GASIX — Aberdeen Diversified Alternatives Fund
Data updated: 2020-09-24
GASIX — Aberdeen Diversified Alternatives Fund. Emerging Markets Real Estate · $18.27M AUM · 1.39% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
GASIX Fund Overview
GASIX — Aberdeen Diversified Alternatives Fund is a US mutual fund managed by abrdn Funds, categorised as Emerging Markets Real Estate. 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 Real Estate
- Assets under management: $18.27M
- 1-year return: -0.4%
- Ticker: GASIX
- SEC CIK: 0001413594
- SEC series ID: S000020306
- Share class ID: C000057032
GASIX Investment Objective and Strategy
Aberdeen Diversified Alternatives Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by abrdn Funds.
Investment objective
The Aberdeen Diversified Alternatives Fund (the Diversified Alternatives Fund or the Fund) seeks total return.
Principal investment strategy
The Diversified Alternatives Fund is a fund of funds that seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in underlying funds (the Underlying Funds) and, to a limited extent, in direct investments. The Fund intends to allocate its assets among a range of non-traditional or alternative asset classes in a dynamic way to capture return from such non-traditional or alternative sources. The Funds non-traditional and alternative exposures may include industry sector equity strategies, long-short strategies, foreign currency trading strategies, floating rate bank loans, emerging market equities, emerging market bonds, managed futures strategies, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), and other non-core investments. The Fund seeks to provide a return that has lower volatility than traditional core asset classes (i.e., U.S.
large cap equity and investment grade bonds) by combining several non-traditional or alternative asset class exposures in measured amounts. In selecting Underlying Funds and asset class exposures, the Adviser will take asset diversification and potential volatility of return into account. Non-traditional or alternative asset categories have tended over time to have a lower correlation with the broad U.S. stock and bond markets. The Fund may allocate its assets to Underlying Funds that invest in securities of companies of any market sector and which may hold a significant amount of securities of companies, from time to time, within a single sector. The Underlying Funds include, among others, mutual funds advised by Aberdeen Asset Management Inc., the Funds investment adviser (the Adviser), as well as unaffiliated mutual funds, closed-end funds (including business development companies) and exchange-traded funds.
There is no minimum amount of assets that must be invested in affiliated Underlying Funds. The Underlying Funds may be either actively managed or passively managed (that is, providing indexed exposures) in nature. Some or all of the Underlying Funds may invest in derivatives. The Fund may invest directly in certain types of derivatives, for example, securities index futures or options, which may be used to hedge against a decline in the value of the Funds assets. A derivative is a contract whose value is based on performance of an underlying financial asset, index or economic measure. On-going due diligence is a key element of the Advisers process and includes monitoring factors such as consistent adherence to the investment process, style drift, strategy capacity and the managers commitment to the Underlying Fund, along with exogenous factors such as market conditions as well as exposure to risks and potential opportunities arising at manager firm or Underlying Fund level from ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) issues.
The Adviser develops strategic asset class allocation views among broad asset classes based on its ongoing analyses of global financial markets and macro-economic conditions. The Funds portfolio management team constructs the Funds portfolio by setting target asset class allocations for the Fund. The portfolio management team then manages the Funds portfolio by dynamically adjusting the Funds asset class allocations based on the Advisers asset class allocation views and selecting Underlying Funds or direct investments to obtain exposures to the asset classes. The asset category allocations for the Fund are limited to non-traditional or alternative asset categories. As part of its process, the team evaluates the suitability of both active and passive vehicles to provide exposure to each asset category.
The target asset category allocations established by the portfolio management team are intended to promote diversification among the asset classes. The Funds asset category allocations and the investments held in the Funds portfolio are monitored by the portfolio management team on an ongoing basis and may be adjusted to reflect changes to the Advisers views. The Fund retains the flexibility to emphasize specific asset category allocations based on relative valuations and other economic factors in order to seek to achieve the Funds objective. While the Fund will not invest more than 25% of its total assets in any one Underlying Fund, the Fund may have significant exposure to one or more asset classes (including real estate and commodities) depending on market conditions. The Fund has the ability to invest, through the Underlying Funds, in small, medium or large capitalization issuers without regard to credit quality (including high yield bonds, which are commonly known as junk bonds) or geographic location, and is not limited by industry sector or the duration of individual instruments or the portfolio as a whole.
At times, the Fund may emphasize any one of these exposures. Asset classes may be added or removed at the Advisers discretion. For additional information regarding the above identified strategies, see Fund Details: Additional Information about Principal Strategies in the prospectus.
GASIX Performance
Total returns for GASIX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | -0.4% |
GASIX Risk Information
Risk metrics for GASIX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 9.2%
GASIX Costs and Fees
GASIX costs about $139 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.39%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.99%
- Portfolio turnover: 14%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.33 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
GASIX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2020-07, Aberdeen Diversified Alternatives Fund had net outflows of $9.79M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2020-07 | −$710.82K |
| 2020-06 | −$523.18K |
| 2020-05 | −$6.85M |
| 2020-04 | −$290.95K |
| 2020-03 | −$2.67M |
| 2020-02 | −$666.72K |
GASIX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Aberdeen Diversified Alternatives Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
GASIX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Aberdeen Diversified Alternatives Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-03-19
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2019-03-21
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2018-03-21
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-09-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-06-23
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-03-27
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2020-01-13
- Annual census, amended (N-CEN/A) — filed 2019-04-05
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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.