3i infrastructure increases its 2014 full year dividend by 4.4%

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3i infrastructure increases its 2014 full year dividend by 4.4%

Performance highlights

 

FY2015

FY2014

Total return materially above annual target

Total return of £267 million for the year, or 24.6% on opening
Net Asset Value ("NAV"), materially above the target of 10%. Strong performance driven by the value uplift from the realisation of our interest in Eversholt Rail and valuation gains across our European Core investments

24.6%

Total return on
opening NAV1

6.6%

Total return on
opening NAV1

Strong growth in NAV per share to 149.9 pence at 31 March 2015

149.9p

NAV per share

126.4p

NAV per share

Proposed dividend ahead of target level

Total proposed dividend of 7.0 pence per share (£61.7 million in aggregate), or 5.7% on opening NAV, ahead of the objective for FY2015 of 5.5% (6.77 pence per share)

7.0p

Total proposed
dividend per share

6.7p

Total
dividend per share

Good level of new investment

£114.2 million committed to the investment in two further oil storage terminals with Oiltanking in Belgium and the Netherlands and to five new primary PPP investments in France, the Netherlands and the UK

£114.2m

Investment commitments

£80.3m

Investment commitments

Robust portfolio income

Portfolio income of £79.5 million, in line with prior year

£79.5m

Portfolio income2

£82.3m

Portfolio income2

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