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09 Jun 2014

Alpha Pyrenees Trust : ALPH – disposal

Alpha Pyrenees Trust has announced that it has sold a 5,180 sqm multi-let warehouse and office investment, in Vitry-sur-Seine near Paris, for €5.7 million – 7.5% more than its book value. At the same time Alpha Pyrenees Trust has announced that it has sold the larger of the two vacant warehouse units located in Zaragoza, Spain for €1.3 million (book […]

09 Jun 2014

Edinburgh Worldwide : EWI – interim results

Edinburgh Worldwide has released interim results that cover the six months that ended 30 April 2014. Approximately half way through the period Edinburgh Worldwide changed its remit and moved its portfolio from investing predominantly in large cap. stocks to investing in those with a market capitalisation of £5bn or less (only about 20% f the […]

06 Jun 2014

Starwood European Real Estate Finance : SWEF – new loan

Starwood European Real Estate Finance has lent £27m against an office building in Park Royal in London. The loan will refinance the acquisition of and fund the refurbishment of the 160,000 square foot building. The loan has a three year term and will earn “a solid single digit return”. The company has now invested 89% of […]

06 Jun 2014

Hansteen Holdings : HSTN – disposal

Hansteen Holdings has today announced that it has sold a portfolio of ten multi-let industrial estates and an office park. The portfolio is held through Ashtenne Industrial holdings, a vehicle that Hansteen has a 36.7% interest in and is investment manager of. The 900,000 square foot portfolio fetched £62m (a price equivalent to an initial yield […]

06 Jun 2014

Personal Assets Trust : PNL – final results

Personal Assets Trust has published its results covering the year ended 30 April 2014. Over the year the company’s net asset value fell by 5.1%. Over the past three years Personal Assets Trust has underperformed both inflation and the FTSE All-Share Index. The problem, says Sebastian Lyon – the fund manager, has been the funds […]

05 Jun 2014

Perpetual Income & Growth : PLI – annual report

Perpetual Income & Growth has published its annual accounts for the year that ended on 31 March 2014. Over that period Perpetual Income & Growth outperformed its benchmark (the FTSE All-Share Index) by some margin, delivering a total return on net assets of 18.8% at the portfolio level and 19.4% including the effects of marking its […]

04 Jun 2014

Martin Currie Pacific : MCP – annual results

Martin Currie Pacific has published its results for the thirteen months that ended on 31 March 2014. The Company has changed its year end from end February to end March hence the thirteen month period. Over the period the total return on net assets was -10.7% – an underperformance of the MSCI All Countries Asia […]

04 Jun 2014

Workspace Group : WKP – final results

Workspace Group has announced results for the year ended 31 March 2014. Over the year its EPRA net asset value rose by 43% to £4.96 and they raised the total dividend for the year by 10% to 10.63p . The rise in the net asset value was driven by a 27% increase in the valuation […]

04 Jun 2014

Tritax Big Box REIT : BBOX – financing

Tritax Big Box REIT has refinanced two recent acquisitions – the Marks & Spencer East Midlands Distribution Centre at Castle Donington, Leicestershire and the Tesco Distribution Centre at Southmead Industrial Estate, Didcot. Barclays Bank is providing loans of £49.3m and £12.2m respectively, secured individually on the assets. They are paying slightly more for the M&S centre financing […]

04 Jun 2014

Terra Capital : TCA – annual results

Terra Capital has published its results for the year ended 31 December 2013. While somewhat out of date now, the figures show a 10% increase in Terra Capital’s net asset value to 96 cents per share. The Chairman draws attention to the fact that this was achieved despite not being fully invested throughout 2013 – he […]

04 Jun 2014

Standard Life Inv Property Income : SLI – disposal

Standard Life Inv Property Income has sold its largest investment – a logistics unit in Bolton let to Tesco. The price it got for the property was £16m which equates to a yield of 7.25%. The reason for the sale, says Jason Baggaley, Standard Life inv Property Income’s manager, is that Tesco’s lease on the property […]

03 Jun 2014

BP Marsh & Partners : BPM – final results

BP Marsh & Partners has published its results for the year ended 31 January 2014. The net asset value rose to 202p from 190p and the company declared an increased dividend for the year, and said it hoped to continue to pay a final dividend of at least 2.75p per share in the coming two years. BP […]

03 Jun 2014

EIH : EIH – final results

EIH has released its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2013. These are somewhat out of date now but show the net asset value rising from 72.7 cents to 74.7 cents per share – an increase of 2.8%. EIH also distributed 2 cents per share during the year. The company’s holding in Gland […]

03 Jun 2014

British Land : BLND – disposal

British Land and the Crown Estate are selling Leamington Spa shopping park (held through a 50:50 joint venture) for £72m. The price is equivalent to an initial yield of 4.4%. The buyer is Ignis UK property Fund. Under British Land’s management the park has been refurbished and the tenant mix upgraded.

