About GWLIX
abrdn Emerging Markets ex-China Fund Institutional Class is a diversified mutual fund designed to provide long-term capital growth by investing in emerging market equities while intentionally excluding exposure to Chinese companies. The fund primarily allocates assets to common stocks across high-potential regions such as Asia (excluding China), Latin America, the Middle East, and other developing economies. Its portfolio often features industry leaders in technology, financial services, consumer goods, and infrastructure, with significant holdings in companies like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Samsung Electronics, and major Indian banks.
This fund’s strategy seeks to capture structural growth trends driven by favorable demographics, expanding middle-class consumption, and rapid technological innovation occurring outside China. By omitting China—an increasingly dominant and sometimes volatile market—the fund offers investors more targeted exposure to emerging economies experiencing modernization and industrialization, while also enabling more active management of China-related risks. abrdn Emerging Markets ex-China Fund Institutional Class is positioned as a cost-competitive institutional share class, making it suitable for investors looking for a focused approach to global diversification and seeking the growth opportunities present in emerging markets outside China.
Fund Family Aberdeen
Category Diversified Emerging Mkts
Performance Rating Above Average
Risk Rating Average
Stock Exchange NASDAQ
Ticker Symbol GWLIX
Share Class Institutional Class
Index MSCI EM EX CHINA NR USD
GWLIX had a total return of 53.24% in the past year, including dividends. Since the fund's
inception, the average annual return has been 9.06%.
