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Aberforth UK Small Companies Fund

Latest Prices & Performance

Accumulation & Income unit prices, valuation and historic performance

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Latest Prices & Fund Statistics

Valuation Date: 8 December 2023
Unit and Price Type Price
Accumulation Buying Price £293.02
Accumulation Selling Price £287.26
Income Buying Price £193.51
Income Selling Price £189.71
Fund Statistics
Statistic Value
Yield (Historic) 3.7%
Size (Mid-Basis) £131.2m
Dealing Spread 2.0%
Initial Charge 0.0%
Exit Charge 0.0%

Notes

The above yield is the total of the distribution for the 6 months to 30 June 2023, plus the distribution for the 6 months to 31 December 2022, calculated as a percentage of the arithmetic mid of the Income Unit creation and cancellation prices at the above valuation date.

The Fund’s management fee is split between capital and income, with 5/8ths of the Fund’s management fee allocated to the capital property of the Fund and the remaining 3/8ths to the income property of the Fund.

Investors may be subject to tax on their distributions.

Past performance is not a guide to future performance.

Past Performance

Discrete %
Period AFUND NSCI (XIC)
1 Year to 30/11/2023 0.2 (0.3)
1 Year to 30/11/2022 (4.5) (12.9)
1 Year to 30/11/2021 29.2 24.0
1 Year to 30/11/2020 (12.9) (3.1)
1 Year to 30/11/2019 10.4 9.6
Compound %
Period to 30 November 2023 AFUND NSCI (XIC)
2 years (2.2) (6.8)
3 years 7.3 2.5
4 years 1.9 1.1
5 years 3.5 2.7
10 years 4.8 4.3
15 years 11.0 11.4
Inception 10.9 8.9
Cumulative %
Period to 30 November 2023 AFUND NSCI (XIC)
2 years (4.3) (13.2)
3 years 23.6 7.7
4 years 7.7 4.4
5 years 18.8 14.4
10 years 59.9 51.7
15 years 376.4 408.3
Inception 2,875.7 1,511.3

Notes

AFUND = Aberforth UK Small Companies Fund the Cancellation Price of the Fund's accumulation units.

Index = capital appreciation on the Numis Smaller Companies Index (Excluding Investment Companies) with dividends reinvested. This comprises the bottom 10% of all UK quoted companies by market value which at 1 January 2023 included some 350 companies, the largest market capitalisation of which was £1,620m and the aggregate market capitalisation of which was £140bn.

Launch = 20 March 1991.

Past performance is not a guide to future performance, or a reliable indicator of future results or performance.