Invesco Income Growth’s Board has negotiated a change to the management fee. With effect from 1 April 2015, the fee will be 0.65% on the first £150m of market capitalisation and 0.55% above this level. The fee was 0.7% up to £100m, 0.6% on the next £50m and 0.55% on the next £50m and was based on funds […]
Dunedin Enterprise has reported a -0.4% total return on net assets for the year ended 31 December 2014. However the share price fell as the fund’s discount widened and the return to shareholders was -15.8%. The discount stood at 33% when they published these figures. They are paying a final dividend of 4.7p. The fund […]
SVG Capital has announced results for the thirteen months ended 31 January 2015. Over the period the company’s net asset value rose by 14% to 588p (from a total return on the investment portfolio of 17%). £330m of cash was generated by the portfolio during the period and the company returned £205m to shareholders – £100m via tenders and […]
Public Service Properties has announced its results for the year ended 31 December 2014. These have in large measure been superseded by the sale of its UK care home market and ancillary businesses for cash on 4 March 2015 and the sale of three of its German care homes in November 2014 and January 2015. […]
The Renewables Infrastructure Group is paying £8.6m to buy the Four Burrows solar farm in Cornwall. The plant has a generating capacity of 7.2MWp. It is located near Truro and is already operational – and has been since January 2015. It should qualify under the 1.4 ROC subsidy regime therefore but, if it doesn’t, the […]
Better Capital has the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of CAV Aerospace Limited from an overseas holding company. CAV is a specialist aerospace manufacturing business, which supplies complex metallic components and sub-assemblies to several major original equipment manufacturers including Airbus, Embraer and Gulfstream. The company operates from seven sites – four in the […]
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies published their results for the year ended 31 December 2014 yesterday. These show that the fund outperformed its benchmark, the Russell 2000 Index as the net asset value rose by 12.8% against 11.1% for the Index. Unfortunately however the discount widened out, leaving the return to shareholders at 5.6%. In the […]
Fundsmith Emerging Equities has published its inaugural results that cover the period from its incorporation on 31 October 2013 to 31 December 2014. The fund didn’t really get going until June 2014 however – it listed on 25 June 2014. Over the period the fund underperformed its benchmark, the MSCI Emerging and Frontier Markets Index, by 0.8% […]
International Public Partnerships has followed up its investment in schools in the North East with a £10.2m investment in the Amber schools project which covers schools in Hertfordshire, Luton and Reading. The project will support the development of seven secondary schools on existing sites. Total capital expenditure on the schools in this batch is £144 […]
Alliance Trust has published its rejection of Elliott’s proposals. for the sake of completeness we have reproduced the entire statement below but the thrust of it is that Elliott’s nominees wouldn’t be independent, would have a short-term agenda, might initiate moves that could threaten the dividend and the jobs of 250 Alliance Trust employees. They […]
India Capital Growth’s net asset value rose by 50.3% over the course of 2014, an impressive result but unfortunately quite a bit less than the company’s benchmark, the BSE Mid Cap Index, which returned 63.2%. The MSCI India index returned 28.75 over the same period. The Chairman makes the point that the BSE Index contains a number of […]
EPE Special Opportunities saw its net asset value rise by 5% over the year to the end of January 2015 but this modest increased was dwarfed by a 31% rise in its share price. They have £9.96m in net cash in the portfolio, plenty they say, to fund new investment opportunities. Major exits from the […]
Henderson High Income’s results for the year that finished on 31 December 2014 are quite good. The total return on net assets was 7.5% and the return to shareholders was 8.1%. these figures compare to a return on their benchmark, a composite of 80% of the FTSE All-Share Index (total return) and 20% of the […]
Edinburgh Partners Global Opportunities returned 2.2% on net assets over the course of 2014, better than the 1.2% return on the FTSE All-Share index but well behind the 11.3% returned generated by the FTSE All-World Index. The Board aims to pay a dividend of 3.3p for the year (from revenues of 3.7p). The portfolio’s focus […]
Shaftesbury has announced that it has secured a new £130m term loan with Aviva Commercial Finance Limited for 15 years until March 2030.The loan is secured on certain properties held in a subsidiary company and has a fixed interest rate of 3.2% throughout the term. On drawing down the loan from Aviva, Shaftesbury is to […]
Burford Capital has, with its recent final results announcement for the year ended 31 December 2014, posted a 43% increase in its operating profit to $60.7m (2013: $42.5m). This represents a 17% return on equity. The company is also proposing a 34% increase in the dividend to 7.00c per share (2013: 5.23c). Burford saw a 35% increase […]
MirLand Development Corporation’s final results, for the year ended 31 December 2014, show an 18% increase in total revenues from investment properties. The company says this is due to both an increase in income from yielding assets as well as full consolidation of the Vernissage Mall in Yaroslavl. However, Mirland has also suffered a loss of $62.9m, during 2014, due to the […]
British land has announced a £50m refurbishment of its Meadhowhall Shopping Centre (pictured), to mark its 25th anniversary. The refurbishment, which focuses on the centre’s interior, starts in Autumn 2015 and will be completed by the end of 2017, and will create distinct ‘districts’ within the centre. The works will largely be completed out of hours to enable all […]
Black Sea Property has sent its shareholders a circular to convene an extraordinary general meeting at which it wants them to approve proposals to recommence investment activities in the residential real estate, holiday homes, commercial real estate and distressed real estate markets of Bulgaria, to adopt a new investing policy, appoint a new investment advisor, extend the […]
Over the course of 2014 Fidelity European Values generated a total return on net assets of 5.1% – well ahead of the 0.2% return generated by the FTSE All-World Europe ex UK Index, its benchmark. Shareholders did even better as the fund’s discount narrowed from 7.9% to 4.6%, pushing the return to shareholders up to […]
Haversham Holdings, which Marwyn invested in on its listing last year, has been linked to a £1.2bn bid for British Car Auctions, the owners of the webuyanycar.com website. An article in today’s Times says the two companies are in advanced talks. Haversham Holdings has confirmed that it is in “very advanced discussions which might lead to […]
RAB Special Situations’ results for 2014 show its net asset value falling from 16.83p to 11.43p – almost a third. 1.36p of the fall came from preparing the accounts on the basis that the fund is no longer a going concern. This was done on the basis that the Board thinks shareholders will vote against […]
Elliott Advisors, which holds a 12% stake in Alliance Trust, has today called for three directors of its choosing to be put onto the Alliance Trust Board. They say they have concerns over corporate governance which they have raised with the company but didn’t feel they were getting a meaningful response. The three nominees are Anthony […]
