Electra Private Equity has brought forward the publication of its annual results by a month in a move that it hopes will offer it an advantage in its upcoming showdown with Edward Bramson’s Sherborne Investors.

The London-listed trust, which in 2014 and 2013 published its full-year results on November 27, and in 2012 on November 28, sent a note to shareholders and analysts this week to inform them that its full year results will this year be announced on October 26.