Andrew Paisley

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Andrew Paisley
abrdn Investments Luxembourg S, abrdn Fund Managers Limited
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Andrew Paisley is Head of Smaller Companies at abrdn. He is responsible for the management of the European Smaller Companies strategy which includes a Luxembourg SICAV fund, UK OEIC fund and a number of segregated mandates. As head of the team, he is responsible for the management of the UK, Europe and Global Small Cap Team and performance. Andrew began his career as a Chartered Accountant at Arthur Andersen, before becoming sector analyst for Sutherlands Stockbrokers. He joined Edinburgh Fund Managers in 1999, joining Kempen Capital Management in 2006. In 2011, he became co-manager of all UK smaller company mandates at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, prior to joining abrdn in August 2014 as Deputy Head of Smaller Companies before being appointed Head of Smaller Companies in March 2020. Andrew has an LLB (Hons), CA, IMC. He has 28 years in the industry and 8 at the company.

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Annualised total return over 12.8 years

+13.1%

Cumulative performance (% growth)

	1 year	3 years	5 years	7 years	10 years
Andrew Paisley	22.5	-15.7	34.8	39.2	158.6
Peer Group Composite	17.6	-13.1	28.9	24.4	124.1
Over / Under	4.9	-2.6	5.9	14.8	34.5

Total return for Andrew Paisley

Rolling Alpha Quartile:

Discrete three year periods

Rolling Alpha Quartile shows a manager's alpha score in quartile terms, plotting his or her risk adjusted performance against all other managers in the UT & OEICs universe. The best managers are those who are consistently ranked in the first or second quartile.


Quartile 1
Quartile 2
Quartile 3
Quartile 4

60-96m

72-108m

84-120m

96-132m

108-144m

Discrete calendar year performance : Andrew Paisley

Discrete performance

	0-12m	12-24m	24-36m	36-48m	48-60m	60-72m	72-84m	84-96m	96-108m	108-120m

Andrew Paisley	22.5	2.2	-33.3	40.3	12.7	7.8	-4.2	19.0	26.1	23.7
Peer Group Composite	17.6	1.2	-27.7	38.1	6.1	3.5	-6.8	23.4	24.1	17.3
Over / Under	4.9	1.0	-5.6	2.2	6.6	4.3	2.6	-4.4	2.0	6.4

Performance vs peer group composite: Andrew Paisley

How a manager matches up against their peers gives you some idea of how talented they are. Very few managers perform equally well in rising and falling markets, so knowing which type of market a manager is capable of performing well within is also important.

Overall markets

Outperformed peer group composite

8 years

out of a possible 10

Overall markets

Underperformed peer group composite

2 years

out of a possible 10

Rising markets

Outperformed peer group composite

7 years

out of a possible 8

Falling markets

Outperformed peer group composite

1 year

out of a possible 2

Funds currently managed

Fund	Sole/Co-managed	Sector	Periods

abrdn SICAV II European Smaller Companies	Lead manager	FO Equity - Small Cap Europe	since Aug 12 2014 to present
abrdn Europe ex UK Smaller Companies	Lead manager	UT European Smaller Companies	since Aug 25 2014 to present
abrdn European Smaller Companies	Lead manager	UT European Smaller Companies	since Jul 23 2018 to present

Funds managed previously

Fund	Periods

Aberdeen UK Smaller Companies	since Oct 01 2011 to Mar 31 2014
Halifax Smaller Companies	since Oct 01 2011 to Mar 31 2014
Scottish Widows UK Smaller Companies	since Oct 01 2011 to Mar 31 2014
Scottish Widows HIFML UK Smaller Companies Alpha	since Dec 01 2011 to Aug 31 2012