03 Jun 2014

Henderson Diversified Income : HDIV – interims

Henderson Diversified Income has published its interim accounts covering the six months to the end of April 2014. Over that period the fund generated a total return on net assets of 4.7%. The share price did not keep pace with the net asset value so the return to shareholders was 3.5%. The fund targets returns of 1.25% over LIBOR […]

03 Jun 2014

LondonMetric Property PLC : LMP – news and results

LondonMetric Property plc has sold a 22,000 sq. ft. retail development in Berkhamsted let to M&S Simply Food and Costa Coffee at a price equivalent to an initial yield of 4.5%; is getting £15.2m for its Odeon Multiplex in Huddersfield (an initial yield of 6.1%); and is selling three DFS warehouse units in Ashby, Droitwich and Bury […]

03 Jun 2014

Dragon Ukrainian Properties & Development : DUPD – results

Dragon Ukrainian Properties & Development has published results for the year ended 31 December 2013. These show its net asset value falling from $1.65 to $1.48 as they were hit by falling property valuations, notably in the value of their land bank, and also by the fall in value of the Hryvnya, the Ukrainian currency. […]

02 Jun 2014

British Empire : BTEM – interims

British Empire’s interim results for the six months that ended 31 March 2014 show the fund generating a total return on net assets of 4.8%, beating its benchmark (the MSCI All Country World ex US Index) which returned 2.4% but lagging the 5.6% return on the MSCI All Country World Index and the 5.5% return on […]

30 May 2014

BBGI : BBGI – acquisition

BBGI has bought the other 41.2% of the Norwegian E18 road project it acquired in December. The E18 runs for 38km between Grimstad and Kristiansand. The price was not disclosed

30 May 2014

Martin Currie Pacific Trust : MCP – change of remit and tender

Martin Currie Pacific Trust, the last of the pan Asia including Japan funds, is planning to drop Japan from its remit and move to an Asia ex Japan and Australasian strategy. It wants the new portfolio to be completely unconstrained from any benchmark and so is proposing to measure its future performance against the GDP growth […]

30 May 2014

Standard Life European Private Equity : SEP – interims

Standard Life European Private Equity, chaired by Ed Warner OBE (pictured), has published figures for the six months ended 31 March 2014. Over that period the company’s net asset value rose by 3.6% to 252.2p which, taking into account income earned in the period, translates into a net asset value total return of 5.5%. The share […]

30 May 2014

Harbourvest Global Private Equity : HVPE – annual results

Harbourvest Global Private Equity has published its results for the year that ended 31 January 2014. Over the year the net asset value grew by 15% to hit $14.38 ($1,167m). They say venture investments and investments in the US did best during the year. By contrast the MSCI World Index rose by 10.4% over this […]

30 May 2014

MedicX Fund : MXF – interim results

MedicX Fund has published its interim results covering the six months ended 31 March 2014. Over the period its net asset value, calculated with debt at fair value, fell from 69.4p to 68.6p. The quarterly dividend is now running at 1.45p per share, implying a full year dividend of 5.8p – marginally up from 5.7p […]

30 May 2014

Chenavari Capital Solutions : CCSL – initial results

Chenavari Capital Solutions has published its first set of results. These cover the period from 12 July 2013 to 31 March 2014. Chenavari Capital Solutions was admitted to listing on 7 October 2013, raising £130m. The net asset value at the end of the period was 100.91p – a 3.0% increase on the initial value […]

30 May 2014

Invista European Real Estate Trust : IERE – interims

Invista European Real Estate Trust has published its interim accounts. These cover the six months ended 31 March 2014. The net asset value fell from €0.25 to €0.20 over the period reflecting a 5.3% fall in the value of the company’s property portfolio. Four assets were sold during the period at a 15.6% discount to previous valuation […]

30 May 2014

Elephant Capital : ECAP – interims

Elephant Capital has released its interim figures for the six months ended 28 February 2014. Its net asset value rose from 33p to 34p over the period. They wrote down the value of Amar Chitra Katha Private (a children’s media company) during the period but gains in its listed investment, Nitco Limited (flooring and wall tiles), offset […]

30 May 2014

Capital Gearing Trust : CGT – annual results

Capital Gearing Trust, chaired by Tony Pattison (pictured), has released its annual results. These cover the year ended 5 April 2014. Over this time Capital Gearing Trust’s net asset value fell by 2.5%. This was the first time in more than thirty years that the fund’s net asset value had fallen over an accounting year. […]

30 May 2014

Montanaro European Smaller Companies : MTE – results

Montanaro European Smaller Companies has published its results for the year ended 31 March 2014. These show the net asset value rising by 6.0%, materially less than the 28.2% rise posted by the company’s benchmark. The discount widened over the year and so the share price appreciated by 4.0%. The Board is led by AR Irvine (pictured), his statement […]

30 May 2014

New India Investment Trust : NII – results

New India Investment Trust has released figures for the year ended 31 March 2014 showing a negative total return on net assets for the year of 1.9% which compares to a 2.8% fall in its benchmark and a negative 5.1% return on its share price. In Rupee terms returns were not too bad but a 21% […]

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