The abrdn group’s global equities team, located in Edinburgh, Scotland, draws on the research capabilities of abrdn's regional investment teams located worldwide.

To provide investors with high capital growth over the medium to long term by seeking exposure to companies listed on securities exchanges around the world.

Benefits of investing in the abrdn International Equity Fund

Investing in the Fund offers a number of benefits, including:

• Access to investment opportunities and diversification that individual investors usually cannot achieve on their own.

• A disciplined risk management process that manages different levels of investment risk relative to anticipated investment returns.
• Investment professionals who are part of a globally integrated network with global research capabilities delivering their best investment ideas and capabilities to clients around the world.
• Participation in any income distributions from the Fund.

Mainly direct and indirect investors seeking long term capital growth with some income through investment in international equity securities. You should consult a licensed financial adviser to obtain financial advice that is tailored to suit your personal circumstances.

About the Fund

The Fund invests primarily in a concentrated portfolio of around 40-60 listed international securities (other than those listed on the Australian Stock Exchange) with the potential for capital growth and increased earning potential.

Significant features

The Fund is a high conviction actively managed international equity portfolio managed using a bottom-up approach with little reference to a benchmark.

Utilising abrdn's proven equity investment philosophy and approach, that is replicated and consistent across all equity investment desks, we seek to identify quality companies trading at reasonable valuations through our own first hand research.

How we invest your money

Investment strategy

The Fund invests primarily in a concentrated portfolio of around 40-60 listed international securities (other than those listed on the Australian Stock Exchange) with the potential for capital growth and increased earning potential.

The Global Equities Team, located in Edinburgh, Scotland, draws on the research capabilities of regional investment teams located worldwide. Through their own proprietary research each regional team creates a concentrated regional model portfolio of best ideas. This is based on a rigorous appraisal of each company's fundamentals and relative valuation. The aggregate of the regional models forms the global buy list.

The global buy list is then used by the global equity team to undertake further comparative analysis and construct a final concentrated portfolio of truly diversified businesses.

We see risk in terms of investing in a poor quality company, or overpaying for a good one, and do not view risk in benchmark relative terms. We therefore downplay benchmarks in portfolio construction since these provide little indication of future performance. We never invest in a company without first meeting the management.

The normal characteristics of the Fund include:

• Low turnover due to our buy and hold' approach - average holding period of around five years.

• Significant divergence from the benchmark.

• Low cash allocation (as the aim is to be fully invested in securities).

Mix of asset classes

• 90-100% International equity securities

• 0-10% Cash

The Fund is generally fully invested in international equity securities.

The Fund trades in derivatives.