Annual Financial Report

FIDELITY SPECIAL VALUES PLC ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT, PROXY FORM AND ADDITIONAL DISCLOSURES TO THE PRELIMINARY RESULTS FOR THE YEAR TO 31 AUGUST 2011 Further to the voluntary disclosure of the Company's annual results for the year ended 31 August 2011 by way of a preliminary announcement dated 7 November 2011, in accordance with the Disclosure and Transparency Rules ("the Rules") 4.1.3 and 6.3.5(2) this announcement contains the text of the preliminary announcement dated 7 November 2011 together with the additional text in compliance with the Rules. The Company's annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 August 2011 together with the accompanying proxy form have been submitted to the UK Listing Authority, and will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism (NSM): www.hemscott.com/nsm.do (Documents will usually be available for inspection within two business days of this notice being given) The annual report and financial statements will shortly be available on the Company's website at www.fidelity.co.uk/static/pdf/common/investment-trusts/special/ specialannual-2011.pdf Rebecca Burtonwood, FIL Investments International, Company Secretary - 01737 836 869 12 November 2011 FIDELITY SPECIAL VALUES PLC Preliminary Announcement of Audited Results For the year ended 31 August 2011 Chairman's Statement RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2011 NAV: -4.1% SHARE PRICE: -5.0% BENCHMARK: +7.3% DIVIDEND: 11.25p I have pleasure in presenting the Annual Report for Fidelity Special Values PLC. PERFORMANCE This has been a difficult and disappointing year for Fidelity Special Values PLC ("FSV") with a Net Asset Value total return of -4.1% (compared to a total return of +7.3% from the FTSE All-Share Index). The poor performance has dragged the two year return into negative territory with a total return of -2.8%. The five year total return remains positive at 10.9%, 0.3% behind that of the FTSE All-Share Index total return of +11.2% for the same period. The behaviour of the UK equity market during the year ended 31 August 2011 was in many respects a repeat of last year's. The year started with markets still concerned that the initial 'V' shaped recovery following the crisis of 2008 was about to revert to a further period of recession - the much feared 'double dip'. In fact, prompted by a further round of quantitative easing in the US starting in November 2010, together with improving economic indicators, equity markets recovered sharply during the first half of the year, with the UK market 16.5% ahead by the time of the Company's Half-Yearly report at the end of February 2011. However, the second half of the year again saw much less benign market conditions, with a broadly sideways market during spring and early summer correcting sharply downwards in August, leaving the whole year ahead by 7.3%. Two significant contributors to FSV's underperformance in this period were that the portfolio was substantially underweight mining and commodity-related stocks, while retaining an overweight to UK retail banks, and in particular Lloyds and RBS. Sanjeev Shah, the Portfolio Manager, has addressed his reasoning behind these and other positive and negative contributors to performance in his Manager's Review. Given the poor recent returns the Board has reviewed whether FSV's investment philosophy and strategy is right in the current market environment. The underlying philosophy of the Board is that over time the return from equities will be better than that achieved from cash and that a well managed and active approach to investment will produce better returns than an investment in an index tracker fund. The strategy of FSV is to deliver enhanced or "special" value in two main ways. First, the investment strategy is not unduly influenced by the benchmark, and the objective is to only invest in companies that Sanjeev, with the benefit of the Fidelity research team, believes represent good value, ie a bottom up approach to investment. Second, to invest in sectors which are under-represented in the portfolios of other institutional investors and are at low relative historic valuations. This is both a contrarian and a value approach to fund management and requires an active and knowledgeable portfolio manager who makes investments by not following the crowd. We have always made clear that we will judge success over the long term and that Sanjeev should not feel obligated to try to participate in shorter term trends which may be driven by fear or unrealistic optimism rather than by fundamental value. We believe that over time this will produce better returns than both cash and our benchmark index. Since the inception of FSV the NAV has increased by 593.2% on a total return basis compared to the benchmark of 207.0%. However, this approach means that in any single year performance can - and does - vary significantly from that of the market as a whole and we have seen this, both positively and negatively, over the last five individual years and, indeed, since