Cambium Global Timberland Final Results have been released. These cover the year that ended on 30 April 2014. Over this time Cambium’s net asset value fell to 40p from 59p. Almost 40% of this relates to currency movements but the bulk relates to changes in the value of their investments. $17.6m was raised from the […]
Globalworth Real Estate acquisition of Timisoara Airport Park Globalworth Real Estate is buying a light industrial complex north east of Timisoara (close to Traian Vuia International Airport in western Romania). Valeo (car parts) and Continental (tyres) occupy c73,000 sqm of space and have options to extend that to c113,000 sqm. Globalworth is paying €18m up front […]
GCP Infrastructure is investing £16.5m in GCP Education 1 – this will finance the acquisition of the debt related to a school PPP. With this deal, GCP Infrastructure has invested 64% of the money it raised for its C share and this is enough to trigger the merger of the C share and ordinary share classes. […]
LMS Capital has published its interim figures for the six months ended 30 June 2014. £40.5m was realised from the portfolio and £40m returned to shareholders by way of a tender during the period. In addition a net £5m was generated from their fund investments. The net asset value rose to 94p from 88p despite […]
JPMorgan Private Equity has sold its interest in Parallel Private Equity LP. This fund made investments into European middle-market companies – starting in 2007 / 2008. JPMorgan Private Equity is getting $36.1m for its stake in the fund (a price equivalent to 96.25% of Parallel’s net asset value). The deal also releases JPMorgan Private Equity […]
Electra Partners has spent £49m adding to its portfolio of holiday parks. It bought two parks – Southview in Skegness, Lincolnshire and Manor Park in Hunstanton, Norfolk – spending £20m of its own money and securing a debt facility from Investec. The two parks bring a nine hole golf course and a four star hotel, the Southview […]
Private Equity Investor saw its net asset value fall slightly over the year to the end of March 2014 (from 230.8p to 228.4p) but this was almost entirely attributable to the strength of Sterling over the period as, in US dollar terms (most of the assets are in the US) the net asset value rose by […]
European Assets Trust has published its interim figures covering the six months ended 30 June 2014. Over the period European Assets Trust underperformed its benchmark – the total return on net assets was 2.5% in Sterling terms vs. 6.6% for the Euromoney Smaller European companies ex UK Index. The fund’s rating improved however and so […]
The Invesco Perpetual Select Trust Balanced Risk portfolio, managed by Scott Wolle (pictured), generated a total return on net assets of 5.5% over the year that ended on 31 May 2014. Its discount widened however so that the return to shareholders was 4.5%. The net asset return matched the return on 3 month LIBOR+5%. The biggest […]
The Invesco Perpetual Select Trust Global Equity Income portfolio (managed by Nick Mustoe – pictured) generated a total return on net assets of 9.1% over the year that ended on 31 May 2014. Its discount widened however so that the return to shareholders was 8.3%. This was still better than the return on the MSCI […]
The Invesco Perpetual Select Trust UK Equity portfolio generated a total return on net assets of 18.3% over the year that ended on 31 May 2014. Its discount widened however so that the return to shareholders was 9.2%. This was still better than the return on the FTSE All-Share Index (+8.9%). The dividend for the […]
Kennedy Wilson Europe is buying a portfolio of debt secured against 13 real estate assets, comprising primarily offices, industrial, retail and residential properties. The cost to KWE is €75m. The largest three assets in this group are: The Times Building (pictured), a 67,000 sq ft, Grade A office building in Dublin City Centre let to the […]
Intu Properties has released interim results covering the six months ended 30 June 2014. A 7.6% uplift in the value of its shopping centres (well ahead of the 3.5% increase in the equivalent IPD index) has pushed the net asset value up to 372p. Like for like rental income was impacted by upcoming developments (a […]
Fidelity Japanese Values saw its net asset value return 4.2% over the six months ended 30 June 2014. This compares favourably with the Russell Nomura mid/Small Cap index which returned 0.9%. The discount widened slightly and the return to shareholders was 3.5%. The fund’s gearing (in the form of contracts for difference) helped but it […]
New Europe Property Investments says its net asset value (after adding back deferred tax) rose to 3.89 from 3.70 over the first half of 2014. Recurring income rose by 19% when compared to the first half of 2013. The company is paying a distribution to shareholders of 14.87 euro cents per share. The company says […]
