Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund Worth Skipping

Summary

  • The Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund's attempt to enhance income to investors costs potential performance for those investors.
  • Data prior to May 2018 should be ignored as the fund totally changed its name and investment policy that April.
  • With many better performing EM funds (MFs, ETFs, CEFs) since the strategy change, I give AEF a Bearish rating. I show some results in the Comparison section.
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Interest in investing in Emerging Markets remains high, even with China's regulation issues and low vaccination rates in most of these countries, especially Africa where the continental

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