ABRDN ALTERNATIVE FUNDS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-25 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-11
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£6M
+116.4% vs 2023
Net assets
—
Equity attributable
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£4M
+568.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £11,076,000 | £15,170,000 | |
| Operating profit | £434,000 | £440,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £584,000 | £3,905,000 | |
| Net profit | £446,000 | £3,747,000 | |
| Cash | £3,001,000 | £6,495,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | — | — | |
| Equity | £6,377,000 | £10,124,000 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | — | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+37%
£11,076,000 £15,170,000
-
Cash
+116.4%
£3,001,000 £6,495,000
-
Net assets
—
Not reported
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+1.4%
£434,000 £440,000
-
Profit before tax
+568.7%
£584,000 £3,905,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.9% | 2.9% | |
| Net margin | 4.0% | 24.7% | |
| Current ratio | 2.48x | 2.35x | |
| Interest cover | 10.33x | 36.67x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 4 times since incorporation
- ABRDN ALTERNATIVE FUNDS LIMITED 2022-11-25 → present
- ABERDEEN STANDARD ALTERNATIVE FUNDS LIMITED 2020-09-30 → 2022-11-25
- STANDARD LIFE INVESTMENTS (CORPORATE FUNDS) LIMITED 1998-10-12 → 2020-09-30
- STANDARD LIFE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED 1988-09-05 → 1998-10-12
- DUNWILCO (117) LIMITED 1988-06-07 → 1988-09-05
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Board's assessment of going concern is underpinned in Company forecasts that model severe market shocks to ensure the company could continue to satisfy ongoing operating, liquidity and regulatory capital requirements. Based on their assessment, the Board is satisfied that the Company has and will maintain sufficient resources to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “On 1 February 2024 the Company transferred mandates to another Aberdeen Group company, later sold to Patria Investments on 26 April 2024 for a cash consideration of £3,273k. Prior to the transfer, no intangible net book value was held on the Company's balance sheet in relation to these mandates and consequently the financial results include a gain on disposal of intangibles assets (£3,273k) in relation to these transfers.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 36 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABRDN CORPORATE SECRETARY LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2020-09-24 | — | — |
| BREEN, Anne Kathryn | Director | 2022-06-10 | Sep 1972 | British |
| MACKAY, Greg Neil | Director | 2025-04-07 | Feb 1975 | British |
| SHANKS, Adam George | Director | 2021-05-31 | Apr 1984 | British |
| SMART, Emily Jane | Director | 2021-11-05 | Apr 1975 | British |
Show 36 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURNS, David John | Secretary | 2010-08-01 | 2016-05-13 |
| FOTHERINGHAM, David Drysdale | Secretary | 1993-11-15 | 1996-03-01 |
| GRAY, Archibald James Angus Macuish | Secretary | — | 1993-11-14 |
| KIDD, Holly Sylvia | Secretary | 2016-05-13 | 2021-03-02 |
| O'BRIEN, Vincent Joseph | Secretary | 2003-10-16 | 2010-08-01 |
| SOMERVILLE, Peter Walter | Secretary | 1996-03-01 | 1999-10-15 |
| STUBBS, Peter Anthony | Secretary | 1999-10-15 | 2003-10-15 |
| ACHESON, Alan Stephen | Director | 2016-07-13 | 2019-12-09 |
| AIREY, Lawrence, Sir | Director | — | 1994-03-22 |
| ALONZI, Paolo | Director | 2021-03-02 | 2022-01-09 |
| BELL, Alexander Scott | Director | — | 1999-10-15 |
| BURTON, Alan Christopher | Director | 1999-10-15 | 2003-11-15 |
| CAMPBELL, Stephen | Director | 2016-10-28 | 2019-06-20 |
| CONNOLLY, Mark | Director | 2005-10-21 | 2009-03-15 |
| CROMBIE, Alexander Maxwell, Sir | Director | 1999-10-15 | 2004-01-28 |
| CUMMING, David Thorburn | Director | 2005-01-24 | 2016-10-28 |
| DONALDSON, Allison | Director | 2019-12-17 | 2021-05-31 |
| FRICKE, Barry Colin | Director | 2021-03-02 | 2021-12-31 |
| KWIATKOWSKI, Martin Alan, Mr. | Director | 2016-11-09 | 2025-04-07 |
| LESSELS, Norman | Director | — | 1998-04-28 |
| LITTLEBOY, William Regnar | Director | 2002-06-24 | 2016-10-28 |
| LUMSDEN, Iain Cobden | Director | 1998-05-26 | 1999-10-15 |
| MACHRAY, Neil Lindsay Nicholson | Director | 2021-09-21 | 2023-09-30 |
| MARSHALL, Gary Robert | Director | 2020-01-06 | 2021-05-31 |
| MCINTYRE, Simon Lawrence Andrew | Director | 2016-10-28 | 2019-12-09 |
| MCKILLOP, Robert John | Director | 2021-05-31 | 2021-11-05 |
| MITCHELL, Aron William | Director | 2020-05-15 | 2021-09-08 |
| PARNABY, Nathan Richard | Director | 1999-10-15 | 2003-10-31 |
| ROSE, Eric Paul | Director | 2016-11-15 | 2019-03-12 |
| SKEOCH, Norman Keith, Sir | Director | 1999-10-15 | 2016-01-06 |
| STRETTON, James | Director | — | 1999-10-15 |
| THOMAS, Denise Elisabeth | Director | 2016-07-11 | 2019-12-09 |
| TROTT, John Francis Henry | Director | 1994-03-22 | 1998-04-28 |
| WALKLIN, Colin Richard | Director | 2010-11-15 | 2016-10-28 |
| WATSON, James Steven | Director | 2016-10-28 | 2019-04-26 |
| WATT, Alexander Peter | Director | 1999-10-15 | 2010-11-15 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abrdn Investment Management Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 230 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-11-25 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
- 2022-11-25 NM06 Change of name request comments
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-30 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-06-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-17 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-06-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-03-07 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge whole cease and release with charge number | |
| 2024-03-07 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge whole cease and release with charge number | |
| 2024-03-07 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge whole cease and release with charge number | |
| 2024-03-07 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge whole cease and release with charge number | |
| 2023-10-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-18 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2023-08-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-06-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-06-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-25 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2022-11-25 | NM06 | change-of-name | Change of name request comments | |
| 2022-06-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.