the inception of FSV in 1994. The last five years' performance is set out in the table below. As a Board we review at each Board meeting the performance, particularly over rolling five year periods. We challenge Sanjeev and probe his positions and underlying thinking. What we are looking for is depth of knowledge, clarity of thinking, consistency of application, conviction, fearlessness in taking strong views and honesty in admitting misjudgements. Looking at the performance over the last two years, a large element of the negative contribution has been due to conviction that mining and commodity-related stocks are overvalued and that some banks are undervalued. Sanjeev has been consistent in these and other convictions and has explained his views on these areas in his Review. We continue to believe that this contrarian strategy will produce better returns in the longer term and that the strategy of FSV is valid in these markets. Year to 31 August NAV and Index total 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 5 return % years Fidelity Special -4.1 +1.3 +9.0 -9.8 +15.9 +10.9 Values PLC FTSE All-Share Index +7.3 +10.6 -8.2 -8.7 +11.8 +11.2 Difference -11.4 -9.3 +17.2 -1.1 +4.1 -0.3 OUTLOOK Stock markets around the world remain uncertain and highly volatile and this is likely to continue whilst the US runs high public and trade deficits and Europe enters the throes of a political and banking crisis. As a counter to the bad news, despite weakness in the US and Europe, the world economy as a whole continues to show reasonable growth. In addition, major central banks are starting to ease policy and many UK companies have strong balance sheets and healthy cash flows to cover dividends. The volatility of stock markets over the last year has produced significant opportunities to invest in sectors that should suit contrarian investment. Both the Investment Manager and the Board acknowledge that this is a pivotal year in working to rebuild the good returns expected by our shareholders. There is much to be done but we have every confidence that the Investment Manager has the skills and commitment to achieve this. OTHER MATTERS Performance has clearly been the critical issue for our shareholders over the last year but there are some other matters which I need to touch on in this Annual Report. Discount The Board is very mindful of the importance of the level of discount to our shareholders and we have conducted a number of share repurchases during the year to help prevent the discount from widening further. Gearing The Board believes that using Contracts For Difference for gearing purposes continues to provide more flexibility for the Company's needs at a much lower cost than traditional bank debt. At the time of writing the gross level of gearing is somewhat below the 115% to 120% range we would consider "normal" owing to the uncertain outlook, discussed above. Dividend The Board has decided to recommend a final dividend of 11.25 pence per share for the year ended 31 August 2011, an increase of more than 7% over the 10.50 pence paid in 2010. This dividend will be payable on 19 December 2011 to shareholders on the register at close of business on 18 November 2011 (ex-dividend date 16 November 2011). Board of Directors It is my belief that the Board has the relevant skills and experience to serve the Company well in to the future. In common with our practice since 2004, all Directors are subject to annual re-election and their biographical details are included in the Annual Report to assist shareholders when considering their votes. Retail Distribution Review ("RDR")With effect from 31 December 2012, independent financial advisers will be required to offer advice to investors after considering a full range of investment options. Commission for advice will not be payable and fees will have to be agreed with the client rather than commission based payments being used. RDR should open up the opportunity to a greater number of private investors to invest in investment trusts when these have not been considered previously due in part to lack of commission, limited platform availability and less understanding within the IFA industry. The Annual General Meeting: Thursday 15 December 2011 at 11.00am The Annual General Meeting will be held at Fidelity's offices at 25 Cannon Street, London EC4M 5TA (St Paul's or Mansion House tube stations) on Thursday 15 December 2011 at 11.00am. It is the most important meeting that we, the Directors of your Company, have each year. Sanjeev will be making his annual presentation to shareholders, highlighting the achievements and challenges of the year past and the prospects for the year to come. We do urge as many of you as possible to come and join us for the occasion. Lynn Ruddick Chairman 4 November 2011 MANAGER'S REVIEW UK MARKET REVIEW * GDP growth was very weak over the period; during the 12 months to August 2011 the UK economy only expanded by 0.5%, and at the end of August 2011 was still 3.9% behind its peak level of February 2008. * Inflation again rose as a result of higher oil prices and the increase of VAT from 17.5% to 20% in January 2011; the annual CPI figure at the end of September 2011 stood at 5.2%. * Unlike the European Central Bank, the Bank of England again kept interest rates unchanged throughout the year at a level of 0.5%. * The UK market rose during the 12 month period, but investor optimism had turned to fear by the end of the Company's financial year with a significant market correction taking place in August 2011. The Company's previous financial year ending on 31 August 2010 saw a game of two halves, with a strong recovery phase in the first half of the year, but with investor confidence dipping in the summer so that the year ended with concerns over a 'double dip' recession uppermost in investors' minds. 