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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: 17 January 2025
Unit and Price Type Price
Accumulation Buying Price £338.68
Accumulation Selling Price £333.21
Income Buying Price £212.37
Income Selling Price £208.94
Fund Statistics
Statistic Value
Yield (Historic) 3.4%
Size (Mid-Basis) £141.3m
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 2024, 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 31/12/2024 11.8 9.5
1 Year to 31/12/2023 8.3 10.1
1 Year to 31/12/2022 (10.0) (17.9)
1 Year to 31/12/2021 30.0 21.9
1 Year to 31/12/2020 (15.1) (4.3)
Compound %
Period to 31 December 2024 AFUND NSCI (XIC)
2 years 10.0 9.8
3 years 2.9 (0.3)
4 years 9.1 4.8
5 years 3.8 2.9
10 years 6.2 6.0
15 years 9.4 9.0
Inception 11.2 9.2
Cumulative %
Period to 31 December 2024 AFUND NSCI (XIC)
2 years 21.1 20.6
3 years 9.0 (1.0)
4 years 41.6 20.7
5 years 20.3 15.6
10 years 83.0 79.8
15 years 286.5 266.6
Inception 3,489.7 1,829.4

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.