abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust (LSE: AUSC)

Last close As at 27/03/2024

GBP4.43

4.00 (0.91%)

Market capitalisation

GBP334m

abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust aims to achieve long-term capital growth through investment in a diversified portfolio consisting of UK-quoted smaller companies. Performance is measured against the Numis Smaller Companies plus AIM ex-Investment Companies Index (the reference index).

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Equity Analyst

Melanie Jenner

Mel Jenner

Director, Investment Trusts

Key Management

  • Abby Glennie

    Fund manager

Share Price Performance

Price Performance
% 1M 3M 12M
Actual (0.6) (0.6) 5.3
Relative (3.6) (3.1) (1.7)
52 week high/low 458.0p/370.0p

Overview

abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust’s (AUSC’s) managers, Abby Glennie and Amanda Yeaman, are looking forward to further improvement in the trust’s relative performance, as investors’ focus is now more on company fundamentals rather than macroeconomic developments. The managers are continuing to use the Matrix, a proprietary screening tool, to search for companies exhibiting high-quality, growth and positive momentum features. Despite a difficult period of performance during 2022, when rising interest rates led to a derating of growth stocks, the strategy employed by abrdn’s small-cap team has proved very successful over the last 25+ years across multiple business cycles.