2011 saw the same cycle repeated; significantly improved economic indicators from both the UK and also the rest of the world economy during the final quarter of 2010 saw an initial strong period of stock market recovery, with the FTSE All-Share Index up by 16.5% at the time of the Company's Half-Yearly report at the end of February 2011. This performance was led by the cyclical areas of the market, where concerns over oil supply in the light of the 'Arab Spring' saw oil prices in March move above the US$120 per barrel level for the first time since 2008, a new all-time high in sterling terms. However, during the second half of the year, investor confidence was hit hard by a succession of negative events. First, the world economy was buffeted by the knock-on effects to global supply chains of the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in Japan; then market concern turned to peripheral Europe's sovereign debt issues, where the true cost of governments' attempts to 'bail out' their domestic banking systems was brought into sharp focus by a round of refinancings in the early summer. Finally, these concerns reached the US, where Standard & Poor's downgraded US Treasury debt in August as the Republicans stalled the Democrats' reflationary plans. Against this backdrop, in the UK, the grind to recover to pre-crash levels of economic activity looked increasingly difficult as GDP only grew by the slimmest of margins (0.5%) during the year to August 2011. This hit investor confidence hard, with the market in August falling by 6.9% - nearly 50% of the returns experienced during the previous 11 months. At a sector level, Technology and Consumer Goods led the way with the market buoyed by the performance of companies with significant global revenue earning capabilities such as ARM, Autonomy, and Burberry. In what could be the start of a round of global M&A (merger and acquisition), where companies with strong cash balance sheets but low internal revenue growth prospects attempt to 'buy' growth, the end of the year saw Autonomy bid for by Hewlett Packard of the US. Elsewhere, Financials, and in particular the retail banks, continued to lag the market, being the only sector to post a negative absolute return over the year as the shadow of potential regulation dented investor confidence that a return to more 'normal' returns from banks would be possible in anything other than the long term. Here, Lloyds and RBS, the banks where the Government still owns significant stakes, were the worst hit, along with Barclays, where investors were concerned that it might be forced to split off its investment banking activities. During the year, sterling reversed the trend of the previous 12 months and strengthened against the dollar, up from $1.54 to $1.63. PORTFOLIO REVIEW As noted earlier, performance this year has been very disappointing. Banks have been the biggest detractor to performance, costing the portfolio 3.4% in relative performance. The macroeconomic uncertainty, regulatory risk and recent concerns over the Eurozone sovereign crisis have impacted the stock prices of the banks very negatively. I continue to have conviction that strong value has emerged in good retail and commercial banking franchises. Banks continue to be the most underweighted sector amongst institutional investors, are disliked by sell side analysts and valuations are at multi year lows on several metrics. Stocks like Lloyds that provide a very real opportunity for potentially doubling their current valuation are rare, and do indeed represent a 'special situation'. It is noticeable that the absence of concrete moves on regulation by the Government caused investor sentiment towards the stock to change in the few weeks, prior to our year end. We remain committed to the long term potential that it affords. I used that recent weakness in the Lloyds share price to add to my position and maintain my exposure to HSBC and Citigroup. The overweight in financials was not all bad news. My strong exposure to Diversified (ie non-bank) Financial Services and Commercial Real Estate stocks resulted in them being the two best performing sectors in the portfolio. London Stock Exchange was the highest contributing holding over the year, driven by recovering transaction volumes and increasing global consolidation of the