Utilico Investments shareholders approve name change. As part of its annual results release in September, the board of Utilico Investments announced that, given the continued diversification of the portfolio away from utilities, they considered it appropriate for the company to change its name to UIL Limited. A resolution to approve the name change has now been passed […]
LXB Retail Properties has published an update on further pre-lets at a number of the Group’s investment properties and on planning consent for the Group’s first Living Villages project. Living Villages – Higher Newham, Truro The Strategic Planning Committee at Cornwall Council recently resolved to grant planning permission for the Group’s Higher Newham Farm proposals […]
The Bidco Board and the Japanese Residential Investment Company Board are pleased to announce that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash offer by Bidco for the entire issued, and to be issued, share capital of JRIC. Bidco is a newly-incorporated entity indirectly wholly-owned and controlled by the Blackstone Funds. Blackstone […]
Empiric student property has announced that it has exchanged contracts, subject to planning, on a forward funded development in Glasgow. The scheme, known as 155 George Street (pictured), is an 89 bed premium student accommodation development. The total investment is £9.6m, which is to be invested in stages against development milestones. Empiric is to acquire the […]
Following on from its announcement at the end of September, Standard Life Property Investments has published details of its £100m fund raising and acquisition of a Jersey Property Unit Trust (JPUT). Standard Life Property Investments has entered into the conditional Acquisition Agreement in relation to the acquisition of a new portfolio of 22 UK commercial real […]
Kuala Innovations has published interim figures covering the six months to the end of September 2015. Over the six months the NAV rose from 1.69p to 2.57p. the company made a loss for the period of 0.46p. The uplift largely reflects share issues the company made at 5p per share during the period. Since then the company has […]
Martin Currie Asia Unconstrained (formerly Martin Currie Pacific) has announced its interim results for the half-year ended 30 September 2015. During the period the trust, managed by Andrew Graham (pictured), has reportedly given up most of the gains made in the previous financial year to 31 March 2015. On a total return basis, the trust’s NAV […]
Standard Life Equity Income has announced results for the year ended 30 September 2015. Over that period, the fund’s total return on net assets was an impressive 14.1% as compared to a -2.3% return on the FTSE All-Share Index. The Chairman believes that good stock selection and being prepared to hold a portfolio which is […]
Greencoat UK Wind proposes to raise £50m. Greencoat UK Wind has announced that it intends to raise up to £50m through a placing of its ordinary shares by way of a tap issue to institutional investors. Tim Ingram, Chairman of the company, has said that they are currently working towards a particular acquisition and that […]
Assura has announced that, following its recent equity raise, it has repaid £181m of long term debt held by Aviva Commercial Finance, with associated early repayment costs of £34m. The weighted average interest rate on the loans redeemed was 5.4%. This repayment is in line with the debt reduction plan announced in the company’s prospectus […]
Global Resources Investment Trust announced on the 2 November that, as a result of its NAV falling to 34.58p per share, its total assets equated to 3.94x the value of its convertible. One of the covenants that GRIT has been obliged to abide by, since the convertibles were issued, is that the asset cover on the convertibles should […]
The World Gold Council (“WGC”) reported some good news for gold this morning in its quarterly “Gold Demand Trends” publication for Q3 2015. Gold demand climbed 8% to 1,121 t from Q3 2014 as demand for jewellery grew 6% year-on-year with lower prices during July and early August attracting consumers. The quarter under review was […]
Schroder Oriental Income Fund, chaired by Robert Sinclair (pictured), has announced its results for the year ended 31 August 2015, during which the company’s NAV fell by 5.8% and its share price by 6.1%. However these are both appreciably ahead of the performance of the Company’s reference index, the MSCI AC Pacific (ex Japan) Index, […]
Northern Investors has released its interim report for the half-year ended 30 September 2015. The company continues to follow its realisation strategy and, during the period, the number of holdings in the portfolio was reduced further from 15 to 12. Investment sales during the period generated total cash proceeds of £2.5m. The NAV per share […]
