Company: HQL
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-034659
Chunk: 1

Company: abrdn Life Sciences Investors
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 1
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 Investors (NYSE: HQL)       |     | May 28, 2025 
 May 28, 2025 |     | 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time 
 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time |
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| abrdn Healthcare Opportunities Fund (NYSE: THQ) |     | May 28, 2025 |     | 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time |
| abrdn World Healthcare Fund (NYSE: THW)         |     | May 28, 2025 |     | 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time |

The purpose of the Annual Meetings is to consider and act upon the following proposals (each, a "Proposal") for each Fund, as applicable, and to consider and act upon such other matters as may properly come before the Annual Meetings or any adjournments or postponements thereof: HQH — To elect two Class C Trustees to serve until the 2028 Annual Meeting of Shareholders or until such Trustee's successor is duly elected and qualified. HQL — To elect two Class C Trustees to serve until the 2028 Annual Meeting of Shareholders or until such Trustee's successor is duly elected and qualified. THQ — To elect two Class B Trustees to serve until the 2028 Annual Meeting of Shareholders or until such Trustee's successor is duly elected and qualified. THW — To elect two Class A Trustees to serve until the 2028 Annual Meeting of Shareholders or until such Trustee's successor is duly elected and qualified. Each Proposal is discussed in greater detail in the enclosed Joint Proxy Statement. You are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting of a Fund if you owned shares of such Fund at the close of business on April 7, 2025 (the "Record Date"). Even if you expect to attend an Annual Meeting, please complete, date, sign and return the enclosed proxy card(s) in the enclosed postage-paid envelope or authorize your proxy by telephone or through the Internet.

We will admit to an Annual Meeting (1) all shareholders of record on the Record Date, (2) persons holding proof of beneficial ownership on the Record Date, such as a letter or account statement from the person's broker, (3) persons who have been granted proxies, and (4) such other persons that we, in our sole discretion, may elect to admit. All persons wishing to be admitted