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• 27 Nov 2018 6 min read

  Volatility hinders returns at Keystone

  Volatility hinders returns at Keystone – Keystone Investment Trust (KIT) posted a NAV return of 0.0% for the year ended 30 September 2018, compared to last year’s NAV return of +7.8%. Share price total return for the year was also down compared to 2017 (share price total return for 2018 was 0.8% and 2017 was […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 15 Dec 2016 2 min read

  Chelverton Small Companies Dividend Trust underperforms benchmark during first half

  Chelverton Small Companies Dividend Trust has announced its interim results for the half year ended 31 October 2016. During the period, the trust’s NAV fell by 2.97%, which it says compares against a rise in its benchmark index, the MSCI UK Small Cap Index, of 6.13%. The trust paid a dividend of 3.7p per share […]

• 24 Nov 2016 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 […]

• 04 Dec 2015 3 min read

  Small Companies Dividend Trust convincingly beats benchmark in H1

  Small Companies Dividend Trust has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 31 October 2015. During the period, the NAV per ordinary share rose 11.6% beating the MSCI Small Cap Index, which fell 2.02%. The ordinary share price increased by 17.1% during the period and the discount narrowed from 16.99% to 12.90%. A second […]

• 02 Jul 2015 1 min read

  Schroder UK Growth fails to make up ground in second half

  Schroder UK Growth has published results for the year ended 30 April 2015. The fund lagged the FTSE All-Share index by some margin over this period, returning 1.9% on net assets and negative 3.1% on share price (the discount widened to 8.4%) as compared to positive 7.5% for the benchmark. the dividend for the year […]

• 17 Jun 2015 2 min read

  A good year for Invesco Income Growth

  Invesco Income Growth’s results for the year to the end of March 2015 show the fund outperforming the FTSE All-Share Index by 3.7%, returning 10.3% to the index’s 6.6%. The return to shareholders was 9.9%. The total dividend for the year was 10.1p, up 2.5% on the 9.85p paid for the year ended 31 March 2014. […]

• 29 Dec 2014 2 min read

  Schroder UK Growth transition complete

  For the six month period to 31 October 2014, Schroder UK Growth’s NAV saw a total return of -6.3%, while the share price returned -8.8% and the discount widened from 5.2% at the beginning of the period to 7.8% at 31 October 2014. These performance figures compare poorly with an equivalent return of -1.6% by the […]

• 25 Nov 2014 2 min read

  Pharma exposure helps Keystone post market-beating figures

  KIT : Pharma exposure helps Keystone post market-beating figures Keystone has published its annual results. these cover the year that ended on 30 September 2014. Over that period the fund’s net asset value total return was 12.5%. The share price though returned just 7.4% as the discount widened from 0.8% to 5.4%. Both measures outperformed […]

• 21 Nov 2014 2 min read

  Perpetual Income & Growth beats benchmark

  PLI :  Perpetual Income & Growth beats benchmark Over the six months to the end of September Perpetual Income & Growth generated a 2.2% return on net assets. There was a small widening of the discount so the share price return was 1.6%. By contrast the return on the company’s benchmark was 1.2%. The dividend was […]

• 17 Jun 2014 1 min read

  Invesco Income Growth : IVI – Annual results

  Invesco Income Growth has published its results covering the year that ended on 31 March 2014. Over the period the fund generated a total return of 14.2% on net assets – ahead of the 8.8% return generated by the FTSE All-Share Index. The discount narrowed and so the return to shareholders was 16.7%. The dividend […]