Overview
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
You can access the manager’s website here
Research History
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16 Oct 2020 15 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 15 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 32 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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32 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 28 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 10 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 9 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 12 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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12 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 8 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 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 2 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 […]
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1 min read
Pacific Horizon – Brave new world
Pacific Horizon’s (PHI)’s performance has started to improve over the past few months, yet the manager thinks that there is still considerable potential for the portfolio. He believes that some of the themes that he is focusing on could radically alter all our lives and that many Asian companies will be at the forefront of […]
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09 Aug 2016 1 min read
Edinburgh Dragon – Returning to form
Edinburgh Dragon Trust (EFM) is the largest and one of the most liquid investment companies focused on the Asia ex Japan region. Its strong focus on quality has served it well over the long term. EFM’s manager says that an environment of very low interest rates has distorted markets, with the result that EFM’s focus […]
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21 Mar 2016 2 min read
Pacific Horizon – investor in Asian growth
Pacific Horizon – investor in Asian growth Marten and Co publishes its first initiation of coverage note on Pacific Horizon (PHI) The company is unashamedly a growth fund and its Asia-focused portfolio has significant overweight exposures to technology and biotechnology. However, it would appear that, investors are shying away from Asia because of weak Chinese growth and […]
News
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02 Jul 2020 5 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 5 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 2 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 […]
