Company: HQL
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-034659
Chunk: 17

Company: abrdn Life Sciences Investors
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 17
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 dated as of October 27, 2023. Prior to October 27, 2023, the Funds were managed by Tekla Capital Management LLC. The Investment Adviser is a Delaware corporation with its registered offices located at 1900 Market Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19103. abrdn Inc. also provides administrative services to each Fund under the advisory agreement. The Investment Adviser/Administrator is an indirect subsidiary of Aberdeen Group plc, which has its registered offices at 1 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2LL, Scotland. Mr. Pittard, a Trustee of the Funds, is employed by the Investment Adviser.

Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports

Section 16(a) of the 1934 Act and Section 30(h) of the 1940 Act, as applied to the Funds, require the Funds' officers and Trustees, certain officers and directors of the Investment Adviser, affiliates of the Investment Adviser, and persons who beneficially own more than 10% of the Funds' outstanding securities to electronically file reports of ownership of the Funds' securities and changes in such ownership with the SEC and the NYSE.

Based solely on each Fund's review of such forms filed on EDGAR or written representations from reporting persons that all reportable transactions were reported, to the knowledge of each Fund, during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2024, each Fund's officers, Trustees and greater than 10% owners timely filed all reports they were required to file under Section 16(a) except that: (i) a late Form 4 filing was submitted for Alan Goodson, an officer of the Fund, with respect to an open-market purchase of HQH shares; and (ii) due to an administrative oversight of the Adviser, a Form 4 filing was submitted one day late for Kathleen Goetz, a Trustee of the Fund, with respect to the open-market purchase of HQH, HQL, THQ and THW shares.

<div align='center'>EACH FUND'S BOARD, INCLUDING THE INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES, UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT SHAREHOLDERS VOTE "FOR" EACH NOMINEE.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</div>

Administrator.State Street Bank & Trust Company, located at 1 Heritage Drive, 3rd Floor, North Quincy, MA 02171, serves as administrator to the Funds.

Expenses.The expense of preparation, printing and mailing of