NextEnergy Solar is paying up to £17.8m to acquire a 16.5 MWp solar plant at Croydon in Cambridgeshire. The plant was connected to the grid on 2 March 2015 and so will qualify for the 1.4 ROC subsidy regime. The plant was constructed under an Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract negotiated by NESF’s investment advisor, […]
BBGI has announced results for calendar year 2014, reporting a 3.5% increase in net asset value to 109.2p. The dividend for the year was 5.76p, a 4.7% increase on the 2013 figure. The combination of this and the fund’s premium meant that the total return to shareholders was 10.8% for the year. The average discount […]
F&C Private Equity has published results for the year ended 31 December 2014. The total return to shareholders over this period was 10.3%. This was made up of a net asset value total return of 7.3% and a narrowing of the fund’s discount. They are paying dividends totalling 10.84p for the year which puts the […]
The Board of Monks has announced changes to the management of that fund. Gerald Smith is being replaced by Charles Plowden and he will be assisted by Spencer Adair and Malcolm MacColl as new deputy managers. The announcement says the change takes place with immediate effect. The Trust will now be managed from Baillie Gifford’s […]
DW Catalyst Fund Limited (the former BH Credit Catalysts) has reported results for the year that ended on 31 December 2014. Over the year the net asset value of the US dollar shares rose by 5.4% and the Sterling shares rose by 5.5%. DW Partners took on responsibility for the fund on 1 January 2015 […]
International Public Partnerships has mapped out its planed dividend increases for the next couple of years as it reports its final results for the year ended 31 December 2014. The full year dividend for 2014 was 6.3p, up from 6.15p in 2013. The Board says the minimum target for 2015 is 6.45p and for 2016 […]
GLI Finance (where the author is a non-executive director) has announced its results for 2014. Over the year GLI’s net asset value rose from 50p to 51p. Revenues were depressed by the sale of the fund’s CLO portfolio to Fair Oaks Income Fund in the middle of last year (Fair Oaks didn’t pay its first […]
Baillie Gifford Japan’s interim results, which cover the six months ended 28 February 2015, are pretty good. The net asset value total return was 20.5% over this period – 8.2% more than the return on the TOPIX. Stock selection was the major factor behind the outperformance. The statement highlights Baillie Giford Japan’s “active share” figure of 87%. […]
Highcroft Investments has published results for the year ended 31 December 2014. Over the year the fund’s net asset value rose by 12% to 923p. Gross property rental income rose by 13% to £3.1m, underpinning a 36p distribution to shareholders, up from 33.75p for 2013. The rental income increase was fuelled by the acquisitions they […]
The Board of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust plc has been advised by BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited that Ralph Cox, the lead portfolio manager for its Contracts for Difference (CFD) portfolio, has decided to take an extended career break and has resigned from BlackRock. The Board is pleased to announce that, with immediate effect, Dan Whitestone […]
Final results for The North American Income Trust for the year that ended 31 January 2014 show the fund delivering an 18.9% return on net assets, which isn’t bad but does lag the 25.0% return on the S&P500 Index by some margin. The fund’s discount widened from 5% to 7.9% over the year and so […]
BH Macro has published figures for 2014. They say the environment for their macro-trading strategies got more favourable towards the end of the year but this just offset poor performance earlier in the year and the return on net assets for 2014 as a whole turned out to be 0.26%. The Chairman’s statement says the weaker […]
TwentyFour Asset Management LLP, managers of TwentyFour Income Fund and TwentyFour Select Monthly Income, has announced that Vontobel is taking a 60% stake in it. “Vontobel will acquire a 60% shareholding in TwentyFour, with the working partners retaining a 40% stake in the business. The partners remain fully committed to TwentyFour with long-term lock-ins. The Investment Manager will […]
DP Aircraft One, which owns two Dreamliners (Boeing 787s) that are leased to Norwegian Air Shuttle, has announced its first set of results covering the period from 5 July 2013 (when it was incorporated), through its launch in October 2013 and up to the 31 December 2014. The net asset value at the end of the period […]
Brevan Howard Global reports net asset value growth of 2.5% for the US dollar share class and 2.1% for the Sterling share class. The Chairman makes the point that “An investment in the shares of BH Global is intended to be a portfolio diversifier that is only modestly correlated with equity markets and is subject […]
John Laing Infrastructure’s results for the period ended 31 December 2014 have been published. Its net asset value rose by 2.3% to 109.3p. A combination of dividends and a rising premium helped push the total shareholder return up to 12.6%. They increased the final dividend by 3.85% to 3.375p making a total dividend of 6.625p for the […]
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 […]
Trading Emissions has drawn up its accounts under IFRS10 for the first time and has restated its figures for previous years accordingly. On the new basis, its net asset value fell from 15.2p to 15.1p over the second half of 2014. The fall is largely down to increased provisions for legal expenses. The Chinese counterparties to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