exchange sector. I have used its strength to halve my holding. Both British Land and Land Securities contributed strongly driven by a better understanding of the yield credentials of property and a recovery in the City and West End rental outlook. I have sold out of both names recently. The cyclical sectors that drove the strong performance of the market during the first half of the year, in particular sectors in Oil and Gas and Materials (which impacted the portfolio by -1.7% and 0.9% respectively) in relative performance, are usually sectors that perform in the last cycle of a recovery. As such it was surprising and disappointing for shareholders to see these sectors outperform to such an extent in what are still the earlier phases of a slow and multi year recovery from the 2008 'lows'. As a contrarian investor, my view was that at the start of the year the world economy had not worked through all the issues that caused the crisis in 2008, and this view has, to some extent, been confirmed by the sharp corrections experienced by these sectors in August. Media stocks overall detracted 1% from relative performance. However, there were some notable positive and negative contributors within the sector. The investment in Yell has been costly and I clearly underestimated the cyclical downturn in SME advertising, balance sheet risk and structural challenges the business model faces. Today the position in Yell is less than 0.3% of the portfolio. Elsewhere, News Corporation's announcement that it was dropping its bid for BSkyB given the 'hacking scandal' hurt the stock's valuation in the second half of the year. I have held the stock since I first took over the portfolio, based on its pipeline of superior revenue-enhancing domestic product offerings from HD through 3D and 'Triple Play', and hence my thesis is not dependent on the realisation of the bid premium arising from News Corporation's interest in the company. I have recently added to the position given the company's unique market position and growth potential. Importantly ITV and Moneysupermarket were notable top 10 contributors to performance driven by the recovery strategies adopted by new management. I continue to maintain the overweight in media names. This includes growth ideas such as Pearson, but more recently, given the market correction, cyclically exposed names such as ITV are looking more interesting. Turnaround situations continue to feature in the portfolio. Unfortunately there have been some notable detractors to performance from the likes of bwin.Party, an on-line gambling and sports betting company, and Logica, a technology and IT outsourcing provider. bwin.Party has been impacted by poor operational performance of its bwin sports betting division following the merger of bwin with PartyGaming in March 2011 and negative surprises around regulation in Germany. I have taken the decision to reduce my holding as my conviction on the thesis has reduced. Logica, having been a top contributor to performance in the previous year, has been impacted by poor operational performance in the Benelux region. I have maintained my position given the turnaround instituted by new management. Conversely, the turnaround of QinetiQ in the Aerospace and Defence space has been a top contributor to performance and I maintained the top 10 position during the year. Finally a theme that still attracts me is the rise in the consumer class in the Emerging Markets, which I see as a multi year phenomenon. There are relatively few stocks in the UK that allow me to play this theme. However, one of them, Burberry, was a top 10 contributor to the portfolio over the year and I am happy to retain this holding going forward. Again, during the year I made use of three main derivative strategies but these remain a small part of the portfolio. Firstly, I bought long Contracts For Difference ("CFDs") to achieve additional gearing within the fund as a cheaper alternative to borrowing additional funds. These operate in the same way as regular borrowing and serve to increase or 'gear' the performance of the underlying share prices in both directions. Secondly, I bought short CFDs to take advantage of certain stocks where I believed that they were overvalued and were likely to fall. Industrial Cyclicals continue to be the main 'short' exposure in the portfolio. Finally, I bought a number of Index put and call options in the FTSE 100 Index to take advantage of periods where I considered the whole market to be over or undervalued. The first two CFD strategies performed broadly in line with the physical equities within the portfolio. My put and call options added a very small amount of positive return to the Company. OUTLOOK Market volatility and concern over the UK economy sliding back into recession has once again very much clouded the end of the Company's financial year. I have positioned the portfolio for a long road to economic recovery, but not a 'double dip' recession or a Japan like scenario (many years of very sluggish growth) in the West. In this low-growth environment, I believe that