Overview
Aberforth Split Level Income Trust : ASIT – Aberforth Split Level Income Trust aims to provide its ordinary shareholders with a high level of income, together with the potential for income and capital growth, and to provide its ZDP Shareholders with a pre-determined final capital entitlement of 127.25p on the planned winding up date of 1 July 2024. It was launched as a rollover vehicle for Aberforth Geared Income Trust (AGIT).
You can access the trust’s website here.
ASIT : Aberforth Split Level Income Trust
Research History
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07 Dec 2022 8 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – December 2022
Investment Companies Monthly Roundup Kindly sponsored by abrdn December 2022 Monthly | Investment companies Winners and losers in November 2022 As discussed in this month’s economic and political roundup, lower US inflation triggered a fall in the US dollar and drove equity markets higher over November. The big surprise was the resurgence of Chinese markets […]
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03 Nov 2022 8 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – November 2022
Investment Companies Monthly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and abrdn November 2022 Monthly | Investment companies Winners and losers in October 2022 Many equity markets recovered some of the ground lost in September. The swift departure of Liz Truss and her unfunded tax cuts helped the UK stock market and sterling. North America […]
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09 Oct 2020 7 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – October 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents New research Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Major news stories Events Guide Appendix – Performance by sector full list New research Here is a list of research we published over September: Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust – […]
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07 Jul 2020 7 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – July 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents New research Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Major news stories Income Events Guide Appendix – Performance by sector full list New research Here is a list of research we published over June: CQS New City High Yield – […]
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17 Apr 2020 8 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Quarterly Review – First Quarter 2020
Investment Companies Quarterly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents In this issue Performance data Positive movers Negative movers Discounts and premiums Getting more expensive Getting cheaper Money in and out Money in Money out Major news stories Upcoming Events New research The legal bit Unprecedented times We have knitted […]
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07 Apr 2020 8 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – April 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents New research In this issue Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Major news stories Income Events Guide Appendix – Performance by sector full list New research Here is a list of research we published over March: An update note […]
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10 Mar 2020 7 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – March 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents New research In this issue Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Major news stories Income Events Guide New research Here is a list of research we published over February: An initiation note on Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Trust (MTU) […]
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07 Feb 2020 6 min read
QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – February 2020
Economic & Political Roundup Kindly sponsored by Polar Capital and Allianz A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you […]
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10 Jan 2020 5 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – January 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford Table of contents New research In this issue Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Income Events New research Here is a list of research we published over December: An update note on BlackRock Throgmorton (THRG) “BlackRock Throgmorton continues to lead its peer group in […]
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07 Aug 2019 5 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – August 2019
Economic & Political Roundup A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell any of the […]
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05 Jul 2019 3 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – July 2019
Investment Companies Roundup New research Over June, we published notes on CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income, Standard Life Private Equity and Shires Income. You can read all these notes by clicking on the links above or by visiting www.quoteddata.com. In this issue Performance data – there was a greater appetite for risk in June as […]
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22 Feb 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – February 2019
QuotedData’s economic roundup – February 2019 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell […]
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15 Aug 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – August 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – August 2018 is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of July 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Money raised and returned in July Tritax EuroBox raised its maximum target of £300 million in an […]
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1 min read
QuotedData’s Economic round up – August 2018
QuotedData’s Economic round up – August 2018 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell […]
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18 Jul 2018 2 min read
Quarterly Investment Companies Roundup – Second Quarter 2018
QUARTERLY INVESTMENT COMPANIES ROUNDUP – SECOND QUARTER 2018 Global equities markets rose in the second quarter of 2018, Markets were volatile, as positive economic data and encouraging company performances played off against geopolitical concerns. Yields from bond markets rose early in the quarter but fell back as investors turned to ‘safer’ investments. The threat of […]
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11 May 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – May 2018
QuotedData investment companies roundup – May 2018 – is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of April 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. India Capital Growth has experience a rebound in performance in the past month, as […]
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07 Feb 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – February 2018
QuotedData’s economic round up – February 2018 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell […]
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18 Jan 2018 1 min read
QuotedData – 2017 review of the year
QuotedData – 2017 review of the year – Many commentators, including us, were wary going into 2017. In the event, economic growth and markets surprised on the upside: US markets hit new highs despite three interest rate rises. Perceived low/no growth areas such as Europe and Japan burst into life. Asia’s technology stocks surged. India’s […]
