SQN Asset Finance Income Fund has announced that its C-share offer has completed raising £180m for the company. The issue was oversubscribed and so the company has scaled back applications in accordance with the terms set out in the Prospectus. The company says that the proceeds will be used to invest in a pipeline of […]
NextEnergy Solar Fund has announced that it has exchanged agreements to purchase three plants, Ellough Solar 2, Decoy and Hall Farm, with capacity of 18.0MWp and an investment value of £18.1m. The 8.0MWp Ellough Solar 2 will be an extension of the company’s existing Ellough plant (pictured). The plant is expected to be connected ahead […]
Lonmin plc has guided that it will more than halve its asset value and take an impairment charge of between US$1.85-2.05 billion when it releases it results for the financial year ended 30 September 2015, on 9 November. This follows the company’s adoption of a new business plan and financial restructuring that concentrates on lower […]
Electra proceeds with mandatory conversion – Electra Private Equity announced on 23 October 2015 its intention to exercise the mandatory conversion option in its 5% subordinated convertible bonds due 2017. The exercise of the option will automatically and mandatorily convert all of the outstanding Bonds into new ordinary shares of Electra. Electra has now announce that […]
Edinburgh Dragon Trust has announced its final results for the year ended 31 August 2015. During the year the trust’s NAV fell 12.4%, in total return terms, underperforming its MSCI All Country Asia (ex Japan) benchmark which fell 9.1% (all in sterling terms). During the period, the share price fell by 12.8% to 235.8p, as […]
Global Resources Investment Trust has announced that a fall in its net asset value, to 34.58p per share, means that its total assets equate 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 not […]
British Land has announced that it has let the first floor of Marble Arch House (pictured) to Cirrus Logic, a provider of analogue and digital signal processing equipment. This follows deals announced earlier this year to let the fourth and second floors to BXR Partners LLP (private investment) and GTECH (global gaming technology). Existing tenants include […]
Real Estate Investors has announced the acquisition of three properties located in the West Midlands for £22.23m. The acquisitions provide a net initial yield of 8.22% with a weighted average unexpired lease term (‘WAULT’) of 8.49 years. The properties produce a total annual rental income of £1,932,995 and the company says that there are a […]
Aureus Mining Inc has recommenced operations at its New Liberty gold mine, in Liberia, after the failure of the secondary crusher in mid-October, which has now been repaired. Meanwhile, the company has installed a temporary 200 t/hr mobile crushing unit, which enabled crushing and processing to recommence at the end of October. The company will […]
Custodian REIT has announced that it has acquired the ground floor and part of the first floor of a leisure development in Abbey Sands, Torquay (pictured). The investment comprises four food and drink outlets on the seafront, close to the marina and town centre, let to Le Bistro Pierre Limited, Las Iguanas Limited, Loungers Limited […]
John Laing Environmental Assets has announced the acquisition of a 4.2 MWp solar energy generation portfolio for £18.8m. The portfolio comprises 796 systems of residential rooftop, commercial rooftop and commercial ground mounted solar PV installations, distributed across England, Wales and Scotland. The portfolio benefits from the UK feed-in tariff for 25 years from the date […]
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust, managed by Alan Borrows and Simon Callow (pictured), has announced that it has put in place a two year short term rolling debt facility of £7m. The new facility replaces the two year short term rolling debt facility which expired on 31 October 2015. The margin on the new facility is […]
Assura has announced the acquisition of Abbey Healthcare Group Limited and Abbey Healthcare Property Investments Limited from its former shareholders Peter Archer and Gina Archer. As part of the consideration, payable under the terms of the acquisition, Assura has agreed to issue to the Sellers 2,229,072 ordinary shares to the sellers. Based on the closing […]
Treveria sold off its old property portfolio and gave cash back to shareholders but the listed company is still around and is being transformed into something else – it looks as though this will have something to do with the resources sector. Treveria has appointed Allenby Capital and Peterhouse Corporate Finance as joint-brokers. Peterhouse Corporate Finance has […]
The Board of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon has announced that Baillie Gifford, the Company’s Investment Manager, will appoint Praveen Kumar as portfolio manager of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon PLC with effect from 1 December 2015. After eight years as portfolio manager of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon, John MacDougall will take up another role within the […]
