AEW UK Long Lease REIT invests £24m – AEW UK Long Lease REIT has four properties under offer across a range of property sectors. The combined value of the assets is GBP24m and represents over 30% of the net proceeds raised at the Company’s successful IPO on 6 June 2017. The properties are in line […]
Riverstone Energy investment Sierra Oil & Gas makes major discovery. Sierra Oil & Gas has announced that the Zama 1 well has discovered significant quantities of oil in its primary target formation. Preliminary analysis indicates the presence of a contiguous oil bearing interval of over 1,100 feet (335 meters) gross, with net pay of over 650 […]
Phaunos Timber manager resigns – following the loss of the continuation vote, the Manager of Phaunos Timber Fund Limited, Stafford Capital Partners Limited, has informed the Board of Phaunos that it will resign with effect from the Company’s General Meeting to be held in August 2017. From that date a six month notice period will […]
AEW UK REIT has published its Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 April 2017. Highlights: Net Asset Value of £118.67m or 95.98p per share as at 30 April 2017 (2016: £116.38m and 99.03p). Operating profit before fair value changes and disposals of £9.81m for the year ended 30 April 2017 (2016: £6.31m). […]
Alternative Liquidity’s Tim Gardner moves to Warana Capital. Warana Capital, LLC has been formally appointed as Alternative Liquidity’s investment manager on the terms set out below. Morgan Creek Capital Management, LLC, which had been the investment manager of the Company since its inception, has chosen to resign to focus on its activities in the US. The […]
PRS REIT has started making investments – the closed-ended real estate investment trust, which was established to invest in new build homes in the private rented sector and was admitted to the Specialist Fund Segment of the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market on 31 May 2017, says: Immediately following its launch and as planned, it acquired 50 […]
John Laing Environmental Assets (JLEN) has announced that its placing has raised £40 million through the issue of 38,834,951 new ordinary shares at a price of 103 pence per new ordinary share. JLEN says that the Placing was significantly oversubscribed and applications have been scaled back in accordance with the terms of the placing. The […]
Schroder UK Growth Fund (SDU) has released it annual results for the year ended 30 April 2017. During the period, the company provided an NAV total return of 17.5% and a share price total return of 13.9%, both underperforming its benchmark, the All-Share Index, which the company says provided a total return of 20.1%. The manager […]
Syncona has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2017. It was a year that the company describes as ‘transformative’ with strong performance across the business. It lists the following highlights: Net assets at year end of £895.2m, 136.0p per share, a total return of 12.5%; Successful completion of the acquisition of […]
TwentyFour Income Fund (TFIF) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2017. During the period, the company’s NAV grew by 10.2% whist its share price grew by 12.8% reflecting a widening of its premium to NAV from 1.94% to 4.29%. The company also paid dividends of 6.99p (2015: 7.14p). Including dividends, […]
Central Asia Metals (CAML) reports H1 2017 copper production from its Kounrad dump leach copper recovery plant in Kazakhstan up 2% year-on-year to 7,027 t. Sales were 6,870 t, an 8% increase on H1 2016. In April 2017, the company began irrigating the Western Dumps and, during Q2 2017, approximately 1,300 t of copper cathode […]
BlackRock Income and Growth Investment Trust (BRIG) has announced that Mark Wharrier, co-portfolio manager of the Company, has resigned to pursue another role. It says that Adam Avigdori, who has been co-portfolio manager of the Company since November 2011, continues as co- portfolio manager, while David Goldman, a senior director within the BlackRock UK Equity […]
European Real Estate Investment Trust (European REIT) has announced that it will return £6.0 million (equivalent to 77.6 pence per share) on 21 July 2017 by way of a compulsory partial redemption of shares (this the ‘Eighth Redemption’). The Eighth Redemption European REIT says that the Eighth Redemption will be conducted at the estimated unaudited […]
Caledonia Mining has declared a quarterly dividend of US6.875c per share, a fivefold increase from the US1.375c per share declared in previous quarters. The increase reflects the recent 5-for-1 share consolidation, meaning that the overall aggregate dividend amount is maintained. The company expects to maintain the dividend at this quarterly rate, which represents an indicative […]
Sirius buys properties in Berlin and Grasbrunn – Sirius Real Estate, a leading operator of branded business parks providing conventional space and flexible workspace in Germany, is pleased to announce the completion of the acquisition of two properties for a combined total acquisition cost of EUR24.5 million. On 1 July 2017, the Group completed the […]
