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NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has announced that it has signed and exchanged two separate share purchase agreements to purchase four plants for a total of £21m. The first agreement covers a portfolio of three solar plants (Bowden, Stalbridge and Long Ash Lane) of 5MWp each. The second agreement covers the 5MWp Mill Farm solar plant. […]

Industrial Multi-Property Trust (IMPT) has announced that, in addition to the EGM already convened for 19 January 2017 by Alpha Real Trust (an 18.7% shareholder in IMPT), IMPT’s directors are convening a second EGM for 27 January 2017. Rather than cut and paste from the announcement, we have attached a copy of it here. However, the […]

In its dividend announcement of 15 December 2016, Funding Circle SME Income Fund advised that its board has decided to offer shareholders a choice to receive dividends in cash or in shares via scrip dividend, with further details on the scrip dividend alternative to be provided in due course. The Company has now announced that it […]

UK Mortgages Limited has announced that terms have been agreed, and signed, for the purchase of an existing pool of mortgages, which, if completed, will be UKML’s third transaction and will deploy its remaining investible capital. The company says that it expects the transaction will be completed early in 2017, following the finalisation of certain […]

VPC Specialty Lending has announced that, on 30 December 2016, it completed its first share repurchase under its new buyback programme. 1.5m shares were repurchased at a price of 77.25p per share, this being a 20.4% discount to the company’s most recently published NAV of 96.99p per share on 31 October 2016. The company says […]

The Board of Aberdeen Frontier Markets in consultation with Aberdeen Fund Managers Limited and Numis Securities, and following discussions with certain shareholders, believe that there remains demand for a listed, Aberdeen-managed, closed end frontier market vehicle, providing exposure to the Frontier Markets of Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America. Following these […]

Ranger has made an announcement related to the bankruptcy of Argon Credit – it is a complex topic so here’s the main body of the text of that announcement. The Company notes the recent press coverage relating to the filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy by Argon Credit, LLC and Argon X, LLC (together, “Argon”). The […]

VPC Specialty Lending has announced that, in light of the significant disparity between the Company’s share price and its Net Asset Value per share, it will commence a share buyback programme. As at the date of the announcement (22 December 2016), the Company says that its shares are trading at a 17.9% discount to net […]

Civitas Social Housing (Civitas) has announced that it has completed a £15m acquisition of a portfolio, with an initial net yield of 6.5%, comprising the freehold interest in 17 supported living properties in Gloucester, Weston-Super-Mare, the Wirral and Durham. The acquisition is the company’s second since its IPO and the portfolio provides long term housing […]

Tritax Big Box REIT (Tritax) has announced that it has exchanged contracts (conditional on receiving planning consent) to provide forward funding for the development of two new distribution warehouse facilities at Warth Park, Raunds. The two facilities are pre-let in their entirety under two separate leases to Howdens Joinery Group Plc (Howdens) and the investment […]

Custodian REIT has announced the purchase of two properties – one in Liverpool, for £6.4m, and one in Stoke-on -Trent for £4.855m. Both purchases have been funded from the company’s existing debt facilities increasing its loan to value to 18.0%. The Liverpool property is a 34,686 square foot unit on Hanover Street, which is located […]

F&C Commercial Property Trust has annnounced that, on 22 December 2016,it completed the sale of its Freehold interest in 25 Great Pulteney Street, London W1 for £54.4m, which reflects a net initial yield of 3.95 per cent. 25 Great Pulteney Street is a seven-storey building, which the trust says provides high quality, contemporary, Grade A […]

Electra Private Equity has announced the final results of its tender offer, details of which were set out in the circular to shareholders published by on 8 November 2016. The strike price is 4,650 pence and a total of 1,987,768 ordinary shares were validly tendered and, accordingly, all valid tenders will be satisfied in full. […]

