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abrdn U.S. Sustainable Leaders Fund

mutual fund
GXXAX
Payout Change
Pending
Price as of:
$12.55 -0.01 -0.08%
primary theme
U.S. Large-Cap Growth Equity
share class
Instl (GXXIX) A (GXXAX) C (GXXCX) Instl (GGLIX)
GXXAX (Mutual Fund)

abrdn U.S. Sustainable Leaders Fund

Payout Change
Pending
Price as of:
$12.55 -0.01 -0.08%
primary theme
U.S. Large-Cap Growth Equity
share class
Instl (GXXIX) A (GXXAX) C (GXXCX) Instl (GGLIX)
GXXAX (Mutual Fund)

abrdn U.S. Sustainable Leaders Fund

Payout Change
Pending
Price as of:
$12.55 -0.01 -0.08%
primary theme
U.S. Large-Cap Growth Equity
share class
Instl (GXXIX) A (GXXAX) C (GXXCX) Instl (GGLIX)

Name

As of 12/10/2024

Price

Aum/Mkt Cap

YIELD

Annualized forward dividend yield. Multiplies the most recent dividend payout amount by its frequency and divides by the previous close price.

Exp Ratio

Expense ratio is the fund’s total annual operating expenses, including management fees, distribution fees, and other expenses, expressed as a percentage of average net assets.

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abrdn U.S. Sustainable Leaders Fund

GXXAX | Fund

$12.55

$379 M

0.09%

$0.01

1.22%

Vitals

YTD Return

14.4%

1 yr return

18.5%

3 Yr Avg Return

-6.6%

5 Yr Avg Return

5.5%

Net Assets

$379 M

Holdings in Top 10

52.0%

52 WEEK LOW AND HIGH

$12.6
N/A
N/A

Expenses

OPERATING FEES

Expense Ratio 1.22%

SALES FEES

Front Load 5.75%

Deferred Load N/A

TRADING FEES

Turnover 111.07%

Redemption Fee N/A

Min Investment

Standard (Taxable)

$1,000

IRA

$1,000

Fund Classification

Fund Type

Open End Mutual Fund

Name

As of 12/10/2024

Price

Aum/Mkt Cap

YIELD

Annualized forward dividend yield. Multiplies the most recent dividend payout amount by its frequency and divides by the previous close price.

Exp Ratio

Expense ratio is the fund’s total annual operating expenses, including management fees, distribution fees, and other expenses, expressed as a percentage of average net assets.

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abrdn U.S. Sustainable Leaders Fund

GXXAX | Fund

$12.55

$379 M

0.09%

$0.01

1.22%

GXXAX - Profile

Distributions

  • YTD Total Return 14.4%
  • 3 Yr Annualized Total Return -6.6%
  • 5 Yr Annualized Total Return 5.5%
  • Capital Gain Distribution Frequency Annually
  • Net Income Ratio -0.33%
DIVIDENDS
  • Dividend Yield 0.1%
  • Dividend Distribution Frequency Annual

Fund Details

  • Legal Name
    abrdn U.S. Sustainable Leaders Fund
  • Fund Family Name
    abrdnfunds
  • Inception Date
    Oct 10, 2011
  • Shares Outstanding
    N/A
  • Share Class
    A
  • Currency
    USD
  • Domiciled Country
    US
  • Manager
    Ralph Bassett

