Rockcastle Global Real Estate, which invests in Eastern Europe, grew its aggregate distribution 12.1% in the six months to December because of a strong performance from its Polish shopping centres. On Wednesday, CEO Spiro Noussis said his company changed its financial year-end from June 30 to December 31 in order to better align itself with the market in which it operated. It therefore released financial results for the eighteen months to December, wherein it declared a distribution of 5.189 US cents per share for the period July 1 2016 to December 31. This, combined with 4.782c per share for the period January 1 2016 to June 30 and 4.631c per share for the period July 1 2015 to December 31, resulted in an aggregate distribution of 14.602c per share for the 18-month period to December 31 2016. Noussis said Rockcastle expected to be 90% invested in direct property and 10% in listed securities by the end of 2017. Rockcastle is in the process of merging with Romanian shopping centre ow...

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