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20 Nov 2015

Templeton Emerging suffers in EM sell-off

Templeton Emerging Markets has published results covering the six month period that ended on 30 September 2015. emerging markets had a tough time during this period, selling-off sharply and underperforming developed markets by 9.1% (comparing the two relevant MSCI Indices). Over the six months the fund generated a negative total return on net assets and underperformed […]

19 Nov 2015

Marwyn Value Investors to raise a minimum £50m, new distribution policy

Marywn Value Investors has announced that it is proposing to raise a minimum of £50m through a placing, at a price of 220p per share. The company says that the book-build has secured substantial anchor orders from existing and new shareholders to support the minimum fund raise and that the book will be kept open […]

19 Nov 2015

Fidelity China Special Sits benefits from strong stock selection and timely gearing reduction

Fidelity China Special Situations, managed by Dale Nicholls (pictured), has announced its results for the half-year ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company’s NAV fell by 14.1% and the share price by 16.2%, both beating the performance of the Benchmark MSCI China Index, which fell 19.7%. The company’s outperformance was primarily due to […]

19 Nov 2015

Caledonia bolstered by the performance of its unquoteds

Caledonia Investments has released its interim report for the six-months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company’s NAV total return per share was -3.8%. The share price also fell (4.4%) and, at the half-year end, the discount was 21.0%, slightly improved on the 21.5% at the beginning of the period. The company says […]

19 Nov 2015

TwentyFour Income Fund to propose amendments to investment policy by the end of November

TwentyFour Income Fund has released its interim results for the half-year ended 30 September 2015. During the period the company provided an NAV total return of -1.6%. The Company’s shares have continued to trade at a premium, as they have done since launch, with the average premium during the period being 5.9%. The Board anticipates […]

19 Nov 2015

Assura continues to grow portfolio and has a good pipeline of potential acquisitions

Assura has released its interim results for the half-year ended 30 September 2015, which the company says has been, “Another period of significant growth”. During the period, the company’s EPRA NAV per share has increased by 5.5% to 46.4p (March 2015: 44.0p). The company also reports a 26.6% increase in net rental income for the six months […]

19 Nov 2015

Establishment Investment Trust suffers from its Asian exposure

The Establishment Investment Trust has released its interim report for the six months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company’s NAV fell by 11.0% in total return terms with the share price falling by 13.8%. By comparison, the FTSE WMA Stock Market Balanced Index declined 5.7%. However, the managers point out that the […]

19 Nov 2015

Aberdeen Japan suffers due to stock selection

Aberdeen Japan has announced its interim results for the half-year ended 30 September 2015. The Trust’s net asset value total return per share fell by 16.3% in sterling terms over the period, compared to the benchmark index’s total return of -9.4%. The manager’s say that the underperformance was largely attributed to stock selection although gearing […]

19 Nov 2015

Juridica throws in the towel

Juridica has announced that it is throwing in the towel and will shift into realisation mode. The Company will not make new investments (other than for funding existing investments in the Company’s portfolio where such funding is reasonably required to realise maximum shareholder value) and will seek to return capital to shareholders in the most […]

19 Nov 2015

Custodian REIT to acquire 11 UK commercial properties for £64.9m

Custodian REIT has announced that it has exchanged contracts to acquire a portfolio of 11 UK commercial properties for an aggregate consideration of £69.4m. Simultaneously, the company has also announced that it has entered into an agreement to extend its existing revolving credit facility with Lloyds Bank from £25m to £35m whilst extending the termination […]

19 Nov 2015

Green REIT takes full control of Central Park

Green REIT has announced that it has entered into a conditional contract with its joint venture partner to acquire full control of Central Park for €155m with an estimated all in cost of €160m. Completion of this acquisition is conditional on the approval of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission in Ireland. The transaction is […]

18 Nov 2015

Phaunos Timber sells two Brazilian teak properties for US$2.5m

Phaunos Timber has announced the sale of two of its four teak plantation assets, from the Brazilian Eucateca estate, for US$ 2.5m. According to the company, the combined properties sold represent 32% of the total 2,193 net planted hectares of teak on the estate and the sale involves an initial payment of US$ 0.5m with […]

18 Nov 2015

JPMorgan US Smaller Companies agrees revised management fee

JPMorgan US Smaller Companies, managed by Don San Jose (pictured), has announced that it has agreed a new fee structure with J.P. Morgan Funds Ltd, which will take effect from the beginning of the company’s next financial year (1 January 2016). Under the existing fee arrangement the Company’s basic management fee has been 1.20% per annum on […]

18 Nov 2015

Picton Property grows NAV 6% during first half

Picton Property Income has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company’s EPRA NAV increased 6% to 73p per share (69p as at 31 March 2015), whilst its EPRA earnings per share increased by 13% year-on-year to 1.8p. The company has posted gains on its investment properties […]

18 Nov 2015

Good year for Schroder Income Growth as celebrates 20 years of dividend increases

Schroder Income Growth Fund has announced results for the year ended 31 August 2015. During the year under review, the net asset value produced a total return of 3.1%, comparing favourably to a total return of -2.3% for the FTSE All-Share Index. The share price total return for the year was 5.1% as the net […]