companies which are able to demonstrate sustainable sales and earnings growth should be priced at a significant premium, which currently is not the case. These growth names such as BSkyB, many of which are also unloved and unfashionable, make up a significant part of the portfolio today. I am also finding more opportunities in early cycle names geared to the US housing market such as Wolseley. Turnaround situations under new management continue to feature in the portfolio such as Ladbrokes and QinetiQ. Finally, the portfolio has benefited from M&A activity, especially in small and mid capitalisation companies, and I believe this trend will continue. Holidaybreak and Avis are two recent examples of companies which have attracted corporate interest. I acknowledge that I have much work to do this year to deliver a better return for shareholders. I believe we are probably a large way through the correction in terms of the size of the decline from peak to trough; for an investor who likes to go against the flow, this represents the best chance in more than two years to find new opportunities or to add to my positions. The recent volatility in stock markets has, in my opinion, provided the best opportunity to invest in equities since March 2009. Sanjeev Shah FIL Investments International 4 November 2011 PRINCIPAL RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES AND RISK MANAGEMENT The Board confirms that there is an ongoing process for identifying, evaluating and managing the principal risks faced by the Company. The Board, with the assistance of the Manager, has developed a risk matrix which, as part of the internal controls process, identifies the key risks that the Company faces. The matrix has identified strategic, marketing, investment management, company secretarial and other support function risks. The Board reviews and agrees policies for managing these risks. The process is regularly reviewed by the Board in accordance with the FRC's "Internal Control: Revised Guidance for Directors". Risks are identified, introduced and graded. This process, together with the policies and procedures for the mitigation of risks, is updated and reviewed regularly in the form of comprehensive internal controls reports considered by the Audit Committee. The Board also determines the nature and extent of any risks it is willing to take in order to achieve its strategic objectives. The Board's approach to risks is embedded in the Company's investment objectives and investment policy on pages 19 and 20. External risks Market risk The Company's assets consist mainly of listed securities and the principal risks are therefore market related such as market recessions, interest rate movements, deflation/inflation, terrorism and protectionism. Risks to which the Company is exposed and which form part of the market risks category are included in Note 17 to the financial statements on pages 48 to 52 together with summaries of the policies for managing these risks. These are: market price risk (which comprise other price risk, interest rate risk and foreign currency risk); liquidity risk; counterparty risk and credit risk. Long CFDs are currently used for gearing purposes. In addition a day to day overdraft facility can be used if required. The impact of limited finance from counterparties has not impacted the Company to date, however there are alternative suppliers available in the market place should the need arise. The Company relies on a number of main service providers, namely the Manager, Registrar and Custodian. The Manager is the member of a privately owned group of companies on which a regular report is provided to the Board. The Manager, Registrar and Custodian are subject to regular audits by Fidelity's internal audit team and the counterparties' own internal controls reports are received by the Board and any concerns investigated. Share price risk Although it is usually the case that the longer a share is owned the less the risk of losing money, share prices are volatile and for the short term shareholder, likely to want to sell in the near future, volatility is a risk. The Board does not regard volatility as a significant risk for the long term shareholder. Discount risk The Board cannot control the discount at which the Company's share price trades to net asset value. However, it can influence this through its share repurchase policy and through creating demand for shares through good performance and an active investor relations programme. Internal risks Investment management The Board relies on the Manager's skills and judgement to make investment decisions based on research and analysis of individual stocks and sectors. The Board reviews the performance of the asset value of the portfolio against the Company's benchmark and competitors and the outlook for the market with the Manager at each Board meeting. The emphasis is on long term investment performance and the Board accepts that by targeting long term results the Company risks volatility in the shorter term. Governance, operational, financial, compliance, administration