Widening discount holds back Merchant Trust’s returns
Merchants Trust reports a 2.8% return on net assets for the six months ended 31 July 2015 and a -1.1% return to shareholders as the discount widened from 0.4% to 4.3%. The return on the FTSE100 Index for the period was 1.2%. Dividends for the first half totalled 12p, 1.7% higher than the pervious year. […]
