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22 Jan 2015

Safestore to focus on filling empty space

Safestore has published results for the year ended 31 October 2014 that show its EPRA NAV growing by 3.6% to 218p, an increase in the dividend from 5.75p to 7.45p. They reported a fall in earnings per share from 57.8p to 23.2p (-60%) but there was a 31.8p per share impact from a deferred tax credit that arose […]

22 Jan 2015

Balfour Beatty ups estimate of infrastructure value to £1.3bn

Balfour Beatty, which rejected a bid of £1bn for its infrastructure assets from John Laing Infrastructure Fund in December 2014, has now upped its estimate of the value of these assets to £1.3bn. The Board cite “lower discount rates and revised cash flow assumptions on the UK portfolio and improved cash flow assumptions on the […]

21 Jan 2015

Riverstone Energy backing CanEra

Riverstone Energy is committing C$75m towards a C$465m investment in CanEra Inc. CanEra Inc. is a newly-formed, Calgary-based oil and gas company. This is the third partnership that Riverstone Holdings (the company behind Riverstone Energy) has entered into with CanEra’s management team which includes J. Paul Charron (pictured). The previous two ventures were CanEra Resources Inc. […]

21 Jan 2015

Workspace adds two more London offices

Workspace Group has announced that it has bought Edinburgh House, SE11 for £25.3m and Peer House, WC1 for £6.1m. Edinburgh House is a prominent building in Kennington, close to Oval and Kennington Underground stations, the Vauxhall transport hub on London’s South Bank and Workspace’s existing cluster of properties in this area. Originally constructed in the 1970’s and […]

20 Jan 2015

3i Infrastructure to sell Eversholt Rail Group for net proceeds of £358m

3i Infrastructure has announced an agreement to sell its stake in Eversholt Rail Group, to CK Investments S.A R.L., generating net proceeds of £358m. At 48.7%, this is a significant uplift on the  30 September 2014 valuation of £240.8m. The transaction is expected to close in March 2015. Eversholt is one of three leading rail stock companies in […]

19 Jan 2015

Brooks MacDonald’s Origo resolutions defeated

Origo Partners has announced that all the resolutions put forward at the Extraordinary General Meeting on Friday were defeated. Brooks MacDonald requisitioned the meeting in November with the aim of removing Origo’s existing directors (except Chris Rynning) and appointing Brett Miller and Rhys Davies with a mandate to sell off Origo’s assets. The announcement says that between […]

19 Jan 2015

Bankers outperformance helped by Apple

Bankers Investment Trust has published its results for the year that ended on 31 October 2014. The net asset value rose by 1.5% while the FTSE All-Share Index fell by 2.3%. The full year dividend was increased by 4.7% to 14.8p and the Board is forecasting a dividend of at least 15.5p for the current […]

16 Jan 2015

TwentyFour Select Monthly Income NAV slipping

TwentyFour Select Monthly Income has published results covering the period from its incorporation on 12 February 2014  to 30 September 2014 (it listed on 10 March 2014). On the income side of things, dividends in the period totalled 3.07p and they continue to target payments of 0.5p per month. The net asset value at the […]

16 Jan 2015

Fair Oaks Income paying first dividend

Fair Oaks Income has announced its first dividend since it launched in June 2014. Shareholders on the register on 30 January will get a 4.25 cent per share dividend. the Board of Fir Oaks has decided that the fund will now shift to paying monthly dividends, with the first of these payable in February. Fair […]

16 Jan 2015

British Assets lags benchmark

British Assets’ results for the year ended 30 September 2014 show the fund generating a return on net assets of 6.6%. This compares to a return of 7.3% on its benchmark (80 per cent FTSE All-Share Index and 20 per cent FTSE World (ex UK) Index). The return to shareholders over the period was 6.3%. […]

15 Jan 2015

Summit Germany raises €120m

Summit Germany has announced that it has raised €120m from investors by way of a placing of 171.4m new shares at 70- cents per share. They plan to use the money to expand the portfolio and have identified an office portfolio worth the full €120m which they are now negotiating on, part of this will […]

14 Jan 2015

BlueCrest BlueTrend continuation vote

BlueCrest BlueTrend announced today that as the average of the Company’s monthly net asset value as at the end of October, November and December 2014 was less than US$100m, it will hold a continuation vote (this is a requirement under the company’s articles). They say Notice convening the general meeting will be published by no later than […]

14 Jan 2015

Origo now externally managed

Origo Partners has announced that eleven employees, including Chris Rynning and Niklas Ponnert, have resigned from the company and eight of these are now employed by Origo Advisers Limited, three employees had their employment contracts terminated at a cost to Origo Partners of $21,000. Origo Advisers Limited has now taken up the reins of managing […]

14 Jan 2015

Independent wades into IPOs

Independent Investment Trust’s results for the year that ended on 30 November 2014 show it beating the FTSE All-Share Index but lagging the FTSE World Index, returning 10.4% on NAV vs. 4.7% for the UK market and 13.7% for the global index. The discount didn’t change much and so the return to shareholders was 10.6%. […]

