Portfolio Update

BLACKROCK NORTH AMERICAN INCOME TRUST plc All information is at31 August 2015 and unaudited. Performance at month end with net income reinvested

	One Month	Three Months	Six Months	One Year	Since Launch (24 Oct 2012)
Net asset value	-3.9%	-6.2%	-4.9%	5.3%	31.9%
Share price	-3.8%	-4.1%	-5.8%	4.7%	21.0%
Russell 1000 Value Index	-4.6%	-8.2%	-6.3%	4.2%	49.3%
Source: BlackRock

At month end
Net asset value – capital only:	116.77p
Net asset value – cum income:	117.65p
Share price:	109.50p
Discount to cum income NAV:	6.9%
Net yield*:	3.8%
Total assets including current year revenue:	£94.2m
Target yield:	4.0p
Gearing:	Nil
Options overwrite:	15.67%
Ordinary shares in issue**:	80,039,044
Ongoing charges***:	1.3%

* Based on dividends of 1.10p per share declared on 6 May 2015 and 5 August 2015 and 1.00p per share each declared on 6 November 2014 and 12 February 2015.

** Excluding 20,322,261 ordinary shares held in treasury.

*** Ongoing charges represent the management fee and all other operating expenses excluding interest as a % of average shareholders’ funds for the year ended 31 October 2014.

Benchmark
Sector Analysis	Total Assets (%)
Financials	26.7
Industrials	14.2
Health Care	13.8
Information Technology	8.4
Energy	8.3
Consumer Discretionary	7.9
Consumer Staples	7.6
Utilities	5.9
Materials	4.0
Telecommunication Services	2.6
Net current assets	0.6
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Country Analysis	Total Assets (%)
USA	96.2
France	1.5
United Kingdom	0.8
Australia	0.4
Canada	0.3
Netherlands	0.2
Net current assets	0.6
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	100.0
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Ten Largest Investments
Company	Country of Risk	Total Assets (%)
JPMorgan Chase	USA	4.2
Wells Fargo	USA	4.0
Citigroup	USA	3.3
Home Depot	USA	2.9
General Electric	USA	2.8
Pfizer	USA	2.6
Exxon Mobil	USA	2.5
Merck	USA	2.3
United Health	USA	2.3
Microsoft	USA	2.2

Bob Shearer and Tony DeSpirito, representing the Investment Manager, noted:

Performance

For the one month period ended 31 August 2015 the Company’s NAV decreased by 3.9%, while the share price decreased by 3.8% (all in sterling).  The Company’s benchmark, the Russell 1000 Value Index, declined by 4.6% in the period.

The largest contributor to relative returns was stock selection in the consumer discretionary sector.  Notably, non-benchmark holding Home Depot, (+1.0% in GBP) proved to be resilient amid U.S. equity market volatility.  Stock selection in information technology and industrials also contributed to relative returns, as did stock selection in the consumer staples and telecommunication services sectors.

The largest detractor from relative performance for the month was a combination of stock selection and an underweight to the energy sector.  Notably, a sharp rebound in crude oil prices occurred during the final three trading days in August after nearly two months of downward price pressure. The upward inflection in crude prices proved to be costly given our higher quality orientation and overall underweight to the sector.  Stock selection in the materials, health care and financials sectors also modestly hurt relative returns for the month.

Transactions/Options

Transactions: We made several incremental changes to the portfolio during the month.  Notably, in industrials we trimmed our exposure to United Technologies Corporation and increased our exposure to General Electric Company.  Similarly, in information technology we reduced our exposure to IBM and used the proceeds to increase our allocation to Oracle.

As at 31 August 2015, the Company’s options exposure was 15.67% and the delta of the options was 95.26%.

Positioning

The Company is currently overweight to the industrials, consumer discretionary, health care, materials and consumer staples sectors.  We maintain a neutral weighting in telecommunication services and are underweight to the energy, financials, information technology and utilities sectors.

10 September 2015

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