NMPI Status

The Company currently conducts its affairs so that securities issued by Aberdeen Asia Focus PLC can be recommended by financial advisers to ordinary retail investors in accordance with the FCA’s rules in relation to non-mainstream pooled investment products (NMPIs) and intends to continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

The Company’s securities are excluded from the FCA’s restrictions which apply to non-mainstream investment products because they are securities in an investment trust.

Pre-investment Disclosure Document (PIDD)

The Alternative Investment Fund Manager Directive (“AIFMD”) requires abrdn Fund Managers Limited, as the alternative investment fund manager of Aberdeen Asia Focus PLC, to make available to investors certain information prior to such investors’ investment in the Company.

The AIFMD is intended to offer increased protection to investors in investment products that do not fall under the existing European Union regime for regulation of investment products known as “UCITS”.

Read the PIDD for Aberdeen Asia Focus PLC

Compliance with US Executive Order 13959

In connection with the US's Executive Order 13959, which prohibits US Persons from purchasing "publicly traded securities" of certain Chinese companies identified as Communist Chinese Military Companies ("CCMCs"), the Company can confirm that, as of 8 January 2021, it held none of these companies and that it intends to comply with the Order going forward. Should that cease to be the case it will make the appropriate announcement at that time.

abrdn Investments Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom. The information contained in this website does not constitute an offer of, or an invitation to apply for securities in any jurisdiction where such an offer or invitation is unlawful, or in which the person making such an offer is not qualified to do so. abrdn Investments Limited accepts no responsibility for the content of any external web sites.

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