Overview
Artemis UK Future Leaders (formerly Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies : IPU) seeks to invest in UK smaller companies that occupy market-leading positions or that the managers believe can establish leading positions in the future. The managers, Mark Niznik and Will Tamworth, take a long-term approach in actively managing the trust’s investments. They use a highly disciplined approach to analysing the value of companies and the strength of their cash flows and profitability.
Mark and Will have worked together at Artemis for nearly ten years (as at March 2025). They jointly manage the Artemis UK Smaller Companies Fund, an open-ended fund. The trust is managed using the same fundamental approach to company research and valuation. However, its closed-end structure means Mark and Will are now able to hunt for opportunities amongst their existing universe of medium and small companies and further down the market cap spectrum.
Fundamentals
Price
Research History
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22 Mar 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s Weekly News Show Special: Has the tide turned?
In this week’s show, James Carthew hosted a panel discussion between James Hart from Witan, Nish Patel from Columbia Threadneedle & Jonathan Brown from Invesco on growth investing. If you were looking for the first part of QuotedData’s show, focused on the roundup of the week’s news click here. If there is a guest speaker you’d […]
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03 Nov 2022 50 min read
QuotedData’s Economic and Political Monthly Roundup November 2022
Economic and Political Monthly Roundup Investment companies | Monthly | November 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 […]
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12 Nov 2020 5 min read
QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – November 2020
Economic and Political Monthly Roundup Kindly sponsored by 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 to buy or […]
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12 Nov 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – November 2019
Economic & Political Roundup
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08 May 2019 4 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – May 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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13 Nov 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – November 2018
QuotedData’s economic roundup – November 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 […]
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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 […]
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12 Oct 2017 1 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – October 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – October 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 […]
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16 May 2017 1 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – May 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – May 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 sell […]
News
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17 Mar 2025 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 March 2025 – ORIT, FAIR, IPU/AFL
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 March 2025: Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT) has extended the term of its revolving credit facility (RCF) from February 2026 to June 2028 and has significantly reduced the size of the facility from £270.8m to £150m. The updated RCF continues to be provided by ORIT’s four existing RCF lenders: National […]
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10 Mar 2025 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 March 2025 – MTU, INV, IPU/AFL, SOHO, WHR
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 March 2025: Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (MTU) has published a circular seeking to renew the trust’s repurchase authority (for up to 21,640,007 ordinary shares, or, if fewer, that number of ordinary shares which is equal to 14.99% of MTU’s issued ordinary share capital (excluding treasury shares) at the date of […]
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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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19 Dec 2024 2 min read
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Cos switches manager to Artemis
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies Trust has reviewed its investment management arrangements and decided to appoint Artemis Fund Managers, where Mark Niznik and Will Tamworth will co-manage the portfolio. There will be no change to the core investment objective and policy – achieving long-term total return for shareholders primarily by investment in a broad cross-section […]
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16 Oct 2024 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 16 October 2024 – IPU, HMSO, BOOT
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 16 October 2024 Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies Investment (IPU) announced its interim results for the six months to 31 July 2024. The company saw a strong NAV total return of 13.8%, ahead of the benchmark index return of 12.1%. Shares were up 13.3%. IPU also paid its first interim dividend […]
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20 Aug 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 20 August 2024 – PCFT, SOHO, IPU
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 20 August 2024: Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT) has been promoted to the FTSE 250 Index, replacing Redrow which has been taken over by Barratt Developments. Triple Point Social Housing REIT (SOHO) has completed the transfer of all 38 properties previously leased to struggling housing association Parasol (representing 9.7% of the […]
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19 Jul 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 19th July 2024
Thank you to everyone that listened in today on our YouTube channel. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies (0:43) Gore Street Energy Storage (3:37) This week’s interview was with Chris Clothier from Capital Gearing – watch it again here.