LXi REIT gets loan facility – the Board of LXi REIT plc says the company has signed a 12-year, fixed rate, interest only loan facility of GBP55 million with Scottish Widows, acting in partnership with Lloyds Bank Commercial Real Estate. The Facility is repayable on 3 July 2029 and has a fixed all-in rate payable […]
INPP makes digital infrastructure commitment – International Public Partnerships (INPP) has committed jointly with HM Government to make an investment in digital infrastructure and particularly fibre optic broadband connections. It sees long term parallels between the essential nature of broadband connectivity to the home and workplace, and the established businesses of gas and electricity distribution and […]
Civitas buys 19 supported living properties – the Board of Civitas Social Housing PLC has announced that the company has completed the purchase of a portfolio of regulated social housing for a total consideration of GBP15.4 million, comprising the freehold interest in 19 supported living properties, with 95 tenancies, in Yorkshire and the Humber, the East […]
Greencoat buys Bishopthorpe wind farm – The Board of Greencoat UK Wind PLC has announced that it has acquired Bishopthorpe Wind Farm from BayWa r.e. for a total consideration of GBP47 million. The acquisition, which completed on 30 June 2017, was funded by Greencoat UK Wind’s revolving credit facility (GBP38 million) plus cash resources (GBP9 […]
Derwent London sells Copyright building – Derwent London is pleased to announce that it has exchanged contracts on the sale of its long leasehold interest in The Copyright Building, 30 Berners Street W1 to Union Investment Real Estate GmbH (“Union Investment”). The consideration is GBP165.0m, or GBP148.7m net of top-ups relating to rent free periods […]
BBGI SICAV has announced that it has signed an agreement to invest in five existing PPP projects and gain access to what it describes as, “a robust pipeline of future PPP projects in Canada”. The agreement is with a subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin Group to invest in an investment vehicle (referred to as a “Partnership”) which […]
CVC Credit Partners European Opportunities has announced the result of its placing of sterling and euro treasury shares (originally announced on 19 May 2017). The Company has raised £77.55 million and €13.87 million from the sale of sterling and euro treasury shares respectively. It says that it will therefore sell, from treasury, 69,197,176 Sterling ordinary […]
Caledonia Investments has announced that it has reduced its holding in Cobehold SA (Cobehold) from 8.7% to 5.4%, realising €58.2m. As a result of a forward foreign exchange contract previously put in place to hedge the proceeds from the anticipated sale, Caledonia says it will receive £50.6m. Cobehold is the holding company of Cobepa SA, […]
Globalworth Real Estate Investments has announced that it has acquired Building “C” of the Green Court Bucharest campus, developed by the Swedish group Skanska, for a gross transaction value of approximately €38m. The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter of this year. Green Court Bucharest Located to the north of Bucharest in […]
HgCapital Trust has announced that it and other institutional clients of HgCapital will re-invest in Visma Group Holdings (Visma), which it describes as a leading provider of mission-critical business software to SMBs in the Nordic region. The transaction follows a decision by KKR to sell its holding in the group. HgCapital, the trust’s manager, is […]
There are only two investment companies that focus solely on China: the £1.2 billion Fidelity China Special Situations trust (FCSS) and the £180 million JPMorgan Chinese Investment Trust (JMC). JMC has performed well over the past year, returning 56% in net asset value (NAV) terms and 65% in share price terms. By contrast, FCSS grew […]
Wolf Minerals has secured additional funding from its major shareholder to support its short term working capital as it works towards identifying additional funding sources for long term self-sustainable operations at the Drakelands open pit mine. Resource Capital Fund (RCF), which owns 56% of the company, has increased its existing bridge facility from £30m to […]
For the year ended 30 April 2017, Miton Global Opportunities net asset value per share rose to 248.7p (2016: 182.4p), a total return of 36.3% (2016: 0.4%). The share price ended on an all-time high of 242.3p (2016: 164.3p), a total return of 47.5%. The fund has outperformed a number of other comparators such as the […]
Syncona writes up NightstaRx value – Syncona investment, NightstaRx has completed a US$45m funding round. Syncona has invested $12.5m at this stage and retains a 46% stake in the business. The existing investment in NightsaRx has been written up by £20.3m (3.1p per Syncona share) to £69.7m. NightstaRx also attracted investment in this round from […]
NextEnergy Solar Fund has announced results for the year ending 31 March 2017. Highlights Investment portfolio of 48 solar PV plants for a total of c.483MW installed capacity in operation. NextEnergy Solar Fund is the largest listed solar energy fund on the London Stock Exchange in terms of both installed solar capacity and market capitalisation. Significant […]
