Scrip Share Reference Price

GCP Asset Backed Income Fund Limited 

(the "Company" or "GCP Asset Backed")

LEI: 213800FBBZCQMP73A815

Scrip Share Reference Price

01 February 2018

GCP Asset Backed, which invests in asset backed loans, today announces the reference price of a new ordinary share under the scrip dividend alternative for the period from 1 October 2017 to 31 December 2017 (the "Q4 Dividend") of 102.55 pence (the "Scrip Reference Price").

On the basis of the Scrip Reference Price and the price per share of the Q4 Dividend, a holder of 67 shares will receive 1 new ordinary share.

The Scrip Reference Price was calculated by taking the average of the Company's closing middle market quotations of an ordinary share for the ex-dividend date of 25 January 2018 and the four subsequent dealing days.

Further details of the scrip dividend alternative can be found in the Scrip Dividend Circular 2017 which was published by the Company on 28 July 2017, a copy of which is available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and on the Company's website at https://www.graviscapital.com/funds/gcp-asset-backed/literature.

The Q4 Dividend payment date and the date for admission and dealing of the new ordinary shares to be issued pursuant to the scrip dividend alternative is expected to be 23 February 2018.

For further information, please contact:

Gravis Capital Management Limited                                                                               +44 (0) 20 3405 8500

David Conlon                              david.conlon@graviscapital.com 

Philip Kent                                  philip.kent@graviscapital.com 

Dion Di Miceli                            dion.dimiceli@graviscapital.com 

Cenkos Securities plc                                                                                                       +44 (0)20 7397 8900

Tom Scrivens                              tscrivens@cenkos.com 

Oliver Packard                           opackard@cenkos.com 

Sapna Shah                                 sshah@cenkos.com 

Buchanan                                                                                                                           +44 (0)20 7466 5000

Charles Ryland                           charlesr@buchanan.uk.com 

Victoria Hayns                           victoriah@buchanan.uk.com

Notes to Editors
The Company

GCP Asset Backed is a closed ended investment company traded on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. Its investment objective is to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns primarily through regular, growing distributions and modest capital appreciation over the long term.

The Company seeks to meet its investment objective by making investments in a diversified portfolio of predominantly UK based asset backed loans which have contracted, predictable medium to long term cash flows and/or physical assets