0001752724-23-058674.txt : 20230316 0001752724-23-058674.hdr.sgml : 20230316 20230316155603 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001752724-23-058674 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: N-CEN PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 4 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20221231 FILED AS OF DATE: 20230316 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20230316 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20230316 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ABRDN EMERGING MARKETS EQUITY INCOME FUND, INC. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000846676 IRS NUMBER: 222990009 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MD FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: N-CEN SEC ACT: 1940 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 811-05770 FILM NUMBER: 23738650 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 EMERGING MARKETS EQUITY INCOME FUND, INC. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20180501 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ABERDEEN CHILE FUND, INC. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20100407 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: CHILE FUND INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 N-CEN 1 primary_doc.xml X0404 N-CEN LIVE 0000846676 XXXXXXXX 811-05770 false false false N-2 abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund, Inc. 811-05770 0000846676 549300MSYUW07RYUZD27 1900 Market Street Suite 200 PHILADELPHIA 19103 US-PA US 215-405-5700 State Street Bank and Trust Company 1 Lincoln Street Boston 02111 617-786-3000 Custody and Accounting Records. N N N-2 Y Steven Rappaport N/A N C. 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Morgan Securities LLC 8-35008 000000079 ZBUT11V806EZRVTWT807 12665.38000000 195603.20000000 State Street Bank and Trust Company N/A N/A 571474TGEMMWANRLN572 171388612.46000000 171388612.46000000 N 338317967.25384615 Common stock Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund, Inc. N N N N N N 0.88000000 1.65000000 5.15000000 5.78000000 true true true MATERIAL AMENDMENTS 2 NCEN_811-05770_13053016_1222.htm aefitemg1bi-materialamendmen.htm - Generated by SEC Publisher for SEC Filing

 

 

Item G.1.b.i.  material amendments to organizational documents.

 

(1)

ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT

for a

MARYLAND    For-Profit    CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

(2)


(1)

Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund, Inc.

,

a Maryland corporation, certifies to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland that the charter

of the corporation shall be and hereby is amended as follows:

 

(3)

The name of the entity has been amended to: abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Fund, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(4)


This amendment of the charter of the corporation has been approved by

a majority of the entire Board of Directors of the Corporation and is limited to a change expressly

 

 

authorized by Section 2-605 of the Maryland General Corporation Law to be made without action by the stockholders.

 

 

The undersigned acknowledges that this is an act of the above-named corporation, and verifies, under the penalties for perjury, that the matters and facts stated herein, which require such verification, are true and accurate, to the best of his/her knowledge, information, and belief.

 

 

(5) /s Megan Kenndy                                                                (5)   /s/ Robert Hepp                                                                                   

ATTESTED TO BY (signature/title) Megan Kennedy, Sec.

(6)    Return address of filing party:


SIGNED BY (signature/title)


Robert Hepp, VP

 

C/O CSC-LAWYERS INCORPORATING

SERVICE COMPANY

 

 

7 SAINT PAUL ST., STE 820, BALTIMORE, MD 21202

 


 

(2)

CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION

 

Any Charter document filed with the Maryland Department of Assessments & Taxation under Titles 1 through 5 or Titles 8 and 10 that contains any typographical error or other error, may be corrected by filing a Certificate of Correction. The filing fee is $25 for standard processing or $75 for expedited processing.

 

First - Entity name: abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Fund, Inc.

 

 

Second - The title of the document being corrected is:

Articles of Amendment

 

Third - The name of each party to the document being corrected is:

Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund, Inc., abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Fund, Inc.

 

Fourth - The date that the document being corrected was filed is:

June 14, 2022

 

Fifth - The provision in the document as previously filed:

The name of the entity has been amended to: abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Fund, Inc.

 

The Articles of Amendment shall be effective at 12:01 a.m. on June 30, 2022

 

Sixth - The provision in the document as corrected:

The name of the entity has been amended to: abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund, Inc.

 

The Articles of Amendment shall be effective at 12:01 a.m. on June 30, 2022

 

I hereby certify under penalties of perjury that the affirmation statements are, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true.

 

This certificate of correction shall be executed in the same manner in which the document being corrected is/was required to be executed at the time of the filing of the certificate of correction.

 

/s/ Robert Hepp

 

Signature / Title Robert Hepp, VP


/s/ Megan Kennedy

Signature / Title


Megan Kennedy, VP and Secretary


 

Signature / Title                                                            Signature / Title

 

 

 

INTERNAL CONTROL RPT 3 NCEN_811-05770_30409951_1222.htm aefncen-clean.htm - Generated by SEC Publisher for SEC Filing

 

 

 

 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Shareholders and Board of Directors
abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund, Inc.:

In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund, Inc. (the Fund) as of and for the year ended December 31, 2022, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), we considered the Fund's internal control over financial reporting, including controls over safeguarding securities, as a basis for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to comply with the requirements of Form N-CEN, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Management of the Fund is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting. In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of controls. A company's internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company's internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company's assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

A deficiency in internal control over financial reporting exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent or detect misstatements on a timely basis. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

Our consideration of the Fund's internal control over financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in the first paragraph and would not necessarily disclose all deficiencies in internal control that might be material weaknesses under standards established by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). However, we noted no deficiencies in the Fund's internal control over financial reporting and its operation, including controls over safeguarding securities, that we consider to be a material weakness as defined above as of December 31, 2022.


 

This report is intended solely for the information and use of the management and the Board of Directors of abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund, Inc. and the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than these specified parties.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 28, 2023

 

 

ITEM 405 REG S-K 4 NCEN_811-05770_59224987_1222.htm aefitemg1biv-delinquentsecti.htm - Generated by SEC Publisher for SEC Filing

Item G.1.b.iv.  Information called for by Item 405 of Regulation S-K:

Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports

Section 16(a) of the 1934 Act and Section 30(h) of the 1940 Act, as applied to the Fund, require the Fund's officers and Directors, certain officers and directors of the Investment Adviser, affiliates of the Investment Adviser, and persons who beneficially own more than 10% of the Fund's outstanding securities to electronically file reports of ownership of the Fund's securities and changes in such ownership with the SEC and the NYSE American.

Based solely upon the Fund's review of the copies of such forms filed on EDGAR or written representations from reporting persons that all reportable transactions were reported, to the knowledge of the Fund, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, the Fund's officers, Directors and greater than 10% owners timely filed all reports they were required to file under Section 16(a), except that (i) late Form 3 filings were submitted for Robert Hepp and Andrew Kim following their respective appointments as Vice Presidents of the Fund; and (ii) late Form 3 filings were submitted for Grant Hotson and Neil Slater in connection with their respective appointments as directors of the Fund’s investment adviser.