Fund Description

The U.S. Sustainable Leaders Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective of seeking long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in equity securities of U.S. companies that the Adviser deems to have sound and improving prospects and which demonstrate that they are current or emerging sustainable leaders through their management of environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) risks and opportunities in accordance with the Adviser’s criteria.
In pursuing the Fund’s investment strategies, the Adviser invests in quality companies and is an active, engaged owner and takes into consideration a company’s management of ESG risks and opportunities and the company’s ESG performance. The Adviser evaluates every company against quality criteria and builds conviction using a team-based approach and peer review process. Through fundamental research, supported by a global research presence, the Adviser seeks to identify companies whose quality and future prospects are not yet fully recognized by the market. The Adviser’s overall quality assessment covers five key factors: (1) 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 ESG factors impacting a company.
When assessing the most material ESG factors impacting a company, the Adviser evaluates the ownership structure and governance of the company as well as potential environmental and social risks and opportunities that the company may face. The Adviser will assign each company an ESG-quality rating ranging from 1 to 5 (1 indicating best in class and 5 indicating laggards) – enabling the Fund’s investment team to identify current and emerging sustainable leaders. Companies eligible for investment by the Fund must be rated 3 or better by the Adviser. In limited circumstances, for example, in a corporate action or an initial public offering, the Fund may purchase or receive securities of companies that have not been assigned an ESG quality rating by the Adviser so long as one is assigned to the company within the time period required by the Adviser’s internal process.
Examples of areas under scope when assessing a company’s ESG quality include the following:
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Corporate Governance
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Carbon Emissions
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Air Quality
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Energy Management
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Water & Wastewater Management
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Waste & Hazardous Materials Management
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Ecological Impacts
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Human Rights & Community Relations
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Customer Privacy
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Data Security
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Access & Affordability
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Product Quality & Safety
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Customer Welfare
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Selling Practices & Product Labelling
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Labor Practices
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Employee Health & Safety
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Employee Engagement
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Diversity & Inclusion
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Product Design & Lifecycle Management
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Business Model Resilience
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Supply Chain Management
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Materials Sourcing & Efficiency
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Physical Impacts of Climate Change
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Business Ethics
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Competitive Behavior
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Management of the Legal & Regulatory Environment
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Critical Incident Risk Management
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Systemic Risk Management
The foregoing list is not exhaustive and may change; in addition, not all areas in the foregoing list are relevant to every company in which the Fund may invest. The Adviser focuses its analysis on those areas that it believes will materially impact a company’s reputation or operational or financial performance.
In carrying out its assessments of ESG quality, the Adviser’s equity analysts incorporate internal data sources, including a proprietary quantitative house score (“House Score”), external sources (e.g. MSCI reports), thematic expertise from the Adviser’s Investment Sustainability Group and stock-specific expertise from the Adviser’s equity ESG analysts. The Adviser relies heavily on its own in-depth research and analysis over third party ESG ratings.
In addition, the Adviser excludes the 10% lowest scoring companies in the Fund’s benchmark index using the Adviser’s House Score. In limited circumstances, for example, in a corporate action or an initial public offering, the Fund may purchase or receive securities of companies that have not been assigned a House Score by the Adviser so long as one is assigned to the company within the time period required by the Adviser’s internal process.
Binary exclusions are also applied to exclude a defined list of unacceptable activities. Based on MSCI business involvement screening research and the Adviser’s analysis, the Fund will seek to not invest in companies that have:
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failed to uphold one or more principles of the UN Global Compact;
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an industry tie to (including companies that provide support systems and services, as well as those with direct (i.e., owners and producers) and indirect (i.e., parents and subsidiaries) involvement in) controversial weapons (cluster munitions, landmines, biological / chemical weapons, depleted uranium weapons, blinding laser weapons, incendiary weapons, and/or non-detectable fragments);
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a revenue contribution of 10% or more from the manufacture or sale of conventional weapons or weapons systems;
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a revenue contribution of 10% or more from tobacco or are tobacco manufacturers;
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a revenue contribution of 10% or more from the extraction of unconventional oil and gas (including oil sands, oil shale (kerogen-rich deposits), shale gas, shale oil, coal seam gas, and coal bed methane and excluding conventional oil and gas productions);
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or a revenue contribution from thermal coal extraction.
The Fund targets a lower Weighted Average Carbon Intensity (“WACI”) than its benchmark based on third-party data, or third-party estimates when an issuer does not report Scope 1 and 2 emissions.
The Fund will measure compliance with its principal investment strategies at the time of investment. Third party data by which the Fund measures compliance with its binary exclusions, WACI target, and House Score threshold is updated at regular intervals. If a company no longer meets the Fund’s principal strategies, the Adviser will make a determination as to whether to sell such security, in accordance with the Adviser’s internal process.
As a non-fundamental policy, under normal circumstances, the U.S. Sustainable Leaders Fund invests at least 80% of the value of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities issued by U.S. companies that the Adviser considers to be current or emerging sustainable leaders in accordance with the Adviser’s criteria. Equity securities include, but are not limited to, common stock, preferred stock and depositary receipts. The Fund seeks to invest in securities of U.S. companies. For purposes of the Fund’s 80% policy, a company is considered to be a U.S. company if Fund management determines that the company meets one or more of the following criteria:
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the company is organized under the laws of, or has its principal office in the United States;
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the company has its principal securities trading market in the United States; and/or
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the company derives the majority of its annual revenue or earnings or assets from goods produced, sales made or services performed in the United States.
The Fund may also invest in non-U.S. companies, including primarily Canadian companies.
The Fund will invest in companies across a broad spectrum of market capitalizations.
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, industrials and healthcare sectors.
The Fund may invest in securities denominated in U.S. Dollars and the currencies of any foreign countries in which it is permitted to invest. The Fund typically has full currency exposure to those markets in which it invests.
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GXXAX - Performance

