TIDMJMG
RNS Number : 7730Q
JPMorgan Emerging Mkts Invest Trust
02 March 2021
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT
JPMORGAN EMERGING MARKETS INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
(the 'Company')
HALF YEAR REPORT & FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE SIX MONTHSED 31ST DECEMBER 2020
Legal Entity Identifier : 5493001VPQDYH1SSSR77
Information disclosed in accordance with the DTR 4.2.2
CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT
The three key objectives that the Directors of your Company set
out at the beginning of the financial year to
30th June 2020 were to continue the strong record of investment
performance; to reduce the discount of our share price to the net
asset value; and to broaden the shareholder base. These objectives
were reconfirmed at the beginning of the current financial year
with an additional objective to ensure that the increasing focus on
ESG and sustainable investing and its more formalised integration
into the investment process is more fully communicated to the
Company's shareholders. I am pleased to report that progress has
been made on each of these objectives as outlined below.
Investment Performance
During the first half of the Company's financial year, emerging
markets delivered strong positive returns for investors, with the
Company's benchmark index, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (in
sterling terms), rising 18.5% over the six months. In the same
period the Company's return on net assets, at +24.9%, was again
better than the benchmark. The return to shareholders was
+32.8%, reflecting a narrowing of the discount to net asset value
at which the Company's shares trade, from 8.7% at the previous
financial year end to 3.0% at the half year end.
This continues the Company's outstanding record of long term
outperformance, the net asset value and share price having both
outperformed the benchmark index over one, two, three, five and ten
years to 31st December 2020. Over five years the cumulative return
to shareholders is +158.1%, against the benchmark return of +97.0%.
This outperformance shows the significant benefits that can be
achieved from investing in emerging markets using active management
compared with investments in either passive or exchange traded
funds. This strong performance has been recognised by the Company
winning a number of impressive awards; for the second year running
the Company won the Investment Week Best Emerging Markets Trust and
for the third consecutive year it was the winner of the prestigious
Citywire Global Emerging Market Equities award.
A review of the Company's performance for the first six months
of this financial year and the outlook for the remainder of the
year is provided in the Investment Manager's Report which
follows.
Discount/Premium Management
The Board is very pleased that the discount on the Company's
shares has continued to narrow over the first half of the financial
year. The Board regularly considers the merits of buying back
shares in order to manage the level and volatility of the discount
and will buy back shares if the discount is out of line with the
peer group and markets are orderly. As shares are only bought back
at a discount to the prevailing net asset value, share buybacks
benefit shareholders as they increase the net asset value per
share. Over the period, 701,916 shares were bought back at an
average discount of 10.4% at a cost of GBP7.48 million. This
compares with 1,412,278 shares for the same period last year at an
average discount of 8.2%. There have been no buybacks since 29th
September 2020.
In the last few weeks the Company's shares have traded close to
or at a premium to their NAV. If the shares were to trade at a
premium to NAV for a sustained period of time, the Board may decide
to use its authority to re-issue shares out of Treasury, but only
if the impact of any share issuance after costs is of benefit to
existing shareholders and not dilutive to NAV. Over the six months
the discount (to the cum income net asset value) on the Company's
shares ranged between 12.8 % and 2.5%, averaging 7.3%.
Broadening the Shareholder Base
The Board has agreed with the Manager an increased marketing and
PR programme, to be part funded by the Company, with the aim of
attracting new investors to the Company and thereby broadening the
shareholder base. We believe this has been an important factor in
helping to achieve our objective of reducing the level and
volatility of the discount at which the Company's shares trade. It
is notable that over the past 3 years, Retail/Platform ownership
has grown from 21.4% to 29.9% and wealth manager ownership of the
Company has increased from 14.8% to 28.6%. Conversely, the
institutional share ownership has come down from 63.8% to 41.5%. It
is our intention to further broaden the shareholder base through
continued investment in a number of marketing channels.
Environmental, Social and Governance Issues
The Manager believes that sustainable investing delivers
superior returns over the long-term, and has followed this approach
since long before ESG issues gained prominence. The team has always
incorporated ESG considerations into how it selects stocks in
emerging markets companies and, more recently, the integration of
these processes has become formalised. The Board is aware of the
ever increasing focus by shareholders on sustainable and
responsible investing. We published our first ESG Statement in our
2020 Annual Report and have recently released our first externally
measured ESG Rating on our website, which gives the Company an 'A'
rating and an impressive
93rd percentile rank (100th being the highest) in the Equity
Emerging Markets Global peer group. We will continue to share more
information about the Company's ESG approach and activities with
investors on the website.
