News

Filters
Sectors
Geography
Market Cap
Author

Sign up for our free
equity research notes

Register
14158 Results
Embed
Schroder Asian Total Return wants to reissue treasury shares at a discount

Schroder Asian Total Return has published a circular to convene a meeting at which shareholders will be asked, amongst other things, to approve the reissue of treasury shares at a discount. The special resolution would give the directors the authority to reissue up to 7,294,914 ordinary shares from treasury (representing approximately 10 per cent of the […]

Qatar Investment Fund cuts fees

Qatar Investment Fund last rejigged its fee arrangements on 1 November 2013. The new arrangement was put in place for three years. The terms were a reduced management fee of 1.05% per annum of the net asset value, calculated monthly and payable quarterly in arrears, with such management fee reducing further to 1.0% from 1 […]

Bids help Jupiter US Smaller outperform

Jupiter US Smaller Companies has published results for the year ended 30 June 2016. The NAV per share increased by 8.7% to 787.3p in the twelve months to 30 June 2016. This compared to a gain of 8.1% in the benchmark, the sterling adjusted Russell 2000 Index. In dollar terms, the Russell 2000 Index of […]

JPMorgan Mid Cap underperforms despite eliminating its gearing

JPMorgan Mid Cap has published results for the year ended 30 June 2016. The end of the period was marked by the referendum. The Mid Cap index fell just over 15% in a period of just five business days, resulting in a benchmark return for the year to 30th June 2016 of -5.7%. The investment managers tried […]

Rising rents and values boost Phoenix Spree Deutschland

Phoenix Spree Deutschland sat the first half of 2016 saw further growth in rents and property values, resulting in an EPRA NAV per share total return of 7.8% for the half year. This puts the company well on track to achieve its target annual return per share of 8-10%. The Board is pleased to declare a […]

Duet Real Estate Finance benefits from discount narrowing

Duet Real Estate Finance Limited  has announced its half-yearly results for the period from 1 January 2016 to 30 June 2016. A total of 14.93 pence per share (period to 30 2015: 23.51 pence) has been returned by way of B share issues and redemptions in the six months ended 30 June 2016. In August […]

JPMorgan Global Growth & Income suffers as investors seek safe havens

Over the year ended 30 June 2016, the sterling return of the MSCI All Countries World Index was 13.3% JPMorgan Global Growth & Income’s total return on net assets was lower than the benchmark, at 8.2%. There was a sharp widening of the discount from 6.9% at the start of the year to 14.4%, notwithstanding an active policy […]

Schroder Asian Total Return benefits from technology exposure

During the six months to 30 June 2016, Schroder Asian Total Return produced a net asset value total return of 15.8%, outperforming both the MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex-Japan Index, which produced a total return of 12.9%, and the peer group average NAV total return of 14.5%. If this level of performance continues, a performance fee will […]

Mercantile cuts management fee

Mercantile’s net asset value total return in the six months to 31st July 2016 was -1.0%, compared to a return of +5.7% from its benchmark index, the FTSE All-Share, excluding FTSE 100 constituents and investment trusts. The share price return was -4.0%. A second interim dividend of 10.25 pence per share has been declared. Together with the […]

Jupiter UK Growth caught out by Brexit

Jupiter UK Growth has published its first set of accounts since its transformation into a UK focused trust covering the year ended 30 June 2016. The new strategy began to be implemented immediately following the general meeting of shareholders on 18 April and most of the changes in the company’s investment portfolio were accomplished by […]

Manager plans to reinvest 20% of fee in VPC Speciality Lending’s shares

VPC Specialty Lending Investments PLC has announced its unaudited half-yearly financial results for the period ended 30 June 2016. During the period under review, it delivered a total NAV return of 1.51% and paid quarterly dividends amounting to 3.5p per share. The vast majority of investments have exhibited credit losses in line with expectations.  However, […]

Sanditon’s NAV benefits from uplift in its holding in Sanditon Asset Management

Sanditon Investment Trust has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2016. During the year, the company provided an NAV total return of 2.7%, modestly outperforming the FTSE All-Share, which returned 2.2%. However, a narrowing of is premium to NAV, from 3.4% at 30 June 2015 to 1.0% at 30 June 2016, […]

Gambling slowdown still weighs on Macau Property Opportunities

Macau Property Opportunities Fund’s portfolio has registered a drop in value for the second consecutive year – a consequence of the continued decline in Macau’s gaming revenue and its slowing economy, largely attributable to China’s anti-corruption campaign. For the year in review (12 months to 30 June 2016), Macau Property Opportunities Fund’s portfolio of properties […]

Globalworth Real Estate’s NAV growth is tempered by share issuance

Globalworth Real Estate Investments has announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2016. The investment manager says that, during the first half of 2016, they focused on organically growing the Company, mainly by concentrating their efforts on the company’s development programme, optimising the capital structure and improving the occupancy of the […]

Reconstruction Capital II sells 25.4% stake in Albalact SA

Reconstruction Capital II has announced that its 25.4% stake in publicly quoted Romanian dairy company, Albalact, have been acquired by Lactalis at a price of RON 0.5252 per share (the company’s stake comprised 166,100,478 shares). The acquisition follows a voluntary public offer by Lactalis for Albalact SA previously announced on 5 August 2016. As a […]

