Overview
abrdn New Dawn (formerly Aberdeen New Dawn) aims to provide shareholders with a high level of capital growth through equity investment in the Asia Pacific countries, excluding Japan. ABD holds a diversified portfolio of securities in quoted companies spread across a range of industries and economies. ABD is benchmarked against the MSCI All Countries Asia Pacific ex Japan Index (in sterling terms).
We have written notes that explain how the fund works:
- “Market setback creates opportunities“, published October 2018, ABD’s manager capitalises off weakness in Asian markets with strong outperformance
- “Moving up the league table” published 8 July 2019, highlighted the trust’s 30-year track record
- “Illuminating value” published on 7 February 2020, highlighted the trust’s good performance relative to its benchmark
- “COVID positive” published on 20 August 2020, focused on the manager’s deft handling of the COVID-19 market panic
- “An ESG-leader in Asian equities” published 18 March 2021
- “Caution wins out in the end” published 4 November 2021
- “Over the trough?“, published on 7 June 2022 looks at the position following a period of weakness in Asian equities
- “A quality captain for a troubled pacific“, published on 13 February 2023, looks at the trust’s returns against a volatile backdrop
You can access the manager’s website here
You can view our interviews with the company’s Fund Managers below:
20th May 2022: James Thom – Weekly Show
Research History
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14 Sep 2023 41 min read
QuotedData’s Economic and Political Monthly Roundup September 2023
Economic and Political Monthly Roundup Investment companies | Monthly | September 2023 August was a moderately volatile month for markets as the economic picture in China worsened. Developed markets held up better than emerging markets. Yields on US government debt rose. Oil prices edged up, but the big jump was in natural gas prices as […]
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09 Jun 2023 1 min read
Interview with James Thom from abrdn New Dawn
In this week’s show, James Carthew spoke to James Thom from abrdn New Dawn. If you were looking for the first part of QuotedData’s show, focused on the roundup of the week’s news, click here. If there is a guest speaker you’d particularly like to hear from, please email us on [email protected]. Additionally, if you would prefer […]
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13 Feb 2023 17 min read
abrdn New Dawn – A quality captain for a troubled Pacific
abrdn New Dawn Investment companies | Annual overview | 13 February 2023 A quality captain for a troubled Pacific abrdn New Dawn (ABD) ended 2022 with the peculiar, if compelling, combination of the second-best 12-month performance within its peer group, and the widest discount, at 11.5%. Manager James Thom has highlighted the ongoing complexity of […]
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16 min read
abrdn New Dawn – A quality captain for a troubled Pacific
abrdn New Dawn Investment companies | Annual overview | 13 February 2023 A quality captain for a troubled Pacific abrdn New Dawn (ABD) ended 2022 with the second-best 12-month performance within its peer group, and the widest discount, at 11.5%. Manager James Thom has highlighted the ongoing complexity of navigating the Asia Pacific region, given […]
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17 min read
abrdn New Dawn – A quality captain for a troubled Pacific
abrdn New Dawn Investment companies | Annual overview | 13 February 2023 A quality captain for a troubled Pacific abrdn New Dawn (ABD) ended 2022 with the peculiar, if compelling, combination of the second-best 12-month performance within its peer group, and its shares trading at the widest discount to net asset value (NAV), at 11.5%. […]
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05 Jan 2023 90 min read
QuotedData’s Economic and Political Monthly Roundup January 2023
Economic and Political Monthly Roundup Investment companies | Monthly | January 2023 A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairs and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage […]
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07 Jun 2022 20 min read
abrdn New Dawn – Over the trough?
Over the trough? It has been another tough six months for abrdn New Dawn (ABD) as the Asia Pacific region has had to face new challenges from the Russo-Ukrainian conflict to China’s deadliest COVID-19 wave yet (heightened by Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policy). This has only exacerbated headwinds already in place such as rising inflation. Manager […]
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20 min read
abrdn New Dawn – Over the trough?
