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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).

24 Feb 2015

BlackRock Latin outperforms a falling market

BlackRock Latin American has published its  results for the year that ended on 31 December 2014. over that period the fund outperformed its benchmark. The total return on net assets was -9.3% – better than the -12% return on the MSCI Latin America Index. the return to shareholders was -4.0%. The final dividend is being […]

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23 Feb 2015

Target Healthcare expansion plans on track

Target Healthcare REIT has published results for the six months ended 31 December 2014 that show the company’s net asset value rising by 0.8% to 95.5p on property values that rose by 2.7% on a like for like basis. Revenue earnings increased by 91.6% to 3.2p. they paid two quarterly dividends of 1.53p, up 2%. […]

23 Feb 2015

Greencoat UK Wind earnings in line with expectations

Greencoat UK Wind has published results for the year ended 31 December 2014. Over 2014 it generated a return on net assets of 8.7% – their net asset value rose by 2.5% and they paid dividends totalling 6.16p, these were covered 1.6x by earnings. The target for the dividend for 2015 is 6.26p – an […]

23 Feb 2015

Good interims from Standard Life UK Smaller Companies

Standard Life UK Smaller Companies has published interim accounts for the six months ended 31 December 2014. It beat its benchmark over this period, returning 1.6% on net assets as compared to a -1.3% return on the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding Investment Companies) and the FTSE100 Index of the largest UK listed companies fell by […]

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23 Feb 2015

Better Capital makes £2.9m profit on Calyx disposal

Better Capital Fund I has split its investment in IT services business, Calyx Group, into two parts – Calyx Managed Services and m-hance (presumably deciding that they weren’t “better together”) and has sold off the Calyx Managed Services part to MXC Capital Limited for an enterprise value of £9m. Fund I will get cash of […]

23 Feb 2015

Tritax goes from zero to 6.9m sq ft in thirteen months

Tritax Big Box REIT has published its first set of results, covering the period from inception on 1 November 2013 until the end of December 2014. over that period the fund’s net asset value rose to 107.02p – up from 98p (post issue expenses) when it launched. They also paid two dividends – the first […]

20 Feb 2015

3i Infrastructure buys Benelux oil tanking business

3i Infrastructure is paying €111m for a 45% interest in Oiltanking Terneuzen B.V. in the Netherlands and Oiltanking Ghent N.V. in Belgium. The Oiltanking companies provide storage and related services for refined oil products, chemicals and biofuels.  Both companies provide essential services and benefit from locations, facilities and operational capabilities that give them strong appeal […]

20 Feb 2015

Stock selection helps JPMorgan Mid Cap to a great H2 for 2014

JPMorgan Mid Cap has announced interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2014 that show the fund delivering a total return on net assets of 9.6% – well ahead of the FTSE Mid 250 Index which returned 3.2%. The return to shareholders was 9.2%. the interim dividend has been increased by 45%, from […]

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20 Feb 2015

JPMorgan Private Equity reports good progress on restructuring

JPMorgan Private Equity has announced interim results covering the six months ended 31 December 2014. Its net asset value rose by 7 cents over the period or 6.4% and its share price rose by 5.5%. JPMorgan Private Equity has made good progress on its plan to cut debt and invest $150m in new investments. It has been reducing its exposure […]

20 Feb 2015

Genesis Emerging cuts fees

Genesis Emerging Markets has reported an NAV that has barely changed over the six months to the end of December 2014 – falling from 578p to 576p. The share price fell by 4% however as the fund’s discount widened to 9.4%. Following a regular internal review, the Manager has considered that a reduction in the […]

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20 Feb 2015

JPMorgan Overseas shareholders benefit from narrowing discount

JPMorgan Overseas shareholders made more money than the fund’s benchmark, the MSCI all countries World Index, over the latter half of 2014. The total return to shareholders was was 8.7% vs. 7.6% on the Index. The outperformance came from an improvement in the fund’s rating rather than the performance of the underlying portfolio however; on a […]

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19 Feb 2015

Allocate Software boosts Herald’s NAV but discount hurts investors

Herald Investment Trust’s results for the year ended 31 December 2014 show its asset value outperforming its benchmark but shareholders losing money as its discount widened. The total return on net assets for the year was 1.3% while a blend of the Numis Smaller Companies Index plus AIM excluding investment companies and the  Russell 2000 (small cap) […]

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19 Feb 2015

Big jump in profits for Primary Healthcare Properties

Primary Health Properties has announced results for the year ended 31 December 2014 that show a 6.3% increase in its EPRA net asset value to 319p (on property values up 3.2% on a like for like basis) and EPRA earnings per share more than doubled from 7.6p to 16.4p. The full year dividend has been […]

19 Feb 2015

Kennedy Wilson Europe buys Park Inn hotels

Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate has recently completed the acquisition of eight loans secured by first ranking mortgages over eight Park Inn hotels across the UK from two financial institutions. The purchase price for the loans is £61.5m reflecting a gross yield on cost of 9.3%. The acquisition will be funded from the Company’s cash resources. […]

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19 Feb 2015

City of London ahead of the market and its peer group

City of London’s interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2014 show it generating a total return on net assets of 2.1% and a return to shareholders of 1.6%, better than the FTSE All-Share index which returned -0.4%, the average for its AIC peer group, 1.2%, and the average UK Equity Income OEIC, […]

