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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).

27 Nov 2015

Lindsell Train warns on dangers of very high premium

Lindsell Train Investment Trust’s interim report, covering the six months to the end of September 2015, shows the fund moving to a significant premium. Today this is 34%. The Chairman’s statement reiterates previous warnings to new investors of the dangers of buying stock at very high premiums. The net asset value just about beat the benchmark – […]

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26 Nov 2015

European Investment Trust has a difficult year

The European Investment Trust, managed by Edinburgh Partners, has released its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2015. The board describe the period as a more challenging one for investing in European equities, during which, the NAV per share of the trust fell by 7.3% from 800.41p to 742.20p. After taking account of dividends […]

26 Nov 2015

Troy Income and Growth benefits from cyclical underweights

Troy Income and Growth Trust has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company provided an NAV total return of 11.2% and a share price total return of +11.7%. Both of these are noticeably ahead of the total return performance of the FTSE All-Share Index of -2.3%.  […]

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26 Nov 2015

NextEnergy Solar sees half-year generation 6% ahead of budget

NextEnergy Solar Fund has announced its half year results for the six months to 30 September 2015. During the period, its net assets grew by 16.2% from £248.4m to £289.0m, reflecting a fund raising £38.8m, whilst NAV per share increased by 0.7% from 103.3p on 31 March 2015 to 104.0p. At the end of the […]

26 Nov 2015

Aberdeen Private Equity returns weakened by strong US exposure

Aberdeen Private Equity Fund, managed by Alexander Barr (pictured), has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015 during which the company’s NAV per share fell by 1.6% to 125.37p although, including the 2.2p dividend paid in September 2015, the Sterling NAV total return to shareholders was +0.2%. The company says that positive performance […]

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26 Nov 2015

Worldwide Healthcare hit by sector sell off

Worldwide Healthcare has published interim results covering the six months to the end of September 2015. Over this period the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors experienced a sell off as US politicians waded into price gouging allegations at some forms. Worldwide Healthcare’s benchmark index (MSCI World Health Care Index) fell by 9.7%. the total return on net […]

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25 Nov 2015

Better Capital’s 2012 Cell posts 22.1% NAV decline during half-year

Better Capital PCC has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015 for both the 2009 Cell and the 2012 Cell. During the period the NAV for the 2009 Cell has increased by 0.7% to £264.2m whilst the NAV for the 2012 cell has fallen by 22.1% to £263.3m. The decline in […]

25 Nov 2015

Japan Residential received new approach at 73.5p

Japan Residential Investment Company (JRIC) has announced today that, following the announcement, on 13 November 2015, that Nikko III Pte. Ltd. and JRIC had reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash offer by Nikko III Pte, for the entire issued and to be issued share capital of JRIC (at 72p in cash per […]

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25 Nov 2015

Greencoat UK Wind raises £50m through institutional placing

Greencoat UK Wind has announced that its placing, by way of tap issuance to institutional investors, has raised Gross Placing Proceeds of £50m. As a result 46,115,906 new ordinary shares are to be issued at a price of 107.5p per share taking the total number of shares in issue to 507,967,051. The new shares are […]

25 Nov 2015

Primary Health Properties to fund Swindon medical centre

Primary Health Properties has announced that it has contracted to fund and acquire a purpose built medical centre to be developed in Swindon Town centre. The net consideration for the property will be £10.0m. The property comprises of circa 2,500m2 to be fully let to NHS Property Services Limited for a 20 year term from […]

25 Nov 2015

Pantheon International drops the participations

Pantheon International Participations Plc has announced that it has changed its registered name to Pantheon International Plc. The Company’s tickers for its Ordinary and Redeemable shares remain the same. PIN for the ordinary shares and PINR for the redeemable shares. Pantheon International drops the participations : PIN and PINR  

25 Nov 2015

TR Property revenues bolstered by lower refinancing costs

TR Property Trust, managed by Marcus Phayre-Mudge (pictured), has announced its interim results for the half year ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company’s NAV rose by 0.6% on a total return basis, ahead of the company’s benchmark , which fell 2.0%, whilst the share price fell by 4.1% and the discount to NAV increased […]

Sectors
24 Nov 2015

BACIT backed Woodford fund

BACIT Limited has announced interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2015. The return on net assets for the period was -3.28% which compares to -7.19% for the FTSE All-Share Index and -6.78% for the HFRI Fund of Funds Strategic Index. Looking at the portfolio: Equity Funds (24.9% at 30 September 2015 vs. […]

Sectors
24 Nov 2015

Amara significantly increases ounces and grade in resources at Yaoure

Amara Mining has increased M&I gold resources at its Yaoure project, in Côte d’Ivoire, by 17% (739 koz) to 5.2 Moz at a 19% higher grade of 1.54 g/t gold (using a cut-off of 0.5 g/t). Furthermore the company has increased the confidence in resources at the project by increasing the percentage of M&I resources […]

24 Nov 2015

Chenavari Capital Solutions seeks to extend investment period

Chenavari Capital Solutions has announced that it intends to seek shareholder approval for the extension of its investment period for up to 12 months to 31 December 2016 at an EGM scheduled for the 18 December 2015. In the Company’s prospectus, published in connection with its IPO, the Company stated that, following 31 December 2015, […]

