abrdn plc
"13F equity value" = market value of this filer's US-listed long equity positions only. It excludes cash, bonds, non-US and short positions, so it understates a fund's true assets under management — often by a lot.
13F holdings are disclosed ~45 days after quarter-end, and they never reveal when within the quarter a fund actually bought. So any 13F-based summary is structurally late and blurred — this applies to every fund, including this one.
We backtested copying it anyway. Buying this fund's new positions the day each filing went public, over 34 quarters, returned +1.9% per quarter — versus +1.7% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 50.0% of quarters (excess t = 0.86, not statistically significant). Its filings tell you what it bought — not what you should buy.
Quarterly compounding, invested quarters only · entry after the actual SEC deadline plus a 2-day buffer
Top 20 holdings of 934 · 2026 Q2
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| AAPL | $4.9B | | HOLD |
| NVDA | $4.0B | | HOLD |
| MSFT | $3.4B | | ADD +3% |
| GOOGL | $3.0B | | ADD +2% |
| AMZN | $2.9B | | ADD +6% |
| GOOG | $2.4B | | HOLD |
| TSLA | $2.1B | | ADD +19% |
| AVGO | $1.6B | | TRIM −2% |
| META | $1.0B | | HOLD |
| MU | $948M | | TRIM −5% |
| AMD | $848M | | TRIM −6% |
| LLY | $819M | | TRIM −6% |
| JPM | $779M | | HOLD |
| CSCO | $707M | | HOLD |
| JNJ | $621M | | TRIM −6% |
| CAT | $581M | | ADD +6% |
| MRK | $554M | | TRIM −8% |
| AMAT | $541M | | HOLD |
| V | $523M | | TRIM −6% |
| ABBV | $516M | | TRIM −7% |
QoQ vs previous quarter's share count · NEW = new position · ADD/TRIM = ±2% shares · HOLD = unchanged.
New positions in 2026 Q2
Method & Limitations
Method: a "new position" = held this quarter, absent last quarter (options excluded; stocks with <50 prior holders excluded to filter spin-off artifacts). Entry is the first trading session after the actual SEC filing deadline plus a 2-day buffer. Benchmark = equal-weighted universe of all 13F-held stocks. Limitations: quarterly snapshots can't see intra-quarter trades; survivorship bias — funds that shut down are absent, which flatters the sample. Statistics, not advice.