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I am not too concerned about the price, even the S&P 500 index is down almost 25% on the year. Maintaining the dividends at the current level may be the biggest issue.

I have found the best way to eke some money out of this share is to ignore the dividends and sell on strength and buy on weakness. This share is cyclical. For example, prior to the last ex-dividend date, the share price reached £473.70 on 11 Aug. After the ex-dividend date, the share price had dropped to £373.31 by 29 Sep. Hardly worth holding on for a 10p dividend. This is a common pattern and the peaks and troughs can easily be figured out from a graph or historical chart like you get with Yahoo.

Just my opinion of course, everyone has their own strategy.

Still a good long term hold in my opinion. Almost 9% return for anyone investing at these prices. Very hard to equal.

While all is not good in the World, I suspect we may be experiencing a period of overreaction. There may be some excellent buying opportunities here, especially around the FTSE 250. I just sell on strength and buy on weakness and keep my fingers crossed at the same time.

A good day to reinvest.

Yes. 10.3 pence.

I keep my core holding in an S&P 500 ETF (VUSA). Over the past 100 years, the S&P 500 has risen an average of 10% per year. It is also volatile, so it is good for swing trading and also pays dividends.

Looks like 270p is the support level (hopefully).

Tinker, It was nothing personal but we are talking about a share that was worth almost £17 just over 20 years ago and it has basically been downhill ever since with this company. Any long term investors have seen a serious erosion of their capital. I hope for a turn around in fortunes but am certainly not expecting it yet.

The preceding figures would look better if they were prefixed 'Once upon a time....'

I don't think we will get rich with this one either but the dividends will keep us on survival rations.

In 2016, the fund price touched almost £2.50 but was followed by a period of almost 50% growth over the following 18 months and this is not the first time this has happened. Maybe these extreme swings are the nature of the beast? Like everything else, it is all down to timing.

Probably some good news here:

https://www.investmentweek.co.uk/news/4052926/henderson-trust-profit-growth-expected-asia-pacific-japan

Anyone subscribing to BritishBulls or WalletInvestor would be in the poor house by now and, surprisingly, they get good reviews.

I think it is a case of waiting for the region to cycle back and keep reinvesting the dividends in the meantime. At least we are not experiencing major corrections trusts like SMT and THRG are experiencing .

SlowRoll - There are many trusts showing a similar pattern such as THRG. They are all correcting to pre-pandemic levels.

If you scroll down in the link to the following Aviva site it states quite clearly 'By Tuesday 31 May 2022 - Redemption payment settlement date for B shares.' In this case, is 'By' the key word?

https://www.aviva.com/investors/return-of-capital-2022/

Warthog, I also think HL may be confusing the B share redemption payment with the final dividend payment on the 19th or it is just their wording that is misleading. According to the Aviva site, the B share redemption payment is on 31 May.

HL is showing 389. What a disaster.

Here is one explanation but note that this is an American site:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/returnofcapital.asp