Performance
The company's Net Asset Value (NAV) per ordinary share rose by 6.2% on a net dividends reinvested basis with debt at fair value, our key performance measure. This was ahead of the composite benchmark index (70% FTSE World Ex-UK and 30% FTSE All-Share Index) which rose by 5.3% on the total return basis over the period.
2020 has of course been a year of extremes, not least for humanity's collective experience of the global effects of a pandemic, the like of which has not been seen in living memory. This inevitably cast the shadow of economic upheaval and market volatility across the majority of the year.