Schroder Oriental Income : SOI

Research History

• 07 Dec 2022 64 min read

  QuotedData’s Economic and Political Monthly Roundup December 2022

  Economic and Political Monthly Roundup Investment companies | Monthly | December 2022 A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairs 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 06 Dec 2019 5 min read

  QuotedData’s economic roundup – December 2019

  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 […]

• 07 Jun 2019 5 min read

  QuotedData’s economic roundup – June 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 […]

• 19 Dec 2018 1 min read

  QuotedData’s economic roundup – December 2018

  QuotedData’s economic roundup – December 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 any […]

• 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 […]

• 11 Jul 2018 1 min read

  QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – July 2018

  QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – July 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 June 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. July Investment Companies Roundup Money raised and returned in June Newcomer to the market, Yew Grove […]

• 11 Jun 2018 2 min read

  QuotedData’s Economic round up – June 2018

  QuotedData’s Economic round up – June 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 […]

• 11 Dec 2017 2 min read

  QuotedData investment companies roundup – December 2017

  QuotedData investment companies roundup – December 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 November 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. December Investment Companies Roundup Money raised and returned in November There were no […]

• 1 min read

  QuotedData’s economic round up – December 2017

  QuotedData’s economic round up – December 2017 – 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 […]

• 10 Nov 2017 1 min read

  QuotedData investment companies roundup – November 2017

  QuotedData investment companies roundup – November 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 October 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. November Investment Companies Roundup Globalworth Real Estate’s discount was eliminated after it announced […]

• 14 Jun 2017 1 min read

  QuotedData’s economic round up – June 2017

  QuotedData’s economic round up – June 2017 – 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 […]

• 1 min read

  QuotedData investment companies roundup – June 2017

  QuotedData investment companies roundup – June 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 May 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. June Investment Companies Roundup Japan was one of the best places to be […]

• 27 Apr 2015 1 min read

  The importance of income – where to find it?

  Life used to be simpler. If you had a bit of spare cash or you wanted to save up for something you’d just stick some money in a bank or building society account. If you had a nest egg and wanted to invest it in something safe and live off the income, you’d maybe buy […]

News

• 08 Jun 2026 3 min read

  Trust Spot: US Solar offers upside for “optimists” after bid approach sees it soar 33% to lead May’s top risers

  US Solar Fund (USF) took a surprise lead last month, emerging as the investment companies sector’s top riser in May after revealing talks to sell its portfolio to an unidentified buyer. News of the potential sale at a “significant premium” saw shares in the £113m investment trust managed by Amber Infrastructure soar 33% (see table). […]

• 21 May 2026 2 min read

  Morning briefing: Good numbers from Schroder Oriental Income but quality bias hits BlackRock Greater European, Chris Mills on AERI board, plus GCP

  Schroder Oriental Income (SOI) had a great six-month period to end of February 2026, with an NAV return of 35.3% and share price return of 38.1%, both well ahead of the benchmark MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex Japan Index return of 30.7%. It is rebalancing its dividend profile – increasing the size of its interim […]

• 07 Nov 2025 2 min read

  Morning briefing: JPMorgan Global Emerging outperforms but Schroder Oriental Income falls short; plus RTW, NBDD-NBDX-NBDG, SOHO

  The £439m JPMorgan Global Emerging Markets Income Trust (JEMI) reported strong results for the year to 31 July with an underlying net asset value (NAV) total return of 14.1%, outperforming its MSCI Emerging Markets index benchmark, which returned 13.7% in sterling terms, and underpinned a total shareholder return of 16.8%. The trust stands on a […]

• 17 Oct 2025 5 min read

  Speed dating with Schroders

  By the time the concept of speed dating emerged, I had settled down, so the whole idea had passed me by, that was, until last week. In a format more often associated with romance than finance, a small group that included journalists, and analysts such as me, were given the opportunity to sit down with […]

• 29 Jul 2025 2 min read

  QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 July: SHC, DLN, UTG, SBO, BOOK, APAX, BBH, CORD, SOI & API

