Update as of 30 November 2020
LF Equity Income Fund fourth payment details
Link Fund Solutions, the Authorised Corporate Director of LF Equity Income Fund, has announced that it plans to make the fourth capital distribution to investors on or around 11 December.
It should take a couple of business days to process this payment, and as with the previous distributions, the value will depend on the number of shares held by each investor. The amount will be calculated on this date.
We will be writing to all our customers invested in this fund to confirm when the payment has been made to their account.
If you require any further guidance or information, please contact your financial adviser, or you can read the
official statement for full details of this announcement.
Update as of 30 September 2020
LF Equity Income Fund
Link Fund Solutions, the Authorised Corporate Director of LF Equity Income Fund, has announced that it intends to make a fourth capital distribution to investors after 30 November 2020, and now expects to finish winding up the fund by mid to late 2021.
As of 1 September 2020, the fund’s remaining assets were valued at £288m, following the first three capital distributions to investors.
The ACD also disclosed the fees paid from the fund prior to - and following - the start of the winding-up period, which began on 17 January 2020. No annual management charges were applied to the fund after 18 January 2020, though other charges were applied to pay the companies that were engaged in relation to selling the assets.
If you require any further guidance or information, please contact your financial adviser, or you can read the official statement for full details of this announcement.
Update as of 20 August 2020
LF Equity Income Fund third payment details
Link Fund Solutions, the Authorised Corporate Director of LF Equity Income Fund, has announced the amount to be paid as part of the third capital distribution for this fund. The amount per share that will be paid to investors is shown in the table below, and will vary by share class. The payout should appear as cash in investors' accounts within a week of the distribution. When this happens, we'll be writing to all our customers invested in this fund to confirm when the payment has been made to their account. It's likely this will be toward the end of August.
Share class |
Fund ISIN code |
Pence per share |
LF Equity Income Fund (Z Sterling Acc) |
GB00BLRZQC88 |
5.0869p |
LF Equity Income Fund (Z Sterling Inc) |
GB00BLRZQB71 |
4.1815p |
LF Equity Income Fund (C Sterling Acc) |
GB00BLRZQ737 |
5.0584p |
LF Equity Income Fund (C Sterling Inc) |
GB00BLRZQ620 |
4.1598p |
You can find which share classes you hold and the number of shares in each by
logging in and checking your account summary page.
Update as of 3rd August 2020
LF Equity Income Fund announces third payment
Link Fund Solutions, the Authorised Corporate Director of the LF Equity Income Fund, has announced that it plans to make a third capital distribution.
The total amount available for capital distribution will be announced on or around 19 August 2020. We will be writing to customers shortly after that with details of how much they will receive as their share of the total capital distribution, along with the payment date.
Following the distribution, investors will continue to hold the same number of shares in the fund, but the value of them will be correspondingly lower, and further payments will follow until all assets are realised.
If you require any further guidance or information, please contact your financial adviser, or you can read the
official statement for full details of this announcement.
Update as of 23rd March 2020
LF Equity Income Fund second payment
Link Fund Solutions, the Authorised Corporate Director of LF Equity Income Fund, has announced the amount to be paid as part of the second capital distribution for this fund. The amount per share that will be paid to investors is shown in the table below, and will vary by share class. The payout should appear as cash in investors' accounts within a week of the distribution. When this happens, we will be writing to all our customers invested in this fund to confirm when the payment has been made to their account. Link has not yet announced when the payment will be made.
Share class |
Fund ISIN code |
Pence per share |
LF Equity Income Fund (C Sterling Inc) |
GB00BLRZQ620 |
3.2518p |
LF Equity Income Fund (C Sterling Acc) |
GB00BLRZQ737 |
3.9542p |
LF Equity Income Fund (Z Sterling Inc) |
GB00BLRZQB71 |
3.2687p |
LF Equity Income Fund (Z Sterling Acc) |
GB00BLRZQC88 |
3.9765p |
You can find which share classes you hold and the number of shares in each by logging in and checking your account summary page.
If you require any further guidance or information, please contact your financial adviser.
