Aberdeen New Dawn Investment Trust

Keeping its fundamental focus

23 July 2015

Aberdeen New Dawn Investment Trust (ABD) is a diversified Asia-Pacific fund investing in companies across the Asian region, including Australia but excluding Japan. The team-based, bottom-up approach looks to identify good quality companies with attractive valuations to buy and hold for the long-term. While aiming for capital growth, the quality bias results in the fund having an above-average yield relative to peers. Short term, it may suffer in more momentum driven markets but long-term relative performance remains strong. MORE »

Finding enduring quality in Asia

12 December 2014

Aberdeen New Dawn Investment Trust (ABD) is a diversified Asia-Pacific equity fund investing in companies across the region, including Australasia but excluding Japan. It follows Aberdeen’s established, team-based approach to finding quality stocks at attractive prices, and its buy-and-hold strategy translates into extremely low turnover (c 6% a year). While its mandate is to seek capital growth, the focus on quality feeds in to a meaningful level of dividend income, and ABD has one of the highest yields in its sector (excluding income specialists). The trust has a solid long-term performance record and currently trades on a c 8-10% discount. MORE »