JPMorgan Japanese, managed by Nicholas Weindling (Pictured), has announced its final results for the year ended 30 September 2015 during which the companies NAV rose 14.7% (total return in sterling terms), outperforming its benchmark TOPIX index, which returned 6.0%. The share price performance was stronger returning 19.5% during the year. Over three years the Company’s […]
Gabelli Value Plus+ Trust has announced its first set of interim results for the period between 19 February and 30 September 2015. During the period the trust’s NAV fell 6.4% in total return terms underperforming the S&P 500 which fell 5.5% during the period (in Sterling adjusted terms). Share price total return during the period […]
F&C UK Real Estate, managed by Ian McBryde (pictured), announced in its interim results, released on 29 September, that the Board had been considering refinancing the company’s existing loan facility with Lloyds Bank, which is due for repayment in January 2017, and had agreed terms to refinance this through a new long-term term loan facility with Canada […]
Great Portland Estates has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015. During this period, the company’s EPRA NAV per share has increased 14% to £8.08. The company’s EPRA profit before tax of £24.3m for the period is up 15.7% year-on-year whilst its EPRA EPS of 6.9p is an increase of 16.9%. […]
Workspace Group has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015. During the period the company’s EPRA NAV per share increased by 12.7% to £ 7.92 (from £7.03 as at 31 March 2015). Within this, the underlying property valuation has increased by 9.6% £1,6312m (31 March 2015: £1,423m). Profit before tax for […]
Land Securities has announced interim results covering the six months ended 30 September 2015. The adjusted diluted NAV rose 5.7% to 1367p (total return 7.0%) while the adjusted diluted EPS rose by 8.4% to 23.2p helped by a fall in vacant space within the portfolio (from 3.2% to 2.8%). The dividend is being increased by 3.2% […]
Globalworth Real Estate Investments Ltd has announced the acquisition of Skanska’s second building in the Green Court Bucharest project. The gross transaction value is approximately Euro 47 million. Closing of the acquisition is expected in December 2015. Green Court Bucharest is a prestigious, newly built class-A office park comprising three buildings, strategically located in Bucharest’s new […]
Ranger Direct Lending, which listed in May and is still only 76% invested (as at 9 November), says it is planning a C share issue to raise up to £135m. They say they anticipate full deployment of Ranger’s equity capital by early December, within its stated target of fully deploying the net proceeds raised at IPO […]
Chelverton Growth Trust has announced results for the year ended 31 August 2015. Unfortunately the fund underperformed its benchmark index – the net asset value rose by 6.95% while the MSCI UK Small cap Index rose by 9.77%. Since the year end though they have had some good news as their largest investment (37% of […]
Hg Capital has announced that it has agreed the sale of Casa Reha, a leading private German provider of elderly care services, specialising in high quality, assisted living, to Euronext-listed Korian, a leading European provider of elderly health care services. Completion is subject to regulatory approval. Hg Capital Trust will realise cash proceeds of approximately […]
Securities Trust of Scotland generated a return on net assets of -10.7% over the six months ended 30 September 2015. By contrast, the fund’s benchmark, MSCI World High Dividend Yield Index, returned -9.1%. The discount widened from 5.75 to 7.5% and so the return to shareholders was -12.5%. The dividend was increased from 2.3p to […]
British Empire underperformed its benchmark over the year that ended on 30 September 2015, delivering a total return on net assets of -8.3% against a -5.6% return for the MSCI All Country World ex-US Index. The Morningstar Investment Trust Global Index rose by 3.7% over the period. The discount widened slightly from 10.3% to 11.6% (despite them […]
Empiric Student Property is paying £40m to acquire Windsor house in Cardiff. The property, which is Empiric’s fourth acquisition in Cardiff, is located directly opposite the Group’s existing Summit House property on Windsor Place, in the city centre within a ten-minute walk from the University of Cardiff. Cardiff is also home to Cardiff Metropolitan University […]
AEW UK REIT has announced that it has secured a £40m 5 year term loan facility with RBS International. AEW UK REIT has approximately £81m invested. It will use the Facility to continue its investment process once net IPO proceeds have been fully invested and to provide gearing of up to 20% loan to Net Asset […]
JPMorgan Overseas, managed by Jeroen Huysinga (pictured), has announced that shareholders have approved the sub-division of the company’s 25p ordinary shares, on a five for one basis, into 5p ordinary shares. The sub-division is to take place following admission of any new shares to be issued in connection with the final exercise of the Company’s subscription […]
