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• 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 […]

• 24 Nov 2016 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 07 Jun 2016 3 min read

  Perpetual Income Growth doubles dividend over ten years

  Perpetual Income & Growth has published results for the year ended 31 March 2016. Over that period its net asset value was unchanged. By contrast, the return on the FTSE All-Share Index was -3.9%. The discount widened however and so the return to shareholders was -2.9%. The dividend was increased by 4.1% to 12.8p and […]

• 26 May 2016 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 […]

• 11 May 2016 3 min read

  Oil underweight holds back Keystone

  Keystone has published its interim accounts for the six months ended 31 March 2016. The company’s shares gave a total return of -3.6% over this period. The underlying net asset value per share (with debt at fair value) gave a total return of +1.2%. These compare with a total return by the company’s benchmark for performance measuring […]

• 24 Nov 2015 3 min read

  Tobacco exposure drives Perpetual Income & Growth’s outperformance

  Perpetual Income & Growth has published interim figures for the six months ended 30 September 2015. The FTSE All-Share Index returned -7.2% over this period but Perpetual Income & Growth returned -0.2% on net assets and the return to shareholders was +2.4% (the shares moved from a 3% discount to 0.1% discount). The dividend for […]

• 02 Jul 2015 1 min read

  Schroder UK Growth fails to make up ground in second half

  Schroder UK Growth has published results for the year ended 30 April 2015. The fund lagged the FTSE All-Share index by some margin over this period, returning 1.9% on net assets and negative 3.1% on share price (the discount widened to 8.4%) as compared to positive 7.5% for the benchmark. the dividend for the year […]

• 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 […]

• 29 Dec 2014 1 min read

  Schroder UK Growth transition complete

  For the six month period to 31 October 2014, Schroder UK Growth’s NAV saw a total return of -6.3%, while the share price returned -8.8% and the discount widened from 5.2% at the beginning of the period to 7.8% at 31 October 2014. These performance figures compare poorly with an equivalent return of -1.6% by the […]

• 21 Nov 2014 2 min read

  Perpetual Income & Growth beats benchmark

  PLI :  Perpetual Income & Growth beats benchmark Over the six months to the end of September Perpetual Income & Growth generated a 2.2% return on net assets. There was a small widening of the discount so the share price return was 1.6%. By contrast the return on the company’s benchmark was 1.2%. The dividend was […]

• 25 Sep 2014 1 min read

  William Meadon steps down as co-manager of JPMorgan Mid Cap

  JMF : William Meadon steps down as co-manager of JPMorgan Mid Cap JPMorgan Mid Cap results for the year ended 30 June 2014 have been published today. These show the total return on net assets was 18.3%, ahead of the 17.8% return on the FTSE 250 Index. The discount tightened up resulting in a return […]

• 01 Aug 2014 1 min read

  Invesco Perpetual Select Trust UK Equity portfolio : IVPU – finals

  The Invesco Perpetual Select Trust UK Equity portfolio generated a total return on net assets of 18.3% over the year that ended on 31 May 2014. Its discount widened however so that the return to shareholders was 9.2%. This was still better than the return on the FTSE All-Share Index (+8.9%). The dividend for the […]

• 05 Jun 2014 1 min read

  Perpetual Income & Growth : PLI – annual report

  Perpetual Income & Growth has published its annual accounts for the year that ended on 31 March 2014. Over that period Perpetual Income & Growth outperformed its benchmark (the FTSE All-Share Index) by some margin, delivering a total return on net assets of 18.8% at the portfolio level and 19.4% including the effects of marking its […]