ABRDN GLOBAL DYNAMIC DIVIDEND FUND ABRDN TOTAL DYNAMIC DIVIDEND FUND ABRDN GLOBAL PREMIER PROPERTIES FUND 1900 Market Street, Suite 200

Philadelphia, PA 19103

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETINGS OF SHAREHOLDERS

To be held on May 16, 2024

TO THE SHAREHOLDERS:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual meeting of shareholders of each of abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund, abrdn Total Dynamic Dividend Fund and abrdn Global Premier Properties Fund (each, a "Fund," and collectively, the "Funds") and any adjournments or postponements thereof will be held at the offices of abrdn Inc., located at 1900 Market Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19103 (each meeting, an "Annual Meeting," and collectively, the "Annual Meetings") on the following dates and at the following times:

abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE: AGD)

May 16, 2024

9:00 a.m. Eastern Time

abrdn Total Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE: AOD)

May 16, 2024

9:30 a.m. Eastern Time

abrdn Global Premier Properties Fund (NYSE: AWP)

May 16, 2024

10:00 a.m. Eastern Time

The purpose of the Annual Meetings is to consider and act upon the following proposals (each, a "Proposal") for each Fund, as applicable, and to consider and act upon such other matters as may properly come before the Annual Meetings or any adjournments or postponements thereof:

AGD - To elect one Class I Trustee to serve until the 2027 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, or until such Trustee's successor is duly elected and qualified.

AOD - To elect one Class I Trustee to serve until the 2027 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, or until such Trustee's successor is duly elected and qualified.

AWP - To elect one Class I Trustee to serve until the 2027 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, or until such Trustee's successor is duly elected and qualified.

Each Proposal is discussed in greater detail in the enclosed Joint Proxy Statement. You are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting of a Fund if you owned shares of such Fund at the close of business on April 1, 2024 (the "Record Date"). Even if you expect to attend an Annual Meeting, please complete, date, sign and return the enclosed proxy card(s) in the enclosed postage-paid envelope or authorize your proxy by telephone or through the Internet.

We will admit to an Annual Meeting (1) all shareholders of record on the Record Date, (2) persons holding proof of beneficial ownership on the Record Date, such as a letter or account statement from the person's broker,

  1. persons who have been granted proxies, and (4) such other persons that we, in our sole discretion, may elect to admit. All persons wishing to be admitted to an Annual Meeting must present photo identification. If you plan to attend an Annual Meeting, we ask that you call us in advance at 1-800-522-5465.

This Notice and related proxy materials are first being mailed to shareholders on or about April 8, 2024.

Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Annual Meetings of Shareholders to Be Held on Thursday, May 16, 2024: This Notice, the Joint Proxy Statement and the form of proxy cards are available on the Internet at https://www.abrdnagd.com (for AGD) https://www.abrdnaod.com (for AOD) and https://www.abrdnawp.com (for AWP). On each Fund's website, you will be able to access the Notice, the Joint Proxy Statement, the form of proxy card(s) and any amendments or supplements to the foregoing materials that are required to be furnished to shareholders.

By order of the Boards of Trustees,

Megan Kennedy, Vice President and Secretary abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund abrdn Total Dynamic Dividend Fund

abrdn Global Premier Properties Fund

TO AVOID THE UNNECESSARY EXPENSE OF FURTHER SOLICITATION, WHETHER OR NOT YOU PLAN TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL MEETINGS, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOUR SHARES BE REPRESENTED AND VOTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETINGS.ACCORDINGLY,YOU ARE REQUESTED TO PLEASE DATE, SIGN AND RETURN THE ENCLOSED PROXY CARD(S) FOR THE ANNUAL MEETINGS PROMPTLY, OR TO AUTHORIZE THE PROXY VOTE BY TELEPHONE OR THROUGH THE INTERNET PURSUANT TO THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE ENCLOSED PROXY CARD(S). NO POSTAGE IS REQUIRED IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STATES. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOUR PROXY CARD(S) BE RETURNED PROMPTLY IN ORDER TO AVOID THE ADDITIONAL EXPENSE OF FURTHER SOLICITATION.

