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abrdn Focused Emerging Markets ex-China Active ETF | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Objective | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The abrdn Focused Emerging Markets ex-China Active ETF (the “Focused Emerging Markets ex-China Active ETF” or the “Fund”) seeks long-term growth of capital. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fees and Expenses of the Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and example below. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Example | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Focused Emerging Markets ex-China Active ETF with the cost of investing in other funds.
The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same (taking into account the contractual fee limitation until its expiration). Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Portfolio Turnover | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance. As the Fund is new and has not commenced operations as of the date of this prospectus, portfolio turnover is not available. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Principal Strategies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Focused Emerging Markets ex-China Active ETF will invest primarily in common stocks, but may also invest in other types of equity securities, including, but not limited to, preferred stock and depositary receipts. As a non-fundamental policy, under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of the value of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities of emerging market (excluding China) companies. The Fund will be managed pursuant to a “focused” strategy whereby the Adviser or abrdn Investments Limited (the “Sub-adviser”) will typically invest the Fund’s assets in a small number of issuers. Generally, the Fund expects to hold approximately 45 to 60 issuers.
A company is considered to be an emerging market (excluding China) company if Fund management determines that the company meets one or more of the following criteria:
An emerging market (excluding China) country is any country included in the MSCI Emerging Markets ex-China Index or determined by the Adviser or the Sub-adviser to have similar emerging market characteristics. At times, the Fund may have a significant amount of its assets invested in a country or geographic region, including through an exchange-traded fund or by any other available means, such as through American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) or Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”). The Fund currently anticipates that it will invest a significant amount of its assets in securities economically tied to Taiwan. The Fund may invest in securities denominated in U.S. Dollars and currencies of emerging market countries in which it is permitted to invest. The Fund typically has full currency exposure to those markets in which it invests.
The Fund may invest in securities of any market capitalization, including small and mid-cap securities.
The Fund may invest in securities of any market sector and may hold a significant amount of securities of companies, from time to time, within a single sector. The Fund currently anticipates that it will have significant exposure to the information technology and financials sectors.
In seeking to achieve the Fund’s investment objective, the Adviser and Sub-adviser invest in quality companies and are active, engaged owners. The Adviser and Sub-adviser evaluate every company against quality criteria and build conviction using a team-based approach and peer review process. The quality assessment covers five key factors: 1) the durability of the business model, 2) the attractiveness of the industry, 3) the strength of financials, 4) the capability of management, and 5) the most material environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) factors impacting a company. Not every ESG factor may be identified or evaluated for every investment. ESG characteristics are not the only factors considered and, as a result, the issuers in which the Fund invests may not be issuers with favorable ESG characteristics or high ESG ratings. As ESG information is just one investment consideration, ESG considerations generally are not solely determinative in any investment decision made by the Adviser and Sub-adviser. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Performance | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
As the Fund is new and has not commenced operations as of the date of this prospectus, performance information for the Fund is not available. For updated performance information, please visit www.aberdeeninvestments.com/usa/etf or call 844-383-7289. |