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• 12 Feb 2019 10 min read

  BlackRock Throgmorton Trust substantially outperforms during a challenging year

  BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG) has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 November 2018. While THRG’s net assets fell during the year, the trust has provided a return substantially ahead of the benchmark index. Specifically, THRG provided NAV and share price total returns of -2.7% and +1.8% respectively, which it says compares against […]

• 17 Nov 2016 4 min read

  Shires Income beats benchmark aided by rising oil and commodity prices

  Shires Income has announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2016. During the period, the trust provided an NAV total return of 15.9% and a share price total return of 16.4%, both of which outperformed its FTSE All-Share Index benchmark, which it says returned 12.9%. The trust’s chairman, Anthony B Davidson, […]

• 20 Jun 2016 2 min read

  Dunedin Smaller in line with benchmark

  Dunedin Smaller Companies has published its interim accounts. The company’s net asset value total return for the six month ended 30 April 2016 saw a small increase of 0.7%. This compares to a marginally higher total return of 1.3% from the benchmark index, the FTSE Small Cap Index (excluding investment companies). They say, although markets […]

• 01 Sep 2015 2 min read

  Standard Life UK Smallers – ‘steady if unspectacular out-performance’

  Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust, managed by Harry Nimmo (pictured), has announced its results for the year ended 30 June 2015 during which, the Company’s diluted net asset value total return was 14.2%, beating a total return of 10.4% for the Company’s benchmark. The manager describes the year as being characterised by steady if […]

• 17 Apr 2015 1 min read

  Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller outperforms in 2014

  Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller’s results for the year ended 31 January 2015 show the fund generating a net asset value return of 2.2%. The Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding Investment Companies), fell by 2.6%. The share price rose from 316.8p to 328.3p per share, an increase of 3.6%, and the discount narrowed from 13.9% to 11.3%. […]

• 23 Feb 2015 1 min read

  Good interims from Standard Life UK Smaller Companies

  Standard Life UK Smaller Companies has published interim accounts for the six months ended 31 December 2014. It beat its benchmark over this period, returning 1.6% on net assets as compared to a -1.3% return on the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding Investment Companies) and the FTSE100 Index of the largest UK listed companies fell by […]

• 19 Feb 2015 1 min read

  Allocate Software boosts Herald’s NAV but discount hurts investors

  Herald Investment Trust’s results for the year ended 31 December 2014 show its asset value outperforming its benchmark but shareholders losing money as its discount widened. The total return on net assets for the year was 1.3% while a blend of the Numis Smaller Companies Index plus AIM excluding investment companies and the  Russell 2000 (small cap) […]

• 13 Feb 2015 3 min read

  Henderson Opportunities outperforms in a difficult year

  Over the year to the end of October 2014 Henderson Opportunities net asset value total return was 3.4%, ahead of its peer group (the AIC UK All Companies Sector) which returned 0.6% and ahead of the FTSE All-Share index which returned 1%. The share price did even better, returning 9.3%. The manager’s report has a […]

• 15 Dec 2014 1 min read

  Dunedin Smaller Companies hit by widening discount

  The year to the end of October 2014 was a difficult one for shareholders in Dunedin Smaller Companies. It underperformed its benchmark a little – generating a return on net assets of -3.6% against the FTSE Small Cap.’s -2.4% but notably its discount widened from 4.4% to 16.9% resulting in a return to shareholders of -16.2%. On […]

• 02 Sep 2014 1 min read

  Standard Life UK Smallers hit by rate rise fears

  SLS : Standard Life UK Smallers hit by rate rise fears Standard Life UK Smaller Companies has published results for the year ended 30 June 2014 that show it underperforming its benchmark by some margin. Over the year the net asset value total return was 7.7% vs. 20.3% for the Numis Smaller Companies ex Investment […]