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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 ETFor 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)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a
percentage of the value of your investment)
    
Management Fees   0.70%
Distribution Fees   None 
Other Expenses(1)   0.56%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses(2)   0.10%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses   1.36%
Less: Amount of Fee Limitations/Expense Reimbursements(3)   0.66%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Limitations/Expense Reimbursements   0.70%

 

(1)“Other Expenses” have been estimated to reflect expenses expected to be incurred by the Fund for the current fiscal year.

 

(2)Acquired fund fees and expenses are indirect fees and expenses that the Fund incurs from investing in the shares of other mutual funds, including money market funds and exchange traded funds.

 

(3)abrdn Funds (the “Trust”) and abrdn Inc. (the “Adviser”) have entered into a written contract limiting total annual fund operating expenses of the Fund to 0.70%, except for certain expenses as described below. This contractual limitation may not be terminated before February 28, 2028 without the approval of the Independent Trustees of the Board. This limit excludes (i) interest, taxes, brokerage fees and short sale dividend expenses; (ii) expenses incurred indirectly by the Fund as a result of investments in short term investment vehicles such as money market funds that do not exceed 0.005% of a Fund’s average net assets (“acquired fund fees and expenses” or “AFFE”) (but includes AFFE for other investment companies and pooled investment vehicles); and (iii) extraordinary expenses, if any. The Trust is authorized to reimburse the Adviser for management fees previously limited and/or for expenses previously paid by the Adviser, provided, however, that any reimbursements must be paid at a date not more than three years after the date when the Adviser limited the fees or reimbursed the expenses and the reimbursements do not cause the Fund to exceed the lesser of the applicable expense limitation in the contract at the time the fees were limited or expenses are paid or the applicable expense limitation in effect at the time the expenses are being recouped by the Adviser.
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 Funds 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:
1 Year   3 Years 
$72   $270 
Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or turns overits 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 Funds 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 focusedstrategy whereby the Adviser or abrdn Investments Limited (the Sub-adviser) will typically invest the Funds 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:

 

the company is organized under the laws of an emerging market country (excluding China);
the company has its principal office in, or management is located in, an emerging market country (excluding China); and/or
the company has its principal securities trading market in an emerging market country (excluding China).

 

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 Funds 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.