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19 Feb 2015

Utilico commodity hit offset by unlisted holdings

Utilico Investments has published its interim report covering the final six months of 2014. Over that period the total return on net assets was -2.0% which compares to a return of -0.4% on the FTSE All-Share Index. Within the listed portfolio, Zeta Resources and Resolute Mining fell by 35.2% and 59.0% respectively. This reduced Utilico’s listed portfolio value […]

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18 Feb 2015

El Oro net asset value plunges

El Oro has published its interims for the six months that ended on 31 December 2014. The net asset value fell from 95p to 79.7p. Exposure to resource stocks was a significant factor in this. ELX : El Oro net asset value plunges

18 Feb 2015

Disappointing year for Brunner

Brunner Investment Trust has published its results for the year that ended on 30 November 2014. Over the year the fund’s net asset value total return lagged the return on its benchmark by 3.6% (Brunner’s return was 6.0% and 9.6%). The company’s earnings fell too, by 3.3% to 14.7p. By contrast however the full year dividend […]

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18 Feb 2015

James Hart joining Witan

Witan has announced that James Hart is joining Witan’s management team to work alongside Andrew Bell on “developing, implementing and communicating Witan’s investment strategy”. After graduating from The University of Exeter in 1992, James joined Olliff & Partners, a stockbroker specialising in closed-end funds. In 1996, he joined Bank Julius Baer to develop the bank’s […]

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17 Feb 2015

GLI Finance planning fund launch

GLI Finance announced its net asset value as at the end of December 2014 today – 51.0p, up from 48.3p as the valuations of its underlying fund platforms rose. It also announced that it is exploring the launch of a fund, an independent investment company which would be managed by GLI and invest in a […]

17 Feb 2015

HICL Infrastructure new investment in France

HICL Infrastructure is paying €3.4m for an 85% stake in the Ecole Centrale Supelec PPP Project (“Project”). The Project reached Financial Close on 16 February 2015 and consists of the design, construction, finance and maintenance of a new facility for the Ecole Centrale Supelec on plateau de Saclay, near Paris, as well as a shared teaching […]

17 Feb 2015

Real Estate Investors expands in Birmingham City Centre

Real Estate Investors is buying 35-37 Great Charles Street, Birmingham for £1.85m. The building is a 24,500 sq ft prime city centre office building nearby to the new Paradise Forum development and at the heart of the new City centre masterplan.  The building is part let producing £214,709 p.a. and tenants include National Governors’ Association, Children’s […]

17 Feb 2015

Cambria Africa trading suspended but may not leave AIM

Cambria Africa has asked for trading in its shares to be suspended pending the announcement of its annual accounts. The Company expects to publish its Accounts by the end of May 2015. It was planning to leave AIM and had asked shareholders to approve this at a meeting planned for 18 February. However it has […]

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17 Feb 2015

Murray Income hurt by Tesco holding

Murray Income’s interim figures, covering the second half of 2014, show the fund delivering a return on net assets of -2.9%, behind the return on the FTSE All-Share Index which was -0.4%. The fund’s rating improved however, reflecting a narrowing of the discount from 3.2% to 1.1%, and so the return to shareholders was -0.7%. The run […]

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16 Feb 2015

Mid Wynd outperforms and grows

Mid Wynd’s interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2014 returned 11.3% on its net asset value as compared to 7.6% for the company’s benchmark index, the MSCI All Country World Index. The company expanded by just over £4m net as investors responded positively to the company’s new investment approach and manager. The […]

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16 Feb 2015

Are investment trust performance days over?

http://www.ftadviser.com/2015/02/09/investments/investment-trusts/performance-fee-days-numbered-0LmrAGYNGXFnEghxaW0txK/article-0.html James Carthew comments on performance fees in an article published by Portfolio Adviser on 9 February Investment trusts that do not use performance fees are imminently set to outnumber those that do, as experts predict the controversial charges are heading for the scrapheap….. ….. James Carthew, research director at investment trust research firm QuotedData, […]

16 Feb 2015

Hammerson’s billion pound developments progressing

Hammerson has announced results for the year ended 31 December 2014 that show its EPRA net asset value rising from 573p to 638p, an increase of 11.3%. The portfolio total return was 13.6%. Dividends totalled 20.4p up from 19.1p and these are payable from earnings per share up 3.5% from 23.1p to 23.9p. Like for like […]

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16 Feb 2015

Bluefield Solar buys three plants for £54m

Bluefield Solar has announced the acquisition of three UK-based, large scale solar plants. The three assets include a 6.5MWp plant in Somerset, a 12.5MWp plant in Wiltshire, and a 29MWp plant in Oxfordshire. They are being acquired for a total consideration of £54m, including transaction costs and working capital.  Each is expected to qualify under […]

16 Feb 2015

Land Securities buys Moorgate station site

Land Securities has announced the acquisition of a 1.9 acre site at 21 Moorfields, two ’70s office buildings and a TfL access site for the Crossrail works that occupy the former home of Lazards. land securites has plans for a 510,000 sq ft office scheme which will sit above the entrance to Moorgate station and […]

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