abrdn Asia Focus Investment Manager's Review
Managers Gabriel Sacks, Flavia Cheong and Xin Yao Ng provide a review of Asian Small Caps, and discuss portfolio activity and the performance of the trust over the last six months.
abrdn Asia Focus plc
A fundamental, high conviction portfolio of well-researched Asian Small Caps.
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AIC ISA Millionaire
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) listed abrdn Asia Focus among the 50 investment trusts who would have made investors ISA millionaires, if they had invested their full ISA allowance in them each year between 1999 and 2024.
Our investment objective
We aim to find the best managed Asian smaller companies that are setting the new standard. The Company strives to maximise total return to shareholders over the long term from a concentrated, high-conviction portfolio focusing predominantly on exciting, smaller, listed companies in Asia (excluding Japan).
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Discovering Asia-Pacific: a true investment journey
We believe a true feel for the places, people and companies we invest in gives our team a valuable edge in identifying small, promising businesses with long-term potential.
Why choose abrdn Asia Focus plc
- Outstanding long-term performance record: best performing Asia investment trust amongst the AIC’s “ISA millionaires”.abrdn Asia Focus plc is in 6th place (and the highest placed investment trust investing in Asia alone) out of a total of fifty investment trusts that would have made investors more than £1 million if they had invested their full annual ISA allowance in the same trust each year over the past 25 years (1999-2024), according to latest research from the Association of Investment Companies (AIC).
- Unique portfolio of high-quality, fast-growing, businesses that are not represented in mainstream funds.
- Uncorrelated returns offering good diversification.
Gabriel Sacks, Manager of abrdn Asia Focus, outlines the trust's strategy and objectives, and highlights some key themes within the portfolio. (05:23 min watch)
Gabriel Sacks, abrdn Asia Limited
“Smaller companies are poorly researched and less correlated to global markets. Our strategy has delivered better returns and lower volatility than the Asia large and small cap indices.”
Gabriel Sacks, abrdn Asia Limited
Meet the team
Get to know the people behind the trust. Our independent board and portfolio management team provide a wealth of investment experience.
Our investment approach
How we invest to achieve our goals. Learn how we research and select holdings and how we look to invest to benefit people and planet.
How to invest
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