Overview
Henderson Smaller Companies tries to maximise shareholder total returns by investing mainly in smaller companies in the United Kingdom. It makes the point that the revenue from these UK companies is derived from around the world. Henderson Smaller Companies’ investment approach is not constrained by any index and its portfolio is constructed on a bottom up, stock picking basis.
The fund’s website can be found here.
Fundamentals
Price
Research History
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10 Sep 2020 8 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – September 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents New research Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Major news stories Events Guide Appendix – Performance by sector full list New research Here is a list of research we published over August: Aberdeen New Dawn – COVID positive “In […]
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07 Feb 2020 9 min read
QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – February 2020
Economic & Political Roundup Kindly sponsored by Polar Capital and Allianz A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you […]
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11 Sep 2019 5 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – September 2019
Economic & Political Roundup Kindly sponsored by Polar Capital and Allianz A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you […]
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08 May 2019 4 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – May 2019
Investment Companies Roundup New research Over April, we published notes on Henderson Diversified Income, Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure, Jupiter Emerging and Frontier Income, Seneca Global Income & Growth and Polar Capital Global Financials Trust. You can read all these notes by clicking on the links above or by visiting www.quoteddata.com. In this issue Performance data – it was […]
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22 Feb 2019 2 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – February 2019
QuotedData’s economic roundup – February 2019 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell […]
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14 Sep 2018 2 min read
QuotedData’s Economic round up – September 2018
QuotedData’s Economic round up – September 2018 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell […]
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QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – September 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – September 2018 is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of August 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Money raised and returned in August GRIT Real Estate Income floated on the UK Stock Exchange in […]
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11 Sep 2018 1 min read
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust – Vision, execution and adaptability
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust – Vision, execution and adaptability Dan Whitestone, manager of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), has a dual-pronged approach to selecting investments that involves identifying what he describes as “high- quality differentiated companies” and companies driving industry change. Dan looks for management teams with vision, the ability to execute according to that vision and […]
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BlackRock Throgmorton Trust – Vision, execution and adaptability
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust – Vision, execution and adaptability Dan Whitestone, manager of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), has a dual-pronged approach to selecting investments that involves identifying what he describes as “high- quality differentiated companies” and companies driving industry change. Dan looks for management teams with vision, the ability to execute according to that vision and […]
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07 Feb 2018 2 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – February 2018
QuotedData’s economic round up – February 2018 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell […]
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14 Sep 2017 2 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – September 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – September 2017 – is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to […]
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14 Feb 2017 1 min read
QuotedData’s round up of views on the global economy – February 2017
QuotedData’s collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from comments made by chairman and managers of investment companies. Kindly sponsored by Martin Currie. February Economic and Political Roundup
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08 Nov 2016 1 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – November 2016
Our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of October 2016. november-investment-companies-roundup-2
News
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27 Jan 2021 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 January 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 January 2021 – Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL) delivered total NAV and share price returns of 20.6% and 27.7% over its six-months interim results period to 30 November 2020. HSL said that its NAV performance was 6.3% ahead of the average of our peers in the AIC UK smaller companies sector. 3i […]
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31 Jul 2020 8 min read
Henderson Smaller Companies significantly outperforms and maintains final dividend
Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust (HSL) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 May 2020 during which it has significantly outperformed its benchmark (by 7.7%) and maintained its final dividend (leading to a 2.2% increase in the total dividend for the year to 23.5p). HSL also beat its UK smaller companies’ investment […]
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02 Aug 2019 2 min read
