ACP - abrdn Income Credit Strategies Fund
A closed-end fund run by abrdn. Invests in bonds. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Is anyone targeting this fund?
No - nobody has reported owning 5% or more of this fund.
Is the fund doing anything you need to act on?
Nothing right now.
What this means for you
No investor has reported owning 5% or more of this fund. That is the normal state for most closed-end funds.
Nothing is required of you. If that changes, the notice appears here within a day of being filed with the regulator.
What happened, and when
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Nov 3, 2025
The fund said it may sell new shares.
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Aug 1, 2025
The fund said it may sell new shares.
Original document →
About this fund
- Run by abrdn Investments Limited. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
- Size: about $709 million of holdings, as of April 30, 2026. As of April 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
- Borrowing: the fund borrows about 32% on top of its own money, as of April 30, 2026. Borrowed money makes gains and losses bigger. About 42% of that is money the fund has borrowed by selling preferred shares. As of April 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
- Costs: 1.7% a year in management fees; 3.9% a year in total, including interest on borrowed money. Fiscal year ended Oct 31, 2025. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
- Payouts: last fiscal year (ended Oct 31, 2025) the fund paid $0.95 a share. $0.49 of that was income; $0.46 was your own money back, not income. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
- Value of holdings per share at the last fiscal year end (Oct 31, 2025): $5.89. The shares traded at $5.57, about 5.4% below that.
As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
Over the last two years the gap ranged from 11% below to 2.3% above. As of April 30, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document → - How the holdings did: up 1.6% over the last three months we have (Feb-April 2026), before the share price is taken into account. Over the last 12 months: +14.5%. As of April 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
- How the holdings did over the fiscal year (ended Oct 31, 2025): the value of the holdings returned +5.8%. How the share price did: the shares returned +0.7% over the same year, counting payouts and the change in the market price. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
- First reported to the regulator in 2010.
What the fund holds
Mostly bonds (95%), the rest cash and short-term holdings and loans. About 35% issued in the U.S.
- Cash and short-term - 3.7%
- Enquest PLC - 5.7%
- Very Grp Funding Plc/The, Very Group Funding Plc/The - 3%
- Project Grand UK PLC - 2.5%
- 888 Acquisitions - 2.4%
- Summer Bidco Bv - 2.3%
- Affinity Interactive - 2.2%
- Laboratoire Eimer Selas - 2.1%
- Sherwood Financing PLC - 2.1%
- Virgin Media O2 Ven Fin, Virgin Media O2 Vendor Financing Notes VIII DAC - 2.1%
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- MajorDrive Holdings IV LLC - 1.9%
- Bellis Acquisition Co PLC - 1.9%
- CD&R Firefly Bidco Limited 2025 GBP Term Loan - 1.9%
- Iceland Bondco PLC - 1.8%
- Cheplapharm Arzneimittel GmbH - 1.8%
- Dotdash Meredith - 1.8%
- Ses SA - 1.7%
- Vivion Investments Sarl - 1.7%
- Stonegate Pub Co Financing 2019 PLC - 1.7%
- Waga Bondco - 1.6%
- Market Bidco Finco PLC - 1.6%
- Societe Generale SA - 1.6%
- Crescent Energy Finance LLC - 1.5%
- Cimpress PLC - 1.5%
As of April 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
Details: all notices, events and fund facts
No notices from large investors on file.
| Date | What | Deadline | Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 3, 2025 | May sell new shares | none | Original document → |
| Aug 1, 2025 | May sell new shares | none | Original document → |
- Run by
- abrdn Investments Limited
- Fund family
- ABERDEENCF
- Exchange
- New York Stock Exchange
- Regulator's file number
- 811-22485
- Auditor
- KPMG LLP
- Fiscal year end
- Oct 31, 2025
- Number of holdings
- 193
- Preferred share classes
- 1
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