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Abrdn signals two-year dividend cap

Investors may need to be patient before the cap is removed from their dividend payouts
August 10, 2021
  • Large weighting towards not particularly profitable activities
  • Payout ratio depends on how quickly cost-to-net-income ratio falls

Managing the turnaround of a super tanker-sized asset manager was never going to be easy and the newly branded Abrdn (ABDN) (formerly Standard Life Aberdeen, and now probable winner of a Consignia corporate branding award) made it clear in its half-year results that investors who expected a higher dividend will either have to wait, or by implication, go somewhere else to find one.

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