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 19 July 2024 – IPU, SGRO, RGL, NRR/CAL
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 19 July 2024: Following an announcement on 22 May 2024 that it intended to offer its shareholders an “elective return of capital” for up to 10% of its issued share capital, Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies (IPU) has now published a circular in relation to the provision of an elective Special […]
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23 May 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 May 2024 – BGLF, CRS, INOV, IPU
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 May 2024: Blackstone Loan Financing (BGLF) will hand back €23m to its shareholders by way of a compulsory partial redemption of up to 24,779,142 shares on 10 June 2024. On this basis, a holder of 10,000 shares will have 559 shares redeemed, and receive €518.86 in cash. Crystal Amber (CRS) […]
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01 May 2024 2 min read
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies sees a modest drop in NAV
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies (IPU) announced its annual results for the period ended 31 Jan 2024. The company saw NAV total return of -4.1%, slightly worse than the benchmark fall of -3.3%. Shares fell -3.1% while the discount narrowed to 11.1%. Longer term performance remains positive, with the cumulative NAV total return over the […]
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11 Oct 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 October 2023 – APAX, IPU
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 October 2023: Apax Global Alpha (APAX) announced that it has invested approximately €16.6m in Bazooka Candy Brands. Apax’s Internet/Consumer sector team, working in partnership with Bazooka’s management team, will look to stand the company up as an independent business and build on the success of Bazooka’s global portfolio of confectionery […]
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21 Apr 2022 2 min read
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller gives up some of outperformance
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies says that for the year ended 31 January 2022 the trust returned +18.8% in NAV terms, outperforming its benchmark index, the Numis Smaller Companies (excluding Investment Companies) Index, which returned +15.1%. Shareholders did even better, with a return for the year of 21.9%. That has reversed a little since – […]
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23 Apr 2021 3 min read
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies hurt by dividend expectations
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies (IPU) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 January 2021, in which its chairman, Jane Lewis, says that the Board believes sentiment towards IPU, reflected in its share price and discount performance over the year, is at least in part due to expectations around the level of […]
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08 Feb 2021 3 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 8 February 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 8 February 2021 – Gabelli Value Plus+ (GVP) announced that it intends to convene a general meeting in July 2021 to consider a continuation vote resolution followed by a special resolution to place the company in members’ voluntary liquidation. GVP’s largest shareholder, Associated Capital Group, has irrevocably undertaken to abstain from […]
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14 Oct 2020 3 min read
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies held back by consumer goods holdings
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies (IPU) delivered total NAV and share price returns of (23%) and (34%) over its interim results period to 31 July 2020. By comparison, the benchmark Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding Investment Companies) returned (21.2%). IPU notes that income levels are currently at half the level they would ordinarily expect. Since the period-end […]
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17 Apr 2020 4 min read
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies holding firm on 2020 dividend
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies (IPU) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 January 2020. During the year, IPU provided nav and share price total returns of 30.4% and 35.2%, outperforming its Benchmark Index, the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding Investment Companies), which returned +13.7%. To give some context, the year under […]
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 April 2020
Tetragon Financial’s investor day on Wednesday 29 April 2020 has been cancelled in light of the current restrictions. However, it will host a conference call for investors on 30 April 2020 at 15:30 GMT / 10:30 EST to discuss its Q1 Factsheet and to provide a company update. Details will be circulated shortly and posted […]
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15 Oct 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 15 October 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 15 October 2019 – AVI Japan Opportunity announced that it has increased its 364 day, 1.465bn Yen unsecured revolving credit facility with Scotiabank Europe by an additional 1.465bn Yen (approximately £11m as at 14 October 2019). The board of Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies has announced the appointment of Graham Paterson as […]
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30 Aug 2018 2 min read
IP Group-backed Genomics raises £25m in a Series B
IP Group-backed Genomics raises £25m in a Series B Genomics plc, a University of Oxford spin-out backed by UK-based healthcare/tech VC investor IP Group (LSE: IPO), has closed a £25.0m Series B financing round led by the major US biotech, Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Woodford Investment Management – manager of the Woodford Patient Capital Trust (WPCT) – Invesco Perpetual, Oxford […]
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27 Apr 2017 3 min read
Invesco Perpetual UK Smallers outperforms benchmark and proposes 40% tender
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 January 2017. During the period, the company provided an NAV total return of 21.3% and a share price total return of 24.0%, both outperforming that of the company’s benchmark, the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding Investment Companies), which the company […]
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28 Jul 2016 6 min read
