Trusts & Funds
Aberforth currently manages two investment trusts and one unit trust. All are managed in accordance with a value style and focus on small UK quoted companies.
Trusts & Funds
Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust plc
The Trust’s objective is to achieve a net asset value total return (with dividends reinvested) greater than that of the Deutsche Numis Smaller Companies Index (Excluding Investment Companies) over the long term.
Launched: 10 December 1990
Market Value
29 Apr 2025
£1,318m
Ordinary Share Price
30 Apr 2025
1,366.00p
Ordinary Share NAV
29 Apr 2025
1,517.73p
Aberforth Geared Value & Income Trust plc
The Trust’s objective is to provide Ordinary shareholders with high total returns, incorporating an attractive level of income, and to provide Zero Dividend Preference (ZDP) shareholders with a pre-determined final capital entitlement of 160.58 pence per share on the planned winding-up date.
Launched: 1 July 2024 Planned wind up: 30 June 2031
Ordinary Share Price
30 Apr 2025
74.00p
ZDP Share Price
28 Apr 2025
106.00p
Ordinary Share NAV
29 Apr 2025
85.02p
ZDP Share NAV
29 Apr 2025
104.93p
Aberforth UK Small Companies Fund
The investment objective of the Fund is to seek to achieve a total return, calculated on an income reinvested basis, greater than the Deutsche Numis Smaller Companies Index (Excluding Investment Companies) over the long term, with the focus on rolling five year periods.
Launched: 20 March 1991
29 Apr 2025
Buying Price (Acc)
£322.79
Selling Price (Acc)
£317.77
Buying Price (Inc)
£202.41
Selling Price (Inc)
£199.26
Aberforth Split Level Income Trust plc
A split capital investment trust with two classes of share – Ordinary Shares and Zero Dividend Preference (ZDP) Shares – both of which traded on the London Stock Exchange.
Launched: 3 July 2017
Wound up: 1 July 2024