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08 May 2017

Civitas Social Housing REIT adds another 19 properties

Civitas Social Housing REIT has completed the purchase of two portfolios of regulated social housing for a total consideration of GBP19.3 million, comprising the freehold interest in 19 supported living properties, with 98 tenancies. The portfolios are immediately income generating with initial net yields in line with the company’s expectations and both were sourced off-market by […]

08 May 2017

Polar Capital Global Healthcare says more on its future

Polar Capital Global Healthcare Growth and Income Trust has announced further details of its proposals for the future of the company. Subject to the approval of shareholders and final regulatory approvals as required, it is proposed that: the existing investment mandate will be changed to a growth mandate.  They expect to pay a dividend going forward, […]

08 May 2017

AEW UK REIT buys industrial assets in Basildon and Runcorn

AEW UK REIT has announced the acquisition of industrial assets in Basildon, Essex and Runcorn, Cheshire, for a total of c GBP2.6 million. Basildon comprises a 33,000 sq ft single-let industrial building located on the established Pipps Hill Industrial Estate, just off the A127, approximately five miles from Junction 29 of the M25.  The purchase […]

05 May 2017

International Public Partnerships ups stake in Wolverhampton schools project

International Public Partnerships Limited has acquired an additional interest in the Wolverhampton Building Schools for the Future (“BSF”) project. INPP will commit a further GBP1.536 million to acquire Carillion Private Finance’s 8% indirect investment in each of phase I and phase II of the Wolverhampton BSF scheme, growing the  existing 82% investment in the project […]

05 May 2017

LXi funds new discount retail park in Bradford

The Board of LXi REIT has exchanged contracts to provide forward funding for the development of a new discount retail park in Bradford, Yorkshire, pre-let to Aldi and T. J. Morris Limited (trading as Home Bargains). The development represents an investment of GBP10 million, reflecting a blended net initial yield of 6.15% on the asset […]

05 May 2017

Dolphin NAV’s crashes as Aristo takes its toll

Dolphin NAV’s crashes as Aristo takes its toll Annual Financial Results for the year ended 31 December 2016 show that Dolphin Capital, an investor in high-end residential resorts in the eastern Mediterranean, saw its gross Assets of drop to EUR466 million (2015: EUR911 million). The sterling NAV per share as at 31 December 2016 stood at 25p before […]

04 May 2017

PRS REIT secures government backing for launch

The PRS REIT plc, a closed-ended real estate investment trust established to invest in the Private Rented Sector, has today announced its intention to seek admission to trading on the Specialist Fund Segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange plc and an associated fund-raising of up to £250 million by way of a […]

04 May 2017

Real Estate Credit makes new investment

Following its recent successful placing, Real Estate Credit Investments is pleased to announce that it has made a new GBP20m loan commitment as part of an overall Cheyne transaction providing a senior facility secured against a high quality residential development asset in central London. The conservative Loan to Gross Development Value (LTGDV) is under 50% […]

04 May 2017

Impact Healthcare REIT buys seed portfolio

Impact Healthcare REIT has completed the acquisition of the Core Seed Portfolio and the Mulberry Portfolio for a total consideration of GBP148,754,000. All outstanding lending facilities have been repaid in full and the Seed Portfolio has been acquired debt-free by the Company. The terms of the acquisition are in accordance with the prospectus published by […]

03 May 2017

Sirius in sale and leaseback of Munich business park

Sirius Real Estate has completed the sale of its Rupert Mayer Strasse business park in Munich for EUR85 million to Munich based Fiduciary Capital and the agreement to lease back and manage the asset for six years. Notarisation of this transaction was first announced on 6 January 2017. Rupert Mayer Strasse business park has approximately […]

03 May 2017

Golden Prospect Precious Metals plans 1×2 subscription share issue

The Board of Golden Prospect Precious Metals Limited is reviewing, with its advisers, a potential bonus issue of subscription shares to existing shareholders on the basis of one subscription share for every two existing ordinary shares held on the record date for the bonus issue. Each subscription share would confer the right (but not the […]

03 May 2017

Geiger Counter in 1×2 subscription share offer

The Board of Geiger Counter Limited is reviewing, with its advisers, a potential bonus issue of subscription shares to existing shareholders on the basis of one subscription share for every two existing ordinary shares held on the record date for the bonus issue. Each subscription share would confer the right (but not the obligation) to […]

03 May 2017
03 May 2017

Invesco Asia plans 15% tender

Invesco Asia Trust has announced that, as its discount was wider than 10% on average over the year to 30 April 2017, a tender offer for 15% of its shares at a 2% discount has been triggered. The average discount over the measurement period was 10.9%. The record date for participation in the tender offer […]

03 May 2017

Damille II takes hit from Sistema

Damille II says that it notes the announcement by Sistema this morning and the fall in the share price of Sistema as a result (see below).  The company holds 1,599,452 shares in Sistema and this holding accounted for 40.19 per cent of the NAV as at 31 March, 2017. The company acquired its holding in Sistema […]

02 May 2017

Oakley Capital buys Plesk

Oakley Capital Investments says that Oakley Capital Private Equity III has completed a deal to acquire the assets and operations of Plesk, at an enterprise value of $105 million, as a carve out from the Parallels Group. Fund III has invested $27.4 million for a 51% controlling stake in the business. The company’s indirect contribution […]

