UPDATE: On 18 September 2026, having bought back more than half its shares over the previous five years, AUSC said it planned to combine with JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income (JUGI). The deal is expected to complete around the end of 2026, with AUSC shareholders being offered a cash exit at a 2% discount for up to 35% of its shares.
abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth (ticker: AUSC) was launched in 1993 and initially run by Edinburgh Fund Managers. In 2003, after a period of poor performance, it switched its management firm to Standard Life, which is now part of abrdn. Harry Nimmo look...
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For premium subscribers we do regular interviews with fund managers and analysts about current market conditions and funds and markets (occasionally shares) that we invest in. The latest one is with Harry Nimmo, the long serving manager of the Standard Life UK Smaller Companies trust and its open-ended sister fund. Rather than a podcast, this Q and A mostly consists of edited extracts from the transcript. It can be usefully read in conjumtion with the podcast interview with Laura Foll, co-manager with James Henderson of both Lowland (ticker: LWI) and Henderson Opportunities Trust (HOT), two ot...
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