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• 10 Dec 2018 6 min read

  Scottish Investment Trust provides 35th consecutive year of dividend increase

  Scottish Investment Trust (SCIN) has announced its final results for the year ended 31 October 2018. During the year, the share price total return was +1.9% and the NAV total return was +1.1%. SCIN does not have a formal benchmark but it says that, by way of comparison, the sterling total return of the international […]

• 25 Sep 2017 4 min read

  Large cap focus restrains City of London

  Large cap focus restrains City of London – City of London Investment Trust has published results for the year ended 30 June 2017. Its returns fell behind those of peers and index benchmarks over the period. City of London’s net asset value total return was 14.5% which was 3.3% behind the size weighted average over […]

• 17 Nov 2016 3 min read

  Shires Income beats benchmark aided by rising oil and commodity prices

  Shires Income has announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2016. During the period, the trust provided an NAV total return of 15.9% and a share price total return of 16.4%, both of which outperformed its FTSE All-Share Index benchmark, which it says returned 12.9%. The trust’s chairman, Anthony B Davidson, […]

• 12 Jul 2016 4 min read

  Aberdeen New Dawn’s performance hurt by commodity price collapse

  Aberdeen New Dawn has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 April 2016. During the year, the trust’s NAV fell by 15.4% to 179.4p per share (2015 saw an increase of 17.1%) while the share price fell by 15.1% to 156.0p (2015 saw a rise of 14.3%), all in total return terms. The share […]

• 27 May 2016 3 min read

  Shires Income’s emerging markets and commodity holdings drive underperformance

  Shires Income, managed by Ed Beal (pictured), has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2016. During the year, the trust’s NAV fell by 7.0% on a total return basis, thereby underperforming its FTSE All-Share Index benchmark, which lost 3.9%. The company says that its NAV underperformance was due principally to stock […]

• 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 […]

• 25 Aug 2015 1 min read

  BHP Billiton’s profits hit by lower iron ore and oil prices

  BHP Billiton has posted profits for the year ended 30 June 2015 down 86% from the previous financial year to US$1.9 billion or US$0.36/share. Excluding exceptional items, attributable profit was US$7.1 billion, a reduction of 47%. Group revenue fell from US$56.8 billion to US$44.6 billion (from continuing operations) with iron ore the hardest hit sector, […]

• 14 Aug 2015 4 min read

  BlackRock World Mining outperforms falling market

  The continued slump in commodity markets weighed on the performance of BlackRock World Mining over the first half of 2015. the total return on net assets was -7.0% for the period and the return to shareholders was -2.8%. These figures are better than the return on the Euromoney Global mining Index however – this returned […]