Over the trough? It has been another tough six months for abrdn New Dawn (ABD) as the Asia Pacific region has had to face new challenges from the Russo-Ukrainian conflict to China’s deadliest COVID-19 wave yet (the economic impacts of which have been made worse by Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policy). This has only exacerbated headwinds […]
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20 min read
abrdn New Dawn – Over the trough?
Over the trough? It has been another tough six months for abrdn New Dawn (ABD) as the Asia Pacific region has had to face new challenges from the Russo-Ukrainian conflict to what appears to be China’s deadliest COVID-19 wave yet (which has reportedly been heightened by Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policy and a refusal, so far, […]
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20 May 2022 1 min read
Interview with James Thom of Aberdeen New Dawn
In this week’s show, James Carthew talked to James Thom of Aberdeen New Dawn. If you were looking for the first part of QuotedData’s show, focused on the roundup of the week’s news, click here. If there is a guest speaker you’d particularly like to hear from, please email us. Additionally, if you would prefer […]
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04 Nov 2021 15 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn – Caution wins out in the end
Caution wins out in the end After another challenging six months since our last note, with initially unscathed Asia finally being hit hard by COVID-19, Aberdeen New Dawn (ABD) has maintained its strong performance, suggesting that it can be resilient in down markets. But the manager says the numbers also reflect ABD’s long-standing caution over […]
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15 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn – Caution wins out in the end
Caution wins out in the end After another challenging six months since our last note, with initially unscathed Asia finally being hit hard by COVID-19, Aberdeen New Dawn (ABD) has maintained its strong performance, showing it can still be resilient in falling markets. However, the manager says the numbers also reflect ABD’s long-standing caution over […]
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15 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn – Caution wins out in the end
Caution wins out in the end After another challenging six months since our last note, with initially unscathed Asia finally being hit hard by COVID-19, Aberdeen New Dawn (ABD) has maintained its strong performance, showing it can still be resilient in down markets. But the manager says the numbers also reflect ABD’s long-standing caution over […]
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18 Mar 2021 23 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn – An ESG leader in Asian equities
An ESG leader in Asian equities Despite the difficulties of COVID-19, Aberdeen New Dawn (ABD) has provided very strong absolute and relative returns during the last 12 months. These are markedly ahead of its benchmark, the wider Asia ex-Japan region and global equity markets more generally. Asia is emerging from the pandemic in a position […]
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22 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn – An ESG leader in Asian equities
An ESG leader in Asian equities Despite the difficulties of COVID-19, Aberdeen New Dawn (ABD) has provided very strong absolute and relative returns during the last 12 months. Specifically, its returns are markedly ahead of its benchmark, the wider Asia Japan region and global equity markets more generally. Asia is emerging from the pandemic in […]
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23 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn – An ESG leader in Asian equities
An ESG leader in Asian equities Despite the difficulties of COVID-19, Aberdeen New Dawn (ABD) has provided very strong absolute and relative returns during the last 12 months. These are markedly ahead of its benchmark, the wider Asia ex Japan region and global equity markets more generally. Asia is emerging from the pandemic in a […]
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16 Oct 2020 11 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Quarterly Review – Third Quarter 2020
Investment Companies Quarterly Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents In this issue Performance data Positive movers Negative movers Discounts and premiums Getting more expensive Getting cheaper Money in and out Money in Money out Major news stories Upcoming Events New research Guide The legal bit Stubborn resistance The end […]
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20 Aug 2020 10 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn – COVID positive
COVID positive In common with other Asian-focused trusts, Aberdeen New Dawn (ABD) has recovered the ground it lost in the early stages of the COVID-19-related market fall and moved into positive territory for 2020 (in NAV terms at least). James Thom, ABD’s manager, was able to make some opportunistic purchases for the portfolio as other […]
