Abrdn Asian Income Share Discussion Threads

[davidbh] 07/6/2008 22:53

Kbass:
a 4.1% divi in major stocks in growing economies, this outranked the UK over the next 2 yrs+ for me.
The index is MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex-Japan - can anyone tell me where to find a graph (Trustnet has 187 indices -this aint one of them).

[kbass] 05/6/2008 08:12

Been watching for a while and half tempted missen

[aleman] 05/6/2008 00:12

Hi. I hope things work out. I am considering topping up a little myself. I'm not sure AAIF is anything special but mainstream Asian exposure with a dividend looks a lot more promising than a lot of UK stuff at the moment.

[davidbh] 04/6/2008 21:53

Aleman: thanks for this board. Just bought in.Hopefully as a long-term holder.
I respect the team from Aberdeen that set this up.
Made afew bob with them in the past.

[aleman] 27/5/2008 14:05

NAV 23/05/08 120.94p
Close 117p
Discount 3.3%
Yield 4.1%

[aleman] 19/5/2008 14:33

NAV 16/05/08 124.34p
Close 118p
Discount 5.1%
Yield 4.0%

[aleman] 12/5/2008 16:28

NAV 9/05/08 123.07p
Close 116.5p
Discount 5.3%
Yield 4.1%

[aleman] 09/5/2008 09:56

But it has been known to trade at a premium.

[kbass] 09/5/2008 02:08

'Tis not much of a discount, is it?

[aleman] 08/5/2008 16:00

New NAV high for yesterday of 123.98p

[aleman] 06/5/2008 13:36

NAV 02/05/08 123.42p
Close 122.5p
Discount 0.7%
Yield 3.7%

[rogerbridge] 02/5/2008 18:08

Nice to see lots of blue today.

[aleman] 30/4/2008 16:23

And again - 122.69p. Nice to see. My only share hitting new highs.

[aleman] 24/4/2008 16:35

Yes - 122.45p yesterday.

[aleman] 21/4/2008 16:03

NAV 18/04/08 120.86p
CLose 118.25p
Discount 2.2%
Yield 4.0%

COuld NAV hit a new high today due to the £?

GBP - USD 1.98330 -0.01595 -0.8%
GBP - CAD 1.98880 -0.02015 -1%
GBP - JPY 204.81000 -2.65500 -1.28%
GBP - EUR 1.24530 -0.01860 -1.47%
GBP - AUD 2.10385 -0.03710 -1.73%
GBP - HKD 15.46050 -0.12100 -0.78%
GBP - BRL 3.30105 -0.03080 -0.92%
GBP - INR 79.12500 -0.28760 -0.36%
GBP - RUB 46.33350 -0.56500 -1.2%

[aleman] 17/4/2008 15:58

New high today for the shares if not quite for the NAV.

[aleman] 15/4/2008 10:34

New high for NAV?

NAV 11/04/08 122.12p
Close 112.75p
Discount 7.7%
Yield 4.2%

[aleman] 08/4/2008 11:55

NAV 04/04/08 120.72p
Close 115p
Discount 5.8%
Yield 4.1%

[aleman] 31/3/2008 15:29

NAV 28/03/08 120.74p
Close 113.75p
Discount 5.8%
Yield 4.2%

[aleman] 17/3/2008 16:20

NAV 14/03/08 113.76p
Close 106.25p
Discount 6.6%
Yield 4.5%

[ptolemy] 17/3/2008 12:44

I've emailed Aberdeen and will let you know.

[aleman] 17/3/2008 11:16

Don't know. Is it something to do with the warrants?

[ptolemy] 17/3/2008 10:14

Agree with what you've written but look at page 2

[aleman] 16/3/2008 14:09

What monthly fact sheet? The dividend is 4.75p for a 4.5% yield at 106p. The dividend probably won't rise next year since there was a slight exceptional boost to income this year that is unlikely to be repeated. I suppose they might even shave it a touch but I suspect they will have tried to make allowance so they don't have to.

On 17 July 2007 the Board declared a first interim dividend of 2.0p per Ordinary
share in respect of the year ending 31 December 2007 (2006 - 2.0p), which was
payable on 28 August 2007 to shareholders on the register on 27 July 2007. A
second interim dividend of 2.75p per Ordinary share (2006 - 2.50p) was announced
on 16 January 2008 and was paid on 26 February 2008 to shareholders on the
register on 25 January 2008. It should be noted that the overall payout has been
lifted by a number of special dividends from your Company's investments. These
one-off pay-outs made up about 12% of the Company's underlying 2007 revenues and
they should not necessarily be expected to occur in the future By their very
nature, these special dividends are unlikely to be maintained and, therefore
could well have a distorting effect when comparing future dividend pay-outs
against last year's.

[ptolemy] 15/3/2008 14:39

Aleman,
I'm doing some research on this one. I see the monthly fact sheet shows yield at 9% but you show is as 4.3%? How do you account for the difference?