April 8, 2024

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

ABRDN GLOBAL DYNAMIC DIVIDEND FUND ("AGD")

ABRDN TOTAL DYNAMIC DIVIDEND FUND ("AOD")

ABRDN GLOBAL PREMIER PROPERTIES FUND ("AWP")

(each, a "Fund" and collectively, the "Funds")

1900 Market Street, Suite 200

Philadelphia, PA 19103

JOINT PROXY STATEMENT

For the Annual Meetings of Shareholders

each to be held on May 16, 2024

This Joint Proxy Statement is furnished in connection with the solicitation of proxies by each Fund's Board of Trustees (each, a "Board," and collectively, the "Boards," with members of each Board being referred to as "Trustees") to be voted at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of each Fund (each, a "Meeting," and collectively, the "Meetings") and at any adjournments or postponements thereof to be held at the offices of abrdn Inc., located at 1900 Market Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19103 on the following dates and at the following times:

abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE: AGD)

May 16, 2024

9:00 a.m. Eastern Time

abrdn Total Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE: AOD)

May 16, 2024

9:30 a.m. Eastern Time

abrdn Global Premier Properties Fund (NYSE: AWP)

May 16, 2024

10:00 a.m. Eastern Time

A Notice of Annual Meetings of Shareholders and a proxy card (the "Proxy Card") accompany this Joint Proxy Statement. This Joint Proxy Statement is first being mailed on or about April 8, 2024 to shareholders of record as of April 1, 2024.

The purpose of each Meeting is to consider and act upon the following proposals (each a "Proposal"), as applicable to each Fund:

AGD - To elect one Class I Trustee to serve until the 2027 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, or until such Trustee's successor is duly elected and qualified.

AOD - To elect one Class I Trustee to serve until the 2027 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, or until such Trustee's successor is duly elected and qualified.

AWP - To elect one Class I Trustee to serve until the 2027 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, or until such Trustee's successor is duly elected and qualified.

All properly executed proxies received prior to a Meeting will be voted at that Meeting, or at any adjournments or postponements thereof, in accordance with the instructions marked on the Proxy Card. Unless instructions to the contrary are marked on the Proxy Card, proxies received will be voted "FOR" each Proposal. The persons named as proxy holders on the Proxy Card will vote in their discretion on any other matters that may properly come before each Meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof. Any Proxy Card may be revoked at any time prior to its exercise by submitting a properly executed, subsequently dated Proxy Card, giving written notice to Megan Kennedy, Secretary of the Fund(s), 1900 Market Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19103, or by attending a Meeting and voting in person. Shareholders may authorize proxy voting by using the enclosed Proxy Card along with the enclosed envelope with pre-paid postage. Shareholders may also authorize proxy voting by telephone or through the internet by following the instructions contained on the Proxy Card. Shareholders do not have dissenter's rights of appraisal in connection with any of the matters to be voted on by the shareholders at each Meeting.

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In order to transact business at the Meetings, a "quorum" must be present for each Meeting. Under each Fund's Agreement and Declaration of Trust, a quorum is constituted by the presence in person or by proxy of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of the respective Fund on the record date. Abstentions and broker non-votes (i.e., proxies from brokers or nominees indicating that they have not received instructions from the beneficial owners on an item for which the brokers or nominees do not have discretionary power to vote) will be treated as present for determining whether a quorum is present with respect to a particular matter at a Meeting.

The election of a Trustee to a Board requires the affirmative vote of a plurality of the shares entitled to vote for the election of any Trustee present or represented by proxy at a Meeting with a quorum present. Under a plurality vote, the nominees who receive the highest number of votes will be elected even if they receive less than a majority of the votes. For purposes of the election of Trustees, abstentions and broker non-votes will be counted as shares present for quorum purposes, but will not be treated as votes cast. Abstentions and broker non-votes, therefore, will have no effect on the election of the Trustees. All properly executed proxies received prior to the Meetings will be voted, at the Meetings or at any adjournments or postponements thereof, in accordance with the instructions marked thereon. Proxies received prior to the Meetings on which no vote is indicated will be voted "FOR" the election of the Trustees.

Brokers holding shares of a Fund in "street name" for the benefit of their customers and clients will request the instructions of such customers and clients on how to vote their shares before the Meetings. Under the rules of the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE"), such brokers may, for certain "routine" matters, grant discretionary authority to the proxies designated by a Board to vote if no instructions have been received from their customers and clients prior to the date specified in the brokers' request for voting instructions. Each Proposal is a "routine" matter and accordingly beneficial owners who do not provide proxy instructions or who do not return a proxy card may have their shares voted by broker-dealer firms in favor of the Proposal.

