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Investment companies are companies set up to make investments on behalf of their shareholders (also called closed-end funds and, in specific circumstances, investment trusts).

25 Apr 2016

Nimrod Sea Assets says Odin Viking charterer two months behind on payments

Viking Supply Ships A/S, charterer of the ODIN VIKING, in which Nimrod Sea Assets has a 43% interest through Norseman Offshore AS (“Norseman”), is now two months overdue with respect to its charterhire payments for the vessel. Norseman has been advised that Viking Supply Ships A/S has appointed Swedbank as its financial adviser and that […]

25 Apr 2016

2015 a difficult year for debt markets says Carador

During the year ended 31 December 2015, Carador Income Fund generated a total NAV return of -9.71% including distributions. The Credit Suisse High Yield Index lost 4.93% in 2015, the fourth-worst year in its 30-year history. The Credit Suisse Leveraged Loan Index fared better but still fell 0.38%, representing only the second negative annual return in its […]

25 Apr 2016

Temporary manager for Scottish Oriental

In anticipation of a period of maternity leave for the lead portfolio manager Wee-Li Hee, the board of Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust has agreed to the appointment of Vinay Agarwal as interim lead portfolio manager for the Company, effective 20 July 2016. Mr Agarwal will be supported by Martin Lau, Scott McNab and the broader […]

Sectors
25 Apr 2016

Property and infrastructure trusts see inflows in Q1

Volatility has meant that no investment trusts were launched over the first quarter of this year, while money that was raised was focused around property and infrastructure trusts, according to QuotedData. See more at: http://www.portfolio-adviser.com/news/1028797/property-infrastructure-trusts-inflows-q1#sthash.uWHsqkEA.dpuf

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Companies
22 Apr 2016

Baker Steel Resources Trust makes up some ground against benchmark

Baker Steel Resources Trust has published its results for 2015. The Euromoney Global Mining Index fell 39.3% in Sterling terms during the year and at 31 December 2015 was down 68.2% from the date of the Company’s first Net Asset Value (NAV) on 30 April 2010. By comparison, the Company’s NAV per share fell 25.4% […]

22 Apr 2016

Blackstone/GSO delivers 8% return for 2015

Blackstone/GSO Loan Financing has published its accounts for 2015 (figures are in Euros unless otherwise indicated). The fund returned just over 8% for the year. Over the period its NAV fell from 99 cents to 98.39 cents and its share price fell from 101 cents to 98 cents. BGLF paid dividends of 8 cents (2 cents […]

22 Apr 2016

Hammerson secures £420m revolving credit facility

Hammerson has announced the successful syndication and signing of a £420 million unsecured Revolving Credit Facility at an initial margin of 90 basis points with a syndicate of eight international banks. This new facility will refinance the existing £150 million Revolving Credit Facility which would have matured in April 2017 which featured a margin of 150 basis […]

Sectors
22 Apr 2016

Aberdeen Asian Smaller underperforms, blames Sri Lankan tax and Taiwan underweight

Aberdeen Asian Smaller Companies has published figures for the six months ending 31 January 2016. The MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex Japan Small Cap Index fell by 3.0% during this period with the company’s net asset value falling by 5.0%, while the share price declined by 5.7% to 730.0p (on a total return basis), reflecting a […]

Sectors
22 Apr 2016

P2P Global let down by widening discount

P2P Global has published its accounts for the year ended 31 December 2015. P2P Global says it achieved positive NAV returns in every month of 2015, delivering a total NAV return of 6.56% for the ordinary shares. The capital raised for the C shares issued in late July 2015 was deployed in Q3 and Q4 2015. […]

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22 Apr 2016

Phaunos Timber stable and profitable at the operating level

Phaunos Timber Fund says its NAV decreased from US$321.3 million or US$0.57 per Ordinary Share to US$278.8 million or US$0.49 per Ordinary Share, a decrease of 13% over the course of 2015, reflecting the weakness of the company’s main operating currencies against the US Dollar. Revenue from timber operations and investment income increased from US$11.7 […]

22 Apr 2016

JPEL Private Equity to shift to orderly wind down

Further to JPEL Private Equity Limited’s announcement on 11 March 2016 discussing the timeline for the implementation of the realisation share class, the company announces that holders of a majority of US$ Equity Sharesc have, in recent weeks, notified the Board that they no longer support the dual continuation share class and realisation share class […]

21 Apr 2016

John Laing Environmental Assets placing to raise up to £65m

John Laing Environmental Assets has announced that it is proposing to raise up to £65m by way of a cash placing of new ordinary shares to institutional investors. The company says that the net proceeds of the Placing will be used to repay the Company’s facility to provide capital for pipeline acquisitions. On 17 March, […]

21 Apr 2016

Prospect Japan benefits from stake in management company

Prospect Japan Fund, which reports its results in US dollar terms, says that for 2015, it achieved a gain, in Dollar terms, of 19.13% as against the MSCI Japan Small Cap Index increase of 15.74%. The Yen:Dollar exchange rate at 31 December, 2015 was virtually unchanged from a year earlier. The largest contributors to 2015 […]

Sectors
21 Apr 2016

Top ten risers and fallers in March

http://view.ceros.com/citywire/it-insider-april-2016/p/21 Investors appeared to have a greater appetite for risk during March, with trusts which have invested in Brazil, Latin America, and Russia all featuring in the top 10 risers.