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11 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn – COVID positive
COVID positive In common with other Asian-focused trusts, Aberdeen New Dawn (ABD) has recovered the ground it lost in the early stages of the COVID-19-related market fall and moved into positive territory for 2020 (in NAV terms at least). James Thom, ABD’s manager, was able to make some opportunistic purchases for the portfolio as other […]
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06 Aug 2020 2 min read
Covid – 19 Impact on Markets webinar playback
On the 20th July QuotedData hosted a webinar entitled “Covid-19 – Impact on Markets”. The webinar provided both professional and private investors access to 3 investment company managers covering either specific geographic regions or investment sectors. The managers discussed their funds and shared their views on the potential changes for their investment area following the pandemic […]
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07 Feb 2020 23 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn – Illuminating value
Illuminating value Aberdeen New Dawn (ABD) has provided peer-group-beating performance during 2019 (an NAV total return of 18.4% versus a peer group average of 15.2%). Despite this, and also despite offering one of the lowest ongoing charges ratios amongst its peers, its discount to NAV remains broadly unchanged and is still, peculiarly, one of the […]
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23 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn – Illuminating value
Illuminating value Aberdeen New Dawn (ABD) has provided peer-group-beating performance during 2019 (an NAV total return of 18.4% versus a peer group average of 15.2%). Despite this, and also despite offering one of the lowest ongoing charges ratios amongst its peers, the discount remains broadly unchanged and is still, peculiarly, one of the widest in […]
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24 Jan 2020 20 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Annual Review – 2019
In this issue The sector at the end of 2019 Performance data Performance by sector and fund Money in and out of the sector Money in and out of existing funds Money coming into existing funds Money going out of existing funds Liquidations, de-listings and trading cancellations Significant rating changes Major news stories Outlook for […]
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10 Jan 2020 8 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – January 2020
Economic & Political Roundup Kindly sponsored by Polar Capital and Allianz A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you […]
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12 Jul 2019 6 min read
Quarterly investment companies roundup – Second quarter 2019
Quarterly investment companies roundup – Second quarter 2019 QuotedData news Global equities re-found momentum in June after a cautious April and May. How much longer this ten-year bull market can sustain itself continues to be the subject of much debate. The prospect of interest rate cuts in the US has re-invigorated sentiment for the time […]
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08 Jul 2019 9 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn – Moving up the league table
Moving up the league table Whilst the ongoing trade dispute between the US and China creates a strong headwind for the region, this more challenging time is playing to Aberdeen New Dawn (ABD)’s strengths. Its focus on high-quality companies is being rewarded and it is climbing the performance league table once again. It is striking […]
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8 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn – Moving up the league table
Moving up the league table As it celebrates its 30th birthday, Aberdeen New Dawn (ABD) can look back on a tumultuous but ultimately rewarding period for investing in Asia. The rise of China and the broadening of economic growth across the region has created whole new areas for ABD to invest in. Countries such as […]
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05 Jul 2019 6 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – July 2019
Economic & Political Roundup A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell any of the […]
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25 Jan 2019 1 min read
QuotedData review of 2018 – Annual report investment companies
QuotedData review of 2018 – Annual report investment companies 2018 – the return of volatility A trade war, Brexit, US interest rate rises, slowing Chinese growth, a US government shutdown, a dispute over Italy’s budget, the Skripal poisonings, numerous elections – there was plenty to worry about in 2018. A last-minute dive left the US […]
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18 Jan 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – January 2019
