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abrdn Asia Focus plc strives to maximise total return to shareholders over the long term from a concentrated, high-conviction portfolio focusing predominantly on exciting, smaller, listed companies in Asia and Australasia (excluding Japan).

Here you will find out more about a selection of stocks in our portfolio including what the companies do and the opportunities they offer.

Bank OCBC Nisp

Bank OCBC NISP is an Indonesian banking and financial services group, owned and managed by Singapore’s OCBC (Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation).

Read more about Bank OCBC Nisp

Mega LifeSciences

This Thai company produces and sells nutritional products and prescription drugs domestically and across frontier markets, with a leading position in Indochina.

Read more about Mega LifeSciences

Hana Microelectronics

Hana is one of the leading independent electronics manufacturing service (EMS) companies in South-East Asia, manufacturing high-quality assembly and test products.

Read more about Hana Microelectronics

Nam Long

Nam Long started out as the first non-state owned enterprise in Vietnam’s construction sector in 1992.

Read more about Nam Long

John Keells

Sri Lanka’s largest conglomerate operating in several sectors including leisure, transportation, consumer foods, retail, and property and financial services.

Read more about John Keells
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The Company currently conducts its affairs so that securities issued by abrdn 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 abrdn 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 abrdn 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.

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