abrdn Australia Limited

abrdn Australia Limited is the Australian subsidiary of the Standard Life Aberdeen PLC group.

A global asset manager

The investment arm of the group operates as abrdn Australia Limited. abrdn Australia Limited is a global asset manager dedicated to helping investors around the world reach their desired investment goals and broaden their financial horizons.

The Australian business, which began operations in December 2000, manages assets for global and domestic clients, including managed investment schemes and segregated mandates.

3 layers of value add

abrdn Australia Limited believes that active allocation, underpinned by rigorous research is the key to successful client outcomes. It believes that there are 3 layers of value-add opportunity:

 

  • Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA);

  • Tactical Asset and Sub-Asset Class Allocation (TAA); and

  • Manager Skill.  

Collective Wisdom

abrdn Australia Limited believes these value-add opportunities are best delivered through collective wisdom of the abrdn Australia Limited investment team, and through rigorous research which is delivered through a combination of quantitative analysis and qualitative judgement. abrdn Australia Limited holds absolute returns and the quality of those returns to be more important over the longer term than those relative to a benchmark and can therefore have positions significantly different from a benchmark or peers. This philosophy includes both broad asset classes and the underlying securities themselves.

Multi Asset Investing

Asset allocation ranges are generally wide (with minimum bounds usually set at zero, emphasising the ability to focus on absolute returns). abrdn Australia Limited believes that enhanced risk adjusted returns can be achieved from active Multi Asset investing by exploiting market inefficiencies over multiple time horizons. Steadily over time abrdn Australia Limited looks to reallocate capital from expensive to cheap assets and markets, to preserve and grow capital over a strategic investment time horizon. Simultaneously, to add additional value, it looks to take advantage of market inefficiencies that result from investor over and under-reaction to short-term cyclical and policy developments to add additional value. For the portfolio, this means an outcome-based strategy made possible by combining in-depth research and active asset allocation in a bespoke outcome focused portfolio construction approach.

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