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28 Nov 2017 4 min read
Keystone portfolio shaken up under James Goldstone
Keystone portfolio shaken up under James Goldstone – Keystone has published results for the year ended 30 September 2017. It lagged its benchmark, the All-Share index, over the period, returning 7.8% in NAV terms against 11.9% for the index. The discount widened from 8.4% to 12.6% and so the return to shareholders was 3.2%. The total […]
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07 Jun 2017 3 min read
Healthier tobacco helps Securities Trust of Scotland outperform
Healthier tobacco helps Securities Trust of Scotland outperform. Mark Whitehead, head of Martin Currie’s newly resourced income team, was appointed as portfolio manager of Securities Trust of Scotland in May 2016. Since taking over, Mark has repositioned the portfolio with a greater focus on companies that exhibit growth and have a strong degree of security in their […]
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01 Jun 2017 6 min read
Perpetual Income & Growth suffers being underweight resources
Perpetual Income & Growth (PLI) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2017. During the period, it provided an NAV total return of 9.6%. It’s chairman, Bill Alexander (pictured), says that Although this is satisfying in absolute terms, it is less so when compared with the 22.0% return posted by the […]
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30 May 2017 5 min read
Edinburgh Investment Trust held back by lack mining exposure, HSBC and Royal Dutch Shell
Edinburgh Investment Trust held back by lack mining exposure, HSBC and Royal Dutch Shell. While the UK market returned 22%, for the year ended 31 March 2017, Edinburgh Investment Trust’s net asset value total return was +14.4% and the share price total return (with dividends reinvested) was +11.2%. The share price ended the year at 713.5p, an increase […]
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13 Dec 2016 2 min read
New co-manager on Lowland
Lowland Investment Company says that its net asset total return for the year ended 30 September 2016 was 12.2% which compares to a 16.8% return for the UK market and an 8.6% return on the Numis Smaller Companies Index. The total dividend for the year will be 45p, which is an increase of 9.8% over […]
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28 Nov 2016 2 min read
Troy Income & Growth benefits from consumer staples exposure
Troy Income & Growth delivered a total return on net assets of 14.7% and a share price total return of 14.8% for the year ended 30 September 2016. By contrast, the return on the UK market was 16.8%. The fourth interim dividend of 0.625p represented a 4.2% increase on the dividend of 0.6p paid each […]
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24 Nov 2016 3 min read
Invesco Income Growth hit by a few profit warnings
Invesco Income Growth reports that the total return on net asset value over the half year to 30 September 2016 was 9.1%, it was a little behind their benchmark, which returned 12.9%. Nonetheless the share price’s total return was better, at 11.6%, thanks to the narrowing of the discount. The Board is declaring a second interim dividend of […]
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3 min read
Edinburgh Investment Trust misses out on mining bounce
Edinburgh Investment Trust produced a positive net asset value (NAV) total return for the six months to 30 September 2016 of 6.8% (debt at par) and 6.6% (debt at market), compared to a return of 12.9% by the FTSE All-Share Index, the Company’s benchmark. The share price total return (share price with dividends reinvested) for […]
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22 Nov 2016 3 min read
Schroder Income Growth raises dividend for 21st consecutive year
Schroder Income Growth Fund has published its annual financial report for the year ended 31 August 2016. A total return of 8.4% for the net asset value compared unfavourably to a total return of 11.7% for the FTSE All-Share Index. The share price produced a negative total return for the year of 0.8%, reflecting a widening in […]
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18 Nov 2016 2 min read
Personal Assets keeps portfolio liquid
Over the six months to 31 October 2016 Personal Assets Trust’s net asset value per share rose by 7.5% to GBP394.85. Its share price rose by GBP24.50 to GBP397.00 over the same period, being a premium of 0.5% to the Company’s NAV at that date. They are paying quarterly dividends of 140p per share. At the end of the […]
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16 Nov 2016 3 min read
An “annus horribilis” for Standard Life Equity Income
Standard Life Equity Income says that, taken in isolation, its headline numbers for the year to 30 September 2016 do not make pleasant reading. The Net Asset Value Total Return for the year was 0.9%. By contrast, the FTSE All-Share Index returned 16.8%. Unsurprisingly, the share price has suffered over the last twelve months. The discount widened […]
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29 Jul 2016 6 min read
Invesco Perpetual Select results
Invesco Perpetual Select has published its annual report for the year that ended on 31 May 2016. The NAV total return of the UK Equity Portfolio over the year was -1.4%, which compares with the total return of -6.3% posted by the FTSE All-Share Index. The NAV total return of the Global Equity Income Portfolio over […]
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29 Jun 2016 2 min read
BlackRock Income & Growth misses bounce in mining sector
For the six month period ended 30 April 2016, BlackRock Income & Growth’s net asset value per share returned -2.8% and the share price returned -2.3%. By comparison, the FTSE All-Share Index was unchanged over the period. Since the period end and up to 27 June 2016, the Company’s NAV per share has fallen by […]
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26 May 2016 6 min read
Edinburgh Investment Trust sees strong benefits from its Tobacco holdings
The Edinburgh Investment Trust, managed by Mark Barnett (pictured), has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2016. During the year, the trust produced an NAV total return +4.6% (with dent at market value) versus a negative return of 3.9% for the trust’s benchmark, the FTSE All-Share Index. The company’s share price total […]
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24 Jun 2015 2 min read
BlackRock Income reports long list of outperforming investments
Over the six months to the end of April 2015, BlackRock Income & Growth delivered a total return on net assets of 13.1% and a return to shareholders of 14.6%, both well ahead of the 9.2% return posted by the FTSE All-Share Index for the period. The shares moved to trade at a discount of […]
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20 Dec 2013 1 min read
BlackRock Income : BRIG – annual results
BRIG’s results for the year ended 31 October 2013 show an NAV return of 16.2% and a share price return of 24.3% as compared to a return from the FTSE All-Share Index of 22.8%. BRIG’s total dividend for the year has been increased to 5.5p (from 5.25p) and is now fully covered by revenue. It […]
