Monthly Net Asset Value, Dividend and Fact Sheet
Updated : 07:02
30 January 2019
SQN Secured Income Fund plc
Monthly Net Asset Value, Dividend and Fact Sheet
SQN Secured Income Fund plc (LSE: SSIF) (the "Company"), a specialist secured lending income investment trust, listed in the UK, is pleased to provide its monthly net asset value ("NAV") and dividend update in addition to its monthly fact sheet.
Net Asset Value
The Company announces that, as at 31 December 2018, the unaudited estimated NAV per ordinary share (cum-income) was 96.73 pence.
The NAV total return in December 2018 was 0.44% (November 2018: 0.34%).
Dividend
The Company is pleased to announce the sixth monthly dividend for the year ending 30 June 2019:
Dividend amount: | 0.583 pence per Ordinary Share |
Ex-date: | 07 February 2019 |
Record date: | 08 February 2019 |
Payment date: | 22 February 2019 |
The Company has elected to designate all of the dividends for the period ended 31 December 2018 as interest distributions to its shareholders. In doing so, the Company is taking advantage of UK tax treatment by "streaming" income from interest-bearing investments into dividends that will be taxed in the hands of shareholders as interest income.
Fact Sheet
The Company announces that it has today published its monthly fact sheet to the end of December 2018. Please follow the link below to access the fact sheet, which is also available to download from the Company's website.
http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/4512O_1-2019-1-29.pdf
(http://www.sqncapital.com/managed-funds/sqn-secured-income-fund/about/)
For further information please contact:
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SQN Asset Management Limited Neil Roberts/Jeremiah Silkowski/Dawn Kendall
| tel: +44 1932 575 888
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finnCap Ltd. Corporate Finance: William Marle / Giles Rolls Sales: Mark Whitfeld
| tel: +44 20 7220 0500
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Kepler Partners LLP Hugh van Cutsem
| tel: +44 20 3384 8790 |
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Buchanan Communications Charles Ryland/Henry Wilson
| tel: +44 20 7466 5000 |
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Notes to Editor
The Company aims to provide shareholders with attractive risk-adjusted returns, principally in the form of regular, sustainable dividends, through investment predominantly in a range of secured loans and other secured loan-based instruments originated through a variety of channels and diversified by way of asset class, geography and duration.
The Company's Investment Managers are SQN Capital Management, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and its subsidiary, SQN Asset Management Limited. The principals responsible for managing the portfolio are Jeremiah Silkowski, Dawn Kendall and Neil Roberts.
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