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03 Aug 2017 1 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – August 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – August 2017 – is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of July 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. August Investment Companies Roundup Monthly NAV/Price moves: A couple of themes stand out […]
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12 Jul 2017 2 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – July 2017
QuotedData investment companies roundup – July 2017 – is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of June 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. July Investment Companies Roundup Money raised in July Newly launched in June were […]
News
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27 Dec 2024 5 min read
QuotedData’s review of the year 2024
This is the last of our weekly emails for 2024. We hope that you have been finding them useful. 2024 has been a year of setbacks and shrinkage for the UK investment companies industry, topped by the cynical and self-serving attack on seven trusts by US corporate raider Saba Capital (there will be much more […]
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29 May 2024 2 min read
Prospectus published for Aberforth Geared Value and Income Trust
Aberforth Geared Value and Income Trust has published its prospectus. This could be the first major new trust in years, the big questions are, how much money will roll over from Aberforth Split Level Income Trust (ASIT) and how much new money will the trust attract? The new trust will have a fixed seven-year life. […]
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03 May 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 3rd May 2024
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • Aberforth Split Level Income (0:33) • Chrysalis (6:24) Andrew McHattie highlighted a number of funds that were looking unusually cheap or expensive (10:24). This week’s interview […]
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29 Apr 2024 2 min read
Aberforth Split Level Income Trust provides update on wind-up
The board of Aberforth Split Level Income Trust (ASIT) had, in its interim report published on 29 January 2024, shared its views on a possible wind-up of the company. Today it has provided an update. The board has reached agreement in principle with Aberforth Geared Value & Income Trust (AGVIT), a soon-to-be-launched trust, on the […]
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28 Jul 2022 6 min read
Aberforth Split Level knocked by gearing
Aberforth Split Level Income Trust has published results covering the 12 months ended 30 June 2022. Over that period, the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding Investment Companies) generated a total return of -17.2%. The trust’s total assets total return, which measures its ungeared portfolio performance, was -14.9% during the year. However, when geared by the […]
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26 Jan 2022 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 January 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 January 2022: Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL) has posted its interim results for the six months to 30 November 2021. During the period under review, the trust delivered a NAV total return of -2.1% and a share price return of -7.9%. This compares with a -2.8% return from its benchmark. Despite […]
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29 Jul 2021 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 July 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 July 2021: Chrysalis Investments (CHRY) has sold its stake in Embark Group to Scottish Widows, part of Lloyds Banking Group for £390m. Existing shareholders of Embark, including Chrysalis, will retain its Rowanmoor SIPP and SSAS administration business. Chrysalis first invested in Embark in July 2019 and invested further follow-on capital in May 2020. […]
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25 Jan 2021 4 min read
Aberforth Split Level Income’s gearing structure magnifies interim performance
The UK smaller companies sector fund, Aberforth Split Level Income (ASIT), has reported interim results for the half-year to 31 December 2020. With its year-end period going to June, the bulk of the pandemic’s market impact took place over the second half of the company’s most recent financial year-end to June. ASIT’s total assets, which […]
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30 Jul 2020 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 July 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 July 2020: Secured Income Fund’s latest factsheet discloses that it extended loans accounting for 27.5% of its portfolio by 12 months in response to COVID-related pressures on the borrowers. This extends the weighted average maturity of the portfolio from 2.58 years to 2.89 years. Shareholders just voted to wind down […]
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21 Sep 2018 2 min read
Polar Capital Technology helps New Star beat its benchmark
Polar Capital Technology helps New Star beat its benchmark – New Star Investment Trust has announced results for the year ended 30 June 2018. It delivered an NAV return of 6.5% which compares to 4.9% for the IA Mixed Investment 40% – 85% Shares (on averahe) and 9.5% for the MSCI AC World Index. A dividend of 0.8p […]
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16 Oct 2017 1 min read
Investment Trust Insider on Zero Dividend Preference Shares
James Carthew: there is a future for quality ‘zeros’ Split capital investment trust Jupiter Dividend & Growth (JDT) is approaching the end of its life. It was launched in December 2005 and is by far the oldest of the ‘splits’ that exist today. However, its articles of association say it must wind up on 30 […]
In The Press
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13 Nov 2024 1 min read
Our trust income portfolios: changes for the year ahead
by Dave Baxter, Investors’ Chronicle, November 12, 2024: The past year has been an extremely strong one for markets, with many of the difficulties that emerged back in 2022 finally starting to abate for investors.. This ‘Goldilocks’ (ie, just right) backdrop has certainly worked out well for our two investment trust income portfolios. The two […]
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27 Aug 2024 1 min read
Trust Watch: Chocks away, the Fed is cutting and we’ve a new UK small-cap bargain
Gavin Lumsden, IT Insider, 23 August 2024: Stock markets have recovered from their panic over the state of the American economy at the start of the month, with Federal Reserve policy makers making a clear commitment to cut US interest rates next month. With no major moves in equity indices, the average investment company discount, […]
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03 Jun 2024 1 min read
Investment trust insider on new issues
Investment trust insider on new issues – James Carthew: New Aberforth and Special Opportunities trusts are timely and good value After a dearth of investment company flotations, we suddenly have two: UK small company trust Aberforth Geared Value and Income and real estate-focused Special Opportunities. Share price discounts may still be way too wide but […]
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02 May 2024 2 min read
Are the highest-yielding equity trusts a sound investment?