Doric Nimrod Air One has published accounts covering the year to the end of March 2014. There has been no change to the 2.25p per quarter dividend payment and the company has not changed the residual value of the aircraft it owns. The net asset value rose to 107p from 92p – this largely reflects […]
Doric Nimrod Air Two has published accounts covering the year to the end of March 2014. There has been no change to the 4.5p per quarter dividend payment and the company has not changed the residual value of the aircraft it owns. The net asset value rose to 203.8p from 168.7p – this largely reflects foreign exchange […]
Doric Nimrod Air Three has published accounts covering the year to the end of March 2014. The company paid its first dividend in October 2013 of 0.1715p and a second dividend of 1.7185p in January 2014. From now on the company will be paying dividends of 2.0625p per quarter. The company has not changed the residual value […]
Schroder Real Estate has sold a 9.1 acre site in Hinckley for £4.525m (a £675,000 uplift on the last valuation). The buyer is Redrow Homes who will build houses on the site in Coventry Road, Hinckley – Schroder Real Estate secured planning for 122 residential units last August. The fund gets 50% of the consideration upfront […]
RCM Technology has reported its results for the six months ended 31 may 2014. Over that period the net asset value fell by 0.1%, this does not compare well with the return on the Dow Jones World Technology index which gained 7.6%. The share price fell by 3.6%. The result for this period should be set […]
Schroder Income Growth Fund has a fee structure today based on a percentage of the net revenue return (10%), a percentage of assets (0.375% on assets up to and including £75m, 0.35% on the next £50m, and 0.325% on assets in excess of £125m) and a performance fee (a symmetrical arrangement where the manager lost […]
Foreign & Colonial, which is now managed by Paul Niven (pictured) has released its interims. these cover the first half of 2014. Over that period the net asset value rose by 1.1% and the share price return was 0.8%. By comparison the benchmark return was 3.2%. The UK, North American, European and Emerging Market equity portfolios underperformed comparable […]
Japan Residential Investment Company has published interim figures for the period ended 31 May 2014. The net asset value climbed from 58.7p to 58.9p and the company paid a distribution of 1.8p per share (covered 94.7% by earnings). The property portfolio rose in value by 1.8% but this was offset by a fall in the […]
Riverstone Energy has published its first interim statement covering the period from 1 January 2014 to 30 June 2014. At the end of the period the net asset value per share was $16 and its shares were trading at a 1% discount to this. In Sterling terms the share price had fallen by 7.5% since launch […]
Better Capital has published results for the year ended 31 March 2014 for its two cells – the original (“2009”) cell, Better Capital : BCAP, and the 2012 cell – Better Capital 2012 : BC12. The net asset value of the 2009 cell fell by 10.7% or £31.2m over the year as the company wrote […]
ARC Capital, which is currently suspended, has released another update on the sale of Funtalk (it was hoping to get at least $137.3m for its stake). The situation is complex and so we have included the full text of the announcement below but in summary it looks as though that rather than ARC Capital selling […]
Law Debenture’s share price total return was flat over the first half of 2014. Its net asset value total return was 3.4%. The equivalent return o the FTSE All-Share Index was 1.6%. The income from the fiduciary services business fell by 0.3% but this was more than offset by revenue flowing from the equity portfolio […]
SEGRO has bought the other half of a logistics joint venture it invested in alongside Moorfield Real Estate Fund II. The jv owns 12 logistics warehouses, covering 377,000 sq ft, mostly in the South East and Midlands, is fully let (to the likes of Sainsbury, Tesco, DHL, Booker and Royal Mail) and has an average […]
Henderson High Income generated a net asset value total return of 3.6% over the first half of 2014 – 2% ahead of the 1.6% return delivered by the FTSE All-Share Index and ahead of the fund’s benchmark which returned 2.3%. The dividend for the first half was 4.25p as compared to 4.15p for the equivalent […]
Aberforth Geared Income has published its results covering the year to the end of June 2014. Over the year the total return on the company was 29.2% (well ahead of the return on the Numis Smaller Companies Index ex Investment Companies +20.3% and the FTSE All-Share Index +13.1%), the gearing effect of the company’s zero […]
