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05 Dec 2017 2 min read
Standard Life Equity Income boosted by asset manager stakes
Standard Life Equity Income boosted by asset manager stakes – Standard Life Equity Income has published results for the year to 30 September 2017. The Net Asset Value total return for the year was 14.7%, which compares with 11.9% from the All-Share Index. The discount narrowed slightly from 4.4% to 4.0%. This resulted in a share price […]
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14 Sep 2017 1 min read
Jupiter Dividend & Growth rollover into UK fund
Jupiter Dividend & Growth rollover into UK fund – Jupiter Dividend & Growth Trust comes to the end of its life on 30 November 2017. It has agreed in principle to proposals with Jupiter UK Growth Investment Trust under which the shareholders will be offered a choice of: rolling over their investment on a cost and tax […]
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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 […]
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24 Nov 2016 2 min read
Invesco Income Growth hit by a few profit warnings
Invesco Income Growth reports that the total return on net asset value over the half year to 30 September 2016 was 9.1%, it was a little behind their benchmark, which returned 12.9%. Nonetheless the share price’s total return was better, at 11.6%, thanks to the narrowing of the discount. The Board is declaring a second interim dividend of […]
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2 min read
Edinburgh Investment Trust misses out on mining bounce
Edinburgh Investment Trust produced a positive net asset value (NAV) total return for the six months to 30 September 2016 of 6.8% (debt at par) and 6.6% (debt at market), compared to a return of 12.9% by the FTSE All-Share Index, the Company’s benchmark. The share price total return (share price with dividends reinvested) for […]
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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 […]
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17 Aug 2016 1 min read
Threadneedle UK Select caught out by mining rally
In the six month period ended 30 June 2016, Threadneedle UK Select’s net asset value total return was 1.4%, compared with the 4.3 % total return from the FTSE All-Share Index, the benchmark against which the Investment Manager’s performance is measured. Earnings per share for the half year amounted to 4.16p (30 June 2015: 8.21p). The Board […]
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29 Jul 2016 4 min read
Invesco Perpetual Select results
Invesco Perpetual Select has published its annual report for the year that ended on 31 May 2016. The NAV total return of the UK Equity Portfolio over the year was -1.4%, which compares with the total return of -6.3% posted by the FTSE All-Share Index. The NAV total return of the Global Equity Income Portfolio over […]
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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 […]
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29 Jun 2016 1 min read
BlackRock Income & Growth misses bounce in mining sector
For the six month period ended 30 April 2016, BlackRock Income & Growth’s net asset value per share returned -2.8% and the share price returned -2.3%. By comparison, the FTSE All-Share Index was unchanged over the period. Since the period end and up to 27 June 2016, the Company’s NAV per share has fallen by […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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26 May 2016 2 min read
Schroder Income Growth in line with benchmark in first half
Schroder Income Growth says that, during the six months ended 29 February 2016, the net asset value produced a negative total return of 1.4%, broadly comparable to that of the FTSE All-Share Index, which fell by 1.2% over the period. The company’s share price declined by 8.5% in total return terms during the period as the […]
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4 min read
Edinburgh Investment Trust sees strong benefits from its Tobacco holdings
The Edinburgh Investment Trust, managed by Mark Barnett (pictured), has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2016. During the year, the trust produced an NAV total return +4.6% (with dent at market value) versus a negative return of 3.9% for the trust’s benchmark, the FTSE All-Share Index. The company’s share price total […]
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12 May 2016 2 min read
Beazley boosts performance and dividend for JPM Income & Capital
JPMorgan Income & Capital reports its net assets fell during the year ended 29th February 2016, reflecting a general market decline. The total return on the Company’s assets for the year ended 29th February 2016 was a negative 5.5%. This represented an over-performance of 1.4% against the composite benchmark (comprising 90% FTSE 350 Index, excluding […]
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06 May 2016 2 min read
