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Personal Assets produces positive return in falling market

Personal Assets has announced results for the year ended 30 April 2016. Over the year to 30 April 2016 Personal Assets ‘s net asset value per share rose by 5.0%.  This compares to a fall of 9.0% in the FTSE All-Share Index.  Personal Assets ‘s share price rose by GBP21.80 or 6.2% during the year and at 30 […]

Underlying property values up at Drum Income Plus REIT

Drum Income Plus REIT has published figures for the six months ended 31 March 2016. The company’s net asset value as at 31 March 2016 was 92.9 pence per share.  This represented a decrease in NAV of 7.1 pence per share (7.1%) since launch.  In addition to costs of 2.3 pence per share incurred in […]

Dilutive share issue holds back Globalworth’s returns

Globalworth has just published results for the year ended 31 December 2015 so these figures are somewhat out of date now. Its EPRA NAV rose by 12.2% over the year, mainly on the back of new acquisitions and the revaluation of development projects. The appraised value for the remainder of the portfolio was, on a like-for-like basis, marginally […]

Kefi reduces estimated capital to build its Ethiopian gold mine: KEFI

Kefi Minerals has reduced the estimated funding required to build a mine at its 100%-owned Tulu Kapi gold project, in Ethiopia, from US$145.0 million in the 2015 definitive feasibility study to US$131.7 million, principally through a change in the life-of-mine plan. With an open pit processing ore by conventional CIL at a revised rate of […]

Fidelity China wants to invest more in unlisted companies

Fidelity China Special Situations has published results for the year ended 31 March 2016. For the year under review, the company’s NAV total return increased by 0.02% while the share price total return fell by 4.53%. The Benchmark Index, MSCI China, fell by 16.17%. The Board recommends a dividend of 1.80 pence (2015: 1.30 pence) per share for the year […]

Schroder European Real Estate completes fifth investment

Schroder European Real Estate has confirmed completion of the purchase of a convenience retail property located in Rodelheim (Frankfurt) at a purchase price of EUR11.05 million reflecting a net initial yield of 5.6%. The investment is well located in a growing inner urban area of Frankfurt am Main and is anchored by a 1,600 sqm Lidl supermarket […]

Schroder UK Mid Cap scraps performance fee

Schroder UK Mid Cap has published results for the six months ended 31 March 2016. The company’s net asset value produced a total return of 3.0%, compared to a total return of 2.2% for the company’s benchmark, the FTSE 250 (ex Investment Companies) Index. However the performance of the company’s share price disappointed during the period, […]

Industrial Multi Property has approach for whole portfolio

The Board of Industrial Multi Property Trust notes a press comment today and announces that it has received an unsolicited proposal from a third party to acquire the entire property portfolio of the Company by way of a sale and purchase agreement. The Board considers that the Proposal undervalued the Company’s assets significantly and therefore has […]

Dunedin Enterprise invests in Kingsbridge

Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust has, through the Dunedin Buyout Fund III, invested GBP4.2 million in Kingsbridge Risk Solutions. Dunedin Enterprise will have an interest of 13.0% in Kingsbridge. Founded by the current CEO Steve Wynne in 2001, Kingsbridge is the UK’s market-leading provider of insurance services that are tailored to meet the needs of contractors, freelancers […]

Increased focus on distribution for LondonMetric

Over the year to 31 March 2016, LondonMetric Property’s EPRA NAV increased from 140.6 to 1467.7. EPRA earnings increased from £40.9m to £48.5m which equates to an earnings per share increase from 6.6p to 7.8p. The dividend has been increased to 7.25p from 7.0p. They are implementing a policy of paying quarterly dividends the first […]

Takeovers boost Capital Gearing

Capital Gearing Trust says, as at 5 April 2016, the net asset value per share was 3,382p compared to 3,297p a year earlier. Although an increase across the year of 2.6% might be seen as modest, this achievement is more creditable when measured against, for example, the decline in the FTSE All-Share Index of 9.3% […]

Currency hedge knocks Aberdeen Japan’s performance

Aberdeen Japan has announced results for the year ended 31 March 2016,  over the year, the net asset value returned -6.2%, compared to the benchmark Topix return of -1.7%, in sterling terms.  They say this 4.5% NAV underperformance is largely due to a loss on the currency hedge almost all of which came in the first quarter […]

John Laing Infrastructure buys Oldham Social Housing Project

John Laing Infrastructure has announced that, following the satisfaction of certain conditions agreed between the parties, it has completed the acquisition of a 95% interest in the Oldham Social Housing PPP project. The project, located in the UK, has been fully operational since January 2015 and benefits from an availability-based payment mechanism. The acquisition was […]

RIT Capital Partners says Alliance Trust approach “very preliminary”

Alliance Trust has made an announcement in response to the press speculation over the weekend. They say, as communicated to shareholders in October of last year and more recently at the time of the publication of the annual results in March this year, a number of significant changes to Alliance Trust have been implemented in […]

AEW UK REIT now fully invested

The Board of AEW UK REIT has announced the acquisition of two mixed use assets in Nottingham and Blackpool for a total of GBP13.2m, net of acquisition costs.  With these two acquisitions the Company has now fully invested its equity capital and is geared to 20% of Gross Asset Value, in line with its investment […]

