IN BRIEF: Twentyfour sees NAV down; lifts interim dividend

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Twentyfour Income Fund Ltd - closed-ended fund which targets less-liquid, higher-yielding asset-backed securities - Net asset value per share on September 30 is down 16% to 95.82 pence, from 113.89p a year earlier, and down 15% from 112.45p on March 31. Notes the NAV per share drop in the six months represents a total NAV return of negative 14.8%. ‘The decline in the company’s performance in absolute terms over the review period is disappointing but it has been a particularly volatile period for all assets’, it says.

For the period from April 1 to September 30, total net assets amount to £613 million, up 5.9% from £579 million the year before. Swings to a total comprehensive loss of £83.0 million from a profit of £23.1 million, as net foreign currency losses surged to £11.1 million from just £1.8 million the year before. Declares a dividend of 3.25p per share in respect of the period, up 8.3% from 3.0p a year prior.

Twentyfour joined the FTSE 250 index on September 19 this year.

Current stock price: 98.44p, down 0.4% on Wednesday in London

12-month change: down 15%

By Xindi Wei, Alliance News reporter

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