GCP Asset Backed Income Fund Ltd Dividend Declaration & Scrip Dividend Alternative (1755C)

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RNS Number : 1755C

GCP Asset Backed Income Fund Ltd

17 January 2018

GCP Asset Backed Income Fund Limited (the "Company" or "GCP Asset Backed") LEI: 213800FBBZCQMP73A815

Dividend Declaration and Scrip Dividend Alternative

17 January 2018

The Board of GCP Asset Backed, which invests in asset backed loans, is pleased to announce its fourth quarterly dividend in respect of the period from 1 October 2017 to 31 December 2017 of 1.525 pence per ordinary share (the "Q4 Dividend").

The ordinary shares will go ex-dividend on 25 January 2018 and will be paid on 23 February 2018 to holders of ordinary shares recorded on the register as at the close of business on 26 January 2018.

Further to the authority granted by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 23 May 2017, holders of ordinary shares will be given the opportunity to elect to receive new ordinary shares in the Company ("Scrip Shares") in place of their cash entitlement pursuant to the Q4 Dividend (the "Scrip Dividend Alternative").

Further details of the Scrip Dividend Alternative can be found in the Scrip Dividend Circular 2017 which was published by the Company on 28 July 2017, a copy of which is available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and on the Company's website at www.graviscapital.com/funds/gcp-asset-backed. The Scrip Dividend Circular 2017 is also available from the Company's registered office at 12 Castle Street, St Helier, Jersey, JE2 3RT, Channel Islands.

The reference price of the Scrip Shares in respect of the Q4 Dividend will be calculated and published on or around 1 February 2018.

Shareholders will receive the Q4 Dividend in cash, unless they have completed either a standing election (a "Scrip Dividend Mandate") (for holders of ordinary shares in certificated form only, with such Scrip Dividend Mandate to be returned to the Company's registrar, Link Asset Services, by no later than 5pm on 9 February 2018) or a Dividend Election Input Message shares (for holders of ordinary shares in CREST only, with such Election to be made in CREST by no later than 5pm on 9 February 2018) to receive Scrip Shares.

Holders of ordinary shares in certificated form who complete a Scrip Dividend Mandate will continue to receive Scrip Shares in lieu of their entire cash dividend entitlement for future dividends unless they revoke their Scrip Dividend Mandate, details of which are set out in the Scrip Dividend Circular 2017.

Expected timetable for Q4 Dividend and Scrip Dividend Alternative:

 
                                                                                2018 
 Ex-dividend date                                                     25 January 
 Record date                                                          26 January 
 Reference price of Scrip Shares for Q4 Dividend                     1 February 
  announced 
 Latest date for receipt of Scrip Dividend Mandates    5pm on 9 February 
  and CREST elections 
 Q4 Dividend payment date                                           23 February 
 Dealings commence in Scrip Shares                                  23 February 
 

For further information, please contact:

 
 Gravis Capital Management Limited   [phone] 
  David Conlon                        [e-mail] 
  Philip Kent                         [e-mail] 
  Dion Di Miceli                      [e-mail] 
 
   Cenkos Securities plc               [phone] 
   Tom Scrivens                        [e-mail] 
   Oliver Packard                      [e-mail] 
   Sapna Shah                          [e-mail] 
 
   Buchanan [phone]        [phone] 
   Charles Ryland                      [e-mail] 
   Victoria Hayns                      [e-mail] 
 

Notes to Editors

The Company

GCP Asset Backed is a closed ended investment company traded on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. Its investment objective is to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns primarily through regular, growing distributions and modest capital appreciation over the long term.

The Company seeks to meet its investment objective by making investments in a diversified portfolio of predominantly UK based asset backed loans which have contracted, predictable medium to long term cash flows and/or physical assets.

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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