The chair of a Meeting shall have the power to adjourn the Meeting without further notice other than announcement at that Meeting. Each Board of Trustees also has the power to postpone a Meeting to a later date and/or time in advance of the Meeting. Abstentions and broker non-votes will have the same effect at any adjourned or postponed meeting as noted above. Any business that might have been transacted at a Meeting may be transacted at any such adjourned or postponed session(s) at which a quorum is present.

Written notice of an adjournment of a Meeting, stating the place, date and hour thereof, shall be given to each shareholder entitled to vote thereat at least ten (10) days prior to the Meeting, if the Meeting is adjourned to a date more than one hundred twenty (120) days after the original Record Date set for the Meeting.

We will admit to each Meeting (1) all shareholders of record on April 1, 2024 (the "Record Date"), (2) persons holding proof of beneficial ownership on the Record Date, such as a letter or account statement from the person's broker, (3) persons who have been granted proxies, and (4) such other persons that we, in our sole discretion, may elect to admit. To gain admittance, if you are a shareholder of record or a proxy holder of a shareholder of record, you must bring a form of personal identification to the Meeting, where your name will be verified against our shareholder list. If a broker or other nominee holds your shares and you plan to attend a Meeting, you should bring a recent brokerage statement showing your ownership of the shares, as well as a form of personal identification. If you are a beneficial owner and plan to vote at a Meeting, you should also bring a proxy card from your broker.

Each Board has fixed the close of business on April 1, 2024 as the Record Date for the determination of shareholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, each Meeting and at any adjournment or postponement thereof.

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Each Fund has one class of shares, no par value per share. Each share of a Fund is entitled to one vote at the Meeting, and fractional shares are entitled to a proportionate share of one vote. On the Record Date, the following number of shares of each Fund were issued and outstanding:

AGD 24,865,080

AOD 105,430,998

AWP 85,407,951

Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Meetings to Be Held on Thursday, May 16, 2024: The Proxy Materials and each Fund's most recent annual report for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2023 are available on the Internet at https://www.abrdnagd.com (for AGD) https://www.abrdnaod.com (for AOD) and https://www.abrdnawp.com (for AWP). Each Fund will furnish, without charge, a copy of its annual report for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2023 and any more recent reports, to any Fund shareholder upon request. To request a copy, please write to the Funds c/o abrdn Inc., 1900 Market Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19103, or call 1-800-522-5465. You may also call for information on how to obtain directions to be able to register to attend a Meeting.

The Election of one Class I Trustee

Pursuant to each Fund's Agreement and Declaration of Trust, each Board is divided into three classes, as nearly equal in number as possible, each of which will serve for three years, with one class being elected each year. If elected, each nominee is entitled to hold office until a Fund's annual meeting of shareholders in the year noted below or until his or her successor is elected and qualifies. Trustees who are deemed "interested persons" (as that term is defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"), of a Fund, the Fund's investment adviser, abrdn Investments Limited (the "Investment Adviser") or, with respect to abrdn Global Premier Properties Fund, the Fund's investment sub-adviser, abrdn Inc. (the "Sub-Adviser"), are referred to in this Joint Proxy Statement as "Interested Trustees." Trustees who are not interested persons, as described above, are referred to in this Joint Proxy Statement as "Independent Trustees."

Each Board, including the Independent Trustees, upon the recommendation of such Board's Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, which is composed entirely of Independent Trustees, has nominated the following nominee to its Board:

abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund abrdn Total Dynamic Dividend Fund abrdn Global Premier Properties Fund

John Sievwright (Class I Trustee, 3-year term ending 2027) John Sievwright (Class I Trustee, 3-year term ending 2027) John Sievwright (Class I Trustee, 3-year term ending 2027)

The nominee has indicated an intention to serve as Trustee if elected and has consented to be named in this Joint Proxy Statement.

It is the intention of the persons named as proxies on the enclosed Proxy Card(s) to vote "FOR" the election of the nominee for each Class I Trustee to serve for a three-year term. Each Board knows of no reason why the nominee would be unable to serve, but in the event of any such inability, the proxies received will be voted for such substituted nominee as such Board may recommend.

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The following tables set forth certain information regarding the nominee for election to the Boards of the Funds, Trustees whose terms of office continue beyond the Meetings, and the principal officers of the Funds. abrdn Inc., its parent company abrdn plc, and its advisory affiliates are collectively referred to as "abrdn" in the tables below.