Share Split
Following the Company's strong share price performance, the
Board proposed a share split, to sub divide each ordinary share of
25p into 10 ordinary shares of 2.5p each. Shareholders approved the
resolution for the share split at our AGM on 5th November 2020 and
the sub division of shares took effect on 6th November 2020 when
the new ordinary shares were admitted to trading on the London
Stock Exchange.
Revenue and Dividends
In the financial year to June 2020 an interim dividend of 5.2
pence per share (which is equivalent to 0.52 pence per share
following the 10 for 1 share split) and a final dividend of 9.2p
(equivalent to 0.92p) were paid to shareholders on 17th April and
12th November 2020. The Company is focused on generating a total
return for shareholders, in line with its investment objective,
rather than any particular level of dividend and, for individual
years, dividends received in sterling terms will fluctuate in line
with underlying earnings as well as any changes in the portfolio
holdings and currency movements. For the current financial year the
revenue return per share is expected to remain below the pre-Covid
levels for the second year running. However, one of the advantages
of being an investment trust is having the ability to use the
Company's revenue reserves to smooth dividends paid to shareholders
from year to year.
For the current financial year, the Board has declared an
interim dividend of 0.52p per share payable on 16th April 2021 to
shareholders on the register as at 12th March 2021. The ex-dividend
date will be 11th March 2021.
Continuation of the Company
As shareholders will be aware, every three years the Company
offers shareholders a Continuation Vote to determine whether the
Company should continue in existence. Shareholders were asked to
vote on this in a resolution at the AGM in November 2020 and I am
pleased to say shareholders almost unanimously voted in favour of
the continuation of the Company, with 99.97% of votes in favour.
The next continuation vote will be put to shareholders in 2023.
Outlook
Global economies are now beginning to recover from the sharp
downturns seen last year and there is increased optimism about the
future impact from the coronavirus vaccines. However, the extent of
the recovery is still unclear and is likely to vary across
different countries and different sectors of the economies.
Following the strong rises in stock markets, emerging market
valuations are now looking less compelling than they did last year,
although the changing nature of the areas of growth within
economies, which has in many cases been accelerated by the
pandemic, is creating a number of interesting opportunities at a
company level. Developments in China and elsewhere may create
challenges and there may be periods when the Manager's investment
approach underperforms the index. Nevertheless, the Directors still
believe that the Manager's active fund management process, which
focuses on identifying sustainable high quality growth companies,
will reward investors and outperform over the longer term, as has
been the case over a number of years.
Sarah Arkle
Chairman
1st March 2021
INVESTMENT MANAGER'S REPORT
The last six months, from July to December 2020, have seen the
beginning of recovery in many countries around from the world from
the ravages wrought by the coronavirus pandemic. Although the
situation remained severe in many countries, progress on vaccine
development also offered hope that the pandemic will eventually
pass. Against this background, it may seem strange to see equity
markets reaching new highs; yet share prices are determined by
investors making forward-looking judgements, and have therefore
reflected the economic recovery and the ending of the public health
crisis that we all hope for. As a result, the half year that
concluded at the end of December saw strong rises not just in
markets overall, but also in the share price of your Company.
One might think, after such a period, that one should be
cautious. It is certainly true that valuations have risen, and our
overall view of the prospects for markets has moderated: our
analysts' expectations of potential returns are lower now than when
the pandemic engulfed Europe in March 2020, and they should be,
given the strong recovery in equity prices. And yet it is not an
exaggeration to say that the opportunities we see at the level of
individual companies are as great as at any time in the last three
decades, if not greater.
How can we hold both these views at the same time? Well on the
one hand, the outlook for share prices in many industries remains
closely tied to the overall economic situation; and while there
will be a recovery from the downturn, growth prospects in the
medium term remain subdued in many areas. After all, the level of
interest rates - which is still very low around the world,
including in many emerging markets - is telling us something about
the prospects for growth in general. But at the same time, the rate
at which value is being created in certain areas of the global
economy is remarkable. That is because three very powerful and
long-lasting effects are producing huge challenges and huge
opportunities for companies around the world, with significant
implications for the way we manage your company's portfolio.