By Emma Wallis, News editor, Trustnet, 01 May 2024: Income-seeking investors can find rich pickings amongst the investment trust sector, with many trusts offering yields above government bonds plus the prospect of capital gains and an extra kicker if discounts narrow. Wealth manager Stifel found that 32 trusts investing primarily in equities have a yield […]
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08 Mar 2024 1 min read
The most expensive trusts relative to their history
By Matteo Anelli, Senior reporter, Trustnet, 07 March 2024: Premiums are rare in the investment trusts industry, which suffers from chronic discounts, but there are still some trusts that have caught investors’ eyes and garnered traction over the past five years, according to data from QuotedData. Earlier this morning, we looked at the trusts that […]
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17 Nov 2023 1 min read
The IC investment trust income portfolios: our changes for the year ahead
by Dave Baxter, Investors’ Chronicle, November 16, 2023: The idea that investment trusts provide a reliable income through thick and thin has truly been tested in recent years, from the UK equity dividend suspensions of 2020 to the bond sell off seen over the last two years and the consequences that has had for yield-rich […]
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22 Nov 2021 1 min read
The UK trusts on the biggest discount or premiums relative to their history
By Eve Maddock-Jones, Reporter, Trustnet, 19 November 2021 Trustnet looks at which UK investment trusts are trading below their five year average discount/premium level and which ones are running well ahead of the norm. Several UK investment trusts are running well below their five-year-average discount presenting major buying opportunities, according to fund pickers. The pandemic […]
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07 Jan 2021 1 min read
Questions of Trust
QUESTIONS OF TRUST In: Portfolio Adviser, The Professionals’ Guide to Value Investing James Carthew, Director, QuotedData If you believe last November’s bounce in value stocks heralds the start of a renaissance for the strategy, who are the potential beneficiaries in the investment trust sector? Last year turned out to be a bumper one for all […]
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15 Jun 2020 2 min read
Opportunities for the optimistic investor
Opportunities for the optimistic investor: The cheap shares and investment trusts that could thrive post-lockdown By ANNE ASHWORTH FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 22:01, 12 June 2020 | UPDATED: 10:29, 14 June 2020 Seldom has optimism been such a controversial state of mind. Anyone who dares to voice the hope that recovery may be possible is likely to be called […]
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27 Apr 2020 1 min read
Gearing levels were ‘modest’ heading into market sell-off
Investment trust gearing levels were ‘modest’ heading into market sell-off Data shows that ahead of the sell-off most investment trusts had ‘modest’ gearing levels, so losses were not as heavy as they otherwise could have been. Money Observer April 23, 2020 by Kyle Caldwell The use of gearing to enhance returns over the long term is a key […]
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17 Dec 2019 1 min read
Investment trust insider on UK equity trusts
Investment trust insider on UK equity trusts – James Carthew: UK trust laggards should merge not seek new fund managers UK investment trusts of all types are enjoying a post-election rally, particularly those with the highest perceived exposure to domestically-focused companies. I am kicking myself for not having bought Aberforth Split Level Trust (ASIT), one of […]
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26 Feb 2019 2 min read
Investment Trust Insider on Brexit and Aberforth
Investment Trust Insider on Brexit and Aberforth – James Carthew: Aberforth calm before the Brexit storm The trouble with writing about Brexit is that, by the time this comes out, the whole story could have changed, although the chances of that seem remote somehow. UK investors are rabbits in the headlights. A once healthy new issue […]