18 Nov 2015

New River Retail provides “Record profits and strong NAV per share growth”

NewRiver Retail Limited has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015, which the company describes as providing, “Record profits and strong NAV per share growth”. During the period, the company’s EPRA NAV per share increased by 14% to 287p (Sept 2014: 252p) whilst its EPRA adjusted earnings per share increased by 95% to 13.2p […]

17 Nov 2015

JZ Capital Partners disposes of its Justrite investment for $21.4m

JZ Capital Partners has announced the sale of its investment in Justrite Manufacturing for $21.4m. Justrite manufactures products specifically designed to help workers store, transfer, use and dispose of hazardous materials in a safe and convenient manner and JZ Capital Partners first invested in Justrite in June 2011 alongside an investor group led by the […]

17 Nov 2015

JPMorgan Japan Smaller outperforms a falling market

JPMorgan Japan Smaller Companies has announced results for the six months ended 30 September 2015. In the half year ended 30th September 2015 the total return on the Company’s net assets, net of fees and expenses, was -4.5% compared with -5.7% for the Company’s benchmark, the S&P/Citigroup Japan Extended Market Index (Total Return Net) in […]

17 Nov 2015

China and commodities the trust winners in October

Investment trusts specialising in China and large cap commodities were winners in October, according to research from QuotedData. See more at: http://www.portfolio-adviser.com/news/1025864/china-commodities-trust-winners-october#sthash.29DHnKVK.dpuf

17 Nov 2015

John Laing Environmental Assets buys additional solar PV portfolio

John Laing Environmental Assets has announced the acquisition of a solar photovoltaic portfolio for a cash consideration, including working capital, of £9.7m. The fully operational 2.3 MW solar energy generation portfolio comprises 303 systems of residential rooftop, commercial rooftop and commercial ground mounted solar PV installations, distributed across England, Wales and Scotland. The company says that […]

17 Nov 2015

Phaunos Timber signs pulpwood supply agreement

The Board of Phaunos Timber Fund has announced confirmation of a forward pulpwood sale agreement for Pradera Roja, a plantation they own in Uruguay, which will realise total payments of $2.4m.  The agreement is based on Pradera Roja receiving up-front payments for eucalypt pulpwood that will be harvested up to 2022. Stephen Addicott of Stafford Timberland, the […]

17 Nov 2015

Edinburgh Investment Trust holds up well and moves to premium

Edinburgh Investment Trust has announced results for the six months ended 30 September 2015. The FTSE All-Share Index delivered a negative total return of -7.2% over this period but Edinburgh’s net asset value total return was +1.1% and, as the fund moved from trading on a 3.5% discount to a 1.7% premium, shareholders got a return […]

17 Nov 2015

Big Yellow boosted by higher occupancy and rent per square foot

Big Yellow’s interims for the six months ended 30 September 2015 show its EPRA net assets per share rising from 481.1p to 505.9p. EPRA earnings per share (adjusted and diluted) rose by 16% to 15.1p. The interim dividend is being hiked by the same amount from 10.4p to 12.1p. Earnings were boosted by higher occupancy – up from 73.5% […]

17 Nov 2015

British Land outperformance of IPD driven by Offices and Developments

British Land’s first half results, covering the six months ended 30 September 2015, show the company’s EPRA NAV climbing by 7.5% and its diluted underlying earnings per share rising by 4.6% to 16p . The first half dividend was increased by 2.5% to 14.18p. The valuation of the portfolio increased by 4.7%. That broke down into […]

17 Nov 2015

McKay Securities underlying profits up by a third

McKay Securities’s EPRA NAV rose by 4.1% over the six months to the end of September 2015 as it reported a 7.1% increase in the value of its property portfolio. The interim dividend was maintained at 2.7p. McKay Securities underlying profit before tax rose by 33.8% over the period as rental income increased by 20.8% […]

16 Nov 2015

Asia ex-Japan investment trust discounts widen

The economic slowdown in China is impacting other countries in Asia and the developed world, and hopes of growth in consumer spending and the services sector coming to the rescue are fading. Rebalancing the economy away from infrastructure investment and traditional industrial drivers, while cushioning the services sector and allowing new industries to develop, is […]

16 Nov 2015

Juridica reports lower than expected damages on a case

Juridica has announced that one of its cases, Case 5009-S, which involved a theft of trade secret dispute brought by a smaller plaintiff against a much larger company, has completed a trial by jury. In spite of a full win on liability the jury only awarded an amount which will result in a return to […]

16 Nov 2015

Target Healthcare REIT proposes fund raising of at least £15m

Target Healthcare REIT has announced a proposal to issue up to 15,652,803 new ordinary shares (9.99% of its existing share capital) by way of a placing. The company says that it will determine the price at which the shares will be placed based on the level of demand from potential investors, with the price expected to be […]

16 Nov 2015

Renewables Infrastructure Group raises £78m

The Renewables Infrastructure Group that it has raised gross proceeds of £78m from its recent fund raising and that a total of 78m new ordinary shares will be issued at a price of 100p per share. Of this, 16,011,486 new ordinary shares will be issued as the final tranche of the company’s share issuance programme and […]

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