REPLACEMENT: Dividend Declaration

RNS Number : 2538Z

Murray Income Trust PLC

13 December 2017

 

AMENDMENT

Please note that the announcement released on 4 December 2017 at 13:58hrs (RNS No: 3157Y) included a Payment date for the Second Interim dividend of 30 March 2018; this should have read 29 March 2018.

The announcement has been updated.  All other information remains unchanged.

13 December 2017

Murray Income Trust PLC

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI):  549300IRNFGVQIQHUI13

Announcement of Interim Dividends

4 December 2017

Murray Income Trust PLC (the "Company") has today declared three interim dividends in respect of the year ending 30 June 2018 (2017: three interim dividends of 7.00p), as follows -

Interim Dividend	Dividend rate (net) per Ordinary share (pence)	Ex-dividend date	Record date	Payment date
First	8.00	14 December 2017	15 December 2017	12 January 2018
Second	8.00	1 March 2018	2 March 2018	29 March 2018
Third	8.00	31 May 2018	1 June 2018	29 June 2018

These interim dividend payments will represent a material increase in the proportion of distributable revenue which the Company has previously paid by way of interim dividends. The objective is to rebalance the proportion of the dividends paid by the Company, as between interim and final dividends, so that shareholders will receive a greater proportion of the Company's dividend distributions earlier, by way of the interim dividends. Although this will obviously result in a lower final dividend, the total level of dividends for the current financial year is not expected to be changed as a result of this reweighting of dividends between interims and final.  The Board remains keen to maintain its record of year on year dividend growth.

In relation to the first, second and interim dividends, the latest date for receipt by the registrars, Link Asset Services (formerly Capita Asset Services), of mandate instructions for those shareholders who wish to join the Dividend Reinvestment Plan is 15 December 2017, 2 March 2018 and 1 June 2018, respectively.

Enquiries:

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

Secretaries

Tel. [phone]

 

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