JPMorgan Elect results show small falls in NAVs
JPMorgan Elect has published its interim results. For the half year ended 29th February 2016, the total return on the company’s net assets was -1.3% for the Managed Growth portfolio and -1.1% for the Managed Income portfolio. The total return on the Managed Cash portfolio was +0.3%. The Managed Growth portfolio has delivered a total […]
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19 Apr 2016 1 min read
Jupiter Dividend & Growth beats UK market by some margin
Jupiter Dividend & Growth Trust outperformed the FTSE All-Share Index by some margin in 2015 – the total assets rose by 6.9% against a 2.5% fall in the index (both capital only). The fund has zero dividend preference shares, whose net asset value rose by 7%; ordinary income shares, whose asset value rose marginally from […]
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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 […]
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30 Nov 2015 3 min read
Keystone profits from tobacco exposure
Keystone Investment Trust has published its accounts for the year ended 30 September 2015. On a total return basis (i.e. including income), the FTSE All-Share Index returned -2.3% over the year. Keystone however managed a return on net assets of 6.4% and a return to shareholders of 7.3%. The base dividend was increased slightly from […]
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18 Nov 2015 1 min read
Good year for Schroder Income Growth as celebrates 20 years of dividend increases
Schroder Income Growth Fund has announced results for the year ended 31 August 2015. During the year under review, the net asset value produced a total return of 3.1%, comparing favourably to a total return of -2.3% for the FTSE All-Share Index. The share price total return for the year was 5.1% as the net […]
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17 Nov 2015 3 min read
Edinburgh Investment Trust holds up well and moves to premium
Edinburgh Investment Trust has announced results for the six months ended 30 September 2015. The FTSE All-Share Index delivered a negative total return of -7.2% over this period but Edinburgh’s net asset value total return was +1.1% and, as the fund moved from trading on a 3.5% discount to a 1.7% premium, shareholders got a return […]
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24 Jun 2015 1 min read
BlackRock Income reports long list of outperforming investments
Over the six months to the end of April 2015, BlackRock Income & Growth delivered a total return on net assets of 13.1% and a return to shareholders of 14.6%, both well ahead of the 9.2% return posted by the FTSE All-Share Index for the period. The shares moved to trade at a discount of […]
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17 Jun 2015 2 min read
A good year for Invesco Income Growth
Invesco Income Growth’s results for the year to the end of March 2015 show the fund outperforming the FTSE All-Share Index by 3.7%, returning 10.3% to the index’s 6.6%. The return to shareholders was 9.9%. The total dividend for the year was 10.1p, up 2.5% on the 9.85p paid for the year ended 31 March 2014. […]
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03 Jun 2015 1 min read
Good year for Perpetual Income & Growth helped by L&G holding
Perpetual Income & Growth has reported a 10.7% return on net assets for the year to the end of March 2015 which compares well to a 6.6% return on the FTSE All-Share index over the same period. The return to shareholders was 10.1% as the discount widened slightly from 1.5% to 3%. The base dividend […]
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12 May 2015 3 min read
Keystone outperforms, says little threat to tobacco holdings from plain packs
Keystone’s interim results for the six months ended 31 March 2015 show the fund’s net asset value delivering a total return of 7.8% – ahead of the 5.3% return generated by the FTSE All-Share Index. The return to shareholders was 7.2%. The dividend was maintained at 18p per share. The report says holdings in Reynolds […]
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24 Apr 2015 2 min read
JPMorgan Elect says every pool delivered in H1
JPMorgan Elect interims for the six months ended 28 February 2015 are out. The Managed Growth pool beat its bench mark by 3.2% over the period. The pool generated a return on net assets of 9.7% while their 50:50 FTSE All-Share : FTSE All-World ex UK benchmark returned 6.5%. They declared two quarterly dividends totalling 3.9p […]
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28 Nov 2014 2 min read
Invesco Income Growth just fails to match benchmark
IVI : Invesco Income Growth just fails to match benchmark Invesco Income Growth lagged the FTSE All-Share Index a little over the six months ended 30 September 2014, producing a total return on net assets of 0.7% and return to shareholders of 0.5% against a 1.6% return for the Index. The quarterly dividends were increased […]
