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In its results announcement released on Christmas Eve, JPMorgan Asian reported underperformance of the fund’s benchmark and a widening of its discount. The Board have held talks with JPMorgan and are anxious that performance improves over 2015. They will hold a continuation vote in 2016 and the statement reads as though the Board would recommend […]

ARC Capital has announced that 0n 24 December 2014 it received a requisition from Cielo Overseas Limited, an associate of PAG Holdings Limited requiring the Company to call a general meeting of ARC’s shareholders. At the meeting shareholders will be asked to vote on the appointment of three new directors and the removal of Helen Wong, Steve Feniger, and […]

The appointment of administrators at City Link, an investment in the Better Capital 2012 cell, was reported by the media over Christmas. The announcement released today by Better Capital says that they hope that they will recover just shy of £20m from the administration. This is equivalent to the value that they placed on the […]

Intu Properties is buying Puerto Venecia shopping centre and retail park in Zaragoza for €451m. The price equates to an initial yield of 5% (based on rental income of €22.4m). €225m of the cost will be funded by a term loan supplied by HSBC (interest rate of 3.5%) and the balance will come from Intu’s own […]

Tejoori has published its results for the year ended 30 June 2014 – some time ago now. The net assets attributable to shareholders rose from $25.97m to $26.89m. The money they have in Wakala deposits attracts a profit rate of 5% per annum. The larger part of the increase in the value of the company […]

GCP Infrastructure has completed a £12.3m investment in a loan note issued by GCP Social Housing 1 Limited. £1.4m of this money has already been committed and the rest will be deployed over the next five months. The loan note has a life of 35 years and will be used to provide a loan facility secured on […]

Electra Private Equity has announced that Axio Data Group, one of the companies it owns, has sold a specialist logistics intelligence business, Breakbulk, to ITE, the exhibitions group, for £10m. With this deal Electra has taken £76m in cash out of Axio, a business it paid £91m for in 2013, yet Axio still owns five other […]

Starwood European Real Estate is providing £45m towards the £200m refinancing of the Aldgate Tower, a new Grade A office building located in the City of London. The terms of the loan have not been disclosed but Starwood say “The loan’s interest rate is part fixed with part floating over 3 month LIBOR.  The Company expects […]

Fair Oaks Income Fund has announced that it has exercised its right as majority holder of the Income Notes in T2 Income Fund CLO I Ltd to redeem all of the notes of T2 CLO. they say the liquidation of the remaining assets in T2 CLO is well underway with the vast majority of assets sold in […]

Empiric Student Property has bought the Algernon Firth student accommodation block in Leeds for £7.2m. Algernon Firth has 111 beds arranged as a mixture of en-suite flats and loft-style studios. The apartments sit within in a Grade II listed building that was originally built for the University of Leeds in 1933 and is named after Yorkshire Industrialist, […]

Globalworth has expanded its presence in the Bucharest office market with the acquisition of the Unicredit Building for €43m. The Unicredit Building is a landmark, class-A office property completed in 2012 and entirely leased to Unicredit Tiriac Bank, part of Unicredit Group, on a long term basis.   It is located in in the north part […]

Next Energy Solar is buying two more plants – the 20.0MWp Cock Hill solar power plant and the 8.0MWp Llwyndu solar power plant. The Cock Hill plant is located in Wiltshire, and is to be accredited under the 1.4 Renewable Obligation Certificate (“ROC”) regime. They say construction of the plant has already begun, with internal roads […]

Kennedy Wilson Europe is spending £503m to acquire a portfolio of 180 mixed use properties all of which are in receivership and all of which were financed by Aviva Commercial Real Estate Finance. the money is coming in part from KWE’s cash resources and part from a £352.3m secured facility provided by Aviva Commercial Real […]

Geiger Counter’s results for the year ended 30 September 2014 show the net asset value falling from 31.3p to 26.9p and the share price flat at 24.75p. The Uranium price has improved (it was $43 when they wrote their statement, having touched a low of $28) and they believe this is a reflection of where […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

New City Energy results for the year to the end of September 2014 show a negative return on net assets of 5.8%. The share price fell by 8.8%, ending the year at a discount of 17.0%. The dividend was increased by 7.4% to 2.04p but was uncovered by earnings. The manager’s report gives no indication of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Local Shopping REIT managed to generate an NAV uplift of just 1p per share (from 41p to 42p) over its accounting year that finished on 30 September. LSR adopted a policy of selling off its portfolio and returning proceeds to shareholders in July 2103 and has made some progress with this over the year. It managed […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The net asset value of South African Property Opportunities (SAPO) fell from 69p to 37p per share over the year to end June 2014 (somewhat ancient history now). 19p of the fall was accounted for by a distribution they made to shareholders, 10p relates to a fall in the value of the South African Rand […]

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 […]

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 […]