Net Asset Value(s)

ABERFORTH GEARED CAPITAL & INCOME TRUST plc ("AGCiT") The Net Asset Values ("NAVs") for the above company - calculated using a bid pricing basis for the securities held on the company's portfolio - as at the close of business on 31 December 2007 were: - Capital Share = 620.27p Capital Share (assuming a capital entitlement of 100p per Income Share) = 579.45p Income Share (Excluding Current Year Revenue) = 86.25p Following HMRC's announcement of their decision to withdraw their appeal on the JPMorgan Fleming Claverhouse case, the net assets include £672k being the estimated expected repayment of all VAT paid on investment management fees, agreement having been reached between the Company and its managers that AGCiT will receive a refund of all VAT paid on investment management fees including VAT previously offset by the managers. As at 31 December 2007, AGCiT held 78 investments, the largest of which represented 4.0% of investable assets. The market value of investments was £119.4m less bank debt and net current assets/liabilities (excluding Income Shares) of £31.2m to leave Shareholders' Funds (including Income Shares) of £88.2m. Details of the top 50 holdings, the portfolio's sectoral composition and other general information can be found on the Aberforth website at http://www.aberforth.co.uk. AGCiT employs a significant amount of bank debt to provide gearing in its capital structure. The number of Income Shares of 1p currently in issue is 24,500,000. The number of Capital Shares of 1p currently in issue is 10,500,000. All net income will be attributed to Income Shares which have a capital entitlement of 82.51p each rising to 100p by the Planned Winding Up Date of 31 December 2011, which date will subsist unless an earlier reconstruction is approved. Capital Shares receive no dividends but all capital after repayment of bank debt and capital entitlement of Income Shares. AGCiT's Bank facility is £38.3m (£30.0m of which is at a fixed interest rate of 6.57%). The fair value of AGCiT's interest rate swap agreement based on the bid price at 31 December 2007 was a negative £354,000 and is accounted for within the NAV of the Capital Share. Dividends are paid as interims, semi-annually, to Income Shareholders with the first announced each July and paid in August and the second announced each January and paid in February. The Company confirms that all information required under Listing Rule 15.5.1(4) has been notified to a Regulated Information Service. Contact - Gary Tait (Tel: 0131 220 0733) Aberforth Partners LLP, Secretaries - 02 January 2008 ANNOUNCEMENT ENDS
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