AOD - AOD: Good Diversification But Lackluster Performance

The Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund (AOD) is a closed-end fund that according to its fund factsheet seeks to "[combine] four research-driven investment strategies - growth, value, special dividends and dividend capture rotation - to maximize the amount of distributed dividend income and to identify companies globally with the potential for dividend increases and capital appreciation".

Before we get into the main part of the article, we want to address three important issues that we have seen come up in reader comments to our articles on CEFs.

First, we will be using almost exclusively NAV

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