Return Ranking - Trailing

Period GXXAX Return Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
YTD 14.4% 0.0% 60.1% 96.27%
1 Yr 18.5% 3.4% 82.4% 96.55%
3 Yr -6.6%* -20.7% 35.7% 99.72%
5 Yr 5.5%* -12.6% 30.6% 99.32%
10 Yr 7.8%* -4.3% 21.2% 98.09%

* Annualized

Return Ranking - Calendar

Period GXXAX Return Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
2023 14.7% -74.1% 72.4% 92.79%
2022 -27.0% -85.9% 4.7% 18.16%
2021 -6.8% -52.4% 60.5% 84.57%
2020 11.6% -34.3% 145.0% 93.89%
2019 23.8% -6.9% 49.4% 58.21%

Total Return Ranking - Trailing

Period GXXAX Return Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
YTD 14.4% 0.0% 60.1% 96.27%
1 Yr 18.5% 3.4% 82.4% 96.55%
3 Yr -6.6%* -20.7% 35.7% 99.72%
5 Yr 5.5%* -12.6% 30.6% 99.32%
10 Yr 7.8%* -4.3% 21.2% 98.09%

* Annualized

Total Return Ranking - Calendar

Period GXXAX Return Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
2023 14.9% -4.6% 72.4% 97.26%
2022 -26.7% -61.7% 5.6% 27.99%
2021 4.9% -39.8% 118.1% 94.39%
2020 25.6% 2.8% 149.2% 82.54%
2019 36.6% -5.2% 49.4% 18.25%

NAV & Total Return History

GXXAX - Holdings

Concentration Analysis

GXXAX Category Low Category High GXXAX % Rank
Net Assets 379 M 296 K 287 B 71.62%
Number of Holdings 31 2 3061 90.20%
Net Assets in Top 10 185 M 126 K 150 B 72.69%
Weighting of Top 10 51.95% 0.7% 205.0% 56.14%

Top 10 Holdings

  1. Microsoft Corp 14.94%
  2. Mastercard Inc 6.16%
  3. Integer Holdings Corp 4.86%
  4. American Express Co 4.15%
  5. TJX Cos Inc/The 4.05%
  6. Merck Co Inc 3.92%
  7. Tetra Tech Inc 3.85%
  8. Marvell Technology Inc 3.38%
  9. Procter Gamble Co/The 3.36%
  10. Eli Lilly Co 3.28%

Asset Allocation

Weighting Return Low Return High GXXAX % Rank
Stocks 		98.57% 0.00% 123.52% 58.89%
Cash 		1.48% 0.00% 173.52% 35.84%
Preferred Stocks 		0.00% 0.00% 8.45% 70.05%
Other 		0.00% -36.56% 50.35% 71.69%
Convertible Bonds 		0.00% 0.00% 1.94% 65.00%
Bonds 		0.00% 0.00% 102.71% 66.15%

Stock Sector Breakdown

Weighting Return Low Return High GXXAX % Rank
Technology 		25.03% 0.00% 65.70% 84.09%
Industrials 		20.93% 0.00% 30.65% 2.00%
Financial Services 		19.01% 0.00% 43.06% 6.64%
Consumer Cyclical 		8.75% 0.00% 62.57% 90.00%
Healthcare 		7.97% 0.00% 39.76% 89.55%
Utilities 		6.84% 0.00% 16.07% 1.45%
Consumer Defense 		4.79% 0.00% 25.50% 34.73%
Communication Services 		2.84% 0.00% 66.40% 94.55%
Basic Materials 		2.38% 0.00% 18.91% 25.64%
Real Estate 		1.46% 0.00% 16.05% 43.00%
Energy 		0.00% 0.00% 41.09% 84.00%

Stock Geographic Breakdown

Weighting Return Low Return High GXXAX % Rank
US 		96.71% 0.00% 123.52% 70.96%
Non US 		1.86% 0.00% 75.46% 19.15%

GXXAX - Expenses

Operational Fees

GXXAX Fees (% of AUM) Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
Expense Ratio 1.22% 0.01% 28.71% 29.33%
Management Fee 0.70% 0.00% 1.50% 71.48%
12b-1 Fee 0.25% 0.00% 1.00% 47.80%
Administrative Fee 0.25% 0.01% 1.02% 91.28%

Sales Fees

GXXAX Fees (% of AUM) Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
Front Load 5.75% 2.25% 8.50% 24.84%
Deferred Load N/A 1.00% 5.00% N/A

Trading Fees

GXXAX Fees (% of AUM) Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
Max Redemption Fee N/A 1.00% 2.00% 27.94%

Related Fees

Turnover provides investors a proxy for the trading fees incurred by mutual fund managers who frequently adjust position allocations. Higher turnover means higher trading fees.

