BLACKROCK LATIN AMERICAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-28 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-02-14
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£473K
+132.8% vs 2023
Net assets
£86M
-38.9% vs 2023
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£5M
-24.4% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 4 times since incorporation
- BLACKROCK LATIN AMERICAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC 2008-04-25 → present
- MERRILL LYNCH LATIN AMERICAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC 2006-05-09 → 2008-04-25
- F&C LATIN AMERICAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC 1998-08-28 → 2006-05-09
- LATIN AMERICAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC 1990-06-01 → 1998-08-28
- BONDMERGE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 1990-03-12 → 1990-06-01
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £8,127,502 | £6,390,660 | |
| Operating profit | -£769,459 | -£767,976 | |
| Profit before tax | £7,274,277 | £5,499,629 | |
| Net profit | £6,647,146 | £5,107,487 | |
| Cash | £203,113 | £472,943 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £140,654,559 | £85,979,244 | |
| Net assets | £140,636,768 | £85,961,453 | |
| Equity | £140,636,768 | £85,961,453 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -9.5% | -12.0% | |
| Net margin | 81.8% | 79.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | -0.5% | -0.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 1.8% | 6.1% | |
| Current ratio | 0.68x | 0.26x | |
| Interest cover | -11.80x | -172.66x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Our evaluation of the Directors' assessment of the Company's ability to continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting included...”
Significant events
- “A discount control mechanism was adopted covering the four years to 31 December 2025 whereby shareholders will be offered a tender for 24.99% of the shares in issue.”
- “A special resolution was passed at the AGM of the Company on 22 May 2024, granting the Directors' authority to make market purchases of the Company's ordinary shares to be held, sold, transferred or otherwise dealt with as treasury shares or cancelled upon completion of the purchase. The Board intends to renew the authority at the AGM to be held in May 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLACKROCK INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT (UK) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2006-09-29 | — | — |
| CLELAND, Craig Mccowan | Director | 2019-01-01 | Nov 1963 | British |
| DOBSON, Carolan | Director | 2016-01-01 | Dec 1954 | British |
| MEISTER-MELKA, Laurie | Director | 2020-02-01 | May 1960 | American |
| WEBBER, Nigel John | Director | 2017-04-01 | Feb 1953 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| F&C EMERGING MARKETS LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | — | 2006-03-31 |
| MERRILL LYNCH INVESTMENT MANAGERS GROUP SERVICESLIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2006-03-31 | 2006-09-29 |
| BURNELL, Peter Charles Desborough | Director | — | 2017-03-02 |
| DA NOBREGA, Mailson Ferreira | Director | — | 2010-05-11 |
| DOCTOR, Mahrukh, Dr | Director | 2009-11-17 | 2023-03-31 |
| HART, Michael John | Director | — | 1998-03-23 |
| JAMES, Kenneth Cynlais Morgan, Sir | Director | — | 1996-05-02 |
| MONTEIRO DE CASTRO, Antonio | Director | 2007-11-12 | 2019-03-31 |
| O'CONOR, Desmond Roderic | Director | 1998-06-05 | 2014-04-30 |
| PACKARD, Fred Arthur Rank | Director | — | 2007-12-31 |
| ST ALDWYN, Michael Henry Hicks Beach | Director | 1996-05-02 | 2017-03-02 |
| TWISTON DAVIES, Audley William | Director | — | 1997-06-19 |
| WHITEHEAD, Laurence Andrew | Director | 2003-12-03 | 2019-12-31 |
| ZAGOREOS, Alexander Eleftherios | Director | — | 2004-05-05 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 299 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-05-29 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-06-06 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-06-13 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-05-31 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-05-30 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-29 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-02-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-06 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-05-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-28 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-06-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-13 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-04-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-03-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-28 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2022-10-18 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2022-06-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-31 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-05-30 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-03-02 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-03-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-06-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-21.4%
£8,127,502 £6,390,660
-
Cash
+132.8%
£203,113 £472,943
-
Net assets
-38.9%
£140,636,768 £85,961,453
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+0.2%
-£769,459 -£767,976
-
Profit before tax
-24.4%
£7,274,277 £5,499,629
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers