder return for 2018 was -6.1% (2017: 19.2%) and its share price at 31 December 2018 was 688.0p, down 7.8% compared to 746.5p at 31 December 2017 NAV total return for 2018 was -5.4% (2017:18.5%) and its NAV […]
Woodford injects assets into Patient Capital – Woodford Patient Capital Trust has entered into an agreement to acquire a portfolio of unquoted companies for GBP72.9 million from the LF Woodford Equity Income Fund. Patient Capital will issue 75,432,424 new shares and the open-ended fund will also subscribe for a further 6,206,814 new shares for cash (patient […]
Sirius enters jv with Axa – Sirius Real Estate has formed a real estate investment joint venture with clients represented by AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets. AXA IM – Real Assets, acting on behalf of its clients, will own a 65% interest and Sirius will own the balance of 35%. The JV will be called […]
Symphony celebrates Pierre Chen investment in Liaigre – Symphony International Holdings Limited has announced that the Pierre Chen family from Taiwan has become a partner and co-owner of the Liaigre Group, together with Navis Capital Partners, Symphony and the Liaigre management team. The Liaigre brand was established in 1985 and Symphony describes it as one of […]
Vale disaster overshadows BlackRock World Mining 25th anniversary – BlackRock World Mining has published results for the year ended 31 December 2018. The trust underperformed the EMIX Global Mining Index – returning -11.5% in NAV terms and -10.7% in share price terms, against a -6.2% return for the index. The dividend was raised from 15.6p to […]
Tetragon Financial has released its annual report for the year ended 31 December 2018. During the year, a NAV Per Share total return of 10.3%, and a share price total return of -9.0%. It also It also declared 72 cents of dividends per share for the year, which it says is a yield of 6.2%. […]
Unite confident as focuses on high quality universities – Unite Group has published results for the year ended 31 December 2018. Highlights were: A 10% increase in EPRA NAV to 790p EPRA earnings up 25% to GBP88.4 million, 34.1p per share (2017: GBP70.5 million and 30.3p) 98% occupancy and like-for-like rental growth of 3.2% (2017: 99% […]
RDI REIT shopping centre loan breached covenant In a trading update released on 28 February 2019, RDI REIT notes that four of its UK shopping centres namely Grand Arcade, Wigan; Weston Favell, Northampton; Birchwood, Warrington and Byron Place, Seaham, are financed by a long-term fixed-rate debt facility with Aviva. Given the deterioration in values for […]
Greencoat UK Wind (UKW) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2018. The company says that its performance was in line with its expectations. Cash generation was on budget despite their being a low wind levels [QD comment: UKW, like most other renewable generators, has a high fixed cost base with […]
Riverstone Energy (RSE) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2018. RES finished the year with an NAV of $17.91 (£14.06)1 per share, which represents a year-on-year decrease in USD of 13 per cent. (in GBP of 8 per cent.) compared to the 31 December 2017 NAV. The company says that […]
Law Debenture Corporation (LWDB) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2018. For those not familiar with its structure, LWDB is a unique combination of an equity portfolio and independent professional services business. Key highlights for the Group, the equity portfolio and the independent professional services business are provided below, but […]