GXXAX Fees (% of AUM) Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
Turnover 111.07% 0.00% 316.74% 92.29%

GXXAX - Distributions

Dividend Yield Analysis

GXXAX Category Low Category High GXXAX % Rank
Dividend Yield 0.09% 0.00% 27.58% 39.69%

Dividend Distribution Analysis

GXXAX Category Low Category High Category Mod
Dividend Distribution Frequency Annual Annually Annual Annual

Net Income Ratio Analysis

GXXAX Category Low Category High GXXAX % Rank
Net Income Ratio -0.33% -6.13% 3.48% 51.95%

Capital Gain Distribution Analysis

GXXAX Category Low Category High Capital Mode
Capital Gain Distribution Frequency Annually Annually Annually Annually

Distributions History

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GXXAX - Fund Manager Analysis

Managers

Ralph Bassett

Start Date

Tenure

Tenure Rank

Dec 31, 2008

13.42

13.4%

Ralph Bassett is Head of North American Equities at abrdn and also is a member of the abrdn Board of Directors. Ralph oversees the region’s research effort in addition to portfolio construction for several of the team’s flagship strategies, including the Small Cap strategy since its inception in 2008. Ralph joined Aberdeen Asset Management in 2006 upon the relocation of the Equity team from London to Philadelphia. Ralph earned a BS in Business, Finance (Hons) from Villanova University. He is a CFA charterholder.

Chris Haimendorf

Start Date

Tenure

Tenure Rank

Dec 01, 2020

1.5

1.5%

Christopher Haimendorf is a Senior Investment Director on the North American Equity team at abdrn. In this role, Chris analyzes current and prospective holdings and assists with the management of client portfolios. Chris brings a wealth of experience to the firm. He moved from the European Equities team where he worked as an Investment Director since 2001, having previously covered UK Equities. Chris joined the company in 1998 after graduating from the University of Cambridge with a BA (Hons) in Natural Sciences (Physiology) and is a CFA charterholder.

Hugues McLean

Start Date

Tenure

Tenure Rank

Dec 01, 2020

1.5

1.5%

Hugues McLean is an Investment Director on the North American Equity team at abrdn. In this role, Hugues analyzes current and prospective investments and assists with the management of client portfolios. Hugues joined abrdn in 2010, having previously worked at Maestro Group, a private Canadian real estate fund. Hugues graduated with a BSc in Finance and an MSc Finance, both from the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec. He is a CFA charterholder.

Kenneth Murphy

Start Date

Tenure

Tenure Rank

Dec 01, 2020

1.5

1.5%

Ken Murphy is an Investment Director on the North American Equity team at abrdn. Ken analyzes current and prospective holdings and assists with the management of client portfolios. Ken joined Standard Life Investments in 2008 as Senior Vice President – US Equities after working as Consumer Sector Analyst and later Industrial Sector Analyst and Team Leader at Putnam Investments. Prior to this, he worked as Client Consultant/Mutual Fund Administrator at Investors Bank & Trust Co for ten years and Senior Financial Analyst at Merck & Co for two years. Ken has a BA in Economics from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Michael Cronin

Start Date

Tenure

Tenure Rank

Dec 01, 2020

1.5

1.5%

Mike Cronin is an Investment Director on the North American Equity team at Aberdeen Standard Investments. Mike analyzes current and prospective holdings and assists with the management of client portfolios. Mike joined Standard Life Investments US Equities team in 2017. Previously, he worked at Citigroup as a Senior Associate covering US Banks & Brokers. Prior to that he was an Assistant Vice President / Portfolio Communications Analyst at Wellington Management Company. He earned a BA in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross and an MBA from Babson College. Mike is a CFA charterholder and is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society.

Tenure Analysis

Category Low Category High Category Average Category Mode
0.04 54.45 8.25 3.08

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