Manchester & London has published results for the year ended 31 July 2015. These show that the fund just outperformed its benchmark, the Dow Jones U.K. Total Stock Market Total Return Index, returning 5.0% on net assets vs. 4.8% for the index. The Directors are proposing a final ordinary dividend per share of 1.70p and […]
Aurora Investment Trust has published a half year report covering the six months ended 31 August 2015. The FTSE ALL-Share index declined by 8.3%, whereas the FTSE100 Index, on account of its high exposure to oils and commodities, fell by 10.0%. In comparison the Net Asset Value of the portfolio reduced by 5.7%. Management of […]
The Cayenne Trust has published its reconstruction / winding up proposals – fleshing out the ideas announced in mid-September. Under the Proposals, shareholders are entitled to roll over their investment in the Company into F&C Managed Portfolio Trust choosing either the Income portfolio, Growth portfolio or both. The other option is to elect for cash […]
According to its latest quarter report, after spending almost A$12 million in the September quarter in commissioning its Drakelands open pit mine at the Hemerdon tungsten/tin project, in Devon, Wolf Minerals reports that it has fully drawn down the £75 million senior debt finance. Drakelands is the first new metal mine to be built in the […]
Having successfully implement its investment policy in accordance with Rule 15 of the AIM rules, Kuala Innovations has fully invested all the money it had available. The Directors have proposed that the Company change its name to Fast Forward Innovations Limited (subject to shareholder approval) seemingly calling itself after Jim Mellon’s book “Fast Forward”. KUL […]
Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies has published results for the year ended 31 August 2015. Over that period it outperformed the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index and MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Small Cap Index, returning -8.4% against -9.1% and -9.4% for the indices respectively. The dividend was maintained at 11.5p – the Board say it […]
Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate has conditionally acquired a portfolio of nine offices in Italy fully let to the Italian government. The portfolio is being acquired from InvestiRE SGR, as the management company of the closed-end mutual property investment fund known as Fondo Immobili Pubblici (“FIP”). The portfolio net purchase price is EUR185.5 million, reflecting […]
Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust has agreed to issue £30m of 30 year Senior Secured Fixed Rate notes at a coupon of 3.99%, subject to final documentation being entered into. The purpose of this transaction is to obtain fixed rate long dated Sterling denominated financing at a price that the Company considers attractive. The Company […]
Physical gold demand was up 7% in Q3 from a year ago according to the latest report on the gold market by GFMS. In its just-published Q3 Gold Survey, the consultancy group reports that the increase was because of an increase in net official sector buying and a marked improvement in the level of retail […]
Aberdeen Asian Smaller Companies has announced results for the year ended 31 July 2015. The net asset value total return for the period was -4.7%. This compares poorly to a fall in the MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex Japan Index of -1.2% and the MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex Japan Small Cap Index’s return of -0.8%. For […]
Over the six months to the end of August 2015 BlackRock Smaller Companies’ net asset value increased by 9.0% to 1039.98p per share, outperforming its benchmark (the Numis Smaller Companies plus AIM (excluding Investment Companies) Index) by 6.6%. The Company’s share price increased by 14.0% to 925.5p per share over the same period. The FTSE […]
BBGI is a 50% equity investor in the consortium that will design, build, finance, operate and maintain the infrastructure for a period of 30 years. The North Commuter Parkway Project involves the replacement of the 107-year-old Traffic Bridge in Saskatoon’s downtown core as well as the development of a new six-lane bridge crossing the South […]
Over the six months ended 31 August 2015, Thai equities dropped sharply. The SET Index fell by 19.2% on a sterling-adjusted basis. Aberdeen New Thai’s net asset value was similarly affected, falling 20.0% while the share price declined by 20.4% on a total return basis, to reach 357.6p. The baht’s depreciation against the pound during the period amplified […]
JPMorgan Private Equity has announced that the it is in discussions to potentially transfer the existing investment management contract from JPMorgan Asset Management to an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group LLC. As part of the deal, JPEL’s Board understands that the investment management team that has been responsible for managing the fund since its inception in 2005 (led […]