Companies
21 Apr 2016

Discount widening and portfolio repositioning drag down UK Commercial Property’s returns

UK Commercial Property Trust has published its results for 2015. The Chairman says the fund delivered a NAV total return of 9.1% over the 12 month period, outperforming the FTSE All- Share Index return of 1.0% and the ten year gilt index of 0.8%. The return from UKCM was behind that of the IPD benchmark […]

21 Apr 2016

Henderson Far East Income benefits from sterling weakness

Henderson Far East Income says its net asset value total return per ordinary share was 5.8% for the six months ended 29 February 2016. This compares favourably with the 3.9% total return on the FTSE All-World Asia Pacific ex Japan Index (sterling adjusted) over the same period. The share price total return per ordinary share […]

Sectors
21 Apr 2016

Premier Energy and Water Trust is looking to grow

Premier Energy and Water Trust has announced that it has published a prospectus in connection with a placing programme. Shareholders approved the scheme, which allows for the company to issue up to 20m shares, at a general meeting on 19 April 2016. The company’s board say that it will enable them to promptly respond to investor demand […]

20 Apr 2016

Foreign & Colonial takes on long-term debt

 Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust has agreed to issue fixed rate senior unsecured private placement notes in tranches of (i) GBP25 million principal with a 12 year tenor, at a coupon of 2.80% and (ii) GBP50m principal with a 15 year tenor, at a coupon of 3.16%.  The funding date for the notes is expected […]

Sectors
20 Apr 2016

BlackRock Greater European subscription share exercise on knife edge

BlackRock Greater European says its undiluted net asset value per share increased by 2.1%, compared with a decrease of 0.8% in the FTSE World Europe ex UK Index. Over the same period, the Company’s share price rose by 3.2% (all percentages calculated in sterling terms with income reinvested). Since the period end to 18 April 2016, the […]

Sectors
20 Apr 2016

JPMorgan Elect is rollover vehicle for JPMorgan Income & Growth

The Board of JPMorgan Elect has announced that heads of terms have been agreed with the board of JPMorgan Income & Growth Investment Trust in relation to that company’s forthcoming reconstruction. JPMorgan Income & Growth, with £67.4m of net assets, has a fixed life and is due to wind up on or around 30 November […]

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Companies
19 Apr 2016

Widening discount lets down Threadneedle UK Select

Threadneedle UK Select Trust’s net asset value total return was 5.7% for 2015, which compares favourably with the 1.0% total return from the FTSE All-Share Index, the benchmark against which the investment manager’s performance is measured. During the year under review, the share price decreased by 2.9% from 171.5p to 166.5p and the discount at which the […]

Sectors
19 Apr 2016

HICL buys into road project

HICL Infrastructure Company Limited has announced the acquisition of a 30% interest in the M1-A1 Link Road (Lofthouse to Bramham) DBFO Road Project from Balfour Beatty plc for £14.5m. The project is a 30 year shadow toll PFI concession for the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of a motorway linking the M1, M621 and […]

19 Apr 2016

NB Global Floating Rate Income reports flat return for 2015

Between 31 December 2014 and 31 December 2015, NB Global Floating Rate Income’s NAV per share dropped by 3.77% and 3.56% for the U.S. Dollar Ordinary Share and Sterling Ordinary Share, respectively. The NAV return plus dividends declared in the year was 0.08% and 0.32% for the U.S. Dollar Ordinary Shares and Sterling Ordinary Shares, […]

19 Apr 2016

Bluefield Solar buys a plant in Derby

The Board of the Bluefield Solar Income Fund Limited has entered into a binding sale and purchase agreement to acquire a 4.1 megawatt peak (“MWp”) ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (“PV”) plant and announces the successful connection prior to 31 March 2016 of the construction assets previously acquired. Bluefiled Solar Income has acquired Bluefield Harrier Limited for £14.4m (including working […]

19 Apr 2016

Standard Life Investments Property Income had a great 2015

Standard Life Investments Property Income delivered both strong NAV and share price performance over the course of 2015. The NAV total return for the year was 15.5%, driven by strong capital growth in the property portfolio. The share price total return was 15.5% and the Company’s shares continued to trade at a premium to NAV of […]

19 Apr 2016

Jupiter Dividend & Growth beats UK market by some margin

Jupiter Dividend & Growth Trust outperformed the FTSE All-Share Index by some margin in 2015 – the total assets rose by 6.9% against a 2.5% fall in the index (both capital only).  The fund has zero dividend preference shares, whose net asset value rose by 7%; ordinary income shares, whose asset value rose marginally from […]

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Companies
19 Apr 2016

Third Point Offshore NAV slips in 2015

During 2015, the Third Point Offshore’s net asset value depreciated approximately 3% across both share classes (-2.58% on the US dollar share class and -2.92% on the Sterling share class). The performance was driven primarily by negative returns in the long equity portfolio managed by Third Point LLC (the “Investment Manager”) in the volatile investment environment […]

19 Apr 2016

LIM Asia sets out its case against Atlantis Japan

  LIM Asia Multi Strategy has published its reasons for requisitioning a meeting to restructure Atlantis Japan. We reproduce this in full below: “Proposal for the reconstruction and/or liquidation of Atlantis Japan Growth Fund Limited (“Atlantis Japan” or “the Fund”) LIM Advisors has published a letter to shareholders of Atlantis Japan (“Shareholders”), detailing its concerns […]

Sectors
18 Apr 2016

GCP refinances solar loan

On 25 March 2015 the GCP Infrastructure announced the completion of a loan with an aggregate value of £59.7 million secured on a senior basis against the cash flows arising from a number of portfolios of domestic solar panel installation in England. They have now announced the completion on 14 April 2016 of a refinancing by Aviva of […]

18 Apr 2016
International Biotech making 15x its money on Convergence

International Biotechnology Trust held back by Chimerix

During the six months to 29 February 2016, International Biotechnology’s NAV fell by 17.7% from 585.1p to 481.7p. Over the same period, the share price fell by 22.9% from 551.5p to 425.0p. This compares with a decline in the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index (NBI) of 18.0% and a fall in the FTSE All-Share Index of 1.2%. The discount closed […]

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