  Positive property news with results from Unite and Shaftesbury Capital and an office disposal by Derwent London, while Schroder British Opportunities details its plan to focus on private equity. Shaftesbury Capital (SHC), the real estate investment trust focused on London’s West End, has entered the second half of the year with “strong momentum” after a […]

• 24 Oct 2024 1 min read

  Schroder Oriental Income navigates weak Chinese market successfully 

  Schroder Oriental Income says that over the 12 months ended 31 August 2024, it generated a NAV return of 18.2% and share price return of 15.3%, both well ahead of the return on its benchmark MSCI AC Pacific ex Japan Index in Sterling terms, which rose by just 8.6%. Over the financial year, the company […]

• 09 Nov 2023 2 min read

  Schroder Oriental Income beats benchmark but held back by strong pound

  Schroder Oriental Income Fund has published its annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 August 2023. The trust’s NAV total return for the full financial year was -3.5%, with a similar return from the share price. This did represent outperformance of the benchmark index, the MSCI AC Pacific ex Japan in sterling terms, […]

• 04 Nov 2022 3 min read

  Schroder Oriental Income stock selection drives 10% NAV outperformance

  Schroder Oriental Income (SOI) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 August 2022, during which it provided an NAV total return of 2.5%, which compares favourably with the -7.7% of its reference benchmark over the same. Its chairman, Paul Meader, comments that the financial year saw two very different environments in the […]

• 23 May 2022 1 min read

  Schroder Oriental Income cuts performance fee

  Schroder Oriental Income cuts performance fee – Schroder Oriental Income (SOI) has posted its interim results for the six months to 29 February 2022. During this period, the trust delivered an NAV return of 0.9% and a share price return of -0.7%. The share price discount to NAV ended the six month period at 5.2%, […]

• 11 Nov 2021 1 min read

  Low Chinese exposure helped Schroder Oriental

  Low Chinese exposure helped Schroder Oriental – Schroder Oriental Income Fund has published results for the year ended 31 August 2021. The company beat its benchmark by a decent margin over the period, producing an NAV return of 21.9% against that the MSCI Pacific ex Japan Index’s 12.3%. The dividend is 10.5p, up from 10.3p last […]

• 05 May 2021 3 min read

  QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 May 2021

  In QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 May 2021 – JLEN Environmental Assets (JLEN) announced a proposed placing for up to approximately 54.7m new ordinary shares. The shares are not being offered at a fixed price, but at a placing price per share, which will be determined by the bookbuild.  The placing price will be agreed between […]

• 13 Nov 2020 4 min read

  Schroder Oriental Income missed the mark

  Schroder Oriental Income has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 August 2020, during which it provided an NAV total return of -0.9% and a share price total return of -3.9% (reflecting a widening of the discount during the period) both of which suggest it has missed the mark a little, underperforming its […]

• 24 Aug 2020 1 min read

  QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 August 2020

  In QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 August 2020: Schroder AsiaPacific (SOI) announced that Matthew Dobbs will retire from fund management in 2021. In accordance with a succession plan agreed with the board, he will hand over responsibility to Richard Sennitt as manager and Abbas Barkhordar as assistant manager. Robin Parbrook, who has extensive Asian investment management […]

• 02 Jul 2020 1 min read

  QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 July 2020

  In QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 July 2020: Schroder Oriental Income Fund says that shareholders overwhelmingly approved a resolution to shift the fund’s tax domicile from Guernsey to the UK. 99.78% of those voting approved the measure. The company should soon become a UK investment trust. Under fire Gabelli Value Plus+ reported a 25% fall in NAV […]

• 29 May 2020 4 min read

  Schroder Oriental Income expects tide against globalisation to draw strength

  We have included the following outlook extract from Schroder Oriental Income (SOI)’s management report, as part of its interim results released this morning (to 29 February 2020). ‘The economic impact of covid-19 has made the global financial crisis of 2008 seem like a mild inconvenience’ “It would have been difficult to imagine events that could leave […]

