Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 6791D

GCP Asset Backed Income Fund Ltd

30 October 2020

 

30 October 2020

GCP Asset Backed Income Fund Limited

(the "Company" or "GCP Asset Backed")

LEI: 213800FBBZCQMP73A815

Transaction in own shares

GCP Asset Backed, which invests in asset backed loans, today announces that pursuant to the general authority granted by shareholders of the Company at the annual general meeting on 7 July 2020 to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares, it repurchased 35,000 ordinary shares at a price of 84.26 pence per share, to be held in treasury, on 29 October 2020.

Following this transaction, the Company has in issue 442,033,518 ordinary shares of which 1,315,000 are held in treasury.

For reporting purposes under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules the market should exclude any shares held in treasury and should use the figure of 440,718,518 voting rights when determining if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company.

For further information, please contact:

Gravis Capital Management Limited                                                                        [phone]

David Conlon 

Joanne Fisk

Investec Bank plc                                                                                                          [phone]

Helen Goldsmith 

Denis Flanagan 

Neil Brierley 

Buchanan/Quill                                                                                                              [phone]

Helen Tarbet

Sarah Gibbons-Cook

Henry Wilson 

Notes to Editors

The Company

GCP Asset Backed is a closed ended investment company traded on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. Its investment objective is to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns primarily through regular, growing distributions and modest capital appreciation over the long term.

The Company seeks to meet its investment objective by making investments in a diversified portfolio of predominantly UK based asset backed loans which have contracted, predictable medium to long term cash flows and/or physical assets

 

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