# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001503290
**File Stem:** 0001104659-25-080808
**Filing Date:** 2025-8
**Character Count:** 9128
**Document Hash:** ad7620cc11ddc0f49243dbd8f0db8ff2
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001104659-25-080808.hdr.sgml**: 20250820

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001104659-25-080808

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 3

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 2

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250818

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250820

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250820

**REPORTING-OWNER**: 

**OWNER DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Mitchell Aron
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001716181

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 3
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 811-22485
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251235822

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1735 MARKET STREET, 32ND FLOOR
- **CITY:** PHILADELPHIA
- **STATE:** PA
- **ZIP:** 19103
**ISSUER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** abrdn Income Credit Strategies Fund
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001503290

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1031

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1900 MARKET STREET
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 200
- **CITY:** PHILADELPHIA
- **STATE:** PA
- **ZIP:** 19103
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 215-405-5700

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1900 MARKET STREET
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 200
- **CITY:** PHILADELPHIA
- **STATE:** PA
- **ZIP:** 19103

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Aberdeen Income Credit Strategies Fund
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20171201

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Avenue Income Credit Strategies Fund
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20101012

## Ex-24

**Exhibit 24**

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints the individuals named on Schedule A attached hereto and as may be amended from time to time, or any of them signing singly, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, as the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact to:

1. as may be required, prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf, and submit to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

2. execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as a reporting person pursuant to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, and the rules thereunder of the applicable registered investment companies (and any successor companies) listed on Schedule A attached hereto, as amended from time to time, and any other registered investment company affiliated with or established by Aberdeen Asset Management Inc., Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited, Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Limited, or their affiliates, for which the undersigned becomes a Section 16 reporting person (each, a "Fund"), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act;

3. do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned that may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5 and timely file such form with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

4. take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing that, in the opinion of any of such attorneys-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by any of such attorneys-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as any of such attorneys-in-fact may approve in the discretion of any of such attorneys-in-fact.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that any of such attorneys-in-fact, or the substitute or substitutes of any of such attorneys-in-fact, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is any Fund assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by any Fund, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 20th day of November 2017.

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| Signature: | /s/ Aron Mitchell |
| Name: | Aron Mitchell |

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SCHEDULE A

FUND NAME AND TICKER SYMBOL

1. ABERDEEN AUSTRALIA EQUITY FUND, INC. (IAF)

2. ABERDEEN ASIA-PACIFIC INCOME FUND, INC. (FAX)

3. ABERDEEN GLOBAL INCOME FUND, INC. (FCO)

4. ABERDEEN EMERGING MARKETS EQUITY INCOME FUND, INC. (AEF)

5. THE INDIA FUND, INC. (IFN)

6. ABERDEEN JAPAN EQUITY FUND, INC. (JEQ)

7. FIRST TRUST/ABERDEEN GLOBAL OPPORTUNITY INCOME FUND (FAM)

8. FIRST TRUST/ABERDEEN EMERGING OPPORTUNITY FUND (FEO)

9. ABERDEEN INCOME CREDIT STRATEGIES FUND (ACP)

10. ABERDEEN ASIA-PACIFIC INCOME INVESTMENT COMPANY LIMITED (FAP)

11. ABERDEEN GLOBAL PREMIER PROPERTIES FUND (AWP)

12. ABERDEEN GLOBAL DYNAMIC DIVIDEND FUND (AGD)

13. ABERDEEN TOTAL DYNAMIC DIVIDEND FUND (AOD)

INDIVIDUALS APPOINTED AS ATTORNEY-IN-FACT, WITH FULL POWER OF SUBSTITUTION AND RESUBSTITUTION

1. Jennifer Nichols

2. Lucia Sitar

3. Megan Kennedy

4. Alan Goodson

5. Jennifer Rogers

6. Joseph Andolina

7. Lisa Kupper

8. Katherine Corey

9. Robert Hepp

10. Jeffrey Cotton

### UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
**Washington, D.C. 20549**

## FORM 3

### INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

[ ] Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b).

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| **1. Name and Address of Reporting Person**<sup>*</sup><br>Mitchell Aron<br><sub>(Last) (First) (Middle)</sub><br>C/O ABRDN<br>1900 MARKET STREET, SUITE 200<br><sub>(Street)</sub><br>PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103<br><sub>(City) (State) (Zip)</sub> | **3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol**<br>abrdn Income Credit Strategies Fund [ ACP ] | **5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)**<br>  |
| **2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)**<br>2025-08-18 | **4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer**<br>(Check all applicable)<br>[ ] Director   [ ] 10% Owner<br>[ ] Officer (give title below)   [X] Other (specify below)<br>_ _ | **6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)**<br>[X] Form filed by One Reporting Person<br>[ ] Form filed by More than One Reporting Person |

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## Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned

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| 1. Title of Security | 2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned | 3. Ownership Form | 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership |

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## Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned

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| 1. Title of Derivative Security | 2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) | 2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) | 3. Title and Amount of Underlying Securities | 3. Title and Amount of Underlying Securities | 4. Conversion or Exercise Price | 5. Ownership Form | 6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership |
| 1. Title of Derivative Security | Date Exercisable | Expiration Date | Title | Amount or Number of Shares | 4. Conversion or Exercise Price | 5. Ownership Form | 6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership |
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**Remarks:**
Exhibit List: Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney

**Signature:** /s/ Lucia Sitar by POA from Reporting Person  
**Date:** 2025-08-20

### Remarks:

Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.

* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 4 (b)(v).

** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).

Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.

**Persons who respond to the collection of information contained in this form are not required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB Number.**