Aberdeen Global Fixed Income Fund

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Investment Objective

The Fund seeks to maximize total investment return, consistent with prudent investment management, consisting of a combination of interest income, currency gains and capital appreciation.

Investment Strategy

The Fund seeks to achieve its objective by investing in fixed-income securities of U.S. and foreign issuers including foreign governments, their agencies and instrumentalities, and foreign companies, including those in emerging markets; multinational organizations, such as the World Bank; the U.S. government, its agencies and instrumentalities and U.S. companies; and asset-backed securities. The investment team bases its investment decisions on fundamental factors, including economic, market and currency trends and credit quality.

Holdings

TOP HOLDINGS (all classes) as of 04/30/2013
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Risk Considerations

Fixed income securities are subject to certain risks including, but not limited to: interest rate (changes in interest rates may cause a decline in the market value of an investment), credit (changes in the financial condition of the issuer, borrower, counterparty, or underlying collateral), prepayment (debt issuers may repay or refinance their loans or obligations earlier than anticipated), and extension (principal repayments may not occur as quickly as anticipated.

Foreign securities are more volatile, harder to price and less liquid than U.S. securities; and are subject to different accounting and regulatory standards, and political and economic risks. These risks are enhanced in emerging markets countries.

Derivatives are speculative and may hurt the Fund’s performance. They present the risk of disproportionately increased losses and/or reduced gains when the financial asset or measure to which the derivative is linked changes in unexpected ways.

Please read the prospectus for more detailed information regarding these risks.