Dividend Declaration

RNS Number : 6659Q

Jupiter European Opps. Trust PLC

02 September 2014

 

Jupiter European Opportunities Trust plc ('the Company')

Dividend declaration

Interim dividend for the year ended 31 May 2014

The Board of Directors of the Company have today declared an interim dividend of 3.50 pence per ordinary share (2013: 3.50 pence) for the year ended 31 May 2014.  The interim dividend will be paid on 10 October 2014 to those ordinary shareholders on the register as at 12 September 2014. The ex-dividend date is 10 September 2014.

Shareholders will recall that it is not the Company's investment objective to pay dividends, but inasmuch as it ends the year with surplus income that surplus is paid out to shareholders.  As was the case last year in order to ensure the Company's continuing status with HM Revenue and Customs as an investment trust under Section 1158 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 the Company is prohibited from retaining more than 15% of its eligible investment income from one financial year to the next. 

For further information, please contact:

Richard Pavry

Head of Investment Trusts

Jupiter Asset Management Limited, Company Secretary

[e-mail]

020 7314 4822

2 September 2014

www.jupiteronline.com/European

 

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