Alasdair McKinnon has good start at Scottish Investment Trust

Scottish Investment Trust has announced results for the six months ended 30 April 2016. Over that period the net asset value per share total return was 4.0% (with borrowings at market value). The share price total return was 4.4%. The company does not have a formal benchmark but, by way of reference, over the review period the […]

Empiric buys in Leicester

The Board of Empiric Student Property has announced that the Group has acquired the freeholds of three operational, direct-let, premium student accommodation properties in Leicester, comprising a total of 106 beds, for a consideration of GBP8.8 million (excluding acquisition costs). Bede Park (completed in 2012) is a conversion of a 1900s two storey industrial unit, with […]

HarbourVest’s cash pile growing

Harbourvest Global Private Equity has announced results for the year ended 31 January 2016. After reaching an all-time high in May 2015, the total return of the MSCI All Country World Index was negative at -6.3% for the twelve months. In contrast the net asset value per HVPE share increased by 5.6% (in US dollar terms). […]

Altin delisting from London

At an EGM on 21 June, Altin’s shareholders will be asked to approve a reduction of ALTIN AG’s share capital from CHF 58’645’002 (divided into 3’449’706 registered shares with a nominal value of CHF 17 each) by CHF 58’541’510.82 to CHF 103’491.18 through the reduction of the nominal value per share, CHF 17, by CHF 16.97 […]

Ottoman Fund suspended while it sorts out fraud

Ottoman Fund has made the following statement today: “The Company announces that trading in the Company’s ordinary shares on AIM will be suspended with immediate effect pending publication of the Company’s half-yearly report for the six months ended 29 February 2016.  The board remains in negotiations seeking to recover shareholder funds that have been embezzled […]

GCP infrastructure benefits from revaluations and accretive share issuance

GCP Infrastructure Investments has announced its interim results for the half year ended 31 March 2016. During the period, the company advanced loans totalling £46.4msecured against UK renewable energy, social housing and PFI projects, with a further £11.5 million advanced post period end. The company also made a profit of £21.9m and has paid a […]

Custodian REIT acquires high bay distribution unit in Tamworth for £4.7m

Custodian REIT has announced that it has acquired a 55k square foot, high bay distribution unit on Relay Park, Tamworth for £4.7m. The unit is let to Schenker Limited (trading as DB Schenker), a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, on a lease that expires on 27 September 2017. The unit is located at junction 10 of […]

John Laing Environmental Assets raises £35m

John Laing Environmental Assets has announced that its placing has raised gross proceeds of £35.19m through the issue of 36m ordinary shares at 97.75p per ordinary share. The company says that the net proceeds of the Placing will be used to repay amounts drawn down on the Company’s revolving credit facility. The company expects that […]

Chenavari Capital Solutions announces new primary investment

Chenavari Capital Solutions has announced that it has re-invested approximately £3.5m in a repeat transaction replacing an exposure that recently matured in its portfolio. The transaction is a first loss exposure to SME and corporate loans extended by a large Swiss bank. The company says that this loan portfolio is “very granular” with over 1,500 […]

Target Healthcare REIT acquires Halifax care home for £7.2m

Target Healthcare REIT has announced that it has acquired Summerfield House, a care home in Halifax, West Yorkshire, for approximately £7.2m including acquisition costs. It says that Summerfield House is a modern purpose-built facility, with 106 beds over three floors, which was opened in 2011. The company also says that the home is situated in […]

Standard Life European Private Equity benefits from strong exit environment

Standard Life European Private Equity Trust has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 31 March 2016. During the period, the trust has provided an NAV total return of 11.3%, whilst the NAV per ordinary share rose 10.2% to 310.2p (30 September 2015 – 281.6p). The company says that the increase in NAV included […]

Shires Income’s emerging markets and commodity holdings drive underperformance

Shires Income, managed by Ed Beal (pictured), has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2016. During the year, the trust’s NAV fell by 7.0% on a total return basis, thereby underperforming its FTSE All-Share Index benchmark, which lost 3.9%. The company says that its NAV underperformance was due principally to stock […]

JPMorgan Indian provides modest NAV outperformance

JPMorgan Indian Investment Trust has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 31 March 2016. During the period, the company provided an NAV total return of 2.2%, ahead of its MSCI India Index benchmark, which returned 1.8%. The share price total return was 0.6%, which reflects a widening of the discount over the six […]

K&C REIT completes the purchase of Osprey

K&C REIT has announced that it has completed the purchase of ‘The Osprey Management Company Limited’, from Ms Susan Hards, for an aggregate consideration valued at £1.6m. The company says that Osprey owns a portfolio of freehold interests in what it describes as, “a number of high quality retirement and residential properties in and around […]

European IT’s managers say market’s focus on stable growth has driven underperformance

The European Investment Trust has announced its interim results for the year ended 31 March 2016. During the period, the trust provided an NAV total return of 2.2%, thereby underperforming FTSE All-World Europe ex UK Index, which returned 6.9% in sterling total return terms. The managers say that, in their view, the underperformance reflects a […]

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