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Performance overview

  • Asia ex-Japan equities recorded a sharply negative return in the third quarter, in sterling terms, largely driven by a significant sell-off in China. This was partially due to concerns over the ability of property group Evergrande to service its debts. 
  • Market concerns over inflation and interest rates also dampened investor confidence. China was the worst-performing index market amid a regulatory crackdown including on the education and technology sectors. 
  • Hong Kong and South Korea followed China, with both markets sharply lower as jitters spilled out into the wider region. Australia was down a little, but it materially outperformed the benchmark index.Indonesia was the strongest-performing market.
  • The fund produced a negative return, but significantly outperformed the MSCI AC Pacific ex Japan index over the month

Drivers of fund performance

  • The fund benefited from positive stock selection and country allocation.
  • At the regional level, country allocation was the principal driver of the fund’s positive relative returns. The underweighting of China and, to a lesser extent, the overweight exposure to Singapore was beneficial to returns. Positive stock selection was mainly driven by our Chinese and Korean holdings.
  • At the sector level, stock selection was strong, notably so in communication services. Sector allocation was also positive, with the underweighting of consumer discretionary proving to be beneficial. The lack of exposure to the Chinese internet names was a significant positive.

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  • The continued uptick in inflationary pressures globally and some doubts about the sustainability of growth have resulted in a more negative, potentially ‘stagflationary’ outlook for economies.
  • Chinese listed equities have confronted headwinds this year – notably the regulatory clampdown, the potential Evergrande default and a slowing economic recovery. Given the opacity of the authorities’ decision-making process, only time will tell how radical a reworking of corporate China may be underway.
  • Although initially regulatory announcements in China were focussed mainly on the internet and education sectors they have broadened out more recently and we continue to remain underweight China.
  • There is still a lot of uncertainty as to where near term dividend payments will go given the path of Covid-19. Renewed outbreaks and relatively lower vaccination rates across much of Asia naturally warrant caution.  All that said we still believe that in most cases this is more a matter of timing rather than these companies’ ability to pay. In the medium to long term dividends tend to follow earnings and we are starting to see earnings recover.
  • In terms of portfolio strategy, we maintain a bottom-up investment approach and we continue to look for good companies where we can see a strong income case and potential for capital growth.

Discrete yearly performance (%)

  May 12 – May 13 May 13 – May 14 May 14 – May 15 May 15 – May 16 May 16 – May 17 May 17 – May 18 May 18 – May 19 May 19 – May 20 May 20 - May 21 May 21- May 22
Share Price 37.5 -7.0 16.0 -4.6 37.3 7.2 0.8 -14.6 44.8 -0.3
Net Asset Value    - - - - - 10.3 0.2 -8.0 35.6 2.7
Reference Index 22.6 -2.0 15.3 -12.1 41.8 13.4 -5.1 2.1 30.1 -11.0

 

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Source: Morningstar, net income reinvested, net of ongoing charges and portfolio costs and where applicable, performance fees, in GBP.

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Investors in the emerging markets and the Far East should be aware that this involves a high degree of risk and should be seen as long term in nature. Less developed markets are generally less well regulated than the UK, they may be less liquid and may have less reliable arrangements for trading and settlement of the underlying holdings.

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The Company may borrow money to invest in further investments, this is known as gearing. Gearing will increase returns if the value of the investments purchased increase in value by more than the cost of borrowing, or reduce returns if they fail to do so.

Investment in warrants, participation certificates, guaranteed bonds, etc will expose the fund to the risk of the issuer of these instruments defaulting. Deducting charges from capital can result in the income paid by the company being higher than would otherwise be the case and the growth in the capital sum being eroded.

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