QuotedData’s economic roundup – January 2019 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell any of […]
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12 Oct 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – October 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – October 2018 is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of August 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Money raised and returned in September Trian Investors 1 is a new fund that will adopt […]
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04 Oct 2018 1 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn – Market setback creates opportunities
Aberdeen New Dawn – Market setback creates opportunities Aberdeen New Dawn (ABD) has been using recent falls in Asian markets to reduce its underweight exposure to China (Chinese stocks dominate ABD’s benchmark). The manager has become more comfortable with the Chinese market (see page 13) and has demonstrated its ability to pick stocks, delivering strong outperformance from […]
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1 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn – Market setback creates opportunities
Aberdeen New Dawn – Market setback creates opportunities – Aberdeen New Dawn (ABD) has been using recent weakness in Asian markets to narrow its underweight exposure to Chinese stocks (which dominate ABD’s benchmark). The manager has become more comfortable with this market and has demonstrated its stock-picking ability, delivering strong outperformance from its open-ended fund focused […]
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11 Jul 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s Economic round up – July 2018
QuotedData’s Economic round up – July 2018 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or […]
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10 Jan 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – January 2018
QuotedData’s economic round up – January 2018 – is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or […]
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12 Jul 2017 2 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – July 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – July 2017 – is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or […]
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10 Oct 2016 1 min read
Pacific Horizon – Brave new world
Marten & Co published an update on the company entitled Pacific Horizon – Brave new world The company’s performance has started to improve over the past few months, yet Baillie Gifford’s Ewan Markson-Brown and Roderick Snell, thinks that there is still considerable potential for the portfolio. He believes that some of the themes that he […]
News
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22 Dec 2023 3 min read
QD – review of the year
This is the last of our weekly emails for 2023. We hope that you have been finding them useful. We will be publishing our annual roundup in January. Ahead of that however, I thought it might be worth pulling out a few of the year’s highs and lows. In January, China’s market shone as hopes […]
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09 Nov 2023 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 9 November 2023 – MUT, JZCP, HOT, DGN, AEI, HOME, RGL, SHED
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 9 November 2023: Murray Income says it will pay three interim dividends of 9.5p in December, March 2024 and June 2024. Up from 8.25p for the previous financial year. The directors are trying to rebalance the trust’s quarterly dividends in order to accelerate payments to shareholders. As a result, the board […]
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19 Oct 2023 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 19 October 2023 – HTCF, RSE, ABD, PIN, AERI, ASLI, AEWU
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 19 October 2023: Highbridge Tactical Credit (HTCF) will compulsorily redeem almost all of its shares on 1 November 2023 and then go into liquidation. Round Hill Music (RHM) shareholders overwhelmingly approved the takeover by Concord Bidco. The shares will stop trading before the market opens on 31 October and shareholders should […]
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17 Aug 2023 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 August 2023 – ABD, AAIF, ESP, EPIC
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 August 2023: In its final set of annual results (before it is absorbed by Asia Dragon), abrdn New Dawn (ABD) returned -6.8% in NAV terms for the 12 months ended 30 April 2023, and -7.3% in share price terms, both lagging the -5.2% return generated by the benchmark MSCI AC […]
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21 Jul 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 21st July 2023
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • abrdn New Dawn/Asia Dragon (0:27) • Digital9 Infrastructure (7:44) This week’s interview was with Ian Lance from Temple Bar – watch it again here.
