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abrdn Emerging Markets ex-China Fund, Inc. filings document shareholder voting and governance matters for a closed-end fund focused on emerging markets equity securities outside China. Its definitive proxy materials describe annual meeting procedures, director-election proposals, record-date share ownership, proxy authorization methods, and stockholder eligibility for voting or attendance.
The Fund's regulatory disclosures frame AEF as a registered fund issuer rather than an operating company, with formal records centered on board oversight, shareholder rights, common-share voting mechanics, and the governance structure supporting the Fund's listed closed-end vehicle.
abrdn Emerging Markets ex-China Fund, Inc. reported that one of its officers currently holds no securities of the fund. A vice president of the fund, filing individually as a reporting person, indicated that no securities are beneficially owned as of the event date of December 9, 2025. The submission also references a power of attorney authorizing signature on behalf of the reporting person.
abrdn Emerging Markets ex China Fund Inc. (AEF): Schedule 13G/A discloses that First Trust Portfolios L.P., First Trust Advisors L.P., and The Charger Corporation jointly report beneficial ownership of 4,179,037 common shares, representing 10.29% of the class as of the event date 10/31/2025.
The filing shows 0 sole voting power and 0 shared voting power, with 4,179,037 shares under shared dispositive power. The shares are primarily held across First Trust-sponsored unit investment trusts; no individual trust holds more than 3% of any registered investment company’s shares. The reporting persons state the holdings are in the ordinary course and not for changing or influencing control, and they disclaim beneficial ownership.
Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC reported beneficial ownership of 3,120,447 shares of abrdn Emerging Markets ex Chin common shares, representing 7.7% of the class as of 09/30/2025. The filer discloses sole voting power over 3,089,582 shares and sole dispositive power over 3,120,447 shares. The filing states these shares are held for clients of investment adviser entities affiliated with Allspring and were acquired and are held in the ordinary course of business. The Schedule is an Amendment No. 7 to the original filing.
abrdn Emerging Markets ex-China Fund, Inc. (AEF) reported an initial Form 3 for 08/27/2025 showing that the reporting person, Mandy Louise Rawlinson, acting as Director of Adviser, filed with no beneficial ownership of the fund's securities. The filing was executed under power of attorney and signed on 09/02/2025.
Mitchell Aron was reappointed as a Director of the adviser to abrdn Emerging Markets ex-China Fund, Inc. (AEF) effective 08/18/2025. The Form 3 filed reports that the reporting person does not beneficially own any securities of the Fund. The filing was submitted by power of attorney Lucia Sitar and dated 08/20/2025.
The filing is an Amendment to a Schedule 13G reporting that City of London Investment Management Company Limited (CLIM) beneficially owns 12,175,804 shares of abrdn Emerging Markets ex-China Fund, Inc. (AEF), representing 30.0% of the class. CLIM reports sole voting and sole dispositive power over these shares and states the shares are owned directly by the City of London Funds and certain segregated accounts that CLIM manages.
The filing emphasizes these holdings are held in the ordinary course of business and were not acquired to change or influence control of the issuer. CLIM is a UK-registered investment adviser that exercises independent voting and investment authority for the reported accounts.