Edison Issues Report on Aberdeen Investment Trusts

LONDON, July 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

Edison Investment Research, a leading international investment research firm, announces the publication of a report on the 16 UK-listed investment trusts managed by Aberdeen Asset Management and Aberdeen Private Equity Fund, which is managed by AberdeenSVG. The report gives an insight into the investment processes used and discusses the investment outlook for the market areas covered by the trusts.

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Edison has recently published a report, which provides an overview of the UK-listed trusts managed by Aberdeen Asset Management and the AberdeenSVG-managed Aberdeen Private Equity Fund. There are seven trusts investing in the Asian region, six trusts with a range of UK mandates and individual trusts addressing North American, Latin American, global and private equity markets. Across this broad range of funds, Aberdeen operates a team-based approach focusing on fundamental research, meeting management and taking a long view. Financials analysts, Andrew Mitchell and Martyn King, explore whether there is independent evidence to confirm that the investment process produces results in line with this approach.

The findings include the following points:

On average, the trusts have fewer holdings than peers, which tends to confirm the active stance taken by managers.

Portfolio turnover is lower than peers, in line with the long-term approach.

Although there are variations in performance, as expected, most of the trusts have recorded risk-adjusted performance above peer averages for most periods between one and five years.

The report includes two-page profiles of each of the trusts.

Fraser Thorne, Managing Director of Edison, said:

"As an award-winning investment research house, it seemed only right to take up coverage of a stable of trusts run by Aberdeen, the award-winning investment trust manager. Over the last three years, we have invested heavily in our investment trust team, and with four analysts and dedicated Investor Access support, we have grown our client list to more than 50 trusts and investment companies, making us one of the largest teams in the City. We continue to experience strong investor demand for our research, combined with investor meetings, and we look forward to broadening our coverage of investment trusts further."

For the full report see: http://www.edisoninvestmentresearch.com/research/sector-commentary/#a-10074

About Edison Investment Research

Edison, the investment intelligence firm, is the future of investor interaction with corporates. Our team of over 100 analysts and investment professionals works with leading companies, fund managers and investment banks worldwide to support its capital markets activity. We provide services to more than 400 retained corporate and investor clients from our offices in London, New York, Berlin, Sydney and Wellington. All reports published by Edison are available to download free of charge from its website.

Edison is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (http://www.fsa.gov.uk/register/firmBasicDetails.do?sid=181584).

Edison is not an adviser or broker-dealer and does not provide investment advice. Edison's reports are not solicitations to buy or sell any securities.

About Aberdeen Asset Management Group

Aberdeen Asset Management is a global investment group, managing assets for both retail and institutional clients from offices around the world. Aberdeen is one of the largest UK-listed independent asset managers with £212.3bn of assets under management. Including non-UK-listed funds, Aberdeen's total closed-end funds under management were £13.6bn. (All figures as at 31 March 2013.)

For more information please contact:

Andrew Mitchell        
Edison Investment Research        
+44(0)20-3681-2500

Fraser Thorne            
Edison Investment Research        
+44(0)20-3077-5712

[email protected]

SOURCE Edison Investment Research

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