Update as of 13 March 2020
LF Equity Income Fund second payment
Link Fund Solutions, the Authorised Corporate Director of the LF Equity Income Fund, has announced that it plans to make the second capital distribution payment around 25 March 2020.
It should take a couple of business days to process this payment, and as with the previous one, the value will depend on the number of shares held by each investor. The amount will be calculated on 18 March.
Following the distribution, investors will continue to hold the same number of shares in the fund, but the value of them will be correspondingly lower, and further payments will follow until all assets are realised.
We will be writing to all our customers invested in this fund to confirm when the payment has been made to their account.
You can read the official statement for full details of this announcement.
Update as of 13 February 2020
LF ASI Income Focus Fund re-opening date and fee waiver details
The LF ASI Income Focus Fund, formerly known as the LF Woodford Income Focus Fund, will re-open for trading purposes on 13 February 2020. The first valuation of the share price will be available once the fund has started trading at midday on 13 February.
To offset associated costs with the repositioning of the fund, the authorised corporate director of the fund, Link Fund Solutions, together with the fund manager Aberdeen Standard and the depositary Northern Trust, have all waived their fees from 20 Dec 2019 until 31 May 2020.
If you require any further guidance or information, please contact your financial adviser, or you can read the official statement for full details of this announcement.
Update as of 03 February 2020
LF Equity Income Fund first payment confirmation
Payments from the first capital distribution of the closure of the LF Equity Income Fund have now been made to our customers. If you hold shares in this fund with us then you can log in to fidelity.co.uk to see how much has been paid to you. The amount that has been paid per share is shown in the table below, and varies by share class.
If you require any further guidance or information, please contact your financial adviser.
Update as of 28 January 2020
LF Equity Income Fund first payment
Link Fund Solutions, the Authorised Corporate Director (ACD) of LF Equity Income Fund, has announced the amount to be paid as part of the first capital distribution for this fund. The amount per share that will be paid to investors is shown in the table below, and will vary by share class. The payout should appear as cash in investors' accounts within a week of the distribution, which is planned on or around 30 January. Starting next week, we will be writing to all our customers invested in this fund to confirm when the payment has been made to their account.
Share class
|
Fund ISIN Code
|
Pence per share
|
LF Equity Income C Acc
|
GB00BLRZQ737
|
58.6631p
|
LF Equity Income C Inc
|
GB00BLRZQ620
|
48.2426p
|
LF Equity Income Z Acc
|
GB00BLRZQC88
|
58.9936p
|
LF Equity Income Z In
|
GB00BLRZQB71
|
48.4932p
|
You can find which share classes you hold and the number of shares in each by logging in and checking your account summary page.
If you require any further guidance or information, please contact your financial adviser, or you can read the official statement for full details of this announcement.
Update as of 10 Jan 2020
LF Equity Income Fund closure and dates
The date of the capital distribution for the LF Equity Income Fund has been moved back to the end of January by the fund's Authorised Corporate Director (ACD), Link Fund Solutions.
This follows the approval by the Financial Conduct Authority in December for the ACD to close the fund, and means that the first capital distribution will be paid out on or around 30 January, instead of 20 January as originally planned.
The payout should appear as cash in investors' accounts about three working days after the distribution. As previously noted (below) the value of this capital distribution will depend on the number of shares held by each investor. Following the distribution, investors will continue to hold the same number of shares in the fund, but the value of them will be correspondingly lower.
You can read the
official statement for full details of this announcement.
Update as of 20 December 2019
LF Woodford Income Focus Fund new management
Link Fund Solutions, the Authorised Corporate Director (ACD) of the LF Woodford Income Focus Fund, announced that it has appointed Aberdeen Standard Life Investments Ltd as the investment manager of this fund. Aberdeen will replace Woodford as the investment manager on 31 December 2019, and the fund will be renamed accordingly to the LF ASI Income Focus Fund.
Aberdeen intends to re-position the fund’s portfolio in a way it considers will best add value for investors, and will actively seek to grow the assets in the fund and to attract additional investments.
The ACD believes that based on assurances it has received from Aberdeen, the best interests of investors (those who wish to retain their holding and those who wish to redeem their holding) will be met by re-opening the fund. The ACD expects to provide an update on progress in January 2020, with a date for when it expects to resume dealing in the fund.
