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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).

19 Dec 2014

RIT Capital tie up with Strategic Equity Capital

RIT Capital has announced that it is buying GVO Investment Management (GVOIM), the investment manager for Strategic Equity Capital (SEC) and is also taking a stake in that fund. The announcement says GVOIM will continue to operate as a separate legal entity with the same autonomous management team, structure and investment process. Stuart Widdowson and […]

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19 Dec 2014

Mirland hit by Rouble collapse

Mirland has released a statement this morning describing the effects of the collapse in the value of the Rouble vs. the US dollar on their business. they say “the extreme currency devaluation may have severe implications on the ability of tenants to meet their obligations and thus affect the Company’s financial results and liquidity”. Mirland […]

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19 Dec 2014

Trinity Capital still mired in legal disputes

Trinity Capital’s net asset value fell from 13.4p to 9.4p over the six months that ended on 30 September 2014. 2.5p of that fall related to a distribution that the company made to its shareholders. 1.3p of the fall relates to losses (both realised and unrealised) on the fund’s investment in SKIL Infrastructure. Today the […]

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19 Dec 2014

GCP Infrastructure says some infrastructure assets getting too expensive

GCP Infrastructure has published its annual results for the year ended 30 September 2014. The return to shareholders over that period was 15%. 7.6p of that came as dividends. The fund expanded quite a bit (by £170m) over the year and since the year end. The manager says that certain areas of the infrastructure market […]

19 Dec 2014

New Europe Property makes Slovak investment

New Europe Property is paying €82m in cash and taking on bank debt of €83m in exchange for three companies that own the Aupark Kosice Mall, the Aupark Kosice Tower and Malinovsky Barracks (a 4.1 hectare site located in the centre of Kosice). Kosice is a town in Slovakia with about 240,000 residents. The biggest employer is […]

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19 Dec 2014

Ottoman Fund unauthorised expense payments

The Ottoman Fund Limited has announced that it has discovered unauthorised expense payments that have seem to have been made from its Turkish subsidiaries. These total less than $2m it believes. It has appointed a firm of forensic accountants to look into the matter and says it is consulting advisers to see if it can […]

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18 Dec 2014

Adamas Finance realises Global Pharm convertible

Adamas Finance Asia is getting $25m from the redemption of the convertible bond it holds in Global Pharm Holdings. ADAM will receive an initial payment of US$2.4 million on 31 December 2014, a further US$9 million on 31 March 2015 and a final payment of US$13.6 million on 30 April 2015, yielding an aggregate of […]

18 Dec 2014

No let up in gloom for JPMorgan Brazil

JPMorgan Brazil’s results for the half year that ended on 31 October 2014 show the fund underperforming its benchmark (the MSCI Brazil 10/40 Index) as the net asset value fell by 1.7% against a rise in the Index of 1.4%. The share price return was -2.6%. The major influence on the Brazilian market was the […]

Sectors
18 Dec 2014

Hansteen sells more of Industrial portfolio

Hansteen has sold off £43.9m worth of its industrial portfolio. The eleven UK assets sold from the Ashtenne Industrial Fund (which Hansteen holds 36.7% of) comprise Langley Park (a 48 acre site in the centre of Chippenham in Wiltshire with 800,000 sq ft of office and industrial space occupied by tenants including Siemens PLCS, IXYS […]

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18 Dec 2014

LXB planning substantial cash return

LXB Retail Properties has announced a 15.6% uplift in its EPRA NAV to 134.54p over the year that finished on 30 September 2014 and profit up from £25m to £36m. The year was notable for them securing 1.2m sq ft of new planning permissions within the portfolio. They are offering shareholders a continuation vote at […]

18 Dec 2014

Schroder Real Estate buys university building in London

Schroder Real Estate is spending a large chunk of the money it raised in November on a 50% interest in the University of Law campus in Bloomsbury, London W1. Schroder Real Estate is spending £34m for its half, alongside Schroder UK Property Fund, also managed by Schroder Real Estate Investment Management, for a total price […]

17 Dec 2014

Positive period for Seneca Global Income & Growth

Seneca Global Income & Growth lagged its current benchmark a little over the six months that ended 31 October 2014, producing a return on net assets of 0.6% and a return to shareholders of 1.1% vs. a 1.8% return on 3-month LIBOR plus 3.0 per cent. However, the Board has already said that it isn’t […]

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17 Dec 2014

Oakley Capital sells intergenia

Oakley Capital has announced the sale of intergenia GmbH for an enterprise value of €210m. The deal crystallises a 2.5x gain, a 36% IRR, for the Oakley funds that backed the original deal, including Oakley Capital Investments Limited. The fund’s share of the proceeds is €21m. They say intergenia is headquartered in Cologne and is a […]

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17 Dec 2014

Artemis Alpha shines in difficult period

Artemis Alpha Trust has reported results for the six months ended 31 October 2014. this was a difficult period for UK Smaller Companies with the FTSE Small Cap Index falling by 6% and the FTSE AIM All-Share Index falling by 11.9%. The FTSE All-Share Index fell by 1.6%. Artemis Alpha managed to increase its net […]

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17 Dec 2014

CQS Diversified may wind up

CQS Diversified has announced its results for the year ended 30 September 2014. the net asset value of the Sterling class of shares rose by 2.1% over that period and they paid dividends of 1p per quarter. The US dollar class was wound up in September after it failed its continuation vote. Now the Board […]

