Steven Samuels - Insider Trading Tracker

abrdn Emerging Markets ex-China Fund, Inc.

US ˙ NYSEAM ˙ US00301W1053

Introduction

This page provides a comprehensive analysis of the known insider trading history of Steven Samuels. Insiders are officers, directors, or significant investors in a company. It is illegal for insiders to make trades in their companies based on specific, non-public information. This does not mean it is illegal for them to make any trades in their own companies. However, they must report all trades to the SEC via a Form 4. Despite these restrictions, academic research suggests that insiders - in general - tend to outperform the market in their own companies.

Average Trade Profitability

The average trade profitability is the average return of all the open market purchases made by the insider in the last three years. To calculate this, we examine every open-market, unplanned purchase made by the insider, excluding all trades that were marked as part of a 10b5-1 trading plan. We then calculate the average performance of those trades over 3, 6, and 12 months, averaging each of those durations to generate a final performance metric for each trade. Finally, we average all of the performance metrics to calculate a performance metric for the insider. This list only includes insiders that have made at least three trades in the last two years.

If this insiders trade profitability is "N/A", then the insider either has not made any open-market purchases in the last three years, or the trades they’ve made are too recent to calculate a reliable performance metric.

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Companies with Reported Insider Positions

The SEC filings indicate Steven Samuels has reported holdings or trades in the following companies:

Security	Title	Latest Reported Holdings
	10% Owner	15,606
US:AKP / Alliance California Municipal Income Fund, Inc.	10% Owner	1,086
US:PCF / High Income Securities Fund	10% Owner	0
US:AEF / abrdn Emerging Markets ex-China Fund, Inc.	10% Owner	21,107
US:JFC / JPMorgan China Region Fund, Inc.	10% Owner	845,368
US:PMO / Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust	10% Owner	0
US:PHF / Pacholder High Yield Fund, Inc.	10% Owner	1,408,152
	10% Owner	1,726,574
US:XRDC / Crossroads Capital, Inc.	10% Owner	826,327
US:LCM / Advent Claymore Convertible Securities and Income Fund II	10% Owner	927,037
US:DCA / Virtus Total Return Fund	10% Owner	1,553,860
US:SCZ / iShares Trust - iShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF	10% Owner	915,100
US:NRO / Neuberger Berman Real Estate Securities Income Fund Inc.	10% Owner	4,295,140
US:CTF / Nuveen Long/Short Commodity Total Return Fund	10% Owner	1,179,781
US:FAV / First Trust Dividend and Income Fund	10% Owner	1,951,679
US:JGV / Nuveen Global Equity Income Fund	10% Owner	2,194,974
US:HIL / Hill International Inc	10% Owner	29,212
US:RIT / LMP Real Estate Income Fund, Inc.	10% Owner	2,378,630
US:LBF / Deutsche Global High Income Fund, Inc.	10% Owner	480,946
	10% Owner	14,089
US:AYN /	10% Owner	559,507
US:IFT /	10% Owner	0
US:SVVC / Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc.	10% Owner	580,825
US:SPE / Special Opportunities Fund, Inc.		0

How to Interpret the Charts

The following charts show the stock performance of securities subsequent to each open-market, non-planned trade made by Steven Samuels. Non-planned trade are trades that were not made as part of a 10b5-1 trading plan. The stock performance is charted as cumulative percent change in share price. For example, if an insider trade was made on January 1, 2019, the chart will show the daily percent change of the security to the present day. If the share price were to go from $10 to $15 during this time, the cumulative percent change in share price would be 50%. A change in price from $10 to $20 would be 100%, and a change in price of $10 to $5 would be -50%.

Ultimately, we are trying to determine how closely the insider’s trades correlate to excess returns (positive or negative) in the share price in order to see if the insider is timing their trades to profit from insider information. Consider the situation where an insider was doing this. In this situation, we would expect either (a) positive returns after purchases, or (b) negative returns after sales. In the case of (a), the PURCHASE chart would show a series of upwardly sloping curves, indicating positive returns after each purchase transaction. In the case of (b), the SALE chart would show a series of downward sloping curves, indicating negative returns after each sale transaction.

However, this alone is not enough to draw conclusions. If, for example, the share price of the company was in a non-cyclical climb over many years, then we would expect all the post-purchase plots to be upwardly sloping. Likewise, non-cyclical declines over many years would result in downward sloping post-trade plots. Neither of these charts would suggest insider trading activity.

The strongest indicator would be a situation where the share price was extremely cyclical, and there were both positive signals in the PURCHASE chart and negative plots on the SALE chart. This situation would be highly suggestive of an insider that was timing trades to their financial advantage.

Insider Purchases AEF / abrdn Emerging Markets ex-China Fund, Inc. - Short Term Profit Analysis

In this section, we analyze the profitability of every unplanned, open-market insider purchase made in AEF / abrdn Emerging Markets ex-China Fund, Inc.. This analysis helps to understand if the insider consistently generates abnormal returns, and is worth following. This analysis is for one-year following each trade, and the results are theoretical.

The following table shows the most recent open market purchases that were not part of an automatic trading plan.

Trade Date	Ticker	Insider	Reported Shares	Reported Price	Adjusted Shares	Adjusted Price	Cost Basis	Days to Max	Price at Max	Max Profit ($)	Max Return (%)
There are no known unplanned open-market trades for this insider and security combination