“We are seeing a growing demand among investors for products that generate high income without compromising on capital growth by using excessively complex derivative instruments,” David Hanzl, head of wholesale APAC, abrdn, said.

The strategy aims to achieve capital growth, offering a consistent and sustainable yield. It adopts an active bottom-up approach, typically holding between 50 to 90 companies within the Asia-Pacific ex Japan equity universe.The strategy employs a two-pronged approach to achieve capital growth and maintain a consistent and sustainable yield. The core sleeve, which accounts for approximately 95 per cent of the strategy's weight, focuses on long-term investments in high-quality companies which are expected to provide capital appreciation and dividends, the firm added. The remaining allocation is dedicated to the dividend capture sleeve, which rotates into regular and special dividend events in an opportunistic manner, using analysis of business cycles, asset sales, and special cash windfalls to enhance the dividend yield.

Formerly known as Standard Life Aberdeen, abrdn manages and administers £505.9 billion ($563.3 billion) of assets for clients (as at 30 June 2024). Its investments business manages £369 billion for clients such as insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, independent wealth managers, pension funds, platforms, banks and family offices.

Kasikorn Asset Management Co
has launched two mutual funds for Thai investors: the K Global Equity Premium Income Fund and the K Global Select Equity Fund.

The funds feed into JP Morgan Asset Management's actively managed exchange-traded funds, building on a partnership that Kasikorn AM has already forged with JPMAM.

The two new funds aim to provide investors with global equity market exposure to generate potential returns across a variety of market conditions. 

The K Global Equity Premium Income Fund invests in JPMAM’s JP Morgan Global Equity Premium Income Active UCITS ETF, which combines active equity investment with options overlay strategy to seek regular and consistent income opportunities and appreciation potential with lower volatility. The K Global Select Equity Fund invests in the JP Morgan Global Select Equity ETF, a high-conviction strategy that invests primarily in large-cap companies and aims to deliver outperformance in different market conditions.