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IAF

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Abrdn Australia Equity Fund, Inc.

AUM
$140M
Inception
12/16/1985
1Y Return
+0.0%10th %ilevs 5,640 asset-class peers
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Abrdn Australia Equity Fund Inc is a closed ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Aberdeen Standard Investments (Asia) Limited. The fund is managed by Aberdeen Standard Investments Australia Limited. It invests in the public equity markets of Australia. The fund makes its investments in firms operating across diversified sectors. It employs fundamental analysis with a bottom-up and top-down stock picking approach with focus on factors like growth prospects, competitive positions in domestic and export markets, technology, research and development, productivity, labor and raw material costs, profit margins, return on investment, capital resources, quality of management, and government regulation to create its portfolio. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the S&P ASX 200 Accumulation Index. It also uses proprietary research to create its portfolio. The Aberdeen Australia Equity Fund Inc. was previously known as The First Australia Fund, Inc. Abrdn Australia Equity Fund Inc was formed in September 30, 1985 and is domiciled in the United States.

Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
IAF
Abrdn Australia Equity Fund, Inc.
0.0%0.0%18.6%-0.20-16.2%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Drag on chart to select period. Sharpe Ratio uses the one-month T-bill as the risk-free rate. From 10/7/2025 to 10/7/2026.

Trailing Returns

Name
YTD1D5D1M3M6M1Y2Y3Y5YMAX
IAF
Abrdn Australia Equity Fund, Inc.
4.3%-0.2%-0.7%-6.3%2.7%6.6%0.0%6.2%13.8%3.7%6.7%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.

Annual Returns

Name
19851986198719881989199019911992199319941995199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025YTD
IAF
Abrdn Australia Equity Fund, Inc.
-2.6%*-7.9%-10.9%22.4%13.8%-11.5%31.4%-12.8%55.9%-24.9%-0.3%9.9%-12.9%2.8%29.1%-13.7%6.2%11.5%57.9%40.6%22.9%19.4%39.5%-53.5%85.2%8.1%-16.0%29.6%-11.0%-9.4%-9.8%11.9%30.3%-16.8%26.6%10.1%27.1%-19.4%10.4%8.2%14.9%4.3%
ⓘ Methodology

* partial year — the series ran for only part of it (its first year, or the year it closed); the figure is the return over the part it did run. ETF performance based on market prices. As of 10/7/2026.

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Factor Regression

Name
Ann. αβ MKTβ SMBβ HMLβ RMWβ CMAβ UMDβ iHMLR²Obs
IAFDev Ex-US
Abrdn Australia Equity Fund, Inc.
-11.5%0.88**-0.80**0.50-0.45*-0.91*-0.33**-0.31*0.47226
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Dev Ex-US factor set. Daily OLS of excess return (fund − T-bill) on factor spread returns over the selected date range, intersected with each series' history. Bold with * |t| ≥ 1.96, ** |t| ≥ 2.58. Cell shading tracks each loading's t-stat. Betas are returns-based — compare with the holdings-based factor scores below. Factor returns are long-short spread returns (© Ken French, Dartmouth). Fama-French publishes daily factors for developed markets only, so Dev Ex-US is developed markets excluding the US and Global Dev is developed markets including it; emerging markets, a small share of world market capitalization, are not covered by the source data. From 10/7/2025 to 8/31/2026.

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Fund ProfileSingle-Country

Registrant
Type
ETF
Asset Class
Equity
Region
Equity Size & Style
Peer Group Benchmark
Peer Group
Developed Ex-US Large Growth (52 peers)
1Y Peer Percentile
14
3Y Peer Percentile
44
AUM
$140M
3Y Flow
+10.9%
Inception
12/16/1985
Holdings (Reported)
39
Equity
100%
Derivatives
0%
Net Equity Exposure
107%
Strategy Summary