Number of

Registered

Investment

Companies

("Registrants")

consisting of

Investment

("Portfolios")

in Fund

Complex*

Other

Overseen by

Directorships

Position(s)

Term of Office

Principal Occupation(s)

Trustee or

Held by Trustee

Name, Address and

Held with

and Length of

During at Least the

Nominee for

or Nominee for

Year of Birth

Fund

Time Served

Past Five Years

Trustee

Trustee***

Nominee for Independent Trustee:

John Sievwright** †

Class I Trustee Term expires 2024

c/o abrdn Inc.

for each Fund

1900 Market Street,

Trustee of each

Suite 200

Fund since 2018

Philadelphia, PA 19103

Year of Birth: 1955

Mr. Sievwright is a Non-

6 Registrants

Non-Executive

Executive Director of

consisting of

Director of

Burford Capital Ltd (since

8 Portfolios

Burford Capital

May 2020) (provider of

Ltd (provider of

legal, finance, complex

legal finance,

strategies, post-settlement

complex

finance and asset

strategies, post-

management services and

settlement

products) and Revolut

finance and asset

Limited, a UK-based digital

management

banking firm (since

services and

August 2021) and Chair of

products) since

the Board of LoopFX (fin-

May 2020.

tech start-up operating in

large foreign currency

institutional transactions)

(since Sept. 2022).

6

Number of

Registered

Investment

Companies

("Registrants")

consisting of

Investment

("Portfolios")

in Fund

Complex*

Other

Overseen by

Directorships

Position(s)

Term of Office

Principal Occupation(s)

Trustee or

Held by Trustee

Name, Address and

Held with

and Length of

During at Least the

Nominee for

or Nominee for

Year of Birth

Fund

Time Served

Past Five Years

Trustee

Trustee***

Interested Trustee whose term of office continues beyond the Meetings:

Stephen Bird††

Class III

Term expires 2026

c/o abrdn Inc.

Trustee

for each Fund

1900 Market St.,

Trustee of each

Suite 200,

Fund since 2021

Philadelphia, PA 19103

Year of Birth: 1967

Mr. Bird joined the Board of

15 Registrants None.

abrdn plc in July 2020 as

consisting of

Chief Executive-Designate

33 Portfolios

and was formally appointed

Chief Executive Officer in

September 2020. Previously,

Mr. Bird served as chief

executive officer of global

consumer banking at

Citigroup from 2015, retiring

from the role in November

2019. His responsibilities

encompassed all consumer

and commercial banking

businesses in 19 countries,

including retail banking and

wealth management, credit

cards, mortgages, and

operations and technology

supporting these businesses.

Prior to this, Mr. Bird was

chief executive for all of

Citigroup's Asia Pacific

business lines across

17 markets in the region,

including India and China.

Mr. Bird joined Citigroup in

1998, and during his

21 years with the company

he held a number of

leadership roles in banking,

operations and technology

across its Asian and Latin

American businesses. Before

this, he held management

positions in the UK at GE

Capital-where he was

director of UK operations

from 1996 to 1998-and at

British Steel.

7

Number of

Registered

Investment

Companies

("Registrants")

consisting of

Investment

("Portfolios")

in Fund

Complex*

Other

Overseen by

Directorships

Position(s)

Term of Office

Principal Occupation(s)

Trustee or

Held by Trustee

Name, Address and

Held with

and Length of

During at Least the

Nominee for

or Nominee for

Year of Birth

Fund

Time Served

Past Five Years

Trustee

Trustee***

Independent Trustees whose terms of office continue beyond the Meetings:

P. Gerald Malone** †

Chair of the

Term expires 2025

c/o abrdn Inc.

Board; Class II

for each Fund

1900 Market Street,

Trustee

Trustee of each

Suite 200

Fund since 2018

Philadelphia, PA 19103

Year of Birth: 1950

Mr. Malone is, by profession,

8 Registrants None.

a lawyer of over 40 years.

consisting of

Currently, he is a non-

26 Portfolios

executive director of a

number of U.S. companies,

including Medality Medical

(medical technology

company) since 2018. He is

also Chairman of many of

the open and closed end

funds in the Fund Complex.

He previously served as a

non-executive director of

U.S. healthcare company

Bionik Laboratories Corp.

