Overview
Schroder Oriental Income’s investment objective is to provide a total return for investors primarily through investments in equities and equity related investments, of companies which are based in, or which derive a significant proportion of their revenues from the Asia Pacific region and which offer attractive yields.
Fundamentals
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Research History
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06 Dec 2019 7 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – December 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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07 Jun 2019 7 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – June 2019
Economic & Political Roundup 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 any of the […]
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19 Dec 2018 2 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – December 2018
QuotedData’s economic roundup – December 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 any […]
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18 Jul 2018 2 min read
Quarterly Investment Companies Roundup – Second Quarter 2018
QUARTERLY INVESTMENT COMPANIES ROUNDUP – SECOND QUARTER 2018 Global equities markets rose in the second quarter of 2018, Markets were volatile, as positive economic data and encouraging company performances played off against geopolitical concerns. Yields from bond markets rose early in the quarter but fell back as investors turned to ‘safer’ investments. The threat of […]
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11 Jul 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – July 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – July 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 June 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. July Investment Companies Roundup Money raised and returned in June Newcomer to the market, Yew Grove […]
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11 Jun 2018 2 min read
QuotedData’s Economic round up – June 2018
QuotedData’s Economic round up – June 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 […]
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11 Dec 2017 2 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – December 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – December 2017 – 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 November 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. December Investment Companies Roundup Money raised and returned in November There were no […]
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2 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – December 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – December 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 buy or […]
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10 Nov 2017 2 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – November 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – November 2017 – 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 October 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. November Investment Companies Roundup Globalworth Real Estate’s discount was eliminated after it announced […]
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14 Jun 2017 2 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – June 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – June 2017 – 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 May 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. June Investment Companies Roundup Japan was one of the best places to be […]
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2 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – June 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – June 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 buy or […]
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09 Aug 2016 1 min read
Edinburgh Dragon – Returning to form
Edinburgh Dragon Trust (EFM) is the largest and one of the most liquid investment companies focused on the Asia ex Japan region. Its strong focus on quality has served it well over the long term. EFM’s manager says that an environment of very low interest rates has distorted markets, with the result that EFM’s focus […]
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27 Apr 2015 1 min read
The importance of income – where to find it?
Life used to be simpler. If you had a bit of spare cash or you wanted to save up for something you’d just stick some money in a bank or building society account. If you had a nest egg and wanted to invest it in something safe and live off the income, you’d maybe buy […]
News
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13 Nov 2020 5 min read
Schroder Oriental Income missed the mark
Schroder Oriental Income has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 August 2020, during which it provided an NAV total return of -0.9% and a share price total return of -3.9% (reflecting a widening of the discount during the period) both of which suggest it has missed the mark a little, underperforming its […]
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24 Aug 2020 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 August 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 August 2020: Schroder AsiaPacific (SOI) announced that Matthew Dobbs will retire from fund management in 2021. In accordance with a succession plan agreed with the board, he will hand over responsibility to Richard Sennitt as manager and Abbas Barkhordar as assistant manager. Robin Parbrook, who has extensive Asian investment management […]
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02 Jul 2020 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 July 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 July 2020: Schroder Oriental Income Fund says that shareholders overwhelmingly approved a resolution to shift the fund’s tax domicile from Guernsey to the UK. 99.78% of those voting approved the measure. The company should soon become a UK investment trust. Under fire Gabelli Value Plus+ reported a 25% fall in NAV […]
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29 May 2020 5 min read
Schroder Oriental Income expects tide against globalisation to draw strength
We have included the following outlook extract from Schroder Oriental Income (SOI)’s management report, as part of its interim results released this morning (to 29 February 2020). ‘The economic impact of covid-19 has made the global financial crisis of 2008 seem like a mild inconvenience’ “It would have been difficult to imagine events that could leave […]
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15 Nov 2019 1 min read
Reasonable year for Schroder Oriental Income
Reasonable year for Schroder Oriental Income – Over the year to the end of August 2019, Schroder Oriental Income produced an NAV return of 3.7%. A small narrowing of the discount meant that shareholders got a return of 5.4%. The dividend was increased from 9.7p to 10.1p and there was sufficient income left over to add […]
