Coral Portfolio are delighted to announce a joint initiative alongside The Fund Aid Foundation (UK-registered charity No 1122675 www.fundaidfoundation.org) a non-profit making charitable platform focused on raising significant donations from the Financial Services and Fund Management industries for children’s charities.

Lawrence Frampton, co-founder of Coral Portfolio commented:

“Fund Aid was launched with the intention of supporting children’s charities that have been carefully selected not only through their individual need but their efficiency in allocating capital raised to provide the required results. We hope to rapidly expand both the charities supported and list of donors over the coming months. It is particularly important in today’s current climate to support these worthwhile charities and Coral are delighted …

Leading specialist, Knight Frank, have forecast a continuing positive outlook for the student accommodation sector with the average blended UK investment return projected at 9.2%.

In their recent research publication, James Pullan, head of Knight Frank Student Accommodation, says, “Student property is one of the most successful real estate asset classes, thanks to stability of demand for student bedrooms from all over the UK. The market is still structurally undersupplied in all core University cities”.

More detail can be found in the attached summary.

The Coral Student Portfolio share price for GBP Class A increased by a further 0.63% during March moving to £1.4325 per share. Coral built up its cash reserves in March in anticipation of some sizeable investments over the coming weeks. We are in advanced negotiations on assets both in the UK and overseas and are just waiting on completion of legal review of contracts.

Over the 12 month period up to 31/12/2012, the fund’s total return for Class A GBP shares was 9.09%, year to date (to 31/3/13) for 2013 is 1.83%. Coral have also now passed its 4th anniversary for Class A shares with a total net return of 43.25% and an annualised …