The first of these factors is digitalisation. The ability to
collect data on an unprecedented scale is overturning industries,
and radically altering the skillset needed to survive and prosper
within them. We are all familiar with this in our everyday lives,
and need look no further than the rise of Amazon and the decline of
high street retail businesses to see an example of this process in
action. Yet the importance of data is now changing things in every
industry, and in particular, enabling the separation of intangible
value creation from the ownership of physical assets. That is bad
news for businesses that depend heavily on fixed assets, and very
good news for those that deal mostly in intangible value, whether
through brands, or software in some form.
The second trend is the rise of China, which comes at a time of
tremendous entrepreneurial business creation in that country, much
of it enabled by digitalisation. In several areas, China is now
ahead of Western economies in the adoption of digital and online
business models. Moreover, the Chinese corporate sector as a whole
is now much more accessible to external investors because of the
opening of its domestic equity market to foreign capital. This
presents us with both opportunities and challenges. Alone among
emerging markets, we see the depth and range of the equity market
in China matching that of the United States, which has big
implications for the opportunity set we face as investors. Yet
investment in China it is not straightforward: it comes with
regulatory complexity, state involvement in many industries and
companies, and a relatively immature corporate sector and equity
market. Increased strategic rivalry with the West has led recently
not just to trade disputes, but to direct sanctions from the USA
targeted at specific parts of the Chinese corporate sector. Even
so, we think that China will remain an important investment
destination for your company in the coming years, and we expect
opportunities in China in sectors like healthcare, software and
clean energy, as well as manufacturing and consumption, to be a
continuing focus of our attention in the future.
The third secular trend is the need to develop a low-carbon
economy, which has enormous implications for the ways energy is
produced and consumed. While the far-sighted have been working on
this for many years, it is clear that carbon transition has become
a serious political priority recently in a way that was not
previously the case, and that this is being reinforced with real
regulatory action too. The numbers here are so large that they can
be hard to comprehend: some estimates put the investment required
for effective carbon transition at USD 10 trillion over the next 30
years. Whether or not that is a realistic forecast, it is certain
that, like digitalisation, environmental necessity will create huge
winners, and also some huge losers, in the corporate world. Can we
conceive of a time when no road vehicles require refined petroleum,
or when renewable energy means we don't need to burn coal? Yes. Yet
somehow the view that much if not all of the value of the global
hydrocarbon industry might eventually migrate to companies involved
in renewable energy and electric transportation seems almost
heretical. As investors, however, we need to imagine possibilities
like this precisely when they still seem unlikely; once they become
received wisdom, they will also be largely reflected in share
prices.
This last secular theme also has implications for the way we
work as investors. As the focus on sustainability grows, it becomes
a more important determinant of corporate success. I mentioned in
the latest annual report that during the last year we have enhanced
our research process to better assess the most material issues in
each industry related to corporate sustainability; that work has
already begun to inform our assessments and investment views; it is
also very complementary to the broad framework for assessing ESG
risks which we originally implemented in 2013. We are also working
on targeted engagements with companies, both pursuing issues that
this enhanced research has highlighted, and also following JPMorgan
Asset Management's overall engagement priorities.
As we look forward to the remaining six months of your company's
financial year, we hope to see the pandemic gradually receding, not
just in the United Kingdom, but around the globe. The progress on
vaccines is an impressive reminder, if one were needed, of what
human ingenuity and technology can achieve within relatively short
periods of time. But it is that very ingenuity and innovation that
leads me to think that in the longer term, the secular changes
described above will in fact be of much greater significance for
investors, and for your company's prospects. When we look back at
the economic and social change enabled during the last century by
the internal combustion engine and the use of electricity, we see
the difference between the modern world and what went before. There
seems no reason to believe that the changes possible in the
twenty-first century will be any less significant.
Austin Forey
Investment Manager
1st March 2021
INTERIM MANAGEMENT REPORT
The Company is required to make the following disclosures in its
half year report:
Principal and Emerging Risks and Uncertainties
The principal and emerging risks and uncertainties faced by the
Company have not changed from those reported in the Annual Report
and Financial Statements for the year ended 30th June 2020 ('AFRS')
and fall into the following broad categories: investment
underperformance; political, economic and pandemic; loss of
investment team or investment manager; strategy/business
management; operational and cyber crime; share price discount;
change of corporate control of the manager; legal and regulatory;
corporate governance, ESG and shareholder relations; and financial.
