To provide for shareholders a high level of income together with growth of both income and capital from a portfolio substantially invested in UK Equities.
Trust Profile - Shires Income PLC (LSE:SHRS)
FTSE Small Cap Equity Investment InstrumentsMarket cap: £52.417m
Shires Income plc
Objective
Ten largest equity holdings (as at 30th September 2009)
| % | |
| Shires Smaller Companies | 5.1 |
| British American Tobacco | 4.5 |
| Royal Dutch Shell ‘B’ | 3.4 |
| BP | 3.3 |
| HSBC | 3.0 |
| Vodafone | 2.7 |
| AstraZeneca | 2.6 |
| Prudential | 2.6 |
| Centrica | 2.5 |
| Sierra Monitor | 2.4 |
| Total | 32.1 |
| Total number of investments | 57 |
