DCG Iris, a fund investing in insurance-linked contracts, has today released its interim results for the six months ended 30 November 2013. On 30 November IRIS’s NAV was 99.46p, slightly below the level at close of business on 31 May 2013 when the NAV was 99.79p. Including income however the total return for the period […]
Redefine has sold St. Anne’s House, Croydon (an empty 75,000 sq ft 1960’s office building with planning permission to convert into a 144 bedroom hotel and 46 residential units) for £8.4m – that is £3.4m than the value Redefine ascribed to it in its valuation at the end of August 2013.
FMPI has announced its interim results covering the six months ended 30 November 2013. The net asset value returns for the period were 2.9% for the Income shares and 7% for the Growth shares. This compares to a 3.9% return on the FTSE All-Share Index and 3.1% on the FTSE Equity Investments Index. The Board say […]
Hg Capital is acquiring Zenith Vehicle Contracts, one of the UK’s leading independent leasing, fleet management and vehicle outsourcing businesses. In total HGT will contribute £21m to the purchase price (as Zenith is acquired by a range of funds managed by Hg Capital). After this deal, using the figures announced as at the end of […]
Eastern European Property Fund has sold the Yellow Building and Asmali Cumba (buildings in Asmalimescit Street, Beyoglu, Istanbul). The properties fetched $1.6m – about 2% lower than the valuation on 30 June 2013.
Dragon Ukrainian Properties is calling an extraordinary general meeting on 17 February 2014 to put a set of proposals to shareholders. First it plans to make no new property investments, to sell “as quickly and effectively as the Ukrainian property market will allow” the existing portfolio and return the proceeds to shareholders. DUPD also hopes to change […]
BLND has announced that it has sold the Eastgate centre in Basildon, a 700,000 sq ft shopping centre, for £88.6m.
NB: one important disclosure – James Carthew, the author of this post, is a director of GLIF. GLIF’s Net asset value at the end of December fell to 50p from 51.8p at the end of September 2013 – mainly down to a fall in the value of GLIF’s US$ denominated CLO investments. A number of significant […]
LAND’s Q3 statement does not include a new NAV – they only value their properties twice a year – but it does states they have signed £7.3m of lettings in new developments and have a further £7.9m of lettings in solicitors’ hands. LAND have started £243m of new developments at 1 New Street Square and […]
SREI’s NAV increased from £161.6m to £168.5m over the final quarter of 2013 – the NAV per share increased from 45.4p to 47.3p – mainly driven by a 3.4% increase in the underlying property valuation.
Picton has announced that its net assets increased to £204.3m at the end of December 2013, from £180.3m at the end of September 2013 as the underlying property portfolio increased in value by 3.3% and PCTN raised £11.9m by issuing 22.2m shares at 53.5p. The EPRA NAV per share increased by 6.7% to 53.8p. PCTN […]
Golden Prospect has appointed Keith Watson to work alongside Will Smith as co-manager of the portfolio. Keith was a senior natural resource analyst at Mirabaud Securities and before that had research jobs at Evolution, Dresdner Kleinwort Wassertein, Commerzbank, Credit Suisse/BZW and worked as a portfolio manager and research analyst at Scottish Amicable.
JLIF has made a few minor changes to its investment policy. The fund will in future be able to invest up to 30% in projects under construction (up from 15%). QD comment: investing in assets under construction increases the risk profile of the fund but could increase the return. Invest up to 10% of the portfolio […]
BRCI’s manager who has managed the fund since it was launched in 2005, Richard Davis, has stepped down as portfolio manager. The Board have agreed with BlackRock that the new manager will be Olivia Ker, assisted by Thomas Holl who was also deputy manager to Richard Davis.
JP Morgan Income & Growth has announced that its manager Neil Nuttall is leaving JP Morgan and so is giving up his job as manager of JIGI. The Board has agreed with JP Morgan that the management of the fund will pass to James Elliot and Katy Thorneycroft.
Electra has announced that it has invested £85m in Hotter Shoes. The acquisition will have no immediate impact on Electra’s net asset value. Hotter Shoes is the UK’s largest manufacturer of shoes, has 59 own stores, sells through another 200 outlets and has a large online presence. If you are curious, the easiest thing to […]
ARC Capital has sold its stake in Ningxia Xiajin Dairy, the largest manufacturer of dairy products in Ningxia province, for $30m – 1.7x the price ARC paid for it but just 80% of its estimated value at 30 September 2013.
Bankers results for the year to the end of October 2013 show a 23.8% uplift in its net asset value and a closing of its discount, enabling a 33.9% share price return to investors and sufficient demand for its shares to allow it to issue 350,000 in the period. This was the first time Bankers has issued […]
NB Distressed Debt is ready to make its first distributions to shareholders. These will be done via compulsory redemptions of shares – $28m in the case of NBDD (the original fund) or $0.2255 per share and $20.9m in the case of NBDX (the continuation fund) or $0.0593 per share. For NBDD the money comes from […]
Between the 30 September 2013 and 31 December 2013 LEF’s NAV fell from 85p per share to 70.8p per share. 5p of the fall reflects a distribution that was made to shareholders, the rest is mainly a reduction in the carrying value of ECO Plastics as LEF changed they way they valued and accounted for that […]
SVI has announced that the remainder of its investment in ProSieben Sat.1 Media AG has been sold. SVG Capital will get £85.6m from the sale. SVI also announced that they’ll announce their results n 13 February 2014.
FEV will split each of its shares into 10 new shares (subject to shareholder approval at the next AGM). The shares are currently well over £15, so by splitting them FEV will make it easier for shareholders to invest smaller amounts of money in the company.
PHP is funding, to the tune of £2.25m, the building of a new medical centre in Wrexham and expects the centre will be operational by the end of 2014.
Over the six months to the end of November 2013 M&G High Income’s package units delivered a total return of 6.1% – ahead of the returns on the FTSE 350 High Yield Index (up 2.3%) and the FTSE All-Share Index (up 3.9%). Dividends for the first half totalled 2.8p, 7.7% up on the equivalent period […]
JPEL has secured third parties to buy up t0 84m of its shares at $0.80 per share – a premium to the current share price, it will cease making capital distributions and invest up to $150m in “growth” companies. Having repaid part of its zero dividend finance, cut debt and bought back $20m worth of shares […]
HICL has sold two assets and bought another three, raising £5.8m in the process. the assets sold were HICL’s stakes in the Dorset and Swindon police projects and the assets acquired were the remaining 20% stakes they did not own in the Derby and Newport Schools projects and the Medway police project.
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