Information on each of these areas is given in the Business Review
within the AFRS.
Related Parties Transactions
During the first six months of the current financial year, no
transactions with related parties have taken place which have
materially affected the financial position or the performance of
the Company.
Going Concern
The Directors believe, having considered the Company's
investment objectives, risk management policies, capital management
policies and procedures, nature of the portfolio and expenditure
projections, that the Company has adequate resources, an
appropriate financial structure and suitable management
arrangements in place to continue in operational existence for the
foreseeable future and more specifically, that there are no
material uncertainties pertaining to the Company that would prevent
its ability to continue in such operational existence for at
least
twelve months from the date of the approval of this half year
financial report. For these reasons, they consider there is
reasonable evidence to continue to adopt the going concern basis in
preparing the accounts.
Directors' Responsibilities
The Board of Directors confirms that, to the best of its
knowledge:
(i) the condensed set of financial statements contained within
the half yearly financial report has been prepared in accordance
with FRS 104 'Interim Financial Reporting' and gives a true and
fair view of the state of affairs of the Company and of the assets,
liabilities, financial position and net return of the Company, as
at
31st December 2020 as required by the UK Listing Authority
Disclosure and Transparency Rules 4.2.4R; and
(ii) the interim management report includes a fair review of the
information required by 4.2.7R and 4.2.8R of the UK Listing
Authority Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
In order to provide these confirmations, and in preparing these
financial statements, the Directors are required to:
-- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
-- make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
-- state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been
followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and
explained in the financial statements; and
-- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis
unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Company will
continue in business;
and the Directors confirm that they have done so.
For and on behalf of the Board
Sarah Arkle
Chairman
1st March 2021
STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE SIX MONTHSED 31(ST) DECEMBER 2020
(Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Audited)
Six months ended Six months ended Year ended
31st December 2020 31st December 2019 30th June 2020
Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
------------------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
Gains on
investments
held at fair
value through
profit or loss - 320,969 320,969 - 49,725 49,725 - 23,660 23,660
Net foreign
currency
(losses)/gains - (223) (223) - (48) (48) - 292 292
Income from
investments 8,437 - 8,437 9,742 - 9,742 20,247 - 20,247
Interest
receivable 13 - 13 109 - 109 136 - 136
------------------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
Gross return 8,450 320,746 329,196 9,851 49,677 59,528 20,383 23,952 44,335
Management fee (1,778) (4,148) (5,926) (1,670) (3,896) (5,566) (3,231) (7,539) (10,770)
Other
administrative
expenses (726) - (726) (714) - (714) (1,324) - (1,324)
------------------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
Net return before
taxation 5,946 316,598 322,544 7,467 45,781 53,248 15,828 16,413 32,241
Taxation (1,208) - (1,208) (679) - (679) (1,651) - (1,651)
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Net return after
taxation 4,738 316,598 321,336 6,788 45,781 52,569 14,177 16,413 30,590
------------------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
Return per share
(note 3)(1) 0.40p 26.55p 26.95p 0.56p 3.77p 4.33p 1.17p 1.36p 2.53p
(1) Comparative figures for the period ended 31st December 2019
and Year ended 30th June 2020 have been restated following the sub
-- division of each existing ordinary share of 25p into ten
ordinary shares of 2.5p each in November 2020.
