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
30 Jun 2025
£1,480m
Ordinary Share Price
01 Jul 2025
1,538.59p
Ordinary Share NAV
30 Jun 2025
1,731.97p

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
1 Jul 2025
87.31p
ZDP Share Price
1 Jul 2025
108.00p
Ordinary Share NAV
30 Jun 2025
99.62p
ZDP Share NAV
30 Jun 2025
106.17p

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
30 Jun 2025
Buying Price (Acc)
£364.81
Selling Price (Acc)
£359.31
Buying Price (Inc)
£228.76
Selling Price (Inc)
£225.31

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