Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust Plc (ASL.L)

1,408.93 +2.93 (+0.21%) As of 11:17AM BST. Market open.

Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust Plc

14 Melville Street
Edinburgh EH3 7NS
United Kingdom
0131 220 0733
https://www.aberforth.co.uk/investment-trusts/aberforth-smaller-companies-trust/

Sector(s): Financial Services
Industry: Asset Management
Full-time employees: 

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. Richard Mark Jonathan Newbery BA (Hons)	Portfolio Manager	N/A	N/A	1960
Mr. Euan Robin Macdonald BA (Hons)	Portfolio Manager	N/A	N/A	1971

Amounts are as of , and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in GBp.

Description

Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust Plc is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Aberforth Partners LLP. The fund invests in public equity markets of the United Kingdom. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund primarily invests in value stocks of small-cap companies. It employs fundamental analysis with both bottom-up and top-down stock picking approaches with the focus on factors like businesses financial statements and assessment of their market positions to create its portfolio. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Numis Smaller Companies Index (Excluding Investment Companies). Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust Plc was formed on December 10, 1990 and is domiciled in the United Kingdom.

Corporate governance

Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust Plc’s ISS governance QualityScore as of N/A is N/A. The pillar scores are Audit: N/A; Board: N/A; Shareholder rights: N/A; Compensation: N/A.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.