LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
ANNOUNCEMENT
JPMORGAN GLOBAL CORE REAL
ASSETS LIMITED
("JARA" or the
"Company")
COMPULSORY PARTIAL REDEMPTION OF
SHARES
Legal Entity Identifier:
549300D8JHZTH6GI8F97
Further to the approval given by the
Company's shareholders to allow compulsory redemptions of the
Company's ordinary shares ("Shares") as described in the circular
dated 3 December 2024 (the "Circular"), the Company today announces
that it will return approximately £33.7m by way of a compulsory
partial redemption of up to 34,753,090 Shares (the "First Redemption") on 27 February 2025
(the "Redemption
Date").
As at today's date, the Company has
219,407,952 Shares in issue, of which 13,587,814 are held in
treasury. Approximately 16.9% of the Company's issued share capital
(excluding shares held in treasury) will therefore be redeemed. The
Redemption Price per Share will be 97.0465 pence, being the NAV per
Share as at 31 January 2025 adjusted to take into account the costs
of the redemption, with the amount to be applied to the redemption
comprising monies from the Company's existing cash balances. The
First Redemption will be effected pro rata by reference to shareholdings
on the register as at close of business on 27 February 2025 (the
"Redemption Record
Date").
Fractions of Shares will not be
redeemed and so the number of Shares held by each shareholder to be
redeemed compulsorily on the Redemption Date will be rounded down
to the nearest whole number of Shares. Any Shares which have traded
on or before the Redemption Date, but have not settled, will be
included in the First Redemption.
On this basis, a holder of 10,000
Shares will have 1,688 Shares redeemed, and will receive £1,638 in
cash.
All Shares that are redeemed will be
cancelled with effect from the Redemption Date. Accordingly, once
redeemed, such Shares will be incapable of transfer.
It is estimated that all proceeds of
the partial compulsory redemption will be effected either through
CREST (in the case of Shares held in uncertificated form) or paid
by cheque (in the case of Shares held in certificated form) in
pounds Sterling within fourteen business days of the Redemption
Date, or as soon as practicable thereafter (the "Redemption Payment Date").
The Shares will be disabled in CREST
after close of business on the Redemption Date and the existing
ISIN number GG00BJVKW831 (the "Old
ISIN") will expire at the same time.
The
new ISIN number GG00BP6KKQ44 (the "New ISIN") in respect of the
remaining Shares which have not been redeemed, and which will be in
issue and listed following the Redemption Date, will be enabled and
available for transactions from and including 28 February
2025.
Up to and including the Redemption
Date, the Shares will continue to be traded under the Old ISIN. Any
purchaser of Shares trading under the Old ISIN who is not on the
register as at the Redemption Record Date will have a market claim
for a proportion of the redemption proceeds. CREST will
automatically transform any open transactions as at the Redemption
Date into the New ISIN.
Shareholders should note that the
Board retains absolute discretion as to the execution, extent and
timing of any further redemptions.
Expected timetable for
redemption
The expected dates and sequence of
events relating to the implementation of the First Redemption are
set out below:
First Redemption Record
Date
|
5:00pm on 27 February
2025
|
First Redemption Date and expiry of
Old ISIN number
|
27 February 2025
|
First Redemption Ex Date
|
27 February 2025
|
New ISIN number GG00BP6KKQ44 enabled
|
28 February 2025
|
Estimated latest date for the
Redemption Payment Date
|
19 March 2025
|
Capitalised terms used but not
defined in this announcement will have the same meaning as set out
in the Circular.
6 February 2025
For further information, please
contact:
Emma Lamb / Neil Martin / William
Talkington
For and on behalf of
JPMorgan Funds Limited - Company
Secretary
Telephone: 0800 20 40 20 (or +44
1268 44 44 70)
E-mail: invtrusts.cosec@jpmorgan.com
David Yovichic / Tom
Skinner
Investec Bank plc -
Broker
Telephone: 020 7597 4000