{"id":1019,"date":"2015-01-12T07:24:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T07:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2015-01-12T07:24:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T07:24:36","slug":"the-aberforth-smaller-companies-investment-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"The Aberforth Smaller Companies Investment Trust."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Aberforth Smaller Companies Investment Trust is a \u00a31bn investment fund that specialises in the small companies domain.<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"Aberforth Financials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=10856&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=aberforth\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=10856&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=aberforth<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>It was launched, and floated on the London Stock Exchange, on 10 December 1990, managed by Aberforth parters,<\/p>\n<p>[h<a title=\"Aberforth Partners\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aberforth.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">ttp:\/\/www.aberforth.co.uk\/<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"aberforth-smaller-companies-trust\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aberforth.co.uk\/aberforth-smaller-companies-trust\/aberforth-smaller-companies-trust.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.aberforth.co.uk\/aberforth-smaller-companies-trust\/aberforth-smaller-companies-trust.htm<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>1 JD Sports Fashion \u00a340,013,000 3.5% of the fund (Retailing &#8211; sports goods &amp; clothing)<br \/>\n2 QinetiQ Group \u00a332,300,000 2.8% (R&amp;D and consulting services)<br \/>\n3 Vesuvius 3\u00a30,316,000 2.7% (Metal flow engineering)<br \/>\n4 FirstGroup \u00a328,204,000 2.5% (Bus &amp; rail operator)<br \/>\n5 RPC Group \u00a328,073,000 2.5% of the fund (Plastic packaging)<br \/>\n6 St. Modwen Properties \u00a327,942,000 2.5% of the fund (Property &#8211; investment &amp; development)<br \/>\n7 e2v technologies \u00a327,624,000 2.4% of the fund (Electronic components &amp; subsystems)<br \/>\n8 Shanks Group \u00a326,532,000 2.3% of the fund (Waste services)<br \/>\n9 Spirit Pub Company \u00a324,972,000 2.2% of the fund (Managed pub operator)<br \/>\n10 Flybe Group \u00a324,856,000 2.2% of the fund (Airline)<\/p>\n<p>Top Ten Investments are worth <strong>\u00a3290,832,000<\/strong> which equtes to<strong> 25.6%<\/strong> of the whole fund.<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting is that the management team are major holders in the fund, so have a vest interest in the success of the fund, and also the fund yields <strong>2.2%<\/strong> to investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aberforth Smaller Companies Investment Trust is a \u00a31bn investment fund that specialises in the small companies domain. [http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=10856&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=aberforth] It was launched, and floated on the London Stock Exchange, on 10 December 1990, managed by Aberforth parters, [http:\/\/www.aberforth.co.uk\/] [http:\/\/www.aberforth.co.uk\/aberforth-smaller-companies-trust\/aberforth-smaller-companies-trust.htm] 1 JD Sports Fashion \u00a340,013,000 3.5% of the fund (Retailing &#8211; sports goods &amp; clothing) 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}