F&C Managed Portfolio beats benchmark despite widening discounts
F&C Managed Portfolio reports that, for the company’s financial year to 31 May 2016, the NAV total return (i.e. adding dividends paid to capital performance) was -4.8% for the Income shares and -4.5% for the Growth shares which represented outperformance against the -6.3% total return for the FTSE All-Share Index, the benchmark index for both […]
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18 Apr 2016 2 min read
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller posts decent outperformance
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies says, for the year ended 31 January 2016 the net asset value rose by 10.9%, on a total return basis, an outperformance of 7.1% versus the benchmark index of the Company, the Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding Investment Companies), which returned a lesser 3.8%. When compared to the wider UK stock […]
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23 Nov 2015 1 min read
World trust fund trading at highest combined discount (34.3%) since the financial crisis
World Trust Fund has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 September 2015. During the period, the company’s NAV per share fell 12.9% b(in Sterling terms) modestly outperforming both the MSCI AC World Index (ex USA) Index, which fell 13.5% but underperforming the MSCI AC World Index, which fell 11.0%. The share price […]
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20 Jul 2015 1 min read
UK smaller companies trusts dominate Q2 best-performers
UK small-caps has emerged as the stand-out sector for investment trusts in Q2 2015, according to statistics from QuotedData. The report, published 16 June, showed that UK smaller companies-focused mandates accounted for the majority of best-performing funds in NAV terms for the quarter. http://www.portfolio-adviser.com/news/1023811/uk-companies-trusts-dominate-q2-performers
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16 Jul 2015 1 min read
Small company investment trusts got election boost
Investment trusts specialising in smaller companies were among the top performers of the past few months after a decisive election result improved confidence in the sector, new research shows. But commodity and Asia-focused investment trusts were among the stragglers as investors shunned stocks exposed to an economic slowdown in China or a US rate rise, […]
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17 Apr 2015 1 min read
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller outperforms in 2014
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller’s results for the year ended 31 January 2015 show the fund generating a net asset value return of 2.2%. The Numis Smaller Companies Index (excluding Investment Companies), fell by 2.6%. The share price rose from 316.8p to 328.3p per share, an increase of 3.6%, and the discount narrowed from 13.9% to 11.3%. […]
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10 Mar 2015 1 min read
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller to embrace income focus
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies, which has long been plagued by a wide discount, is to switch focus to become an income fund. The Board, chaired by Ian Barby (pictured), consulted holders of more than 50% of the shares before making this proposal. The first element of this switch is a more than doubling of the dividend […]
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16 Sep 2014 1 min read
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller outperforms
IPU : Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller outperforms Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies interim results for the six months ended 31 July 2014 show the fund outperforming the Numis Smaller Companies ex Investment Companies Index over the period – it generated a total return on net assets of -1.6% vs. -2.9% for the index. The Chairman […]
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09 Apr 2014 1 min read
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies : IPU – annual results
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies has released its annual results for the year ended 31 January 2014. Over that period Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies achieved a net asset value total return of 31.4% – marginally behind that of the benchmark (the Numis Smaller Companies ex Investment Companies Index returned 31.8%). The discount widened slightly from 13.7% to […]
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27 Sep 2023 1 min read
Small investments trusts: which to back, and which to avoid
by Cherry Reynard from interactive investor, 27th September 2023: Small is becoming less beautiful in the investment trust world. Problems of wider discounts, poor liquidity and even – in some cases – weaker performance, have started to worry investors. Another headwind is that wealth managers often won’t touch investment trusts with less than £250 million […]
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01 Jun 2023 1 min read
Investment trusts ditch their ‘inflation protection’ tag
By Val Cipriani, Investors’ Chronicle, June 1, 2023: Investment trusts are announcing below-inflation dividend increases, making it more difficult for investors to maintain the real value of their income – although some might be able to catch up in 2024 or 2025. Last week, core infrastructure trust HICL Infrastructure (HICL) said it intends to maintain […]
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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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25 Aug 2020 1 min read
Small stocks could help you sail through
Small stocks could help you sail through the increasingly choppy waters of investments opportunities By ROSIE MURRAY-WEST, FINANCIAL MAIL ON SUNDAY PUBLISHED: 22:00, 15 August 2020 | UPDATED: 12:41, 16 August 2020 Some say small is beautiful, but if you have ever been on a yacht in a big storm, you will know it can be stomach-churning as well. That […]
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05 Aug 2020 1 min read
Bargain Hunter: cheapest equity investment trusts revealed
Bargain Hunter: cheapest equity investment trusts revealed by Kyle Caldwell from interactive investor | 4th August 2020 12:53 Research in the equity investment trust universe highlights the biggest potential bargains… Research for interactive investor by QuotedData screened the equity investment trusts with assets of at least £10 million for potential bargains. The data (as at 3 August) shows some trusts […]
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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 […]