16 Dec 2014

Polar Capital Global Healthcare hit by widening discount

Polar Capital Global Healthcare results for the year that ended on 30 September 2014 have been released. Over the year the fund underperformed its benchmark by 5.1%, generating a return on net assets of 19.7% vs. 24.8% for the MSCI ACWI/Healthcare Index. The shares moved from a premium of 1.8% to discount of 5.4% so […]

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15 Dec 2014

Dunedin Smaller Companies hit by widening discount

The year to the end of October 2014 was a difficult one for shareholders in Dunedin Smaller Companies. It underperformed its benchmark a little – generating a return on net assets of -3.6% against the FTSE Small Cap.’s -2.4% but notably its discount widened from 4.4% to 16.9% resulting in a return to shareholders of -16.2%. On […]

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Companies
15 Dec 2014

F&C Global Smaller, beneficiary of takeover activity

Over the half year to the end of October 2014 F&C Global Smaller Companies delivered a return on net assets of 4.4% and a return to shareholders of 4.9%. The Company’s Benchmark is a blended index of the returns from the MSCI All Country World ex UK Small Cap Index (70%) and Numis UK Smaller […]

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15 Dec 2014

Hg Capital buys A-Plan Insurance

Hg Capital is buying A-Plan insurance from Equistone Partners. The trust is contributing £14.9m of its money to the deal. A-Plan Insurance was founded in 1963 and is based in Oxfordshire. It provides products from a wide range of insurers, including SME commercial, motor and home, and high net worth insurance.  A-Plan currently operates 73 branches […]

15 Dec 2014

Bumper year for JPMorgan India

JP Morgan Indian Investment Trust results for the year ended 30 September 2014 have been published. It was a great year for the trust as it delivered a return on net assets of 38.9% and a return to shareholders of 44.4%, both ahead of the 37.5% return on the MSCI India Index. The manager’s report […]

13 Dec 2014

Schroder Asia Pacific beats its benchmark

Schroder Asia Pacific results for the year ended 30 September 2014 show the fund delivering a return on net asset value of 10.9% and a return to shareholders of 11.2%, both ahead of the MSCI All Countries Asia ex. Japan Index, the fund’s benchmark, which returned 8.4%. The final dividend is 2.75p. The manager’s report […]

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12 Dec 2014

Management and benchmark change for Invesco Asia

Invesco Asia outperformed its benchmark by some margin over the six months that finished on 31 October 2014. The net asset value total return was 17.6% and the return to shareholders 16.6% – these compare favourably to a 10.3% return on the benchmark (MSCI All Countries Asia Pacific ex Japan Index (total return), expressed in […]

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12 Dec 2014

Policy change ill timed for Edinburgh Worldwide

Edinburgh Worldwide has published results for the year ended 31 October 2014. Over this period the fund’s net asset value fell by 2.7% and its share price fell by 4.9%. By contrast the benchmark (MSCI All Countries World Index (in sterling terms) until 31 January 2014, thereafter, the S&P Citigroup Global Small Cap Index (in […]

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12 Dec 2014
Custodian REIT to reduce dividend as rent receipts fall

Custodian REIT bys development land in Portishead

Custodian REIT has announced that it is paying £1.2m for a parcel of development land in Portishead. The 1.48 acre site will be used for the development of three retail warehouse/leisure units with construction to be phased over an expected seven month build period. The units have been pre-let to JD Wetherspoon plc on a 25 […]

12 Dec 2014

Smaller Companies Dividend geared into market fall

Over the six months to the end of October 2014, the gearing effect provided by its zero dividend preference shares worked against Smaller Companies Dividend Trust as small cap. values fell. The MSCI Small Cap. Index fell in value by 3.1% over the period while Smaller Companies Dividend Trust’s net asset value fell by 5.9%. […]

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12 Dec 2014

Spark Ventures hopes to raise money in 2015

Spark Ventures interim results fro the six months to the end of September 2014 show a net asset value of 6.1p. It sold part of its stake in IMI Mobile but the balance is locked up until June 2015. The rest of the portfolio is supposed to be sold off by the end of March 2015 […]

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11 Dec 2014

2014 not BlackRock North American Income’s year

BlackRock North American Income results for the year that ended on 31 October 2014 show the fund’s net asset value underperforming its benchmark. Over the period the total return on net asset value was 11.8%, 5.1% less than the return generated by the Russell 1000 Index. Shareholders though were also impacted as the shares moved from […]

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11 Dec 2014

Infrastructure India – dilutive issue wipes out value

Infrastructure India has published interim results for the six months ended on 30 September 2014. Over this period its net asset value fell from 62p to 43p – a fall of 31%. This was largely the consequence of a dilutive issue of shares at a price less than asset value in August. Unfortunately all these shares […]

11 Dec 2014

Lowland held back by industrial exposure

Lowland, managed by James Henderson (pictured), has published its results for the year that ended on 30 September 2014. Over this period the fund generated a total return on net assets of 5.7% – a little bit below the return on the FTSE All-Share Index of 6.1%. The dividend was increased by 8.8% to 37p, paid […]

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10 Dec 2014

Crystal Amber to pay 5p dividend

Crystal Amber, managed by Richard Bernstein (pictured), has been consulting its shareholders about expanding the fund. Crystal Amber buys stakes in companies that it thinks can benefit from a bit of self-help or active engagement by Crystal Amber. It points to its three year track record (65% NAV growth and 85% share price growth) and says […]

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