abrdn-Nrth American Sml Comp I Acc USD

Analyst Report
Morningstar's Take
|30/04/2025

by Morningstar Manager Research
On or about June 30, 2024, Morningstar will cease full analyst coverage of the US-domiciled Abrdn US Small Cap Equity and its Luxembourg-domiciled clone, Abrdn North American Smaller Companies, so our analysts can spend more time researching other strategies. In the future, these funds will receive an algorithmically assigned Morningstar Medalist Rating. Users should form their own views on these funds or obtain financial advice.
 

The combination of a middling Process Pillar rating and a Low People Pillar rating limit abrdn-Nrth American Sml Comp I Acc USD to a Morningstar Medalist Rating of Negative. The portfolio maintains a sizable cost advantage over competitors, priced within the second-cheapest fee quintile among peers.



The strategy's portfolio management team completely turned over less than two years ago, raising concerns. This, along with other weaknesses, drives the strategy's Low People Pillar. The strategy gets an Average Process Pillar rating. Independent of the rating, analysis of the strategy's portfolio shows it has maintained a significant underweight position in liquidity exposure and has an overweight in quality exposure compared with category peers. Liquidity risk is attributed to stocks with a low trading volume, limiting managers' flexibility. And a high quality exposure is rooted in holding stocks that are consistently profitable, growing, and have solid balance sheets. The strategy's parent organization earns the firm an Average Parent Pillar rating, and this rating is inherited from vehicles belonging to the same branding entity and is indirectly assigned by an analyst.

 
Morningstar Medalist Rating™
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Morningstar Pillars
PeopleLow
ParentAverage
ProcessAverage
 
Morningstar Medalist RatingMorningstar assigns the Medalist Rating to funds that are qualitatively and quantitatively assessed through manager research and algorithmic processes. The assessment turns on three key “pillars” – People, Process, and Parent – that yield an estimate of how well a fund will perform before fees but after adjusting for risk.
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