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• 07 Jul 2017 3 min read

  Schroder UK Growth underperforms strongly rising market

  Schroder UK Growth Fund (SDU) has released it annual results for the year ended 30 April 2017. During the period, the company provided an NAV total return of 17.5% and a share price total return of 13.9%, both underperforming its benchmark, the All-Share Index, which the company says provided a total return of 20.1%. The manager […]

• 01 Jun 2017 4 min read

  Perpetual Income & Growth suffers being underweight resources

  Perpetual Income & Growth (PLI) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2017. During the period, it provided an NAV total return of 9.6%. It’s chairman, Bill Alexander (pictured), says that Although this is satisfying in absolute terms, it is less so when compared with the 22.0% return posted by the […]

• 30 May 2017 4 min read

  Edinburgh Investment Trust held back by lack mining exposure, HSBC and Royal Dutch Shell

  Edinburgh Investment Trust held back by lack mining exposure, HSBC and Royal Dutch Shell. While the UK market returned 22%, for the year ended 31 March 2017, Edinburgh Investment Trust’s net asset value total return was +14.4% and the share price total return (with dividends reinvested) was +11.2%. The share price ended the year at 713.5p, an increase […]

• 22 Feb 2017 2 min read

  Jupiter European has difficult first half

  Over the six months to 30 November 2016 the Net Asset Value per share of Jupiter European Opportunities rose by 1.2 per cent. This performance was behind the return on the benchmark index, which increased by 10.9 per cent. over the same period. It would be tempting to attribute this short period of underperformance to […]

• 13 Dec 2016 1 min read

  Finsbury Growth & Income outperforms again

  Finsbury Growth & Income reports that its net asset value per share on a total return basis for the year was 20.6% and the share price total return was 20.8% (2015: 11.8%). Both have again significantly outperformed the benchmark. The UK market rose by 16.8% over the same period. The report says that the principal contributions to net asset […]

• 22 Nov 2016 3 min read

  Schroder Income Growth raises dividend for 21st consecutive year

  Schroder Income Growth Fund has published its annual financial report for the year ended 31 August 2016. A total return of 8.4% for the net asset value compared unfavourably to a total return of 11.7% for the FTSE All-Share Index. The share price produced a negative total return for the year of 0.8%, reflecting a widening in […]

• 20 Sep 2016 2 min read

  Jupiter European outperforms again

  Jupiter European Opportunities’ results for the year ended 31 May 2016 have been published. The total return on the net asset value per share was 0.8 per cent. during the twelve months under review, which compares with a fall of 3.7 per cent. in the Company’s benchmark, the FTSE World Europe ex UK Index during […]

• 08 Jul 2016 3 min read

  IT exposure benefits Schroder UK Growth

  Schroder UK Growth’s results for the year ended 30 April 2016 show that the Company’s NAV returned -4.4%, while the share price returned -4.9%. This compares with an equivalent return of -5.7% by the FTSE All-Share Index over the same period. The Directors have declared a second interim dividend of 2.60p per share, making a total […]

• 17 Jun 2016 2 min read

  Invesco Income Growth suffers from discount widening

  Invesco Income Growth outperformed the FTSE All-Share Index over the year to the end of March 2016, returning -2.6% against -3.9% for he Index. The discount widened however (from 5.3% to 11. 5%) and so the return to shareholders was -7.8%. The full year dividend was upped from 10.1p to 10.3p. The manager says that […]

• 05 May 2016 1 min read

  Onwards and upwards for Finsbury Growth & Income

  Finsbury Growth & Income reports a 10% total return on net assets and a 9.9% return to shareholders for the six months ended 31 March 2016. This is an impressive return on a period when the FTSE All-Share Index returned 3.5%. the first interim dividend for the period was 6.1p – up from 5.5p for […]

• 15 Jan 2016 1 min read

  BlackRock Income & Growth beats benchmark by 10%

  BlackRock Income & Growth has published its results for the year ended 31 October 2015. Over the year the fund beat its benchmark by more than 10%. The NAV total return was 13.5% and the share price total return 13.5% but the total return on the FTSE All-Share was 3.0%. The dividend for the year […]

• 24 Dec 2015 3 min read

  Schroder UK Growth mildly outperforms benchmark

  Schroder UK Growth Fund has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 31 October 2015. During the period, the Company’s NAV produced a total return of -5.3%, marginally outperforming its benchmark, the FTSE All-Share Index, which provided a total return of -5.7%. The share price produced a total return of -5.7%. The company has […]