13 Jan 2015

North American Income Trust change of manager

North American Income Trust has announced that its current manager, Paul Atkinson, has decided to return to Europe with his family, leaving Aberdeen’s Philadelphia office. Paul has managed the trust since its change of remit in 2012. He will be succeeded by Ralph Basset (the deputy head of North American equities) and Fran Radano (a […]

13 Jan 2015

International Biotech making 15x its money on Convergence

International Biotech is part owner of an unquoted UK biotech stock, Convergence Pharmaceuticals, that is being acquired by Biogen Idec. At the purchase price of $675m, International Biotech’s stake is worth £6.8m. This compares to the £442,000 valuation of the company in International Biotech’s accounts. For now though International Biotech is writing up the value […]

13 Jan 2015

Ground Rents Income Fund buying portfolio and raising money

Ground Rents Income Fund has entered into an option agreement to buy the ground rents of 583 residential units in six buildings for up to £3.9m. They expect these to come into the portfolio over the course of 2015. GRIO is buying the ground rents from Muse Developments, part of Morgan Sindall. The six sites, […]

12 Jan 2015

Middlefield Canadian Income to invest more in US

Middlefield Canadian Income is asking shareholders to approve a change to its investment policy to allow it to invest up to 40% of its portfolio outside Canada (up from 20%). They say most of this extra freedom will be used to invest in the US – there will be a limit of 10% on investments […]

09 Jan 2015

Riverstone creates new credit fund

Riverstone Energy is committing $125m towards the creation of a new $375m fund, Riverstone Credit Opportunities, L.P., which has been set up to take advantage of the lack of credit available for energy companies. The fund will be advised by Riverstone’s credit investment team, led by Christopher Abbate and Jamie Brodsky, both of whom joined […]

09 Jan 2015

GCP invests in domestic biomass boilers

GCP Infrastructure has announced that it is committing up to £25m to loan notes with about a ten year life that will be issued by GCP RHI Boiler 1 Limited. The loan will be secured against a portfolio of domestic biomass boilers. £4m will be drawn down at the start of the arrangement and the […]

09 Jan 2015

Good year for BlackRock Income & Growth

BlackRock Income & Growth has published its results for the year that ended on 31 October 2014 and over that period the fund outperformed the FTSE All-Share Index, generating a return on net assets of 6.3% against a 1% return for the FTSE All-Share Index. the discount widened slightly and so the return to shareholders […]

08 Jan 2015

Mirland changes bond terms

Further to the Company’s announcement of 19 December 2014, following the downgrading of the Company’s rating by the rating agencies ‘Midroog’ (a subsidiary of Moody’s Investor Services) and ‘Maalot S & P’ (a subsidiary of Standard & Poor’s Rating Services), Mirland has announced a change in its interest rates on its bonds. From 18 December 2014, […]

08 Jan 2015

British Land sells £250m of property

British Land has announced the sales of a retail and office portfolio in an off-market deal to Legal & General Property for £219.6m, ahead of September book value. The portfolio comprises: – Kingswood Retail Park, Hull (sold for £58.0m, at a 5.7% net initial yield) – House of Fraser, Birmingham (sold for £71.4m, at a […]

07 Jan 2015

Scottish Mortgage appoints new joint manager

The board of Scottish Mortgage has announced that Tom Slater has been appointed joint manager of the fund, working alongside James Anderson. Tom has been Deputy Manager of Scottish Mortgage since 2009. Tom graduated BSc in Computer Science with Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh in 2000. He joined Baillie Gifford the same year and worked in […]

05 Jan 2015

CatCo planning 10% return

CatCo Reinsurance has announced that, after a year where there were no significant calls on the reinsurance they had written, they are planning to make a 10% return of capital to shareholders. This comes on top of a 5.929 cent dividend. The capital return will be done by way a of a B share scheme and […]

31 Dec 2014

NextEnergy buying Boxted Airfield solar plant

NextEnergy Solar has announced the acquisition of a solar power plant on Boxted Airfield, a site owned by Colchester Council, in the village of Langham about 3 miles from Colchester in Essex. The plant is being built on the former RAF Boxfield site and is due to be completed by March 2015. They expect it will attract […]

31 Dec 2014

Happy New Year!

A happy New Year to all the readers of the QuotedData website. We have been really pleased by the interest and enthusiasm in our site over the course of 2014. The readership has grown as the website has evolved. We have great plans for 2015 and, as ever, if you have any comments or suggestions, […]

30 Dec 2014

What’s going on with ARC Capital?

As we noted on 29 December, ARC Capital has been requisitioned by a party connected to its fund manager. PAG Holdings owns just over 50% of ARC’s shares but hasn’t announced a bid for the company despite ARC adopting the Takeover Code (which would normally force anyone owning more than 30% to bid for the […]

29 Dec 2014

Schroder UK Growth transition complete

For the six month period to 31 October 2014, Schroder UK Growth’s NAV saw a total return of -6.3%, while the share price returned -8.8% and the discount widened from 5.2% at the beginning of the period to 7.8% at 31 October 2014. These performance figures compare poorly with an equivalent return of -1.6% by the […]

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