Aberforth Partners is an investment management firm that provides investors with a high level of resource focussed exclusively on small UK quoted companies.

About Aberforth

The investment management business conducted by Aberforth Partners LLP was established in 1990 and remains wholly owned by full time working partners. The firm’s objective is to deliver superior long term investment returns for its clients.

Our Background & Philosophy

We are committed to value investment and small UK quoted companies.

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The Team

We are a well resourced team who operate collegiately.

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Stewardship & ESG

Stewardship permeates Aberforth’s investment process and culture.

Stewardship & ESG

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
20 Feb 2025
£1,400m
Ordinary Share Price
21 Feb 2025
1,393.96p
Ordinary Share NAV
20 Feb 2025
1,562.95p

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 2014 Planned wind up: 30 June 2031
Ordinary Share Price
21 Feb 2025
74.89p
ZDP Share Price
21 Feb 2025
106.50p
Ordinary Share NAV
20 Feb 2025
88.35p
ZDP Share NAV
20 Feb 2025
103.58p

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
20 Feb 2025
Buying Price (Acc)
£331.85
Selling Price (Acc)
£326.44
Buying Price (Inc)
£208.09
Selling Price (Inc)
£204.70

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

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