Dividend Declaration

RNS Number : 2674Q

RM Secured Direct Lending PLC

25 February 2021

 

 25 February 2021

RM Secured Direct Lending Plc

("RMDL" or the "Company")

LEI: 213800RBRIYICC2QC958

Dividend Declaration

The Directors of the Company, an investment trust specialising in secured debt investments, have declared an interim dividend of 1.625 pence per ordinary share in respect of the period from 1 October 2020 to 31 December 2020. This provides dividend cover of 1.21x and an earnings surplus of 1.096 pence per ordinary share in relation to 31 December 2020, which is transferred to revenue reserves.

The following dates will be applicable to the dividend:

Ex-Dividend Date - 4 March 2021

Record Date - 5 March 2021

Payment Date - 26 March 2021

The Company has elected to designate the interim dividend for the period as an interest distribution to its ordinary shareholders.

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For further information, please contact:

RM Funds - Investment Manager James Robson Pietro Nicholls	0131 603 7060
N+1 Singer Advisory LLP - Financial Adviser and Broker James Maxwell Carlo Spingardi	020 7496 3000
Peel Hunt LLP - Financial Adviser and Broker Luke Simpson Liz Yong	0207 418 8900
Tulchan Communications LLP - Financial PR Elizabeth Snow Deborah Roney	0207 353 4200 [e-mail]
PraxisIFM Fund Services (UK) Limited - Administrator and Company Secretary Brian Smith Ciara McKillop	020 4513 9260

About RM Secured Direct Lending

RM Secured Direct Lending Plc is a closed-ended investment trust established to invest in a portfolio of secured debt instruments. The Company aims to generate attractive and regular dividends through loans sourced or originated by the Investment Manager with a degree of inflation protection through index-linked returns where appropriate. Loans in which the Company invests are predominantly secured against assets such as real estate or plant and machinery and/or income streams such as account receivables.

About RM Capital Markets Limited

RM Funds is a trading name of RM Capital Markets Limited, the Investment Manager to RM Secured Direct Lending PLC and VT RM Alternative Income Fund. RM Capital is a specialist in alternative fund management, sales & trading, foreign exchange, and capital markets and advisory. Founded in 2010, with offices in Edinburgh, and London, it has transacted in excess of £50 billion of bonds and loans since its inception, and advised or originated, structured and managed the due diligence process for over £1 billion of Sterling credit transactions and approximately €700 million of Euro based transactions in each case since 2012.

 

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