Wolf Minerals is to draw down an additional £10m from the 12-month secured bridge loan facility that major shareholder, Resource Capital Fund (RCF), provided in October 2016. This will take the amount received from RCF to £30m. The loans carry interest at rates between 10% and 15% per annum and may be repaid with cash […]
Fair Oaks Income Fund has just published reorganisation proposals. The purpose of the Reorganisation Proposal is to allow those Shareholders who wish to extend the life of their investment in the Company beyond the planned end date of the existing Master Fund, FOIF LP, to be able to do so by having their Ordinary Shares re-designated as […]
Raven Russia says that its diluted NAV per share rose to 71 cents from 70 cents over the course of 2016. Underlying earnings per share fell to 7.2 cents from 8.2 cents. They intend to distribute 2p by way of a tender offer buy back of 1 share in every 26 at 52p, making 2.5p […]
GCP Asset Backed Income has committed to two loans of up to GBP17.5 million aggregate which will be used to finance UK residential property. The first loan, of up to GBP15 million and with a term of c.three years, will be secured on a subordinated ranking basis against a portfolio of eight co-living properties. The […]
City Natural Resources High Yield Trust has announced its interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2016. During the period, the Trust provided an NAV total return of 19.4%, thereby outperforming its benchmark index, which the company says returned 18.8%. The Trust’s share price total return was 30.8% was better than the NAV […]
Witan made a 22.9% return on net assets over the year ended 31 December 29016, more or less matching the 123.0% return posted by its benchmark. The underlying managers struggled with just three of their ten third party managers, together with the direct holdings portfolio, outperforming their benchmarks. There were significant positive contributions from the […]
Green REIT has exchanged contracts for the sale of Parkway Retail Park in Limerick, with completion expected by the end of March 2017. The contract price of EUR24.3 million is payable in two tranches, with EUR1.3 million of the price subject to securing planning consent for a vacant unit in the property for which a tenant […]
Polar Capital Global Financials returned 22.2% over the year ended 30 November 2016 in NAV terms, a bit behind the benchmark (MSCI World Financials Index to 31 August 2016, and the MSCI World Financials Index + Real Estate, for the period 1 September to 30 November 2016) which returned 24.5%. Shareholders made 21.4% as the […]
EP Global Opportunities made 26.9% on net assets over the course of 2016. The dividend for the year was 5.3p. The return was a bit behind that of the All-World Index which returned 29.6%. The manger’s report says that US exploration and production company, Apache, was one of the best performing stocks in the portfolio in […]
BlackRock Latin American says it made a 25.2% return on net assets for the year ended 31 December 2016 – in US dollars. The weakness of sterling meant that, despite a widening of the discount, shareholders made a 45.9% return. The dividend for the year was 15 cents, a fall of 28.6% on the previous […]
DW Catalyst has announced that shareholders holding 9,349,317 shares (57.6% of shares in issue) have voted in favour of discount trigger resolution. The effect of this is that all of the shares that were voted in favour will be redeemed by the company on 1 August 2017. Redeeming Shareholders will receive the proceeds in four quarterly […]
SEGRO is proposing to raise approximately GBP556 million (net proceeds) by way of a Rights Issue, the issue is fully underwritten. 1 for 5 rights issue of 166,033,133 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the capital of the Company at a price of 345 pence per New Ordinary Share. The issue price of 345 pence per New […]
LXi REIT has exchanged contracts to acquire the Q-Park car park at Rockingham Street, Sheffield. The purchase price is GBP19.1 million (excluding purchaser’s costs), reflecting a blended net initial yield of 5.20% on the asset acquisition. The car park, which comprises 96% of the Property, is let to Q-Park Limited with a lease guarantee from […]
Secure Income REIT has published its results for the year ended 31 December 2016. EPRA NAV per share was up 14.4% to 323.6p and adjusted EPRA EPS was up over 330% to 11.3p for the year (from 2.6p). Quarterly distributions commenced in August 2016 and the company is currently yielding an annualised 4.1% on 31 December 2016 EPRA NAV. […]
Capital & Regional has announced results for the year ended 30 December 2016. EPRA NAV fell to 68p from 71p while adjusted earnings per share rose by 11.7% to 3.8p (based on earnings of £26.8m, also up 11.7%), allowing them to fully fund a dividend of 3.39p, up 8.7% on the previous year. The chairman says […]