etc While it is believed that the likelihood of poor governance, compliance and operational administration by other third party service providers is low, the financial consequences could be serious, including the associated reputational damage to the Company. Your Board is responsible for the Company's system of internal control and for reviewing its effectiveness. Details of this process are provided in the Corporate Governance Statement within this Annual Report. Related Parties Nicky McCabe is Chief Operating Officer of Moonray Investors, a division of FIL Limited Group. Nicky McCabe has waived her entitlement to Director's fees. No Director has a contract of service with the Company and no contracts existed during or at the end of the financial period in which any Director was materially interested and which were significant in relation to the Company's business, except as disclosed in relation to Nicky McCabe's interests in the Management Agreement. There have been no other related party transactions requiring disclosure under Financial Reporting Standard ("FRS") 8. The interests of the Directors and FIL Limited in the ordinary shares of the Company as at 31 August 2011 and 31 August 2010 are shown in the Annual Report. Statement of Directors' Responsibilities The Directors are responsible for preparing the annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations. Company law requires the Directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law they have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice. The financial statements are required by law to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company and of the profit or loss for the period. In preparing these financial statements, the Directors are required to: * select suitable accounting policies and then apply them nconsistently; * make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; * state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and * prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Company will continue in business. The Directors are responsible for ensuring that adequate accounting records are kept which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Company and to enable them to ensure that its financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. Under applicable law and regulations the Directors are also responsible for preparing a Directors' Report, including a Business Review, a Directors' Remuneration Report and a Corporate Governance Statement that comply with that law and those regulations. The Directors have delegated the responsibility for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the Company's pages of the Manager's website www.fidelity.co.uk/its to the Manager. Legislation in the UK governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions. We confirm that to the best of our knowledge: the financial statements, prepared in accordance with the applicable set of accounting standards, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the Company; and the Directors' Report includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of the Company together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties it faces. Approved by the Board on 4 November 2011 and signed on its behalf by Lynn Ruddick Chairman 4 November 2011 Enquiries: Chris Davies - Head of Investment Trusts, FIL Investments International - 01737 837 723 Anne Read - Corporate Communications, FIL Investments International - 0207 961 4409 Rebecca Burtonwood - Company Secretary, FIL Investment International, - 01737 836 869 FIDELITY SPECIAL VALUES PLC Income Statement for the year ended31 August 2011 2011 2010 revenue capital total revenue capital total £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 (Losses)/gains on - (17,846) (17,846) - 3,613 3,613 investments designated at fair value through profit or loss Losses on investments via - (6,642) (6,642) - (5,046) (5,046) long CFDs held at fair value through profit or loss Gains/(losses) on options - 5,147 5,147 - (173) (173) and short CFDs held at fair value through profit or loss Franked investment income 4,413 - 4,413 3,671 - 3,671 UK scrip dividends 5,499 - 5,499 5,531 - 5,531 Overseas dividends 178 - 178 764 - 764 Overseas scrip dividends - - - 320 - 320 Income from REIT 481 - 481 273 - 273 investments Interest received on short 41 - 41 11 - 11 CFDs Dividends received on long 727 - 727 680 - 680 CFDs Deposit interest 57 - 57 18 - 18 Underwriting commission - - - 28 - 28 Interest paid on long CFDs (452) - (452) (329) - (329) Dividends paid on short (427) - (427) (92) - (92) CFDs Expenses on futures and - - - (9) - (9) equity forwards Investment management fee (3,711) - (3,711) (3,515) - (3,515) Other expenses (562) - (562) (587) - (587) Exchange gains/(losses) on 1 (67) (66) (4) (117) (121) other net assets Net return/(loss) before 6,245 (19,408) (13,163) 6,760 (1,723) 5,037 finance costs and taxation Finance costs - - - (591) - (591) Net return/(loss) on 6,245 (19,408) (13,163) 6,169 (1,723) 4,446 ordinary activities before