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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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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, […]
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12 Sep 2016 2 min read
Africa Opportunity Fund invests in Tullow bonds
Africa Opportunity Fund’s net asset value per share of US$0.898 as at 30 June 2016 increased by 2.7% from the 31 December 2015 net asset value per share of US$0.875. In the same period, the share price rose 7% from $0.647 to $0.692. Its C share net asset value per share of US$0.819 decreased by 0.2% from the […]
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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 […]
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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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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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02 Feb 2016 4 min read
Polar Capital Global Financial outperforms
Polar Capital Global Financial has reported a return on net assets of 5.3% for the year to the end of November 2015. this compares well to a total return of 0.9% for the benchmark MSCI World Financials Index, and total return of 3.8% delivered by the broad MSCI World Index. The Company’s share price total return […]
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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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18 Dec 2015 2 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn impacted by Chinese slowdown despite low exposure
Aberdeen New Dawn has announced interim figures for the six months ended 31 October 2015. Its benchmark, the MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex Japan Index, fell by 16.4%, while the net asset value fell by 17.0% (both on a total return basis). The share price declined by 16.7% (also on a total return basis), ending the period […]
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03 Nov 2015 3 min read
Edinburgh Dragon’s China underweight impacts performance
Edinburgh Dragon Trust has announced its final results for the year ended 31 August 2015. During the year the trust’s NAV fell 12.4%, in total return terms, underperforming its MSCI All Country Asia (ex Japan) benchmark which fell 9.1% (all in sterling terms). During the period, the share price fell by 12.8% to 235.8p, as […]
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29 Jun 2015 1 min read
Invesco Asia buoyed by IT and materials holdings
The year to the end of April 2015 was a good one for Invesco Asia as the fund generated a return on net assets of 28.3% and a return to shareholders of 29.4%, both well ahead of the 22.7% return on the company’s outgoing benchmark – MSCI All Countries Asia Pacific ex Japan Index (to […]
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26 Jun 2015 1 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn tries to steer away from Chinese bubble
Over the 12 months to the end of April 2015 Aberdeen New Dawn generated a total return on net assets of 17.1% and a return to shareholders of 14.3%. Unfortunately the company’s benchmark did much better – the MSCI All Countries Asia Pacific ex Japan Index returned 22.7%. The dividend was increased to 3.8p from […]
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09 Jan 2015 1 min read
Good year for BlackRock Income & Growth
BlackRock Income & Growth has published its results for the year that ended on 31 October 2014 and over that period the fund outperformed the FTSE All-Share Index, generating a return on net assets of 6.3% against a 1% return for the FTSE All-Share Index. the discount widened slightly and so the return to shareholders […]
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04 Nov 2014 1 min read
Edinburgh Dragon hurt by Standard Chartered and City Developments
EFM : Edinburgh Dragon hurt by Standard Chartered and City Developments Edinburgh Dragon underperformed its benchmark over the year that ended on 31 August 2014, delivering a 10.4% return on net assets as compared to a 13.2% return, in Sterling terms, on the MSCI All Countries Asia ex Japan Index. The report says the problem […]
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08 Jul 2014 1 min read
Midas Income & Growth : MIGT – annual results
Midas Income & Growth, managed by Alan Borrows (pictured) and Simon Callow has released its results for the year that ended on 30 April 2014. The total return on the net asset value for the year was 7.2% – well ahead of the company’s benchmark (LIBOR +3%) which, because LIBOR is so low, returned 3.6%. The Board […]
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30 Jun 2014 1 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn : ABD – annual results
Aberdeen New Dawn has published figures for the year that ended 30 April 2014. Over the year the trust’s net asset value return was -8.9%, a bit worse than the benchmark (MSCI All Countries Asia Pacific ex Japan index) total return of -6.8%. Unfortunately the discount widened and the return to shareholders was -14.0%. The […]
