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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 […]
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31 Aug 2016 5 min read
Acorn’s smaller companies portfolio suffers in the wake of Brexit
Acorn Income Fund has announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2016. During the period, Acorn’s gross assets provided a total return of -8.13%, whilst its NAV total return was -13.95%. Reflecting an increase in the premium to NAV at which the company’s shares traded, the share price total return was […]
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08 Apr 2016 4 min read
Acorn Income benefits from being geared as its gross assets were rising
Acorn Income Fund has released its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2015. During the year, the company’s gross asset portfolio performance (adjusted for share issuance and buybacks) provided a total return of 17% outperforming the small cap indices. The Ordinary Share net asset value total return was 22.1%. The company says that […]
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26 Feb 2016 2 min read
Candover results show effects of Expro write down
Candover has published results for the year ended 31 December 2015. Its NAV per share was 243p at 31st December 2015, a 55% decrease over the year. Most of the fall in the NAV is down to a write down in the value of Expro International – this took £43.6m or 199p of the NAV and […]
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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 […]
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02 Oct 2015 2 min read
The Investment Company hit by holding in Gable Group
The Investment Company’s annual report for the year ended 30 June says the NAV of the Company fell slightly from 394.41p to 389.34p, a reduction of 1.3%. The return to shareholders, including the dividends paid during the year, totalled 16.9p. The FTSE All-Share Index generated a total return of 2.6% over the twelve months to […]
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02 Mar 2015 1 min read
The Investment Company cuts its dividend
In its interim results statement, The Investment Company reported a small fall in its net asset value over the second half of 2014 of 1.6% to 388p. The company was making distributions equivalent to 6% of its asset value each year. The Board has decided that this isn’t sustainable in the current market environment and […]