Abrdn Australia Equity Fund Inc is a closed ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Aberdeen Standard Investments (Asia) Limited. The fund is managed by Aberdeen Standard Investments Australia Limited. It invests in the public equity markets of Australia. The fund makes its investments in firms operating across diversified sectors. It employs fundamental analysis with a bottom-up and top-down stock picking approach with focus on factors like growth prospects, competitive positions in domestic and export markets, technology, research and development, productivity, labor and raw material costs, profit margins, return on investment, capital resources, quality of management, and government regulation to create its portfolio. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the S&P ASX 200 Accumulation Index. It also uses proprietary research to create its portfolio. The Aberdeen Australia Equity Fund Inc. was previously known as The First Australia Fund, Inc. Abrdn Australia Equity Fund Inc was formed in September 30, 1985 and is domiciled in the United States.

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio and its components from the prospectus fee table, else the SEC annual shareholder report, else market data. Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 7/31/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 7/31/2026. Summary may be from an older prospectus.

Equity Size & Style Map

LargeMidSmall
8%
25%
33%
5%
5%
5%
2%
4%
13%
Large
ValueCoreGrowth
Size
Large
66%
Mid
15%
Small
19%
Style
Value
14%
Core
34%
Growth
51%
ⓘ Methodology

Equity size and style definitions. Size: each holding is scored against its own market's size curve — Large above $61.7B in the US and $21.4B elsewhere, Small below $10.8B worldwide — and a fund sits at the weighted average of its holdings. Style: each holding's Traditional Value score is ranked against stocks of the same region and size, and a fund sits at the weighted average of those ranks. Both are relative measures — where a holding stands among comparable stocks, not an absolute threshold. The dollar lines are recomputed from total market capitalisation each time the data is refreshed; the shares of the market they mark are what stay fixed. Cell shading and percentages: share of classified holdings weight per box. The grid and the dot are built from one set of per-holding scores — the dot is their weighted average — so they describe the same book at two levels of detail. The Size and Style bars are the grid's row and column totals. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Composite FactorsRef: Equity Funds

Intangible Value19.6
Traditional Value55.7
Small-Cap58.8
Quality45.2
Momentum23.4
ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Ranked within the clean equity fund universe, one entry per fund series (lowest: 0, highest: 100; the middle of the range is denser than the ends). Blue dots mark the fund; the shaded band spans the Equity Funds class 25th–75th percentile of scores, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Factor DetailsRef: Equity Funds

Valuation
Book-to-Price (NTM)35.4
Sales-to-Price (NTM)41.1
Earnings-to-Price (NTM)5.4
Innovation/IP
R&D / Mkt Cap1.5
Patents / Mkt Cap0.22
Brand
Sales & Marketing / Mkt Cap0.51
Trademarks / Mkt Cap0.01
Human Capital
PhD Employees / Mkt Cap2.4
Top University Alumni / Mkt Cap2.1
Politics
Lobbying Spend / Mkt Cap1.7
AI
AI Employees / Mkt Cap0.78
ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Solid blue dots mark the fund's position within the clean equity fund universe (5th–95th percentile scale); the shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Equity Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 7/31/2026.

Country Exposure

Level
97.5%
88.0%
4.7%
2.4%
1.7%
Other0.6%
2.5%
2.5%
ⓘ Methodology

Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Sector Exposure

Level
37.0%
26.2%
8.9%
8.2%
5.7%
5.3%
4.0%
2.8%
1.5%
0.5%
ⓘ Methodology

Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Thematic Exposure

AI Composition

Infrastructure4.3%
Early Adopter16.5%
Laggard79.3%

Magnificent 7

Magnificent 70.0%
Non-Magnificent 7100.0%

Old vs New Economy

Old Economy90.2%
New Economy9.8%

Globalization

Multinational20.9%
Exporter0.8%
Importer23.6%
Domestic54.6%

China Exposure

China/HK Domiciled0.0%
Revenue & Operations0.0%
Operations Only2.5%
Revenue Only16.9%
No Material Exposure80.6%

