Company: HQL
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-034659
Chunk: 15

Company: abrdn Life Sciences Investors
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 15
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 Each Audit Committee has adopted an Audit Committee Charter that provides that the Audit Committee shall appoint, retain, and oversee an independent auditor and evaluate the terms of the engagement (including compensation

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of the auditor) and the qualifications and independence of the independent auditor, including whether the independent auditor provides any consulting, auditing or tax services to the Investment Adviser (as defined below), and receive the independent auditor's specific representations as to its independence, delineating all relationships between the independent auditor and the Fund, consistent with the Independent Standards Board ("ISB") Standard No. 1. Each Audit Committee Charter also provides that the Committee shall review in advance, and consider approval of, any and all proposals by Fund management or the Investment Adviser that the Fund, Investment Adviser or their affiliated persons to employ the independent auditor to render "permissible non-audit services" to the Fund and to consider whether such services are consistent with the independent auditor's independence. Each Audit Committee has considered whether the provision of non-audit services that were rendered to the investment adviser that managed the Funds during the fiscal years ended September 30, 2023 and September 30, 2024, and any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with any Covered Service Provider that provides ongoing services to the Funds that were not pre-approved pursuant to paragraph (c)(7)(ii) of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X, is compatible with maintaining the independent auditor's independence and has concluded that it is independent. COMPENSATION The following table sets forth information regarding compensation of Trustees from the Funds and by the Fund Complex of which the Funds are a part for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2024. All officers of the Funds are employees of and are compensated by abrdn Inc., the Funds' administrator, or an affiliate. None of the Funds' executive officers or Directors who are also officers or directors of abrdn Inc., the Investment Adviser or an affiliate received any compensation from any Fund for such period. None of the Funds have any bonus, profit sharing, pension or retirement plans.

| Name of Trustee:                  |     | Aggregate Compensation 
 from the Funds for     
 Fiscal Year Ended      
 September 30, 2024     |        |     |     |        |     |     |        |     |     |        |     | Total Compensation 
 From Fund and Fund 
 Complex Paid       
 To Trustees*       |         |
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