LMP has announced it is buying Royal Mail’s distribution centre in Daventry for £36m (on a yield of 6.7%) and selling a retail park in Congleton for £16.4m (the sale price equates to a yield of 5.8%, the park was acquired in Jun 2011 for £14.9m). After these transactions, LMP’s portfolio has 23%invested in distribution assets. […]
New City’s annual results for the year ended 30 September 2013 show a fall in the NAV of 19.2% and in the share price of 6.5%. The performance is attributed to falling commodity prices (on fears of slowing Chinese growth) and the strength of Sterling over the period. the Board has negotiated a reduction in the […]
Over the year ended 30 September 2013 the NAV fell by 13.7%, slightly more than the fall in the value of the benchmark, the , which fell by 12.7%. JII’s discount widened resulting in a share price return of -17.6%. The managers point to overweights, relative to the benchmark, in Infrastructure Finance Development Corporation and cement […]
Candover has extended the maturity on its US$ debt with an issue of new notes with a coupon of 7.02% and a maturity of 31 December 2015. The Board felt it wanted to wanted to protect the fund from any potential shortfall if the current investment disposal programme failed to free up sufficient cash to […]
LXB’s sale of its Sainsbury’s and M&S investments at Greenwich has completed as planned, releasing £58m of sales proceeds. LXB’s Board plans to return “a substantial proportion” of this money to shareholders by buying in shares. At last night’s close LXB’s market capitalisation was just over £250m; what proportion of the company’s share capital will […]
TCF, a fund of property funds that is gradually liquidating its portfolio, has announced interim results for the period ending 30 September 2013. At that date TCF’s NAV was 86.4p and, following a compulsory redemption of shares in October, the NAV had risen to 96.2p by the end of October. There are now only two assets in […]
Artemis Alpha, the UK equity growth investment trust, has released interim results for the six months ended 31 October 2013 that show its portfolio comfortably outperformed its benchmark, the FTSE All-Share index. ATS’s NAV return was 13.1% over the period while the index returned 7.7%. Three stocks in ATS’s unquoted portfolio were written up – Metapack (a business […]
Results for the year ended 30 September 2013 PCGH’s NAV total return was 21.0%, adjusted for the likely impact of PCGH’s subscription shares being exercised, and 23.2% without making that adjustment. The benchmark, the MSCI All Countries World Index Healthcare Index, returned 25.4%. The Board say that the main reason for the underperformance relative to the […]
Interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2013 Trinity’s net asset value per share at the end of September was 14pence. At the end of March the equivalent figure was 18pence (adjusting for the 5pence per share distribution Trinity made to shareholders in September). Most of the fall in the asset value is accounted for by […]
JP Morgan Senior Loans started trading this morning. 79m shares were issued at £1 per share. The fund is domiciled in Guernsey and managed by Jim Shanahan and Bill Morgan from J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s High Yield team, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. JPSL will invest in a broadly diversified portfolio of floating-rate debt instruments, at least 80% […]
Geiger Counter has published its results for the year ended 30 September 2013. Over the year GCL’s NAV fell by 29% and its share price by 24%. The main problem for the fund (which is focused on the uranium market) has been the consequences of the Fukushima disaster on the current and potentially the future […]
Results for the six months ended 31 October 2013 show the fund underperforming its benchmark, the MSCI All Countries Asia Pacific ex Japan Index. Over the period ABD’s NAV fell by 4.4%, its share price by 7.9% and the index by 1.8%. The manager attributes this, in part, to ABD’s asset allocation (which is driven by […]
St. Peter Port is a fund of pre IPO investments (companies that are planning to list or have another exit opportunity for their shareholders in the offing). In its interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2013, SPPC announced that its net asset value fell by 10.4%. They attributed this, largely, to the strengthening of […]
Over the six months to end October 2013 MIGT delivered an NAV return of 6.8% – well ahead of its objective which is to beat 3 month LIBOR +3% with low volatility (MIGT’s annualised volatility was 8.3% over the period vs. 12.8% for the FTSE All-Share Index). MIGT’s Chairman has said that he believes the […]
GCP released results for the year ended 30 September 2013. It generated a return to shareholders of 9.8% – 7.6% of which came in the form of dividends – the NAV at the end of September was 104.3p. GCP will move to making quarterly dividend payments. the proceeds of the last issue are substantially invested […]
ARC will distribute $30m (the proceeds of its sale of Beijing Science & Technology Management and Goodbaby – the buggy manufacturer). The distribution will be achieved via mandatory purchase of c11.5% of each shareholding at $0.88 per share (around NAV). The ex date for the distribution is 17 December and proceeds are payable on 23 […]
Over the year to the end of October 2013 DNDL managed to deliver a 38.1% total return on net assets which, after some discount widening, translated into a 33.8% for shareholders. this compares to a 47.8% return on the FTSE Small cap. ex investment companies index. Underperformance is attributed by the Board and the manager […]