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Blair Couper
abrdn Fund Managers Limited, abrdn Investments Luxembourg S
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Manager profile
Blair Couper is an Investment Manager within the Global Equity team and is part of the portfolio management team for the Global Focused Funds (OEIC & SICAV) and the Global Innovation Fund at Aberdeen Standard Investments. Blair Joined Standard Life Investments in 2014 on the Graduate programme and has held various positions in the firm including most recently as an Investment Analyst on the Global Equities team. Blair graduated with an MA in Business Economics from the University of Glasgow in 2013. He then received a scholarship to complete his MSc in Investment Fund Management at the same institution. He is also an IMC and a CFA Charterholder, passing all three exams on his first attempt. CFA,MSc,MA.
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Manager career performance
Discrete calendar year performance : Blair Couper

Manager career performance
Discrete performance
  0-12m 12-24m 24-36m 36-48m 48-60m 60-72m 72-84m 84-96m 96-108m 108-120m
Blair Couper 13.8 -8.2 -1.0 36.0 -0.8 5.5 - - - -
Peer Group Composite 14.7 -2.1 7.6 38.7 -6.3 8.9 - - - -
Over / Under -0.9 -6.1 -8.6 -2.7 5.5 -3.4 - - - -
Performance vs peer group composite: Blair Couper
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.
 
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Funds currently managed
Fund Sole/Co-managed Sector Periods
abrdn Global Focused Equity Co-managed UT Global since Feb 02 2018 to present
abrdn SICAV I - Global Innovation Equity Co-managed FO Equity - Ethical since Oct 18 2018 to present
abrdn SICAV I - Global Climate and Environment Equity Co-managed FO Equity - Ethical since Jul 06 2021 to present
Funds managed previously
Fund Periods
Abrdn Std SCV II SICAV Global Focused Equity since Jan 02 2019 to fund close
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