Aberdeen, the ACD and the depositary (Northern Trust Global Services SE) will waive their fees until 31 May 2020, though some additional portfolio transaction costs will be incurred as a result of selling and buying assets to re-position the fund.
You can read the official statement for full details of this announcement.
Update as of 13 December 2019
FCA approval of LF Woodford Equity Income Fund renaming and closure
Link Fund Solutions, the Authorised Corporate Director (ACD) of the LF Woodford Equity Income Fund, announced that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has given approval for the name change and closing of the fund.
This means that the fund is now called the LF Equity Income Fund with immediate effect, and the winding up will begin on 18 January. Payment of the first capital distribution is anticipated around 20 January, and will be based on the number of shares held by each investor. Continued payments will follow until all assets are realised.
The ACD has not yet confirmed the payment amounts; we will inform our clients of these as soon as the ACD confirms them.
You can read the official statement for full details of this announcement.
Update as of 24 October 2019
Woodford Patient Capital Trust plc
The Board of Woodford Patient Capital Trust confirmed that Schroder Investment Management will take over the Woodford Patient Capital Trust by the end of the year.
The investment company will be renamed Schroder UK Public Private Trust plc. There will be no change to the company's existing investment objective and policy.
On appointment, Schroders will not take a management fee for three months. Further details to come following Schroders' formal appointment. You can read the official statement for full details of this announcement.
Update as of 16 October 2019
LF Woodford Income Focus Fund suspension
Link Fund Solutions, the Authorised Corporate Director (ACD) of the LF Woodford Income Focus Fund, has decided to suspend dealing in shares in this fund, with effect from 15 October 2019 and until further notice. This means you will no longer be able to buy or sell shares in this fund.
We restricted new investments in the Woodford Income Focus Fund in June, because we felt this was in the best interests of our customers. That restriction remains; you will now not be able to invest in this fund through other investment platforms either.
The ACD decided to suspend this fund following the resignation of the fund's manager, Woodford Investment Management. The ACD believes this resignation would result in it being unable to meet redemption requests without prejudicing the interests of both remaining and redeeming investors.
The ACD believes the suspension is in the best interests of investors and during the suspension will consider the options available, including the appointment of an alternative investment manager, a scheme of arrangement into another fund or a winding-up of the fund.
The suspension will cease as soon as the ACD determines the course of action that is in the best interests of investors. The ACD will formally review the suspension at least every 28 days and expects to provide an update within the next 14 days.
You can for full details of this announcement.
Update as of 15 October 2019
Woodford Patient Capital Trust plc management
Woodford Investment Management announced that it will cease its role as portfolio manager of the Woodford Patient Capital Trust in January 2020.
The trust remains open for buys, sells and switches. Any regular savings plans and regular withdrawal plans linked to the trust will continue as usual.
The trust's board is in advanced discussions relating to the ongoing management of the portfolio and expects to announce details of the new management shortly.
As an investment trust, this is a different type of investment from LF Woodford Equity Income and LF Woodford Income Focus. Its shares are traded between investors on a secondary exchange. This means the fund manager does not have to dispose of holdings because an investor has decided to sell shares.
LF Woodford Equity Income Fund closure
Link Fund Solutions, the ACD of the LF Woodford Equity Income Fund, announced that it intends to close the Woodford Equity Income Fund by selling the assets and returning the proceeds to investors.
The decision is subject to approval by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Pending that approval, Link expects to start winding up the fund on 17 January 2020.
Proceeds will then be placed into cash in clients’ existing accounts as interim payments, which will then be available for reinvestment.
Link expects to start winding up the fund on 17 January 2020.
Link made the decision after a careful review of the fund and its holdings indicated that the repositioning of the portfolio did not provide reasonable certainty as to when the fund could be re-opened.
Woodford Investment Management will cease to be the investment manager of the fund, effective immediately. The fund will also be renamed as the LF Equity Income Fund.
You can read the official Q&A for full details of this announcement..
If you require any further guidance or information, please contact your financial adviser.