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 Trustees, certain officers and directors of the investment advisers, affiliates of the investment advisers, 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.
Based solely on the Fund’s review of such forms filed on EDGAR or written representations from reporting persons that all reportable transactions were reported, to the knowledge of the Fund, during the fiscal period ended September 30, 2021, the Fund’s officers, Trustees and greater than 10% owners timely filed all reports they were required to file under Section 16(a), except that: (1) a Form 4 filing for Joshua Duitz, a Vice President / Portfolio Manager of the Fund, was made 2 days late with respect to an open-market purchase of Fund shares; and (2) a Form 3 filing for Archie Struthers, a director of the Fund’s investment adviser, was filed with the SEC four days subsequent to the 10-day period specified in the Form. The late Form 3 filing was required solely as a result of Mr. Struthers becoming a director of the Fund’s investment adviser, and was not related to any transactions in Fund shares.
Information Classification: General
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Shareholders and Board of Trustees of
Aberdeen Standard Global Infrastructure Income Fund:
In planning and performing our audit of the consolidated financial statements of Aberdeen Standard Global Infrastructure Income Fund (the “Fund”) as of and for the year ended September 30, 2021, 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 consolidated 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 Fund 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 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 Fund’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 September 30, 2021.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of management and the Board of Trustees of Aberdeen Standard Global Infrastructure Income Fund 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
November 24, 2021
Information Classification: General