EPE Special Opportunities has announced that it intends to commence purchasing its ordinary shares and that the transactions will be in line with the Company’s stated policy to pursue Share Buy Backs. The proposed Share Buy Backs will be funded by the Company’s cash reserves. The Ordinary Shares will be purchased by a wholly owned […]

JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust has announced proposals to change its discount management and dividend policy. The trust says that its board has been disappointed and concerned by the widening of the Company’s discount over the year particularly against the background of exceptional investment performance. The trust has a continuation vote at its AGM on 2 […]

John Laing Infrastructure Fund (JLIF) has announced that it has signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement with respect to an indirect 6% minority shareholding in the Intercity Express Programme Phase 1 (IEP) project, from John Laing Investments Limited. The Company says that the total consideration for the acquisition will be approximately £42.4m, which will be […]

Riverstone Energy has announced that it has sold its entire CAN$ 28m second lien loan (approximately US$ 21 million) interest in Canadian International Oil Corp (CIOC) to an affiliate of Kendall Family Investments, LLC. The consideration payable by the Kendall Family Investments affiliate reportedly reflects the par value of the loan. Riverstone Energy says that […]

Summit Germany has announced that it has sold a property located in Hamburg for a cash consideration of €14 million. It says that the property is a vacant office building, following lease expiry in September 2016, and that the proceeds from this disposal are in line with the last independent property valuation and will be used […]

The board of Ludgate Environmental Fund (Ludgate) and The general partner of Headway Investment Partners III L.P. (Headway) have announce that they have reached agreement regarding the terms of a recommended cash offer to be made by Headway for the entire issued ordinary share capital of Ludgate, which will be effected by means of a […]

Schroder UK Mid Cap Fund has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2016. During the period, the Company’s net asset value produced a total return of 6.5%, which it says compared to a total return of 8.6% for its benchmark, the FTSE 250 (ex-Investment Companies) Index. The trust’s chairman (Eric Sanderson) […]

Gemfields plc has completed its seventh auction of rough rubies from the Montepuez ruby mine, in Mozambique, in which it has a 75% interest (local partner 25%). The auction raised US$30.4m, the fourth highest ruby auction total to date. The company sold almost 1.1 million carats (85% by value of the total offered) at an […]

Oakley Capital Investments Limited has announced that it has been informed that Oakley Capital Private Equity III (Fund III) has agreed to acquire a portfolio of European real estate websites including Casa.it in Italy and atHome.lu in Luxembourg. Oakley is backing the existing management team to acquire the business in a carve-out from its parent […]

Hibernia REIT has announced that it has agreed a new non-renewable six year lease with the Office of Public Works (OPW) at Harcourt Square, commencing in January 2017. The OPW will pay annual rent of €6.0m for the offices, car parking and ancillary facilities plus a one-off arrears payment of €0.5m. Hibernia acquired Harcourt Square […]

Epiris, the manager of Electra Private Equity, has announced the sale of Electra’s interest in Innovia Group, a manufacturer of speciality films and substrate for polymer banknotes. Innovia Group has been sold to CCL Industries in a transaction that places an enterprise value on Innovia of $1.13 billion. Espiris says that, based on current exchange […]

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 […]

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 […]

GCP Student Living has announced the results of its placing, which it says was substantially oversubscribed. As a result of the placing, which raised raise gross proceeds of £23m, the company is issuing 16,428,572 ‘placing shares’ at 140p per share. The company says that, following the issue of the placing shares, the 2016 placing programme […]

Dunedin Smaller Companies Investment Trust has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 October 2016. During the period, the company provided an NAV total return of 7.0% and a share price total return of 4.1%. According to the company, this compares against a total return of 6.7% for its benchmark index, the FTSE […]

SVG Capital has announced the results of its tender offer, the details of which were set out in the company’s shareholder circular published by the Company on 17 November 2016. The company says that 122,492,644 ordinary shares were validly tendered and, following application of the scale-back mechanism, 48,951,048 ordinary shares will be purchased at a […]

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 […]