QuotedData’s other news 2 August 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 2 August 2019 Capital and Regional has provided a trading update for the first half of 2019, ahead of its half-year results, which will follow on 11 September. The company says that it is seeing continued evidence that its community strategy is working; strong leasing momentum with new lettings undertaken at […]
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8 min read
Neil Hermon’s Henderson Smaller Companies mildly underperforms
Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL), managed by Neil Hermon (pictured) has announced its annual results, for the year ended 31 May 2019, during which it mildly underperformed its benchmark. The chairman, Jame Cayzer-Colvin, highlights that this is just the second year of underperformance in the 16 years that Neil Herman as managed its portfolio. Specifically, HSL’s net assets […]
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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 […]
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30 Jul 2018 2 min read
Lazard World Trust Fund reports decent year as it introduces 6% yield
Lazard World Trust Fund reports decent year as it introduces 6% yield – Lazard World Trust Fund says that, for the year ended March 31 2018, the total return on its net asset value was 20.9%, which compares favourably with its benchmark, the MSCI All Country World Index ex-U.S., which increased 16.5%. A revised dividend policy, effective for […]
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10 Aug 2017 5 min read
Henderson Smaller Companies beats benchmark despite resources underweight
Henderson Smaller Companies beats benchmark despite resources underweight – Henderson Smaller Companies has reported results for the year ended 31 May 2017. Over this period the share price has risen by 32.7%, and the net assets by 28.7%, outperforming the benchmark, the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding investment companies), by 4.8% on a total return basis. […]
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20 Jun 2017 1 min read
Investment Trust Insider on UK Small Cap
From an economic standpoint recent news in the UK has been worrying. House prices are falling and so are retail sales. Inflation has exceeded the Bank of England’s target and so the monetary policy committee is edging closer to raising interest rates. We have a hung parliament and we are just about to embark on […]
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07 Feb 2017 1 min read
All trust sectors bar one made money in ’16
UK Smaller Companies was the only investment sector to lose money in 2016 despite a turbulent political and economic landscape, new research has revealed. See more here
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24 Jan 2017 3 min read
Henderson Smaller Companies modestly underperforms benchmark but grows dividend 25%
Henderson Smaller Companies has announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 November 2016. During the period, the trust provided and an NAV total return of 1.4% and a share price total return of 2.0%, thereby underperforming its benchmark, The Numis Smaller Companies (excluding Investment Companies) Index, which provided a total return of […]
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11 Aug 2016 6 min read
Henderson Smaller beats benchmark in difficult year
Henderson Smaller Companies has published results for the year ended 31 May 2016. The net assets of the company declined by 1.1% in the reporting year, outperforming the benchmark, the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding investment companies), by 0.5%. However the company’s discount widened, so the share price fell by 8.1%. The revenue return per share has […]
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21 Jan 2016 3 min read
Henderson Smaller Companies posts modest outperformance due to stock selection
Henderson Smaller Companies, managed by Neil Hermon (pictured), has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 November 2015. During the period the company’s NAV total return was -1.0% thereby beating its Numis Smaller Companies (excluding investment companies) benchmark, which fell 3.3% on a total return basis. The Company’s share price total return declined […]
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23 Nov 2015 2 min read
World trust fund trading at highest combined discount (34.3%) since the financial crisis
World Trust Fund has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company’s NAV per share fell 12.9% b(in Sterling terms) modestly outperforming both the MSCI AC World Index (ex USA) Index, which fell 13.5% but underperforming the MSCI AC World Index, which fell 11.0%. The share price […]
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04 Aug 2015 4 min read
Henderson Smaller shareholders get bumper year and a fee cut
Over the year to the end of May 2015, Henderson Smaller Companies generated a 20.4% return on net assets and a 28.2% return to shareholders both of which compare well to a 10.4% return on the Numis Smaller Companies Index for the same period and the average returns for HSL’s peer group (14.3% on NAV […]
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29 Jan 2015 1 min read
Henderson Smaller delivers positive return to shareholders
Henderson Smaller Companies published its interim report yesterday. This covers the six month period that ended on 30 November 2014, a period that saw the Numis Smaller Companies ex Investment Companies Index fall by 4.6% in total return terms. Henderson Smaller Companies did well then to manage a fall of 1.2% in NAV total return and […]
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01 Sep 2014 1 min read
70% increase in dividend tops another good year for Henderson Smaller
HSL : 70% increase in dividend tops another good year for Henderson Smaller Henderson Smaller Companies Trust beat its benchmark, the Numis Smaller Companies Index excluding investment companies, over the year that finished on 31 May 2014 – generating a total return on net assets of 19.9% vs. 19.1% for the index. Shareholders have done […]
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31 Jan 2014 1 min read
Henderson Smaller Comapnies : HSL – half year report
Over the six months to end November 2013 HSL delivered a NAV return of 14.5% and a share price return of 14.7% – marginally outperforming the Numis Smaller companies Index which returned 14.4%.