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6 min read
abrdn New Dawn announces proposed combination with Asia Dragon Trust
abrdn New Dawn Investment Trust (ABD) has announced that it has agreed to terms with the board of Asia Dragon Trust in respect of a proposed combination of the two trusts. The combination, if approved by each company’s shareholders, will be effected by way of a scheme of reconstruction and winding up of abrdn New Dawn […]
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16 Jun 2023 3 min read
QD view – Emerging Asia, much more than India and China
Increasingly, investing in Asia has become a story of India and China. These twin behemoths account for over half of the MSCI Asia ex Japan index[1] and define the narrative for the region. However, some of Asia’s most interesting growth ideas – including China plus one, financial inclusion, and rising technology innovation – can be […]
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20 Jan 2023 5 min read
QD view – Chinese new year in review
The lunar new year is upon us this weekend, bringing with it the year of the rabbit. According to the Chinese zodiac, the rabbit is associated with vigilance, quick wittedness, and ingenuity; and anyone born in 2023 will be born under the ‘water’ rabbit, and is expected to turn around the hardships of their youth. […]
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14 Dec 2022 4 min read
Modest outperformance from abrdn New Dawn despite difficult market conditions
abrdn New Dawn (ABD) has published its interim results for the six months ended 31 October 2022. During the period, ABD provided an NAV total return of -12.7%, which is modestly ahead of the equivalent return on its benchmark, the MSCI All Countries Asia Pacific ex Japan Index, of -13.7% (all in sterling terms). The […]
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07 Jul 2022 3 min read
abrdn New Dawn cuts fees
abrdn New Dawn Investment Trust has published results covering its financial year ended 30 April 2022. In a difficult period for markets, the trust slightly underperformed its MSCI All Countries Asia Pacific ex Japan benchmark, returning -11.0% in nAV terms and -11.8% in share price terms against -9.2% for the benchmark. An unchanged dividend of […]
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06 Jun 2022 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 6 June 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 6 June 2022: Atrato Onsite Energy (ROOF) has posted its interim results for the period from its launch on 16 September 2021 to 31 March 2022. ROOF raised £150m at IPO in November 2021, and has since avoided 18 tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Installed operation capacity ended the period at 976kW […]
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16 Jul 2021 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 16 July 2021
QuotedData’s weekly news show 16 July 2021 Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on Youtube. In this week’s show, James Carthew and Richard Williams covered the week’s top stories: AVI/Third Point update Hipgnosis/ Round Hill music update Aberdeen New Dawn turns performance around PRS REIT […]
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15 Jul 2021 4 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn turns performance around in ‘year of upheaval’
Aberdeen New Dawn turns performance around in ‘year of upheaval’ – Aberdeen New Dawn (ABD) has posted its annual results for the year to 30 April 2021, during which time it delivered a 48.3% share price total return and a 43.4% NAV total return. This was a significant turnaround on last year’s results which saw […]
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30 Jun 2021 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 June 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 June 2021: International Public Partnerships is looking to raise money by issuing shares at 165p, a 15% premium to the end December 2020 NAV (adjusted for the 3.68p dividend declared since). The company has £56m of drawings on its debt facility and upcoming investments worth about £100m, including its investment in […]
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02 Jul 2020 4 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn positions itself to ride out the storm
Aberdeen New Dawn positions itself to ride out the storm – Aberdeen New Dawn says that, for the year ended 30 April 2020, its return to shareholders was -8.4%. The NAV return was only marginally behind that of the MSCI All Countries Asia Pacific ex Japan Index benchmark (-5.5% versus -5.2%) but the turmoil associated with […]
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19 Dec 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 19 December 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 19 December 2019 GCP Student Living hopes to riase £75m from a placing of shares at 186p (a 10.4% premium to the EPRA NAV and a 6.3% discount to the current share price). The money would be used to help fund the purchase of Scape Canalside in Mile End, London. EJF Investments […]
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28 Jun 2019 2 min read
China and India deliver for Aberdeen New Dawn
China and India deliver for Aberdeen New Dawn – Back in October 2018, we published a research note that discussed moves by Aberdeen New Dawn’s (ABD) to take advantage of selling across Asian markets to increase its exposure to China (click here to access this research note). This has worked out well; ABD reported year-end […]
