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• 06 Aug 2018 5 min read

  Another great year for Henderson Smaller Companies

  Another great year for Henderson Smaller Companies – Over the year to the end of May 2018, Henderson Smaller Companies says its share price has risen by 23.8%, and the net assets by 15.9%, substantially outperforming its benchmark, the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding investment companies), by 10.6% – the return on the index was 5.3%. The chairman points […]

• 18 Jan 2018 6 min read

  Independent publishes results for phenomenal year

  Independent publishes results for phenomenal year – Over the year to 30 November 2017, Independent Investment Trust produced a net asset value (NAV) total return of 54.8%.  However one measures performance this was, by some margin, the best annual result in the history of the Independent: theoretical investments in the All-Share Index and the World Index would […]

• 20 Dec 2017 3 min read

  Schroder UK Mid Cap discount stubbornly wide

  Schroder UK Mid Cap discount stubbornly wide – Schroder UK Mid Cap Fund says that, for the year ended 30 September 2017, its net asset value total return of 21.0% outperformed the benchmark by 6.8%. The dividend for the year is 13.10 pence per share, an increase of 16.4%. Talking about the discount, the chairman said “It […]

• 28 Oct 2016 1 min read

  CQS New City High Yield ups dividend

  CQS New City High Yield Fund says its net asset value total return was 1.0% for the year ended 30 June 2016. The share price total return for the same period was 4.7% and the premium increased to 3.5%. The fund’s earnings per share were 4.50 pence for the year, essentially unchanged from the 4.51 pence earned the previous […]

• 14 Jul 2016 5 min read

  Housebuilding drags down Independent after a good six months

  The six month period ending 31 May 2016 Independent Investment Trust produced a net asset value total return of 5.7%.  The total returns notionally attributable to the FTSE All Share Index and the FTSE World Index were 0.1% and 3.9% respectively. The net asset value per share rose from 390.1p to 400.3p over the period, […]

• 22 Oct 2015 2 min read

  CQS New City High Yield sees uptick in early calls by bond issuers

  CQS New City High Yield has published results for the year ended 30 June 2015. The return on net assets for the year was 1.0% but the discount widened and so the return to shareholders was -3.6%. They declared one interim dividend of 0.94p, two of 0.96p and one of 1.45p. The Company has in recent […]