24 Nov 2015

Management fee cut for MedicX

The Board of MedicX Fund Limited has agreed to give Octopus Healthcare Adviser an extension to its notice period in exchange for a cut in fees. The announcement says the alteration to the fee structure, which applies to any fees payable on or after 1 October 2015, is designed to enhance shareholder value as the portfolio of […]

24 Nov 2015

Premier Energy & Water plans new ZDP issue

Premier Energy & Water published a prospectus on Friday that covers a reconstruction and voluntary winding up of PEWT Securities PLC. PEWT Securities PLC is the company behind Premier Energy & water’s current ZDP issue. These are coming to the end of their life. They are proposing that holders of these zeros be given the […]

24 Nov 2015

BACIT to start paying management fees

BACIT is proposing that it start paying management fees. These won’t be huge and the investment policy – that it will invest in underlying funds on a “gross return” basis, that it will invest up to 1% a year of its net asset value in drug development projects and that it will donate 1% a year of […]

24 Nov 2015

Tobacco exposure drives Perpetual Income & Growth’s outperformance

Perpetual Income & Growth has published interim figures for the six months ended 30 September 2015. The FTSE All-Share Index returned -7.2% over this period but Perpetual Income & Growth returned -0.2% on net assets and the return to shareholders was +2.4% (the shares moved from a 3% discount to 0.1% discount). The dividend for […]

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23 Nov 2015

Marwyn Value Investors raises £50m through conditional placing

Marwyn Value Investors has announce that, under the terms of its conditional placing (announced on 19 November), 22,727,273 ordinary shares in the have been conditionally placed at a price of 220p per share with institutional investors. Completion of the placing, which has conditionally raised £50m, remains subject to a number of conditions including approval at […]

Sectors
23 Nov 2015

Riverstone Energy to raise up to £65m and increase its stake in Canadian International oil

Riverstone Energy has announced a dilutive share issue. It intends to raise up to £65m through a placing and open offer at £8 per share and intends to use up to US$67m of the proceedes to increase its stake in Canadian International Oil Corp. The open offer, due to launch on 23 November 2015, is being […]

23 Nov 2015

JPMorgan European Smaller Companies beats benchmark on the back of good stock selection

JPMorgan European Smaller Companies, chaired by Carolan Dobson (pictured), has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the trust provided a total return of 2.4% outperforming the company’s benchmark, the Euromoney Smaller European Companies (ex UK) Index, which lost 3.8% in total return terms. The company says that the […]

Sectors
23 Nov 2015

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies benefits from good stock selection and a favourable style tailwind

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies, managed by Anna Lunden (pictured), has announced it interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company provided NAV and share price total returns of 12.5% and 14.7% respectively. These are both ahead of the performance of its Numis Smaller Companies Index benchmark, which returned […]

Sectors
23 Nov 2015

Drum Income Plus REIT purchases Monteith House in Glasgow for £5.75m

Drum Income Plus REIT has announced the acquisition of multi-let office investment Monteith House in Glasgow for a consideration of £5.75m. Monteith House is an office development located in George Square, in the centre of Glasgow, whose key tenants include VisitScotland and Skills Development Scotland. The company says that the purchase price reflects a yield […]

23 Nov 2015

Invesco Perpetual Enhanced Income prioritising revenue generation whilst remaining defensively positioned

Invesco Perpetual Enhanced Income Limited has announced its annual results for the 12-months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the NAV per share fell 5.4% whilst its share price fell 6.2%. However, including income, the Company’s portfolio has generated a NAV total return of +1.5%. The company says that this compares to a total […]

Sectors
23 Nov 2015

World trust fund trading at highest combined discount (34.3%) since the financial crisis

World Trust Fund has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company’s NAV per share fell 12.9% b(in Sterling terms) modestly outperforming both the MSCI AC World Index (ex USA) Index, which fell 13.5% but underperforming the MSCI AC World Index, which fell 11.0%. The share price […]

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23 Nov 2015

Central Asia Metals gets approval for treatment of Western dumps

Central Asia Metals plc has received regulatory approvals to exploit the Western dumps at its Kounrad SX-EW copper recovery operation, in Kazakhstan. The company currently extracts copper from the Eastern dumps and earlier this year expanded the plant to a capacity of 15,000 t/y of copper cathode. As the Eastern dumps become exhausted, the company […]

23 Nov 2015

SEGRO acquires three fully-let logistics buildings for €92.7m

SEGRO has announced that it has acquired a portfolio of three, fully-let logistics buildings, in the Netherlands, for €92.7m. The portfolio, which has a total of104,000 square metres of space, has been acquired from the private Dutch developer, Dok Vast. The company says that the purchase price equates to a net initial yield of 6.1 […]

20 Nov 2015
Biotech Growth Trust shrugs off drug pricing fears

Biotech Growth Trust shrugs off drug pricing fears

Biotech shares were weak in the six months that ended 30 September 2015. Biotech Growth Trust reports that its NAV fell by 18.6% over this period, 5% more than the 13.6% fall in the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index. The company’s shares fell by 19.3%. The Chairman said the fall in the value of many biotechnology companies […]

20 Nov 2015

Impressive performance from Oryx

Oryx International Growth Fund reports a 15.5% increase in its NAV and a 25.4% increase in its share price over the six months ended 30 September 2015. This is a great result considering the FTSE AIM Index rose by just 1.3% and the FTSE Small Cap. fell be 2.5% over the same period. The managers […]

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