Company Size

Mega (>$500B)0.0%
Large ($70–500B)44.2%
Mid ($10–70B)37.7%
Small ($1–10B)16.2%
Micro (<$1B)1.9%
ⓘ Methodology

China exposure: domiciled = incorporated in China or Hong Kong, falling back to the filing's country for holdings outside the stock model. Among the rest, revenue = ≥15% of revenue derived from China; operations = ≥3% of LinkedIn-tracked workforce in China, or ≥2 identified Chinese suppliers making up ≥12% of those identified. China revenue is estimated where segment reporting is absent. Company size bands by holding market cap: Mega >$500B, Large $70–500B, Mid $10–70B, Small $1–10B, Micro <$1B. Old vs New Economy partitions Sparkline's 48 industries: New = technology, internet platforms and entertainment, e-commerce, payments, pharma/biotech/medtech, and renewable energy; Old = everything else. Shares are of classified holdings and sum to 100%. China shares are of total equity weight. Size shares are of scored holdings weight. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Holdings

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39 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings)

#NameTickerWeight %SectorIndustryCountry
1BHP GroupBHP
13.01
MaterialsIndustrial MetalsAUS
2Commonwealth Bank of AustraliaCBA
11.84
FinancialsMultinational BanksAUS
3National Australia BankNAB
5.50
FinancialsMultinational BanksAUS
4ANZ Group HoldingsANZ
5.28
FinancialsMultinational BanksAUS
5Rio TintoRIO
5.04
MaterialsIndustrial MetalsGBR
6Aristocrat LeisureALL
4.74
Consumer DiscHospitalityAUS
7Goodman Group-
4.13
--AUS
8WesfarmersWES
4.05
Consumer DiscTraditional RetailAUS
9Macquarie GroupMQG
3.64
FinancialsInvest BankingAUS
10Westpac BankingWBC
3.41
FinancialsMultinational BanksAUS
ⓘ Methodology

Sector, country and factor detail need a security match; the share of weight that matched is a member figure, so the rows without one appear here with those columns blank. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

ConcentrationRef: Equity Funds

Total Holdings39
Effective Holdings20.4
Top 10 Weight60.6%
Max Position13.0%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)37%
Top Country (of Net Assets)94%
ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for definitions. Solid blue dots mark the fund: percentage rows on a 0–100% scale, holdings counts log-scaled across the clean-universe 5th–95th percentile range. The shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Equity Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026.

Benchmark DifferentiationRef: Equity Funds

vs EFABroad Benchmark
Active Share94.3%
Tracking Error13.6%
Benchmark Correlation0.70
vs EFGStyle Benchmark
Active Share94.4%
Tracking Error14.9%
Benchmark Correlation0.65
ⓘ Methodology

One sub-card per benchmark: the market primary, then the style secondary — the gap between them is the style sleeve itself. Both anchors are Sparkline-inferred (market from asset class and region, style from the holdings size-and-style map), not the fund's official prospectus benchmark. Solid blue dot marks the fund; the shaded band spans the reference set's 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median (band follows the Peer Universe selector). Active Share compares the fund's book with the benchmark's, share for share; Tracking Error is the annualized daily deviation over the trailing two years (ruler runs to just past the universe's 95th percentile, or past the fund's own figure where that is larger); Benchmark Correlation is the plain daily correlation over the trailing year. Hover the labels for full definitions.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
IAF
Abrdn Australia Equity Fund, Inc.
Peer Group
52 funds
Peer Region
524 funds
Peer Asset Class
5,640 funds
YTD Return
4.25%5.64%318.96%2011.63%19
1Y Return
-0.03%6.46%1413.05%514.44%10
3Y Return (Ann.)
13.84%14.03%4418.61%1418.50%23
5Y Return (Ann.)
3.73%5.64%298.87%108.64%18
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
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ⓘ Methodology

Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (117 share classes across 52 funds). One share class shown per fund — the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class; percentile ranks and medians are computed against the same deduped set. Quartile chips fill the layer the fund's rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). Funds without a full return history rank only on the horizons they cover.

