Jardine and Samsung help Aberdeen New Dawn outperform. Aberdeen New Dawn says its net asset value (“NAV”) total return for the year was 39.0%, ahead of the total return of 36.4% from the MSCI All Countries Asia Pacific ex Japan Index. The share price total return was 38.8%, with the share price of 212.0p at the […]
BP Marsh buys New York based insurance distribution company, XPT. B.P. Marsh & Partners has invested $6,000,000 into a New York based specialty lines insurance distribution company. Following recent press speculation, the company is pleased to announce further details concerning this new venture. B.P. Marsh has subscribed for a 35% shareholding in the New York […]
BlackRock Greater Europe has announced that it has been informed that Vincent Devlin, co-portfolio manager of the Company, will be stepping down as portfolio manager. Stefan Gries, a senior Director within the BlackRock’s European Active Equity team has been appointed co-portfolio manager alongside Sam Vecht, who retains principal responsibility for the Company’s emerging European portfolio. […]
Supermarket Income REIT has announced its intention to launch an initial public offering of its shares on the specialist fund segment of the main market of the London Stock Exchange. Seeking to raise up £200m Supermarket Income REIT is seeking to raise up to £200 million by way of a placing and offer for subscription. […]
Utilico Emerging lags rising global emerging index as shareholders trail MSCI return by 12.2%. Utilico Emerging has announced an NAV total return (adjusted for the exercise of subscription shares) of 26.2% for the full year to 31 March 2017. However, someone who just held the ordinary shares and no subscription shares would have made a […]
Custodian REIT (CREI) has announced that it has acquired the 23,007 square foot Wells Green Retail Park in Sheldon, five miles from Birmingham city centre on the busy A45 Coventry Road. The agreed purchase price of £5.1 million was funded from the Company’s existing cash resources, resulting in net gearing2 increasing to 19.6% loan to […]
John Laing Environmental extends credit facility for a further year – John Laing Environmental Assets, the listed environmental infrastructure fund, has signed a new three-year (with an uncommitted option to extend for a further year) facilities agreement which provides for a committed revolving credit facility of GBP130 million and an uncommitted accordion facility of up to […]
Workspace Group (Workspace) has announced that it has exchanged contracts for the disposal of the third and final phase of the mixed-use redevelopment of Bow Enterprise Park, E3. It says that the final phase of the redevelopment, comprising 130 residential units, has been sold for £6.3m in cash and the return of a new 40,000 […]
Polar Capital raises £59.4m for Healthcare Trust. Results of the Open Offer, Offer for Subscription and Initial Placing of New Ordinary Shares New ordinary shares will be issued under the initial placing at 213.8p, (this price is calculated as the prevailing Net Asset Value as at the close of business on 15 June 2017 plus the Placing […]
Hansteen Holdings has announced that it has completed the disposal of its German and Dutch portfolios for €1.28 billion. The sale, originally announced on 20 March 2017, is entities owned by funds advised by affiliates of The Blackstone Group L.P. and M7 Real Estate. Hansteen says that the transaction has resulted in net cash […]
HgCapital invests in business messaging service, Esendex – HgCapital, the Manager of HgCapital Trust, has today announced an investment in Esendex, a leading provider of mission-critical business messaging services across Europe. On completion of the transaction, Esendex will be merged with existing Mercury portfolio company Mobyt, which provides similar business messaging services in Italy and France. […]
LMS Capital has announced that it has been informed by the general partner of the San Francisco Equity Partners Funds (SFEP Funds) that the funds have received cash proceeds from a partial realisation of holdings in YesTo and that the general partner intends shortly, to make a distribution. LMS Capital says that, whilst it not […]
Adamas Finance Asia has announced that, further to its previous announcement on 24 February 2017 in relation to the proposed disposal of its interest in the Tian Tong Shan Villa Project, the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Lead Winner Limited, has received a payment of HKD$52,353,176 (approximately US$6.8 million) in final settlement of the amount due […]
NewRiver REIT has announced the results of its capital raising, which was conducted as an accelerated book build. It says that subject to the necessary resolutions being passed at the General Meeting ,which is expected to be convened to be held on or around 4 July 2017, in aggregate, 67,164,179 New Ordinary Shares are to […]
Eastern European Property Fund (EEP) reported a net loss for the year ended 31 December 2016 of £1.2 million (2015: loss of £1.0 million), which it says represents a loss per Ordinary Share of 7.80p (2015: loss of 6.30p). it says that a loss of £0.8 million on revaluation of investment properties, and a realised […]
