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21 Apr 2017 6 min read
Aurora’s manager gets behind Mike Ashley
Aurora has announced its results for the 10-month period from 29 February 2016 to 31 December 2016. Its chairman, Lord Flight (pictured), explains that reason for the ‘short year’ is to align Aurora’s accounting period with that of its Investment Manager, Phoenix Asset Management Partners, who have been in place for approximately 15 months, following […]
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16 Jun 2016 6 min read
Aurora publishes first annual report since new manager
Aurora Investment Trust has published its first annual report since the management of the company was passed to Phoenix Asset Management. The report covers the year ended 29 February 2016 – Phoenix took up the reins on 28 January 2016 so most of the performance of the fund over this period is attributable to the […]
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28 May 2015 1 min read
British Empire’s Japan underweight proves costly
British Empire, chaired by Strone Macpherson (pictured), has reported total returns of 7.2% on both its net assets and shares for the six months ended 31 March 2015. These numbers are behind the returns on all the indices that British Empire uses to benchmark its performance. The Morgan Stanley Capital International All Country World ex-US Index total return […]
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31 Mar 2015 7 min read
Alliance vs. Elliott – closing arguments
First – Karin Forseke (Alliance Trust’s Chairman)’s message to shareholders in the circular convening the meeting: “Dear Shareholder, Who are Elliott and what do they really want? Our Company has been requisitioned by Elliott Advisors (UK) Ltd. to appoint three additional directors to the Board of Alliance Trust. Your Board believes this is just the […]
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18 Nov 2014 1 min read
Schroder Income Growth change to investment policy
SCF : Schroder Income Growth change to investment policy Schroder Income Growth’s annual report for the year that ended on 31 August 2014 is out. they upped the dividend by 3.1% (well ahead of the 1.5% increase in the CPI – inflation beating dividend increases are part of Schroder Income Growth’s objective). The total return […]
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17 Jun 2014 1 min read
Invesco Income Growth : IVI – Annual results
Invesco Income Growth has published its results covering the year that ended on 31 March 2014. Over the period the fund generated a total return of 14.2% on net assets – ahead of the 8.8% return generated by the FTSE All-Share Index. The discount narrowed and so the return to shareholders was 16.7%. The dividend […]
