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Dividend heroes: Edinburgh Investment Trust

INVESTMENT TRUST PROFILE: Decent dividend yield and an attractive discount to NAV
February 16, 2009

Investors Chronicle as a "good core holding for troubled times", following the appointment of Invesco Perpetual's Neil Woodford as its manager in September.

341p

It has an attractive dividend yield of 6.1 per cent and is trading at a healthy discount of 15.8 per cent.

EDINBURGH INVESTMENT TRUST (EDIN)
PRICE341pNAV365.78
SIZE OF FUND£936mPRICE DISCOUNT TO NAV-8.41
No OF HOLDINGS:801 YEAR PERFORMANCE-24.6
SET UP DATE08 Feb 523 YEAR PERFORMANCE-4.7
MANAGER START DATE01 Apr 045 YEAR PERFORMANCE29.8
TURNOVERnaTOTAL EXPENSE RATIO1.88
VOLATILITYnaYIELD5.94
TRACKING ERRORnaMORE DETAILSinvescoperpetual.co.uk
SHARPE RATIO1.22 

TOP TEN HOLDINGS%
BP 7.9
GlaxoSmithKline 7.8
British Energy 6.9
Vodafone 6.4
British American Tobacco 6.1
AstraZeneca 6
BG 5.3
National Grid 5.2
Imperial Tobacco 5.2
BT 5

SECTOR BREAKDOWN%
Utilities   23.2
 Oil & Gas   19.1
 Consumer Goods   15.1
 Healthcare   13.7
 Telecommunications   11.5
 Industrials   7
 Consumer Services   5.7
 Financials  3.7
 Technology  1