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 of Investments
05 Nov 2025
£1,423m
Ordinary Share Price
06 Nov 2025
1,506.00p
Ordinary Share NAV
05 Nov 2025
1,719.79p
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
6 Nov 2025
83.25p
ZDP Share Price
6 Nov 2025
115.00p
Ordinary Share NAV
05 Nov 2025
94.46p
ZDP Share NAV
05 Nov 2025
109.57p
(accrued entitlement per the Articles)
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
05 Nov 2025
Buying Price (Acc)
£364.69
Selling Price (Acc)
£359.56
Buying Price (Inc)
£224.61
Selling Price (Inc)
£221.45
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