Victory Park Capital Advisors, LLC, the investment manager to VPC Speciality Lending, has agreed an amendment to the investment management agreement with the Company. Under the revised agreement, Victory Park Capital Advisors will invest 20 per cent. of its monthly management fee received from the Company into shares in the Company at the prevailing market […]
The independent Board of Standard Life Property Income Trust notes the announcement made yesterday by Standard Life Investments to suspend trading in the Standard Life Investments UK Real Estate Fund, an open ended Property Authorised Investment Fund (“PAIF”). The Board would like to emphasise that Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust , being a closed […]
On 4 July 2016, it was disclosed that Crystal Amber Fund Limited had acquired a disclosable interest of 3 per cent of the issued share capital of Northgate. In September 2012, Crystal Amber invested in Northgate and following successful engagement, exited the position in April 2015. Since then, Northgate’s share price has fallen by approximately 50%. […]
Polar Capital Technology’s results for the year ended 30 April 2016 have been published. The global technology sector performed better than the broader indices for most of the financial year but finished in line with the FTSE World Index after a sharp decline in several of the leading technology stocks in April. Polar Capital Technology’s […]
For the year to 31 March 2016 BACIT‘s Net Asset Value total return per share was -0.2% and the share price total return was 8.5%. This compares to falls in the MSCI World Index of 3.5% and the FTSE All-Share of 3.9%. BACIT will pay a scrip dividend of 2.2 pence per share on 19 August 2016. Shareholders […]
Over the year to the end of March 2016 Oryx International Growth‘s net asset value rose by 21.3% as compared to a fall of 0.8% in the AIM Index. Gleeson’s share price rose 50% following better than expected results, while Journey Group share price rose 46%, following successful new contracts with Fedex and extensions with […]
Fair Oaks Income Fund has announced that the commitment period of the Master Fund, in which it is invested, ended on 12 June 2016. Reflecting this, the board says that it intends to continue to pay eleven monthly dividends of 0.7 US cents per share and a twelfth interim dividend, “representing an amount in aggregate […]
In December 2015, as previously announced, Leaf Clean Energy filed a lawsuit in Delaware Court of Chancery against Invenergy Wind LLC alleging, in part, that Invenergy breached the Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement governing the membership interests in Invenergy (the “Operating Agreement”). Leaf alleged that Invenergy was required to either obtain Leaf’s […]
The Board of JPMorgan Global Emerging Markets Income Trust has announced that effective from 1st August 2016, Jeffrey Roskell will replace Richard Titherington as the second listed Investment Manager. The Company will continue to be managed primarily by Omar Negyal, with Amit Mehta providing additional support to the team as Deputy Investment Manager. Mr Roskell (pictured) is […]
International Public Partnerships Limited has announced that it has agreed to acquire ten Building Schools for the Future (“BSF”) investments from Balfour Beatty, marking a significant evolution in the Company’s allocation to education infrastructure. The transaction will transform INPP into a majority investor in BSF, the investment delivery vehicle designed to refurbish secondary schools across the […]
Board of Trading Emissions has announced that a settlement has been reached in respect of all of the arbitrations with subsidiaries of Yunnan Dianneng (Group) Holding Co. Ltd. By way of background, in 2014, the Company received notices of arbitration in respect of claims that challenged the amendments that had been made to, in total, […]
Nimrod Sea Assets has published results for the year ended 31 March 2016. The company made various announcements in the early part of the year. These included the decision to effectively halt any further deals and new transactions; to pay four quarterly dividends of 2 cents per share from June 2015 to March 2016, most of […]
Central Asia Metals (CAML) reports H1 2016 copper production from its Kounrad dump leach copper recovery plant, in Kazakhstan, up 27% year-on-year to 6,908 t. Sales were 6,355 t, a 24% increase on H1 2015. The company further reports that the expansion project to exploit the Western dumps, which is being funded from cashflow generated […]
The Board of Private Equity Investor has announced that it has received a proposal to acquire 15 of its Limited Partnership investments. The proposal covers approximately 87% of the NAV of the investment portfolio of the Company. The proposal is priced at a 35% discount to the net asset value of these holdings at 31 December 2015. […]
Miton Global Opportunities has released results for the year ended 30 April 2016. The net asset value per share rose to 182.4p, a total return of 0.4% – there is no dividend. The manager says the company’s shares ended the financial year standing at an all-time high, moving from 162.75p to 164.25p during the year. […]
EP Global Opportunities annunced yesterday that it has hedged the equivalent of £27m of its Japanese Yen exposure back into Sterling. This is the first announcement we have seen of a fund locking in the gais made on its overseas exposure as a result of the recent weakness of the pound. EPG : EP Global […]
Electra has raised €72m from the redemption of preferred equity and from the sale of c28% of its 15% equity interest in Allflex. This is equivalent to a return of 0.8x cost. the retained stake in Allflex has a value, implied by this transaction, of €78m (£65m). Together this repreents a 48% uplift to the […]
John Laing Environmental has announced the acquisition of Dungavel Wind Farm from John Laing Group for a cash consideration, including working capital, of GBP38.2 million. Dungavel Wind Farm is located in South Lanarkshire, South-West Scotland and comprises 13 Vestas 2MW V80 turbines with a total generating capacity of 26MW and is accredited for 0.9 ROCs. […]
BlackRock North American has published interim results covering the six months to the end of April 2016. Over the period the company produced an 8.0% net asset return per share (‘NAV’) compared with a return of 7.5% in the Russell 1000 Value Index. The Company’s share price return was 11.1% over the same period (all figures […]
Wolf Minerals reports that tungsten prices improved in Q2 16 with the ammonium paratungstate (APT) price reaching US$225/mtu in May, up from an average of US$172/mtu for the March quarter. APT is the main traded intermediary tungsten product on which tungsten concentrate prices are based. The company notes, however, that the price remains some US$160/mtu […]
Qannas has published account for the year ended 31 December 2015 – somewhat ancient history now. Briefly QIL has further committed to five deals: AED 2.9 million ($0.8 million) for the purchase of residential units in a building in Dubai Marina; GBP3.5m ($5 million) in a preferred equity investment in BL Development Limited, the company […]
New City Energy reports that, over the six months ended 31 March 2016, its net asset value in total return terms was slightly down at -1.0% (they say, as the portfolio was defensively positioned). The ordinary share price (total return) was down by 0.1%, ending the period at a discount of 28.1%. The chairman says, […]
Lazard World Trust Fund announced two years ago that it intended to commence paying dividends, for the first time in the Fund’s history. The Fund was one of the few funds in the global growth sector which did not pay any dividend and a number of potential investors questioned why this was the case. While the […]
Infrastructure India has announced that it has completed the sale of its entire 26 per cent interest in Western MP Infrastructure & Toll Roads Private Limited. The transaction was originally announced on 8 April 2016 and completed on 28 June 2016. Western MP Infrastructure & Toll Roads operates a 125km toll road in the central […]
For the six month period ended 30 April 2016, BlackRock Income & Growth’s net asset value per share returned -2.8% and the share price returned -2.3%. By comparison, the FTSE All-Share Index was unchanged over the period. Since the period end and up to 27 June 2016, the Company’s NAV per share has fallen by […]
The Board of Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust has announced the completion of the acquisition of two grocery anchored retail investments located in Rennes and Anglet (near Biarritz), France. The freehold properties are located in established retail parks which benefit from strong local catchments. The acquisition has been made in a joint venture with […]
