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Aberdeen Global Small Cap Fund
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'calibri','sans-serif';margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><b><font style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ABERDEEN FUNDS</font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'calibri','sans-serif';margin-top:11.25pt;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><font style='font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Aberdeen Global Small Cap Fund<br /> (the "Fund")</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'calibri','sans-serif';margin-top:11.25pt;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><b><font style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Supplement to the Fund's Statutory Prospectus<br /> dated February 27, 2012, as supplemented to date</font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'calibri','sans-serif';"> </p>
The following information replaces the first two sentences in the second paragraph in the section entitled, "Summary — Aberdeen Global Small Cap Fund — Principal Strategies" on page 97 of the Fund's statutory prospectus:
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'calibri','sans-serif';"><font style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"'>The Fund considers a "small" company to be one whose market capitalization is within the range of capitalizations of companies in the MSCI World Small Cap Index at the time of purchase. As of September 25, 2012, the MSCI World Small Cap Index included companies with market capitalizations between $23.6 million and $6.0 billion.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'calibri','sans-serif';margin-top:11.25pt;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><b><font style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please keep this Supplement for future reference.</font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'calibri','sans-serif';margin-top:11.25pt;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><b><font style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This Supplement is dated September 27, 2012.</font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'calibri','sans-serif';"> </p>