LXi REIT has announced that it has completed the acquisition of the freehold interest in a portfolio of regulated long-let supported living properties located in Yorkshire. The purchase price for the Portfolio is £3.8 million, reflecting a net initial yield of 6.0% (net of acquisition costs to the Company). The company says that the properties […]
Alpha Real Trust (ARTL) has published its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2017. During the period, the trust’s NAV per share grew by 15.2% to 158.9p. It also paid a quarterly dividend of 0.6p (2.4p in total for the year). Its chairman, David Jeffreys, describes the period as a, “very active year […]
Ranger’s board makes some policy changes, manager commits to reinvesting part of fee and update on Princeton. Ranger Direct Lending Fund has been informed by Ranger Alternative Management II LLP (the “Investment Manager”) that it intends to utilise part of its management fee to acquire ordinary shares in the market in order to demonstrate its […]
Power price recovery boosts John Laing Environmental NAV – John Laing Environmental says its NAV at 31 March 2017 was 100.1p, up from 96.7p at 31 March 2016. They say that the increase in NAV per share was due primarily to the increase in both short-term electricity prices and forecasts for longer-term prices during the year […]
UK Commercial buys Sheffield office from Ediston – UK Commercial Property Trust has acquired a single let, Grade A office building in Sheffield, from Ediston Property Investment Company for GBP20,165,000, reflecting a net initial yield of 5%. The asset is let to Capita Business Services Limited, which is part of Capita plc, on a lease with […]
Custodian REIT buys Next distribution unit – the company has acquired a 69,922 sq ft distribution unit on Eurocentral, Scotland’s leading mixed-use business park on the M8 arterial route between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Nearby occupiers include DHL, Warburtons, Argos, Wincanton, Norbert Dentressangle and Morrisons. The unit is let to Next plc on a lease expiring […]
Hg Capital sells Zitcom for £8.8m. HgCapital, the Manager of HgCapital Trust, has announced that it has sold Zitcom, a leading Danish hosting and cloud solutions provider operating in the SME segment, to Intelligent, a Belgian headquartered provider of hosting services. The terms of this transaction were not disclosed. The sale of Zitcom delivers a […]
Aberdeen New India Invest Trust (ANII) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2017. During the period, the company’s NAV per share rose by 34.7% to reach 487.9p. The ordinary share price rose by 40.9% to 441.5p. This reflected a narrowing of the discount to net asset value from 13.5% to […]
Seneca Global Income & Growth outperforms strongly Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust (SIGT) has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 April 2017. During the period, the trust provided an NAV total return of +19.6% and share price total return of +20.7%, both of which significantly outperformed its Libor+3% benchmark. The chairman’s […]
Gabelli Value Plus delivered a net asset value (NAV) total return of 36.2% during the year to 31 March 2017. The U.S. stock market delivered a total return of 17.2% in U.S. dollars over the year, which translated into a return of 34.4% for sterling investors. So, the NAV total return was ahead of the return […]
GCP Student Living (DIGS) is seeking to raise £70m through a placing of new ordinary shares under its 2017 Placing Programme. The company says that the placing price will be 142 pence per share, which represents a 6.75 pence discount to the closing mid-price per ordinary share on 12 June 2017 of 148.75 pence. It […]
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies sets out case for continuation after 43% long term underperformance – over the year to 31 March 2017, the NAV per share of Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (excluding current period revenue) rose by 11.3% to 621.6p in comparison with a gain of 15.4% by the Numis Smaller Companies Index. During the same period, […]
John Laing diversifies overseas The last time I dedicated an article to John Laing Infrastructure (JLIF) was back in September 2011. The fund was quite new then having launched at the end of November 2010, although the sector had been around for a while given HICL (HICL) launched in March 2006, followed by International Public […]
Brexit isn’t all bad news for UK property The past couple of weeks have seen a clutch of results announcements by the larger real estate investment (REIT) and property trusts. The periods they are reporting on incorporate the run up to the referendum vote and its aftermath, and adverse changes to the stamp duty regime. […]
Better Capital completes Gardner Aerospace disposal to Ligeance Investments Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shaanxi Ligeance Mineral Resources Co., Ltd. for GBP326.0 million on an Enterprise Value basis. Gardner is an award-winning leading Tier-1 supplier of detailed parts and added-value services to the global aerospace industry. The business was acquired by the 2009 Fund in […]
