Dazed and confused31 Jan 2020 20:27
OK so how does this pan out?
LF ASI Income Focus (GB00BD9X6L36), which used to be run by Neil Woodford, is set to start trading again on 13 February ending a suspension that lasted nearly four months.
Link Fund Solutions decided to suspend trading on 15 October 2019 after Woodford resigned as manager of this fund and Woodford Patient Capital Trust, which is now called Schroder UK Public Private Trust (SUPP). At the time, Link warned that heavy outflows from LF ASI Income Focus, which used to be called LF Woodford Income Focus, might result in it having to sell holdings fast for unfavourable prices “prejudicing the interests of both remaining and redeeming investors."
Today ( 31st January) Link said that the fund's investment allocation has been repositioned meaning that trading can resume on 13 February.
Investors are due to receive an update on the fund's investment approach, its new portfolio, recent performance and costs of repositioning before 13 February.
So if TRX are in this fund, a large percentage may remain unsold, as I understand, pending a sale at a more favourable price. Thus the portfolio will operate as a viable fund and trade as per the Woodford Fund. So with no strict timeline to dispose of these shares, then the dumping of shares into the marketplace effectively disappears, or have they merely deferred the selling with a different deadline.
Both scenarios will impact on the share price.
Have I got this right and how do people see this going?
Sorry – bit confused here.