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12 Aug 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 12 August 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 12 August 2019 Unite Group, one of the UK’s leading owners, managers and developers of student accommodation, announces that it has exchanged contracts to acquire a new 620-bed development site in Nottingham.The direct let development, which is subject to planning consent, will open in time for the 2022/23 academic year. Total development costs […]
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22 Nov 2018 2 min read
Schroder Oriental reports marginal underperformance
Schroder Oriental reports marginal underperformance- Schroder Oriental Income Fund (SOI) reported a net asset value return of 1.5% for the year, while the index reported a return of 1.8%. The dividend for the year did go up from 8.80p in 2017 to 9.40p in 2018 which represents a yield of 3.8% on the share price […]
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24 Nov 2017 2 min read
Schroder Oriental Income caps performance fee
Schroder Oriental Income caps performance fee – Schroder Oriental Income Fund Limited has announced that its manager has agreed to reduce the cap on the performance fee payable to it from 1.00% to 0.75% of the net assets calculated at the end of any one accounting period, effective from 1 September 2017. The news came as […]
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31 Oct 2017 5 min read
Scottish Oriental ups Asian Frontiers exposure
Scottish Oriental ups Asian Frontiers exposure – Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies says that, over the 12 months to August, its Net Asset Value per share rose by 15.7 per cent in total return terms, while the ‘comparative indices’, MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index and MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Small Cap Index, rose by […]
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03 May 2017 3 min read
14th consecutive year of outperformance for BlackRock Smaller
For fourteen consecutive years BlackRock Smaller Companies has outperformed its benchmark and increased its dividend. Over that period, the NAV has grown nearly ten-fold whereas the benchmark has almost quadrupled. The compound annual increase in dividends paid over the past five years has been 20% per annum. During the year to 28 February 2017, the NAV increased […]
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06 Feb 2017 1 min read
14 investment trusts for income and growth in 2017
Investors looking forward to a period of calm in 2017 might be disappointed, but David Prosser has the trusts experts are backing to navigate further storms. Having just been through a year of unprecedented political upheaval that sent financial markets spinning, many investors will be assuming 2017 cannot possibly be so tumultuous. The reality, however, […]
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22 Nov 2016 3 min read
Schroder Oriental Income increases dividend for 10th year in a row
Schroder Oriental Income says that, over the year ended 31 August 2016, the net asset value produced a total return of 32.1%, the share price produced a total return of 32.8% and the dividend has increased for the 10th year in a row. Revenue earnings per share for the year increased by 3.4% to 9.03 […]
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14 Oct 2016 1 min read
Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies has problems in Korea
Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies has released its results for the year ended 31 August 2016. The fund’s NAV total return was 31.5%, while the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index rose by 33.0% on the same basis. The share price increased in total return terms by 27.3% as the discount widened. Revenue return per share was 9.50p […]
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13 May 2016 3 min read
Schroder Oriental Income benefits from sterling weakness and good stock selection
Schroder Oriental Income Fund has announced its interim results for the six months ended 29 February 2016. During the period, the company provided NAV and share price total returns of 8.6% and 4.5% both outperforming the company’s MSCI AC Pacific ex Japan Index, which rose by 4.3% (all in sterling terms). The company says that […]
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14 Apr 2016 3 min read
Scottish Oriental says sterling weakness outweighed poor performance of Asian markets
Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies has published its interim results for the six-months ended 29 February 2016. During the period the trust’s NAV per share increased by 5.9% in total return terms, while the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index recorded a sterling adjusted increase of 3.1 per cent and the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan […]
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11 Nov 2015 2 min read
Schroder Oriental Income shrugs off Asian market challenges
Schroder Oriental Income Fund, chaired by Robert Sinclair (pictured), has announced its results for the year ended 31 August 2015, during which the company’s NAV fell by 5.8% and its share price by 6.1%. However these are both appreciably ahead of the performance of the Company’s reference index, the MSCI AC Pacific (ex Japan) Index, […]
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29 Oct 2015 2 min read
Scottish Oriental manager disappointed despite beating benchmark
Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies has published results for the year ended 31 August 2015. Over that period it outperformed the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index and MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Small Cap Index, returning -8.4% against -9.1% and -9.4% for the indices respectively. The dividend was maintained at 11.5p – the Board say it […]
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29 Apr 2015 1 min read
Schroder Oriental Income outperforming
Over the six months ended 28 February 2015, Schroder Oriental Income produced a total return on net assets of 7.3% and the share price produced a total return of 6.7%. This compares to a total return of 2.9% for the MSCI AC Pacific ex Japan Index. They paid a first interim dividend of 1.5p in […]
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23 Apr 2015 1 min read
Scottish Oriental Smaller beats benchmark but discount widens
Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies’ net asset value returned 4.5% over the six months to the end of February 2015, ahead of the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Small Cap Index which returned 2.4%. Smaller companies lagged larger ones during the period – the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index returned 5.9%. The discount widened a […]
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06 Nov 2014 1 min read
Scottish Oriental Income lags benchmark marginally
SOI : Scottish Oriental Income lags benchmark marginally Schroder Oriental Income’s results for the year ended 31 August 2014 have been published this morning. It just failed to match the return on its benchmark index, the MSCI All Countries Pacific ex Japan, delivering a total return of 10.9% for the period vs. the index’s 11.3%. […]