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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: 3 October 2024
Unit and Price Type Price
Accumulation Buying Price £351.10
Accumulation Selling Price £345.36
Income Buying Price £223.82
Income Selling Price £220.16
Fund Statistics
Statistic Value
Yield (Historic) 3.4%
Size (Mid-Basis) £159.7m
Dealing Spread 1.6%
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 2024, plus the distribution for the 6 months to 31 December 2023, 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 30/09/2024 23.6 20.0
1 Year to 30/09/2023 13.7 11.8
1 Year to 30/09/2022 (22.5) (25.1)
1 Year to 30/09/2021 77.6 45.9
1 Year to 30/09/2020 (28.1) (9.6)
Compound %
Period to 30 September 2024 AFUND NSCI (XIC)
2 years 18.6 15.8
3 years 2.9 0.2
4 years 17.9 10.0
5 years 6.8 5.8
10 years 6.4 6.3
15 years 9.4 9.2
Inception 11.4 9.3
Cumulative %
Period to 30 September 2024 AFUND NSCI (XIC)
2 years 40.6 34.2
3 years 8.9 0.5
4 years 93.4 46.7
5 years 39.1 32.6
10 years 86.2 85.0
15 years 283.4 272.6
Inception 3,592.2 1,853.1

Notes

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

Index = capital appreciation on the Deutsche 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 2024 included some 353 companies, the largest market capitalisation of which was £1,680m and the aggregate market capitalisation of which was £143bn.

Launch = 20 March 1991.

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