City of London Investment Group PLC Trading Update (6507Z)
January 14 2020 - 2:00AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMCLIG
RNS Number : 6507Z
City of London Investment Group PLC
14 January 2020
City of London Investment Group PLC
14 January 2020
CITY OF LONDON INVESTMENT GROUP PLC
("City of London", "the Group" or "the Company")
FUNDS UNDER MANAGEMENT AS AT 31 December 2019,
TRADING UPDATE
City of London (LSE: CLIG), a leading specialist asset
management group offering a range of institutional products
investing in closed-end funds, announces that as at 31 December
2019, FuM were US$6 billion (GBP4.5 billion). This compares with
US$5.4 billion (GBP4.3 billion) at the Company's year-end on 30
June 2019. A breakdown by strategy follows:
FuM ($mn) Strategy Index
Dec-19 Jun-19 % Net %
(estimate) inc/dec Flows inc/dec
EM 4,429 4,221 5% (118) MSCI EM 7%
DEV 1,109 729 52% 272 MSCI ACWI 7%
Opportunistic ACWI/Barclays
Value 270 233 16% 20 Global Agg 5%
Frontier 206 206 0% 8 S&P Frontier 150 0%
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6,014 5,389 182
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Excludes seed investments
The EM and International Developed strategies outperformed,
driven by narrower discounts, positive country allocation and good
NAV performance. The Opportunistic Value Strategy outperformed led
by good NAV performance and significant discount narrowing. The
Frontier strategy underperformed due primarily to negative country
allocation and discount widening.
During the period under review, the Developed strategies
recorded net inflows of $272 million. The EM strategies saw net
outflows of $118 million. We have to date received notification of
circa $200 million of net inflows in aggregate across all
strategies, which we expect to fund over the next quarter.
With regard to business development, the Group continues to
maintain an active pipeline across all of its major CEF offerings
with an increased interest in the diversification CEF
strategies.
Operations
The Group's income currently accrues at a weighted average rate
of approximately 75 basis points of FuM, net of third party
commissions. "Fixed" costs are cGBP1.1 million per month, and
accordingly the current run-rate for operating profit, before
profit-share of 30% and an EIP charge of 5%, is approximately
GBP1.8 million per month based upon current FuM and a US$/GBP
exchange rate of US$1.3257 to GBP1 as at 31 December 2019.
The Group estimates the unaudited profit before taxation for the
six months ended 31 December 2019 to be approximately GBP6.3
million, which compares with GBP5.2 million for the equivalent
period to 31 December 2018.
The Company is currently in a close period which will end with
the publication of results for the six months ended 31 December
2019 on 17 February 2020.
Dividend
In recognition of the improved results and having regard to the
current dividend cover policy the Board has decided to increase the
interim dividend by 1p to 10p per share, which will be paid on 20
March 2020 to shareholders registered at the close of business on 6
March 2020 (2019: 9 pence).
Template
Please see the attached graph which is based on the following
assumptions and includes the estimated quarterly cost of the
dividend:
http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/6507Z_1-2020-1-13.pdf
Key assumptions:
(June 2019 comparatives in Italics)
- Starting point Current FuM (end December 2019)
- Net increase for the remainder of this financial year (straight-lined
to June 2020):
- emerging market CEF strategy zero (zero)
- non-emerging market CEF strategies US$250 (US$250m over
the full year)
- Net increase in 2020/2021 (straight-lined to June 2021):
- emerging market CEF strategy zero
- non-emerging market CEF strategies US$250m
- Operating margin adjusted monthly for change in product
mix and commission run-off
- Market growth: 0%
- Overheads for 2019/20: no increase on 2018/2019 (0%)
- Overheads for 2020/21: +3% compared with 2018/2019
- EIP cost for 2019/20: 5% of operating profit (5%)
- EIP cost for 2020/21: n/a now falls within 30% profit-share
- Corporation tax based on an estimated average rate of 21%
(21%)
- Exchange rate assumed to be GBP1/$1.31 for entire period
(GBP1/US$1.27)
- Number of CLIG Shares in issue (26.6m) less those held by
the ESOP Trust (1.7m) as at 31 December 2019 (26.6 m CLIG
shares in issue less 1.5m ESOP Trust holding)
For further information, please visit http://www.citlon.co.uk/
or contact:
Tom Griffith, CEO
City of London Investment Group PLC
Tel: 001-610-380-0435
Martin Green
Zeus Capital Limited
Financial Adviser & Broker
Tel: +44 (0)20 3829 5000
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