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE SIX MONTHSED 31(ST) DECEMBER 2020
Called
up Capital
share Share redemption Other Capital Revenue
capital premium reserve reserve reserves reserve(1) Total
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
------------------------------- --------- --------- ------------ --------- ----------- ------------ -----------
Six months ended 31st
December 2020 (Unaudited)
At 30th June 2020 33,091 173,657 1,665 69,939 1,002,828 22,735 1,303,915
Repurchase of shares
into Treasury - - - - (7,528) - (7,528)
Costs relating to subdivision
of shares - - - - (26) - (26)
Net return - - - - 316,598 4,738 321,336
Dividend paid in the
period (note 4) - - - - - (10,710) (10,710)
------------------------------- --------- --------- ------------ --------- ----------- ------------ -----------
At 31st December 2020 33,091 173,657 1,665 69,939 1,311,872 16,763 1,606,987
------------------------------- --------- --------- ------------ --------- ----------- ------------ -----------
Six months ended 31st
December 2019 (Unaudited)
At 30th June 2019 33,091 173,657 1,665 69,939 1,009,708 25,709 1,313,769
Repurchase of shares
into Treasury - - - - (14,041) - (14,041)
Net return - - - - 45,781 6,788 52,569
Dividend paid in the
period (note 4) - - - - - (10,895) (10,895)
------------------------------- --------- --------- ------------ --------- ----------- ------------ -----------
At 31st December 2019 33,091 173,657 1,665 69,939 1,041,448 21,602 1,341,402
------------------------------- --------- --------- ------------ --------- ----------- ------------ -----------
Year ended 30th June
2020 (Audited)
At 30th June 2019 33,091 173,657 1,665 69,939 1,009,708 25,709 1,313,769
Repurchase of shares
into Treasury - - - - (23,293) - (23,293)
Net return - - - - 16,413 14,177 30,590
Dividend paid in the
period (note 4) - - - - - (17,151) (17,151)
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At 30th June 2020 33,091 173,657 1,665 69,939 1,002,828 22,735 1,303,915
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(1) This reserve forms the distributable reserve of the Company
and is used to fund distributions to investors.
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
AT 31(ST) DECEMBER 2020
(Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Audited)
31st December 31st December 30th June
2020 2019 2020
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
--------------------------------------- --------------- --------------- -----------
Fixed assets
Investments held at fair value
through profit or loss 1,596,668 1,338,466 1,288,907
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Current assets
Debtors 1,111 1,335 1,703
Cash and cash equivalents 9,380 3,862 13,534
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10,491 5,197 15,237
Current liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling due
within one year (172) (2,260) (229)
Derivative financial liabilities - (1) -
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Net current assets 10,319 2,936 15,008
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Total assets less current liabilities 1,606,987 1,341,402 1,303,915
--------------------------------------- --------------- --------------- -----------
Net assets 1,606,987 1,341,402 1,303,915
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Capital and reserves
Called up share capital 33,091 33,091 33,091
Share premium 173,657 173,657 173,657
Capital redemption reserve 1,665 1,665 1,665
Other reserve 69,939 69,939 69,939
Capital reserves 1,311,872 1,041,448 1,002,828
Revenue reserve 16,763 21,602 22,735
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Total shareholders' funds 1,606,987 1,341,402 1,303,915
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Net asset value per share (note
5)(1) 135.0p 111.1p 108.9p
(1) Comparative figures for the period ended 31st December 2019
and Year ended 30th June 2020 have been restated following the
sub-division of each existing ordinary share of 25p into ten
ordinary shares of 2.5p each in November 2020.
STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
FOR THE SIX MONTHSED 31(ST) DECEMBER 2020
(Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Audited)
Six months Six months Year ended
ended ended 30th June 2020
31st December 31st December GBP'000
2020 2019
GBP'000 GBP'000
------------------------------------ --------------- --------------- ----------------
Net cash outflow from operations
before
dividends and interest (7,816) (6,486) (12,390)
Dividends received 7,947 10,688 19,859
Interest received 13 111 138
Overseas tax (paid)/recovered (121) 87 91
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Net cash inflow from operating
activities 23 4,400 7,698
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Purchases of investments (87,523) (60,303) (133,905)
Sales of investments 102,120 78,669 173,768
Settlement of foreign currency
contracts (64) 88 257
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Net cash inflow from investing
activities 14,533 18,454 40,120
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Dividend paid (10,710) (10,895) (17,151)
Repurchase of shares into Treasury (7,528) (14,041) (23,293)
Costs relating to subdivision of
shares (26) - -
------------------------------------ --------------- --------------- ----------------
Net cash outflow from financing
activities (18,264) (24,936) (40,444)
------------------------------------ --------------- --------------- ----------------
(Decrease)/increase in cash and
cash equivalents (3,708) (2,082) 7,374
------------------------------------ --------------- --------------- ----------------
Cash and cash equivalents at start
of period 13,534 5,947 5,947
Exchange movements (446) (3) 213
Cash and cash equivalents at end
of period 9,380 3,862 13,534
------------------------------------ --------------- --------------- ----------------
(Decrease)/increase in cash and
cash equivalents (3,708) (2,082) 7,374
------------------------------------ --------------- --------------- ----------------
Cash and cash equivalents consist
of:
Cash and short term deposits 1,808 390 747
Cash held in JPMorgan US Dollar
Liquidity Fund 7,572 3,472 12,787
------------------------------------ --------------- --------------- ----------------
Total 9,380 3,862 13,534
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE SIX MONTHSED 31(ST) DECEMBER 2020
1. Financial statements
The information contained within the financial statements in
this half year report has not been audited or reviewed by the
Company's auditors.
