To: RNS
From: F&C Managed Portfolio Trust plc
Date: 20 June 2018
LEI: 213800ZA6TW45NM9YY31
Fourth Interim Dividend and Special Dividend
F&C Managed Portfolio Trust plc (the "Company") announces a fourth interim dividend in respect of the financial year to 31 May 2018 of 1.8 pence per Income share (2017: 1.7 pence per Income share). In addition, the Board announces a special interim dividend of 0.8 pence per Income share arising from a special dividend from an investee company.
Both of these dividends are payable on 13 July 2018 to shareholders on the register on 29 June 2018, with an ex-dividend date of 28 June 2018.
The normal pattern for the Company is to pay four quarterly interim dividends per financial year.
For the full financial year to 31 May 2018, total dividends (excluding the special dividend) have increased by 4.6% to 5.7 pence per Income share (Financial year to 31 May 2017: 5.45 pence per Income share).
This annual dividend of 5.7 pence per Income share (excluding the special dividend) represents a dividend yield of 4.1% based on the Income share price at 31 May 2018 compared to the yield on the FTSE All-Share Index of 3.6% at the same date.
For further information please contact:
Peter Hewitt, F&C Investment Business Limited 0131 718 1244
Ian Ridge, F&C Investment Business Limited 0131 718 1010