Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 2121Q

Macau Property Opportunities Fund

07 April 2009

 



Macau Property Opportunities Fund Limited

(the 'Company')

Director Shareholding

The Board of the Company received notification today that Sniper Investments Limited ('Sniper Investments') has acquired a further 100,000 ordinary shares of US$0.01 each ('Ordinary Shares') in the Company at the following prices:

70,000 shares at 61.3p on 3 April 2009

30,000 shares at 63.0p on 6 April 2009

Tom Ashworth and Martin Tacon, directors of the Company's Manager, Sniper Capital Limited, (the 'Principals') have a beneficial interest in Sniper Investments. Tom Ashworth is also a non-executive director of the Company. Sniper Investments is therefore a connected person of both of the Principals.

Following this acquisition, Sniper Investments has a direct beneficial interest, and the Principals have an indirect beneficial interest, in the Company of 3,262,500 Ordinary Shares, representing 3.11% of the issued share capital of the Company.

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About Macau Property Opportunities Fund

Macau Property Opportunities Fund Limited, which raised £105 million in a placing and commenced trading on AIM in 2006, is a closed-end investment fund registered in Guernsey. The Company's investment policy is to provide shareholders with an attractive total return through investing in property opportunities in one of the world's fastest growing and most dynamic regions - Macau and the Western Pearl River Delta of Southern China.

The Fund is managed by Sniper Capital Limited, an independent investment manager that specialises in property investment opportunities in niche, undervalued and developing markets.

For further information:

Website: www.mpofund.com

Public Relations

Hogarth Partnership Limited

Andrew Jaques / Anna Keeble

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Nominated Adviser & Joint Broker

Collins Stewart Europe Limited

David Yovichic / Hugh Field

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Joint Broker

Shore Capital Stockbrokers Limited

Dru Danford

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Company Secretary & Administrator

Heritage International Fund Managers Limited

Mark Huntley / Laurence McNairn

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Manager

Sniper Capital Limited

Daisy Tang, Corporate & Investor Communications

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Email: [e-mail]

www.snipercapital.com

Stock Codes: 

Bloomberg:  MPO LN

Reuters: MPO.L

 

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