City of London Investment Group (CLIG): Karpus benefit coming through strongly
City of London has announced its interim results for FY’21. The merger with Karpus took place in the middle of the reporting period, which, together with strong market performance, has had a strong beneficial effect. Gross revenue grew to £23.7m, an increase of 37% over the figure from the same period a year ago. Statutory profit also showed a strong increase, even after the exceptional transaction costs and introduction of amortisation. On an underlying basis, earnings grew 81% to £8.82m, while underlying EPS was up 23%, from 19.4p to 23.8p. An interim dividend increase to 11p had been announced previously.City of London Investment Group is the holding company for a number of subsidiaries. The principal operating subsidiary is City of London Investment Management Company Limited, which acts as an investment manager on 38 accounts with a total of £3.58 billion under management as at June 30 2017. Co. is an asset management group with an institutional client focus specializing in Emerging Market closed-end fund investments. Co.'s range also include Developed, Frontier and Global Tactical Asset Allocation closed-end fund strategies.
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