taxation Taxation on return on 250 - 250 (56) - (56) ordinary activities(¹) Net return/(loss) on 6,495 (19,408) (12,913) 6,113 (1,723) 4,390 ordinary activities after taxation for the year Return/(loss) per ordinary 11.43p (34.17p) (22.74p) 10.74p (3.03p) 7.71p share (¹) This relates to overseas taxation only. A Statement of Total Recognised Gains and Losses has not been prepared as there are no gains and losses other than those reported in this Income Statement. The total column of the Income Statement is the profit and loss account of the Company. All revenue and capital items in the above statement derive from continued operations. No operations were acquired or discontinued during the year. FIDELITY SPECIAL VALUES PLC Balance Sheet as at 31 August 2011 2011 2010 £'000 £'000 Fixed assets Investments designated at fair value through 301,931 323,663 profit or loss Current assets Derivative assets held at fair value through 1,553 1,995 profit or loss Debtors 3,077 2,451 Amounts held at futures clearing houses and 5,359 2,470 brokers Cash at bank 7,716 11,165 17,705 18,081 Creditors - amounts falling due within one year Derivative liabilities held at fair value (4,881) (4,180) through profit or loss Other creditors (2,234) (3,781) (7,115) (7,961) Net current assets 10,590 10,120 Total net assets 312,521 333,783 Capital and reserves Share capital 14,131 14,234 Share premium account 95,767 95,767 Capital redemption reserve 2,657 2,554 Other non-distributable reserve 5,152 5,152 Capital reserve 186,987 208,765 Revenue reserve 7,827 7,311 Total equity shareholders' funds 312,521 333,783 Net asset value per ordinary share 552.85p 586.21p FIDELITY SPECIAL VALUES PLC Reconciliation of Movements in Shareholders' Funds for the year ended 31 August 2011 share share capital other capital revenue total capital premium redemption non-distributable reserve reserve equity account reserve reserve £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 Opening 14,234 95,767 2,554 5,152 210,488 6,323 334,518 shareholders' funds: 1 S eptember 2010 Net (loss)/ - - - - (1,723) 6,113 4,390 return on ordinary activities after taxation for the year Dividend paid to - - - - - (5,125) (5,125) shareholders Closing sha 14,234 95,767 2,554 5,152 208,765 7,311 333,783 reholders' funds: 31 August 2010 Repurchase of (103) - 103 - (2,370) - (2,370) ordinary shares Net (loss)/ - - - - (19,408) 6,495 (12,913) return on ordinary activities after taxation for the year Dividend paid to - - - - - (5,979) (5,979) shareholders Closing shar 14,131 95,767 2,657 5,152 186,987 7,827 312,521 eholders' funds: 31 August 2011 FIDELITY SPECIAL VALUES PLC Cash Flow Statement for the year ended 31 August 2011 2011 2010 £'000 £'000 Operating activities Investment income received 4,093 4,823 Net derivative (expenses)/income (54) 236 Underwriting commission received - 28 Deposit interest received 57 17 Investment management fee paid (2,790) (3,518) Directors' fees paid (121) (122) Other cash (payments)/receipts (367) 52 Net cash inflow from operating activities 818 1,516 Servicing of finance Interest paid - (736) Net cash outflow servicing of finance - (736) Taxation Overseas taxation recovered 290 25 Taxation recovered 290 25 Financial investment Purchase of investments (197,893) (187,551) Disposal of investments 204,937 223,444 Net cash inflowfrom financial investment 7,044 35,893 Derivative activities Premium paid on options (810) (1,390) Premium received on options 2,134 1,111 (Payments)/proceeds of derivative instruments (1,676) 406 Movements on amounts held at futures clearing houses (2,889) (1,627) and brokers Net cash outflowfrom derivative activities (3,241) (1,500) Dividend paid to shareholders (5,979) (5,125) Net cash (outflow)/inflow before financing (1,068) 30,073 Financing Repurchase of ordinary shares (2,370) - Fixed rate unsecured loan repaid - (27,000) Net cash outflow from financing (2,370) (27,000) (Decrease)/increasein cash (3,438) 3,073 The above statements have been prepared on the basis of the accounting policies as set out in the annual financial statements to 31 August 2011. This preliminary statement, which has been agreed with the Auditor, was approved by the Board on 4 November 2011. It is not the Company's statutory financial statements. The statutory financial statements for the financial year ended 31 August 2010 have been delivered to the Registrar of Companies. The statutory financial statements for the financial year ended 31 August 2011 have been approved and audited but have not yet been filed. The statutory financial statements for the financial years ended 31 August 2010 and 31 August 2011 received unqualified audit reports, did not include a reference to any matters to which the Auditor drew attention by way of emphasis without qualifying the report and did not contain statements under section 498(2) and (3) of the Companies Act 2006. The annual report and financial statements will be posted to shareholders as soon as is practicable and in any event no later than 15 November 2011.
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