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20 Jun 2017 3 min read
Jardine and Samsung help Aberdeen New Dawn outperform
Jardine and Samsung help Aberdeen New Dawn outperform. Aberdeen New Dawn says its net asset value (“NAV”) total return for the year was 39.0%, ahead of the total return of 36.4% from the MSCI All Countries Asia Pacific ex Japan Index. The share price total return was 38.8%, with the share price of 212.0p at the […]
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12 Jul 2016 4 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn’s performance hurt by commodity price collapse
Aberdeen New Dawn has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 April 2016. During the year, the trust’s NAV fell by 15.4% to 179.4p per share (2015 saw an increase of 17.1%) while the share price fell by 15.1% to 156.0p (2015 saw a rise of 14.3%), all in total return terms. The share […]
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18 Dec 2015 2 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn impacted by Chinese slowdown despite low exposure
Aberdeen New Dawn has announced interim figures for the six months ended 31 October 2015. Its benchmark, the MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex Japan Index, fell by 16.4%, while the net asset value fell by 17.0% (both on a total return basis). The share price declined by 16.7% (also on a total return basis), ending the period […]
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26 Jun 2015 1 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn tries to steer away from Chinese bubble
Over the 12 months to the end of April 2015 Aberdeen New Dawn generated a total return on net assets of 17.1% and a return to shareholders of 14.3%. Unfortunately the company’s benchmark did much better – the MSCI All Countries Asia Pacific ex Japan Index returned 22.7%. The dividend was increased to 3.8p from […]
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30 Jun 2014 1 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn : ABD – annual results
Aberdeen New Dawn has published figures for the year that ended 30 April 2014. Over the year the trust’s net asset value return was -8.9%, a bit worse than the benchmark (MSCI All Countries Asia Pacific ex Japan index) total return of -6.8%. Unfortunately the discount widened and the return to shareholders was -14.0%. The […]
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17 Dec 2013 1 min read
Aberdeen New Dawn : ABD – interim results
Results for the six months ended 31 October 2013 show the fund underperforming its benchmark, the MSCI All Countries Asia Pacific ex Japan Index. Over the period ABD’s NAV fell by 4.4%, its share price by 7.9% and the index by 1.8%. The manager attributes this, in part, to ABD’s asset allocation (which is driven by […]
Upcoming Events
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In The Press
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22 Aug 2023 1 min read
Money Makers podcast: 21 Aug 2023
In this week’s edition of the Weekly Investment Trust Podcast, Jonathan Davis, editor of the Investment Trusts Handbook, talks to James Carthew, director of QuotedData.
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02 Aug 2023 1 min read
Investment trust insider on corporate actions in abrdn’s funds
James Carthew: Need to cut charges lies behind Abrdn and trust changes The pace of change within the investment company sector appears to be accelerating. Just in the last few weeks we have seen Asset Value Investors win the mandate to run MIGO Opportunities (MIGO), though likely with the same management team as before, which […]
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24 Jul 2023 1 min read
Abrdn set to fold New Dawn trust into Asia Dragon
Alex Sebastian, Portfolio Adviser, 24 JULY 2023: Abrdn has proposed folding the New Dawn investment trust into Asia Dragon. If the move is approved it would create a £700m Asian equities focused entity. The pair have a similar remit and a significant commonality of equities holdings. A merger could create efficiencies within the running of […]
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21 Jul 2023 1 min read
Asia Dragon to swallow Abrdn New Dawn in merger of stragglers
Gavin Lumsden, Citywire Investment Trust Insider, 21 July 2023: The tide of corporate actions sweeping the investment trust world has reached the Asia Pacific sector with Abrdn New Dawn (ABD) agreeing to merge with stablemate Asia Dragon (DGN). If approved by shareholders, the scheme of reconstruction of New Dawn and transfer of assets to Asia […]
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13 Jun 2022 2 min read
A dangerous pariah? Or is China a mighty beast investors can’t afford to shun?
By ROSIE MURRAY-WEST, FINANCIAL MAIL ON SUNDAY, 12 June 2022: Investing in emerging markets is often a step too far for investors with an ethical bent. Human rights issues and exploitation of labour put them off. Nowhere in the emerging markets world are these issues currently more prominent than in China, still the engine room […]
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12 Feb 2021 1 min read
Strong as an Ox? The Chinese economy
Strong as an Ox? The Chinese economy has performed well during the pandemic – here are three potential opportunities for investors By JAYNA RANA FOR THISISMONEY.CO.UK PUBLISHED: 07:35, 12 February 2021 | UPDATED: 08:52, 12 February 2021 Today is Chinese New Year and those celebrating will welcome in the Year of the Ox, which symbolises strength and determination. These traits […]