The figures and financial information for the year ended 30th
June 2020 are extracted from the latest published financial
statements of the Company and do not constitute statutory accounts
for that year. Those financial statements have been delivered to
the Registrar of Companies and including the report of the auditors
which was unqualified and did not contain a statement under either
section 498(2) or 498(3) of the Companies
Act 2006.
2. Accounting policies
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with
the Companies Act 2006, FRS 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard
applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' of the United Kingdom
Generally Accepted Accounting Practice ('UK GAAP') and with the
Statement of Recommended Practice 'Financial Statements of
Investment Trust Companies and Venture Capital Trusts' (the revised
'SORP') issued by the Association of Investment Companies in
October 2019.
FRS 104, 'Interim Financial Reporting', issued by the Financial
Reporting Council ('FRC') in March 2015
has been applied in preparing this condensed set of financial
statements for the six months ended
31st December 2020.
All of the Company's operations are of a continuing nature.
The accounting policies applied to this condensed set of
financial statements are consistent with those applied in the
financial statements for the year ended 30th June 2020.
3. R etur n per share
(Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Audited)
Six months Six months Year ended
ended ended 30th June
31st December 31st December 2020
2020 2019 GBP'000
GBP'000 GBP'000
----------------------------- --------------- --------------- --------------
Return per share is based
on the following:
Revenue return 4,738 6,788 14,177
Capital return 316,598 45,781 16,413
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Total return 321,336 52,569 30,590
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Weighted average number of
shares in
issue (excluding shares
held in Treasury)(1) 1,192,616,854 1,213,930,430 1,207,942,160
Revenue return per share(1) 0.40p 0.56p 1.17p
Capital return per share(1) 26.55p 3.77p 1.36p
----------------------------- --------------- --------------- --------------
Total return per share(1) 26.95p 4.33p 2.53p
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(1) Comparative figures for the period ended 31st December 2019
and Year ended 30th June 2020 have been restated following the
sub-division of each existing ordinary share of 25p into ten
ordinary shares of 2.5p each in November 2020.
4. Dividends paid
(Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Audited)
Six months Six months Year ended
ended ended 30th June
31st December 31st December 2020
2020 2019 GBP'000
GBP'000 GBP'000
---------------------------------- --------------- --------------- ------------
2020 Final dividend of 0.9p(1)
(2019: 0.9p(1) ) 10,710 10,895 10,895
2020 interim dividend of
0.5p(1) - n/a 6,256
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Total dividends paid in the
period/year 10,710 10,895 17,151
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(1) The dividend rate has been restated following the
sub-division of each existing ordinary share of 25p into ten
ordinary shares of 2.5p each in November 2020.
5. Net asset value per share
(Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Audited)
Six months Six months Year ended
ended ended 30th June
31st December 31st December 2020
2020 2019
------------------------------ --------------- --------------- --------------
Net assets (GBP'000) 1,606,987 1,341,402 1,303,915
Number of shares in issue(1) 1,190,033,240 1,207,069,580 1,197,052,400
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Net asset value per share(1) 135.0p 111.1p 108.9p
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(1) Comparative figures for the period ended 31st December 2019
and Year ended 30th June 2020 have been restated following the
sub-division of each existing ordinary share of 25p into ten
ordinary shares of 2.5p each in November 2020.
Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents
of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website
(or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this
announcement.
JPMORGAN FUNDS LIMITED
1st March 2021
For further information, please contact:
Nira Mistry
For and on behalf of
JPMorgan Funds Limited
020 7742 4000
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https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
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Company's website at www.jpmemergingmarkets.co.uk where up-to-date
information on the Company, including daily NAV and share prices,
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