(2018-July 2022), as

Independent Chairman of

UK companies Crescent

OTC Ltd (pharmaceutical

services) until February

2018; and fluidOil Ltd. (oil

services) until June 2018;

U.S. company Rejuvenan llc

(wellbeing services) until

September 2017 and as

chairman of UK company

Ultrasis plc (healthcare

software services company)

until October 2014.

Mr. Malone was previously a

Member of Parliament in the

U.K. from 1983 to 1997 and

served as Minister of State

for Health in the U.K.

government from 1994 to

1997.

8

Number of

Registered

Investment

Companies

("Registrants")

consisting of

Investment

("Portfolios")

in Fund

Complex*

Other

Overseen by

Directorships

Position(s)

Term of Office

Principal Occupation(s)

Trustee or

Held by Trustee

Name, Address and

Held with

and Length of

During at Least the

Nominee for

or Nominee for

Year of Birth

Fund

Time Served

Past Five Years

Trustee

Trustee***

Todd Reit

Class II

Term expires 2025

c/o abrdn Inc.

Trustee

for each Fund

1900 Market Street,

Trustee of each

Suite 200

Fund since 2023

Philadelphia, PA 19103

Year of Birth: 1968

Mr. Reit is a Managing

9 Registrants None.

Member of Cross Brook

consisting of

Partners LLC, a real estate

9 Portfolios

investment and management

company since 2017.

Mr. Reit is also Director and

Financial Officer of Shelter

Our Soldiers, a charity to

support military veterans,

since 2016. Mr. Reit was

formerly a Managing

Director and Global Head of

Asset Management

Investment Banking for

UBS AG, where he was

responsible for overseeing all

the bank's asset management

client relationships globally,

including all corporate

security transactions,

mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Reit retired from UBS in

2017 after an over 25-year

career at the company and its

predecessor company,

PaineWebber Incorporated

(merged with UBS AG in

2000).

9

Number of

Registered

Investment

Companies

("Registrants")

consisting of

Investment

("Portfolios")

in Fund

Complex*

Other

Overseen by

Directorships

Position(s)

Term of Office

Principal Occupation(s)

Trustee or

Held by Trustee

Name, Address and

Held with

and Length of

During at Least the

Nominee for

or Nominee for

Year of Birth

Fund

Time Served

Past Five Years

Trustee

Trustee***

Nancy Yao** †

Class III

Term expires 2026

c/o abrdn Inc.

Trustee

Trustee of each

1900 Market Street,

Fund since 2018

Suite 200

Philadelphia, PA 19103

Year of Birth: 1972

Ms. Yao is a lecturer on

8 Registrants None.

accounting and governance

consisting of

at Yale University. She is also

8 Portfolios

a strategic consultant.

Ms. Yao was the President of

the Museum of Chinese in

America from 2015 until

2023. Prior to that, she

served as the executive

director of the Yale-China

Association and managing

director of the corporate

program at the Council on

Foreign Relations. Prior to

her work in non-profit,

Ms. Yao launched the Asia

coverage at the Center for

Financial Research and

Analysis (currently known as

RiskMetrics), served as the

inaugural director of policy

research of Goldman Sachs'

Global Markets Institute, and

was an investment banker at

Goldman Sachs (Asia)

L.L.C. Ms. Yao is a board

member of the National

Committee on U.S.-China

Relations, a member of the

Council on Foreign

Relations.

  • As of the most recent fiscal year end, the Fund Complex has a total of 18 Registrants with each Board member serving on the number of Registrants listed. Each Registrant in the Fund Complex has one Portfolio except for two Registrants that are open- end funds, abrdn Funds and abrdn ETFs, which each have multiple portfolios, The Registrants in the Fund Complex are as follows: abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund, Inc., abrdn Global Income Fund, Inc., abrdn Australia Equity Fund, Inc., abrdn Japan Equity Fund, Inc., The India Fund, Inc., abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund, Inc., abrdn Income Credit Strategies Fund, abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund, abrdn Total Dynamic Dividend Fund, abrdn Global Premier Properties Fund, abrdn Global Infrastructure Income Fund, abrdn National Municipal Income Fund, abrdn Healthcare Investors, abrdn Life Sciences Investors, abrdn Healthcare Opportunities Fund, abrdn World Healthcare Fund, abrdn Funds (which consists of 19 portfolios) and abrdn ETFs (which consists of 3 portfolios).
  • Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
  • Current directorships (excluding Fund Complex) as of the most recent fiscal year end held in (1) any other investment companies registered under the 1940 Act, (2) any company with a class of securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities

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