Quarterly Dividend
To: RNS
From: European Assets Trust PLC
Date: 30 June 2021
LEI: 213800N61H8P3Z4I8726
July Quarterly Dividend
European Assets Trust PLC ("the Company") announces that a dividend of 2.0 pence per share will be paid on 30 July 2021 to shareholders on the register on 9 July 2021, having an ex-dividend date of 8 July 2021.
In addition, t he Company has paid dividends of 2.0 pence per share in January and April 2021. It will also pay a further dividend of 2.0 pence per share in October 2021. These four interim dividends, with a cumulative total of 8.0 pence per share, provide an annual payment to shareholders representing six per cent of the closing net asset value per share of the Company as at 31 December 2020.
As at 31 December 2020, the Company's audited financial statements reported a Distributable Reserve of £346 million. In addition, as at 28 June 2021, the latest practicable date prior to publication of this announcement, €15 million of the Company's €45 million multi-currency loan facility with RBSI was undrawn and the Company had a cash balance of €9.6 million.
Enquiries:
Scott McEllen
BMO Investment Business Limited Tel: 0207 628 8000
RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy.
COMPANIES COVERED:
Latest directors dealings
- 1 hour ago Associated British Foods
- 1 hour ago B&M European Value Retail S.A. (DI)
- 1 hour ago B&M European Value Retail S.A. (DI)
- 1 hour ago Haleon
- 1 hour ago Abrdn Asian Income Fund Limited NPV