abrdn Emerging Markets Dividend Fund
Data updated: 2025-04-01
C000229259 — abrdn Emerging Markets Dividend Fund. Emerging Markets Large Cap Value Equity · $73.15M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000229259 Fund Overview
abrdn Emerging Markets Dividend Fund is a US mutual fund managed by abrdn Funds, categorised as Emerging Markets Large Cap Value Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: abrdn Funds
- Category: Emerging Markets Large Cap Value Equity
- Assets under management: $73.15M
- 1-year return: 33.1%
- SEC CIK: 0001413594
- SEC series ID: S000072756
- Share class ID: C000229259
C000229259 Investment Objective and Strategy
abrdn Emerging Markets Dividend Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by abrdn Funds.
Investment objective
The abrdn Emerging Markets Dividend Fund (formerly, abrdn International Sustainable Leaders Fund) (the Emerging Markets Dividend Fund or the Fund) seeks total return consisting of income and long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
As a non-fundamental policy, under normal circumstances, the Emerging Markets Dividend Fund invests at least 80% of the value of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities of emerging market companies that pay dividend income. The Fund will invest primarily in common stocks but may also invest in other types of equity securities, including, but not limited to, preferred stock and depositary receipts. An emerging market country is any country determined by the Adviser or Sub-adviser (as defined below) to have an emerging market economy, considering factors such as the countrys credit rating, its political and economic stability and the development of its financial and capital markets. Emerging market countries include every nation in the world except the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore and most countries located in Western Europe.
A company is considered to be an emerging market company if Fund management determines that the company meets one or more of the following criteria: ? the company is organized under the laws of or has its principal office in an emerging market country; ? the company has its principal securities trading market in an emerging market country; and/or ? the company derives the majority of its annual revenue or earnings or assets from goods produced, sales made or services performed in an emerging market country. Emerging market countries may include countries considered to be frontier markets. At times, the Fund may have a significant amount of its assets invested in a country or geographic region. The Fund currently anticipates that it will invest a significant amount of its assets in securities economically tied to India, Taiwan and in Mainland China equity securities, including through the Shanghai-Hong Kong and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect program or by any other available means.
The Fund may invest in securities denominated in U.S. Dollars and currencies of the foreign countries in which it is permitted to invest. The Fund typically has full currency exposure to those markets in which it invests. The Fund may invest in securities of any market capitalization. The Fund may invest in securities of any market sector and may hold a significant amount of securities of companies, from time to time, within a single sector. The Fund currently anticipates that it will have significant exposure to the healthcare, financials and information technology sectors. In seeking to achieve the Funds investment objective, the investment team narrows the investable universe by looking at the dividend potential of companies and focusing on fundamental factors. The Advisers and Sub-advisers primary focus is on stock selection using research techniques to select individual holdings.
The investment team places particular emphasis on understanding business fundamentals and dynamics and the impact this has on cash flow generation and a companys ability to allocate cash effectively. The investment team seeks to allocate the Funds assets to high dividend paying companies and companies that the Adviser and Sub-adviser believe are growing their dividend over time. The Adviser and Sub-advisers consideration of fundamental factors includes, among other things, a quality assessment focused on five key factors: 1) the durability of the business model, 2) the attractiveness of the industry, 3) the strength of financials, 4) the capability of management, and 5) the most material environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors impacting a company. As ESG information is just one investment consideration, ESG considerations generally are not solely determinative in any investment decision made by the Adviser and Sub-adviser.
C000229259 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of abrdn Emerging Markets Dividend Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 7.30% |
| Tencent Holdings Ltd | 5.70% |
| HDFC Bank Ltd | 5.14% |
| Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 5.06% |
| iShares MSCI India ETF | 3.64% |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 3.25% |
| Grupo Mexico SAB de CV | 3.23% |
| MediaTek Inc | 3.20% |
| ICICI Bank Ltd | 2.68% |
| Infosys Ltd | 2.52% |
C000229259 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of abrdn Emerging Markets Dividend Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 100.5% |
C000229259 Performance
Total returns for C000229259 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 33.1% |
| 3 years (annualised) | -2.4% |
C000229259 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000229259, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 13.1%
C000229259 Costs and Fees
C000229259 costs about $115 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.15%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.62%
- Portfolio turnover: 23%
- Brokerage commissions: 8.15 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000229259 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2025-01, abrdn Emerging Markets Dividend Fund had net outflows of $11.86M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2025-01 | −$1.81M |
| 2024-12 | $255.05K |
| 2024-11 | −$1.28M |
| 2024-10 | −$1.24M |
| 2024-09 | −$866.18K |
| 2024-08 | −$1.10M |
C000229259 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in abrdn Emerging Markets Dividend Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000229259 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official abrdn Emerging Markets Dividend Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-02-28
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2024-03-05
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2023-03-06
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2025-04-01
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-12-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-09-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-01-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-01-16
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.