Strategic Equity Capital suffers from trickier markets and disappointing newsflow

Strategic Equity Capital, managed by Stuart Widdowson (pictured), has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2016. During the period, the company provided an NAV total return of -8.7% and a share price total return of -22.4%. In comparison, the FTSE Small Cap Index declined by 3.7%. Richard Hills, the trust’s chairman, says […]

City of London achieves 50 years of dividend growth

City of London Investment Trust reports that, in a flat year for equity returns its net asset value total return was 3.1%, ahead of each of the average for the AIC UK Equity Income sector, the UK Equity Income OEIC sector and the FTSE All-Share Index (by 0.8%, 4.8% and 0.9% respectively). The FTSE 100 Index […]

Jupiter European outperforms again

Jupiter European Opportunities’ results for the year ended 31 May 2016 have been published. The total return on the net asset value per share was 0.8 per cent. during the twelve months under review, which compares with a fall of 3.7 per cent. in the Company’s benchmark, the FTSE World Europe ex UK Index during […]

JZ Capital buys Miami development site

JZ Capital Partners Limited, alongside its long-term real estate partner, RedSky Capital, LLC, has acquired 2700 NW 2nd Avenue, a new property in the Wynwood neighbourhood of Miami, Florida. The purchase price was $30.8 million, of which JZCP provided $12.9 million. JZCP and RedSky plan to develop two Class-A buildings with ground floor retail, several […]

Regional REIT NAV edges up in H1

Regional REIT Limited has announced its results for the six months ended 30 June 2016. Financial Highlights for the half year to 30 June 2016: (unaudited) Gross value of property assets up 1.8% like-for-like, to GBP501.3m (31 Dec 2015: GBP403.7m). Acquisitions of GBP128.1m were successfully completed, including 2 major portfolios; Wing with a net initial […]

Pantheon discount narrowing again

For the financial year ended 30 June 2016, Pantheon International’s net assets stood at just under GBP1.2bn and it recorded an increase of 22.3% in NAV per share. The ordinary share price increased from 1,272.0p to 1,285.0p, an increase of 1%. The discount widened from 17% to 31%. The redeemable share price decreased from 1,285.0p to […]

UIL NAV soars

UIL achieved a NAV total return per ordinary share of 47.1% over the year to 30 June 2016, outperforming the FTSE All Share Total Return Index by an impressive 44.9%. The Board maintained total dividends at 7.50p per share which represents a yield on the closing share price of 130.75p of 5.7%. Looking forward the […]

Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon outperforms again

Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon’s net asset value per share  rose by 29.5% over the six months ended 31 July 2016 compared to a 23.0% rise in the MSCI Japan Small Cap Index. The share price increased by 31.6%. They say there was a noticeable investor rotation towards undervalued real estate related names. Beneficiaries of this […]

Zinc is zooming

Zinc is zooming – it is up 55% since hitting a 6 year low mid-January. Prices have risen around 3% on the LME since Monday. The closing of 4 major zinc mines since 2013 has reduced supply by over 1 million tons. Glencore cut H1 2016 production by 31% to help shore up prices. Beijing […]

Oakley Capital Investments benefits from fund performance and sterling weakness post Brexit

Oakley Capital Investments Limited (OCL) has announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2016. During the period, the company’s NAV increased by 7.5% to £2.15 per share. The company says that 15p uplift in NAV per share is attributable to the strong performance of the underlying Funds and favourable exchange rate […]

HgCapital agrees sale of Personal & Informatik AG

HgCapital, the Manager of HgCapital Trust, has announced that it has agreed the sale of Personal & Informatik AG (P&I), a provider of payroll and strategic HR software headquartered in Germany, to a company backed by funds of Permira. HgCapital say that the sale of P&I represents the first exit from the HgCapital 7 Fund […]

Aberdeen Asian Smaller cuts fees

Aberdeen Asian Smaller Companies’ Board has reported that an amendment to the management fee has been agreed with Aberdeen Fund Managers Limited that is effective from 1 August 2016.  From that date the Manager is entitled to a management fee payable monthly in arrears based on an annual amount of 1.0% (previously 1.2%) of the average […]

Ecofin updates on restructuring

In this instance we have reproduced the text of the announcement in full: Allocation of Assets and Reclassification of Shares Summary The net asset value of Ecofin Water & Power Opportunities plc (the “Company” or “EWPO”) was 158.02p per EWPO Share on the Calculation Date, comprising 135.5442p in respect of the liquid assets to form […]

Real Estate Investors announces record rental income, portfolio and dividend growth

Real Estate Investors has announced its interim results for the six months to 30 June 2016. The company says that the period has seen record rental income, portfolio and dividend growth although the company’s EPRA NAV per share fell by 2.2% to 63.5p (31 December 2015: 64.5p). At the end of the period the company’s […]

SVG Capital interims show 12% NAV uplift in six months

SVG Capital reports a 12% increase in NAV per share to 735p for the six months to 31 July 2016. Excluding the currency benefit on the investment portfolio, the NAV growth was 6%. During the period they committed GBP273 million to three new fund investments. They introduced two new managers to the portfolio (L Catterton and IK Investment Partners) […]