Target Healthcare REIT has completed the acquisition of two purpose built care homes in the village of Three Legged Cross near Wimborne, Dorset for an undisclosed price. The two homes are adjacent to each other and comprise a total of 70 bedrooms. Acorn Lodge was built in 2012 and has a total of 26 bedrooms with […]
European Assets delivered a 7.4% return on NAV for the year ended 31 December 2016 compared to a 23.3% return on the Euromoney Smaller European Companies Index. The Board has already announced a total dividend for 2017 of Euro 0.7884 per share (2016: Euro 0.912 per share, net of Dutch withholding tax) will be paid. This […]
GCP Student Living plc has exchanged contracts to secure the acquisition of Woburn Place, a private student accommodation asset located at a prime central London position in Bloomsbury, WC1. Woburn Place, which is currently owned and operated by Unite Students, is within short walking distance of University College London (c.38,000 students from 150 countries), SOAS […]
SME Loan Fund says that demand from investors to participate in the secondary placing of the 25,270,763 shares in SMEF held by GLI Finance Limited has significantly exceeded the number of SMEF shares available and, accordingly, investor participations are being scaled back. The secondary placing will be completed today. GLI Finance has agreed to acquire for cash the loans […]
Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust has, through the Dunedin Buyout Fund III, invested GBP5.9 million in Forensic Risk Alliance. Dunedin Enterprise will have an interest of 6.5% in the company. Forensic Risk Alliance is an international consultancy business that provides forensic accounting, data analytics and e-discovery expertise to help businesses manage risk in an increasingly regulated global […]
Aberdeen UK Tracker Trust has announced that it has published a circular to Shareholders in connection with its proposals to reconstruct and wind-up the company. These proposals relate to its previous announcement on 30 November 2016, that its board had agreed heads of terms for a merger with Aberdeen Diversified Income and Growth Trust (ADIGT) […]
Apax Global Alpha (APAX) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2016. The company says that performance was largely flat during the first six months but improved during H2 2016 resulting in a NAV total return of 6.6% (after expenses) for the year as a whole. The Private Equity and Derived […]
FastForward Innovations Limited, has today subscribed C$3 million for an approximate 4.7 per cent. equity interest in Nuuvera Corp., a Canadian incorporated private company focused on medicinal marijuana opportunities. FFWD has subscribed as part of a C$43.65 million fundraise that Nuuvera has now closed. Nuuvera is a newly incorporated Canadian company that has been incorporated […]
Pacific Industrial & Logistics REIT completed the acquisition of a site on Bruntcliffe Way, Morley, Leeds on 6 March 2017 for a total consideration of GBP6.05m, representing a net initial yield of 8.3%. This site, along with the Park Road, Chesterfield logistics acquisition announced on 20 January 2017, have been mortgaged under terms agreed with the […]
Tritax Big Box REIT (BBOX) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2016. During the period, BBOX’s EPRA net asset value per share increased by 3.46% or 4.71% on a like-for-like basis to 129p (2015: 124.68 pence), whilst its EPRA NAV total return was 9.6% (BBOX’s medium-term target is 9% per […]
Foreign & Colonial (FRCL) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2016. During a year that the Trust’s chairman describes as being extraordinary, in terms of political events, stock market returns and sterling weakness, FRCL has provided an NAV total return of 23.9% and a share price total return of 23.7%. […]
Empiric Student Property has announced that it has agreed a new unsecured term loan facility of £10 million with First Commercial Bank Limited. The Facility is available to draw down in full over the next 12 months. It is repayable three years from the date of agreement with an all-in cost of 2.15% per annum. […]
Espiris, the investment manager of Electra Private Equity (Electra), has announced that it has the completed the sales of Parkdean Resorts and Innovia Group. Parkdean resorts has been sold to Onex Corporation for £1.35 billion and Electra has received proceeds from the sale of £406 million. Together with proceeds previously received, Electra’s total proceeds from […]
Custodian REIT has announced that it has acquired a high street retail property in Chester, let to Signet Trading Limited (t/a Ernest Jones) and Feldale Retail Limited (t/a Lakeland). The property is located in the city centre on the pedestrianised Eastgate Street, adjoining two other units in the Company’s portfolio. The agreed purchase price of […]
Henderson International Income Trust (HINT) has announced that, further to its announcement on 10 February 2017 of a possible issue of equity, that in the light of positive feedback from existing and potential new shareholders, HINT’s board has decided to proceed with an issue of C shares. It says that existing shareholders will be given […]