Similar Funds

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Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.

Top Similarity55
Top Overlap
Top Active Tilt
Top Factor Match
Top Return Corr
Top FF Match
FundPeer Group
1EWA
iShares MSCI Australia ETF
Region - Developed Asia-Pacific
Region - Developed Asia-Pacific
55-----
2FLAU
Franklin FTSE Australia ETF
Region - Developed Asia-Pacific
Region - Developed Asia-Pacific
55-----
3BBAX
JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF
Region - Developed Asia-Pacific
Region - Developed Asia-Pacific
47-----
4EPP
iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF
Region - Developed Asia-Pacific
Region - Developed Asia-Pacific
47-----
5DVYA
iShares Asia/Pacific Dividend ETF
Region - Developed Asia-Pacific
Region - Developed Asia-Pacific
28-----
6DFIEX
INTERNATIONAL CORE EQUITY 2 PORTFOLIO
Developed Ex-US Large Core
Developed Ex-US Large Core
14-----
7DFIC
Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF
Developed Ex-US Large Core
Developed Ex-US Large Core
14-----
8WWJD
Inspire International ETF
Global ex-US Large Core
Global ex-US Large Core
11-----
9FIDI
Fidelity International High Dividend ETF
Developed Ex-US Large Value
Developed Ex-US Large Value
10-----
10VYMI
VANGUARD INTERNATIONAL HIGH DIVIDEND YIELD INDEX FUND
Global ex-US Large Value
Global ex-US Large Value
9-----

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ⓘ Methodology

Rows are the consensus top matches (a fund must place in at least two methods' top 250 to qualify, and matches missing more than one of this fund's own methods are not ranked — a row scored on fewer methods is a noisier estimate, not a better match). Click a method column to see that method's own top matches across the whole universe instead. Gray (N) beside each method's metric is that fund's rank in the whole universe on that method. Similarity is a percentile among match-grade fund pairs, 0–100 — 87 means the pair is closer than 87% of the strongest matches in the universe, averaged across the methods — so it compares across funds: index clones tie at the top with thousands of other clone pairs, so scores top out in the high 80s to 90s, while a one-of-a-kind fund's best match can score in the 30s. Rows are ordered by the Consensus Rank — the geometric mean of those universe ranks, shown in each cell's tooltip — and the score is held down the list to the level of the closest match above it, so equal scores mean equally close and the number reads as a floor. A dash means that method has no figure for the pair at all (one of them lacks the holdings or return history it needs). Hover a column header for each method's definition. The “Top…” strips above compare against every fund's own top match across the whole universe (they deliberately don't follow the Peer Universe selector); Top Similarity is simply the best match's score, with no reference band; the Holdings and Active Tilt strips carry no reference band because computing every fund's best book overlap would require a full holdings scan per fund — the dot stands alone on its natural 0–100% scale. One share class shown per fund, and a fund's own sister share classes are excluded from its Top-match strips. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). Holdings Overlap = common-holdings weight (sum of the minimum weight across shared positions, long only). Active Tilt Overlap = the same statistic on active weights (holdings minus the fund's own default benchmark, floored at 0), which strips the benchmark ballast that dominates raw overlap. Factor Similarity = 100 − a signature-weighted RMS gap across the composite factor scores (0–100 ranks within the clean equity fund universe), each axis weighted by how far this fund sits from the universe median of 50. Return Correlation = correlation of market-hedged daily returns over the trailing two years (CAPM residuals), so only market-beta co-movement is removed; requires ~18 months of daily history (378 of the window's 504 trading days). Fama-French Similarity = 1/(1+d), where d is the Euclidean distance between factor betas (market, size, value, profitability, investment, momentum, intangible value) from up to three years of daily returns (min 378 daily observations and regression R² of at least 0.25); 1.00 = identical loadings.