abrdn Emerging Markets Dividend Active ETF
$49.61−0.80 (−1.60%)
- Expense ratio
- 1.18%
- Fund size
- $379M
- 1Y return
- +38.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.83%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $50.07
- 52W range
The ETF.net AGEM Grade
Score 31 of 100 sits in the D band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.FScore 0Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 58Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 46Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 37Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 81Category rank
Our read on AGEM
DEmerging-market income, stock-picked rather than screened. Aberdeen's team hunts EM companies that actually pay dividends and clear a quality bar, inside a registered fund whose lineage traces back to 1993.
The Fund seeks total return through income and long-term capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- The income mandate is written into the contract, not implied: at least 80% of net assets in equity of emerging-market companies that pay dividends.
- Quality is an advertised part of the process, so managers weigh business durability alongside the payout instead of chasing the fattest yields on the screen.
- Long institutional roots: a 1940 Act registered fund with an inception date of 1993, run by Aberdeen's emerging-markets desk.
- Distributions land on a quarterly schedule, and the stated goal is total return from income plus long-term capital appreciation.
Worth knowing
- Price is the sticking point. At 1.18% a year it sits in the lower tier of our active EM group, while top-rated peers like AVEM and DFEM charge under 0.40%.
- Thinly traded next to the giants of the category, so bid-ask spreads can be wider and large orders need more care.
- A dividend requirement shapes the opportunity set: EM's non-paying growth names are largely outside the 80% bucket.
AGEM Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 50%
- 2330.TW
Geography
- Korea (the Republic of)22.91%
- Taiwan (Province of China)22.07%
- China14.60%
- India7.82%
- Mexico5.21%
- Brazil4.92%
- Indonesia3.61%
- Hong Kong3.10%
- 15.75%
Developed 4% · Emerging 96%
AGEM Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | AGEM |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +32.6% |
| 1 month | +1.6% |
| 3 months | −1.4% |
| 1 year | +38.8% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | AGEM |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +32.6% | |
| 2025 | +30.2% |
AGEM in the news
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AGEM Dividends
- 1.83%
- $0.92
- $0.27 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 28, 2025 | $0.14 |
AGEM Risk
- 17.9%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.94
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −15.2%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.20
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
AGEM Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Active Equity funds
- Median 0.65%
Every other Emerging Markets Active Equity fund charges less.