Murray Income Trust PLC- Half Yearly Financial Report 2020

Performance Highlights

Dividends

Financial Calendar

CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT

First I would like to reiterate my warm welcome to all our new shareholders and to thank them and our existing shareholders for their strong support during the merger with Perpetual Income and Growth Investment Trust (“PLI”). The merger was completed successfully on 17 November 2020 with 80% of PLI and net assets of £427m joining us, representing 43.5% of the enlarged Company. Some of the results can be seen already. Net assets are now over £1bn, trading volumes are higher, and we have seen an approximate halving of the bid-offer spread when trading. Your Company has also been included in the FTSE 250 Index. Once the Manager's six-month management fee subsidy has expired, the Company's blended management fee rate will be 0.36% p.a. as compared to the pre-merger rate of 0.48% p.a.

Performance

After an exceptional run of outperformance for nine quarters in a row, we ran into some performance headwinds in the final quarter of 2020 which our Manager Charles Luke explains in more detail in his report. Over the six months ended 31 December 2020, the Company's net asset value (“NAV”) per share rose 9.2% in total return terms, slightly behind the FTSE All-Share Index (the “Index”) return of 9.3%. The share price total return was 11.6% with the discount narrowing from 5.0% to 3.0%.

Looking over longer periods to 31 December 2020, as set out in the table below, performance is significantly ahead of the Index over one, three, five and ten years.

At the same time we continue to grow our dividend, with a dividend increase chalked up in every one of the past forty-seven years. This puts us into the top ten (as measured by the number of years of dividend growth) in the AIC's 'Dividend Heroes' list of investment trusts with 20 years or more of consecutive annual dividend growth.