02 May 2017

Custodian buys Gloucester retail warehouse

Custodian REIT has acquired a 22,663 sq ft retail warehouse on Southbrook Retail Park, Gloucester, near the town centre and within three miles of the M5.  The site comprises two units occupied by Magnet and Smyths Toys, with nearby retailers including Halfords, B&M Bargains, Lidl, The Range and McDonalds. The units’ leases expire on 9 […]

01 May 2017

Kounrad starts producing copper from new dump

Central Asia Metal’s Kounrad copper operation, in Kazakhstan, is now recovering the metal from the Western dumps on the property. In April, the company applied the first acid through an extensive drip irrigation system to an initial leach area on its dump 22 and when QuotedData visited the site last week we observed pregnant leach […]

28 Apr 2017

Wolf reports improved operations at Drakelands

Wolf Minerals reports that during the March quarter it implemented significant equipment changes and modifications in the processing plant at its Drakelands tungsten/tin mine, in Devon. These modifications have resulted in improvements in ore throughput rates in the plant and in the grade of tungsten concentrate being produced. In addition, open pit mining operations are […]

28 Apr 2017

P2P Global management review ongoing

P2P Global’s board say that “2016 was a year of significant challenges, both for the company and its markets. The Board of the company has announced a review of its investment management arrangements, following a year of disappointing performance both on dividend yield and share price. The Board expects to update shareholders on the outcome […]

28 Apr 2017

VPC Speciality Lending shifting funds to balance sheet lending

VPC Speciality Lending says its total NAV per share return was 0.85% for 2016. They declared dividends of 6.00 pence per ordinary share. Declared dividends were below the 8.0% targeted at the time of the IPO, with the underperformance being largely attributable to lower-than-expected returns from the company’s marketplace loan investments, due to higher-than-expected loss […]

28 Apr 2017

Honeycomb focusing more on organic origination

Honeycomb Investment Trust says that, following the initial share issue of GBP100.0 million, there have been two further successful share offerings with total gross proceeds of GBP100.0 million. The net share proceeds of all the share offerings have been deployed, with the latest gross proceeds of GBP50.0 million largely deployed on 13 January 2017 following […]

28 Apr 2017

Third Point Offshore returns 6% for 2016

Third Point Offshore Investors Limited has announced its full year results for the twelve months ended 31 December 2016. The net asset value appreciated 6.1% for the U.S. Dollar and 5.6% for the Sterling share classes, respectively, in 2016. They say that performance was driven primarily by positive returns in the Master Fund’s corporate and sovereign credit positions. Gains […]

28 Apr 2017

New line-up at Scottish Oriental Smaller

Wee-Li Hee, the lead portfolio manager for The Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust ,  is due to return from maternity leave in July. In discussion with the First State Stewart Asia management team and the Board of Scottish Oriental, Wee-Li has expressed a preference to step back from lead portfolio manager responsibility for the Company. […]

27 Apr 2017

Aberdeen New Thai’s stance on PTT and CP All corporate governance holds back returns

Aberdeen New Thai’s net asset value rose by 26.5% on a total return basis to 600.2p, compared to the sterling-adjusted gain for the benchmark, the Stock Exchange of Thailand Index, of 36.5%. The share price rose by 27.8% on a total return basis to 510.0p, reflecting a narrowing of the discount to the net asset value (including income) […]

27 Apr 2017

ICG Longbow looks to future after bumper year for loan repayments

Over the year ended 31 January 2017, ICG Longbow’s NAV increased from 100.18 pence per share to 103.80 pence. The main reason for this was a significant increase in revenue to GBP12.33 million (31 January 2016: GBP8.36 million) as exit and prepayment fees were earned on three loan repayments. Earnings per share of 9.62 pence were significantly […]

27 Apr 2017

Witan Pacific held back by Matthews and Gavekal portfolios

Over the year to the end of January 2017, Witan Pacific reports that its NAV total return was approximately 30.7%, and its share price total return was 26.1% – these compare to a 35.3% return for the MSCI AC Asia Pacific Index. A significant part of that return was determined by the weakness of sterling. The Japanese […]

27 Apr 2017

Phoenix Spree increases Berlin focus, NAV up 20% in 2016

Phoenix Spree Deutschland had a good 2016. The EPRA NAV per share rose by 19.7% to EUR2.73. The portfolio value increased by 49.5% to EUR423.8 million, or 19.4% on a like-for-like basis excluding the impact of acquisitions and disposals. Positive market fundamentals continued to drive growth in demand for rental apartments, while supply remained constrained. […]

27 Apr 2017

Invesco Perpetual UK Smallers outperforms benchmark and proposes 40% tender

Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 January 2017. During the period, the company provided an NAV total return of 21.3% and a share price total return of 24.0%, both outperforming that of the company’s benchmark, the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding Investment Companies), which the company […]

27 Apr 2017

Aberforth Geared lays out reconstruction proposals

Aberforth Geared Income has reached agreement in principle with Aberforth Split Level Income Trust plc (ASLIT) on the outline terms of the reconstruction and winding-up of the company, expected to become effective on 30 June 2017, under which ASLIT will act as a rollover option for investors in the company. ASLIT will be a new split […]