• 15 Nov 2019 1 min read

  Reasonable year for Schroder Oriental Income

  Reasonable year for Schroder Oriental Income – Over the year to the end of August 2019, Schroder Oriental Income produced an NAV return of 3.7%. A small narrowing of the discount meant that shareholders got a return of 5.4%. The dividend was increased from 9.7p to 10.1p and there was sufficient income left over to add […]

• 12 Aug 2019 1 min read

  QuotedData’s other news 12 August 2019

  In QuotedData’s other news 12 August 2019 Unite Group, one of the UK’s leading owners, managers and developers of student accommodation, announces that it has exchanged contracts to acquire a new 620-bed development site in Nottingham.The direct let development, which is subject to planning consent, will open in time for the 2022/23 academic year. Total development costs […]

• 22 Nov 2018 1 min read

  Schroder Oriental reports marginal underperformance

  Schroder Oriental reports marginal underperformance-  Schroder Oriental Income Fund (SOI) reported a net asset value return of 1.5% for the year, while the index reported a return of 1.8%. The dividend for the year did go up from 8.80p in 2017 to 9.40p in 2018 which represents a yield of 3.8% on the share price […]

• 24 Nov 2017 1 min read

  Schroder Oriental Income caps performance fee

  Schroder Oriental Income caps performance fee – Schroder Oriental Income Fund Limited has announced that its manager has agreed to reduce the cap on the performance fee payable to it from 1.00% to 0.75% of the net assets calculated at the end of any one accounting period, effective from 1 September 2017. The news came as […]

• 31 Oct 2017 3 min read

  Scottish Oriental ups Asian Frontiers exposure

  Scottish Oriental ups Asian Frontiers exposure – Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies says that, over the 12 months to August, its Net Asset Value per share rose by 15.7 per cent in total return terms, while the ‘comparative indices’, MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index and MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Small Cap Index, rose by […]

• 03 May 2017 2 min read

  14th consecutive year of outperformance for BlackRock Smaller

  For fourteen consecutive years BlackRock Smaller Companies has outperformed its benchmark and increased its dividend. Over that period, the NAV has grown nearly ten-fold whereas the benchmark has almost quadrupled. The compound annual increase in dividends paid over the past five years has been 20% per annum. During the year to 28 February 2017, the NAV increased […]

• 06 Feb 2017 1 min read

  14 investment trusts for income and growth in 2017

  Investors looking forward to a period of calm in 2017 might be disappointed, but David Prosser has the trusts experts are backing to navigate further storms.  Having just been through a year of unprecedented political upheaval that sent financial markets spinning, many investors will be assuming 2017 cannot possibly be so tumultuous. The reality, however, […]

• 22 Nov 2016 2 min read

  Schroder Oriental Income increases dividend for 10th year in a row

  Schroder Oriental Income says that, over the year ended 31 August 2016, the  net asset value produced a total return of 32.1%, the share price produced a total return of 32.8% and the dividend has increased for the 10th year in a row. Revenue earnings per share for the year increased by 3.4% to 9.03 […]

• 14 Oct 2016 1 min read

  Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies has problems in Korea

  Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies has released its results for the year ended 31 August 2016. The fund’s NAV total return was 31.5%, while the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index rose by 33.0% on the same basis. The share price increased in total return terms by 27.3% as the discount widened. Revenue return per share was 9.50p […]

• 13 May 2016 2 min read

  Schroder Oriental Income benefits from sterling weakness and good stock selection

  Schroder Oriental Income Fund has announced its interim results for the six months ended 29 February 2016. During the period, the company provided NAV and share price total returns of 8.6% and 4.5% both outperforming the company’s MSCI AC Pacific ex Japan Index, which rose by 4.3% (all in sterling terms). The company says that […]

• 14 Apr 2016 2 min read

  Scottish Oriental says sterling weakness outweighed poor performance of Asian markets

  Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies has published its interim results for the six-months ended 29 February 2016. During the period the trust’s NAV per share increased by 5.9% in total return terms, while the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index recorded a sterling adjusted increase of 3.1 per cent and the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan […]

• 11 Nov 2015 2 min read

  Schroder Oriental Income shrugs off Asian market challenges

  Schroder Oriental Income Fund, chaired by Robert Sinclair (pictured), has announced its results for the year ended 31 August 2015, during which the company’s NAV fell by 5.8% and its share price by 6.1%. However these are both appreciably ahead of the performance of the Company’s reference index, the MSCI AC Pacific (ex Japan) Index, […]

• 29 Oct 2015 1 min read

  Scottish Oriental manager disappointed despite beating benchmark

  Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies has published results for the year ended 31 August 2015. Over that period it outperformed the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index and MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Small Cap Index, returning -8.4% against -9.1% and -9.4% for the indices respectively. The dividend was maintained at 11.5p – the Board say it […]

• 29 Apr 2015 1 min read

  Schroder Oriental Income outperforming

  Over the six months ended 28 February 2015, Schroder Oriental Income produced a total return on net assets of 7.3% and the share price produced a total return of 6.7%. This compares to a total return of 2.9% for the MSCI AC Pacific ex Japan Index. They paid a first interim dividend of 1.5p in […]

• 23 Apr 2015 1 min read

  Scottish Oriental Smaller beats benchmark but discount widens

  Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies’ net asset value returned 4.5% over the six months to the end of February 2015, ahead of the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Small Cap Index which returned 2.4%. Smaller companies lagged larger ones during the period – the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index returned 5.9%. The discount widened a […]

• 06 Nov 2014 1 min read

  Scottish Oriental Income lags benchmark marginally

  SOI : Scottish Oriental Income lags benchmark marginally Schroder Oriental Income’s results for the year ended 31 August 2014 have been published this morning. It just failed to match the return on its benchmark index, the MSCI All Countries Pacific ex Japan, delivering a total return of 10.9% for the period vs. the index’s 11.3%. […]

In The Press

• 12 Aug 2026 1 min read

  Investment trust insider on Schroder Oriental Income

  James Carthew: Schroder Oriental Income thrives on Asia’s inefficiencies Richard Sennitt has a tried and tested skill for finding mispriced companies that deliver a good total return as well as a growing income. Schroder Oriental Income (SOI) can boast that it is both the largest and the best performing of the trusts in the Asia […]

• 14 Feb 2024 1 min read

  ISA ideas: alternatives to funds and trusts that are flavour of the month

  by Jennifer Hill from interactive investor, 14th February 2024: Following the herd doesn’t tend to end well. Throughout history investors’ tendency for herd mentality bias has inflated asset bubbles and driven sharp declines detached from market fundamentals.. Trading on the interactive investor platform highlights half a dozen funds that have climbed the popularity rankings over […]

• 27 Feb 2023 1 min read

  Put your trust in dividends and you can beat those savings rates

  David Brenchley, February 26 2023, The Sunday Times: With the best one-year fixed savings account now paying 4.31 per cent, riskier investments such as stocks and shares may seem less attractive than they have been for a long time. If you can get a high interest rate on your money, why take more risk in […]

• 23 Dec 2021 2 min read

  Inflation worries? Not if you chose these funds

  David Brenchley, December 19 2021, The Sunday Times A sharp rise in the cost of living will have forced many people to accept more risk in how they take investment income in retirement. To ensure that their income keeps pace with their spending, many will be looking for investments that yield more than the present […]

• 30 Jun 2020 1 min read

  Global income in a lost decade for UK dividends

  Global income in a lost decade for UK dividends by Jennifer Hill Investment Trust Insider ezine, issue 54, June 2020 Bear markets for dividends are a rarity. There have only been six in the past 149 years compared to 16 for total stock market returns, according to an analysis by Schroders that uses the S&P […]

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