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Work. Reimagined

Creativity augmented by AI

Work is about completing tasks and technology has rapidly improved scale and efficiency.

Your future work life will see tech drive progress beyond your imagination, harnessing advances in automation, machine learning and much more.

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Experience. Transformed

Be in two places at once...

Experience refers to how we spend our time outside of work, and technology now offers you more options than ever before.

Workplace innovation will continue to expand your leisure time and technologies like 5G, AI and augmented reality will transform your experiences, enhancing everything from music and gaming to travel.

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Life stages. Fulfilled

Untangling uncertainty with clarity...

Different life stages have different needs. In areas like health care, education and retirement planning, we’ve seen the status quo disrupted by innovation.

For the next phase, we expect technologies like AI and genomic sequencing to help you better fulfill your life’s aspirations.

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Legacy. Redefined

Beyond the passing of wealth...

Legacy used to only mean the wealth you left behind. But today, it’s about what kind of world we are going to leave for our future generations.

Tech and innovation will have huge implications on the sustainability, diversity and equity of tomorrow.

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LIMITLESS POTENTIAL AHEAD

Even your morning cup of joe is now powered by innovation. The future of Work, Experience, Life stages and Legacy will no doubt see huge disruption from technology. The innovations we’re witnessing today are only the beginning.

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At Wellington, we believe our active and research-oriented funds have tech WELLcovered and will enable us to uncover the opportunities that are most likely to have the potential to prosper and endure for the long term.

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Asia Technology Fund

This fund offers access to a sector at the forefront of innovation in nearly every segment of the economy, is less concentrated in mega-tech names than many peers and has the potential to harness lesser-known opportunities through on-the-ground research in Asia.

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Invest in the growth of financial tech

FinTech Fund

With a long-term, pure-play approach to יִntech — focused on quality companies and managed by a highly experienced team with over two decades of experience investing in the sector, we believe this fund offers differentiated exposure to enduring innovation and disruption.

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Extend exposure to innovation beyond tech

Global Innovation Fund

This fund focuses on innovative companies, across sectors and geographies, with growth potential driven by differentiated product sets or seismic structural changes. We believe this offers compelling access to secular trends from machine learning to immuno-oncology to climate change.

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WELLINGTON AT WORK

Collaboration is Wellington's research edge. We pair deep research resources — industry research analysts — with independent portfolio teams operating in an entrepreneurial environment. Every portfolio manager has their own team, philosophy and process. But crucially, they draw on global and local expertise across the broad and deep research resources of the firm

* The figures regarding investment staff do not include support staff and other employees. All figures as of December 2020

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Investment professionals globally*

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Our research resources

Global Technology Team

Each of our targeted tech and innovation approaches is supported by the robust expertise of our Global Technology Team.

10

Team members

19

Average years of experience

Global Finance Team

Our Global Finance Team offers critical insights on the industries being impacted by fintech disruption.

10

Team members

24

Average years of experience

Industry Research Analysts

Technology and innovation are increasingly disrupting every segment of the economy. Our industry research analysts offer incredible depth and breadth of expertise to help us find opportunities across industries

55

Team members

19

Average years of experience

ESG Research Team

Environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities are more relevant than ever. Our dedicated ESG Research Team provides in-depth insights on every market and company that we research.

12

Team members

16

Average years of experience

Macroanalysts

Our macroanalysts help our portfolio management teams better understand the macro factors impacting innovative and disruptive companies.

13

Team members

23

Average years of experience

Investment Science Team

Our investment and data science capabilities offer our technology team differentiated insights on opportunities and risks leveraging the latest innovations in investment science.

56

Team members

16

Average years of experience

Product specialists

Our product management team works closely with our investors to help oversee positioning, performance and risk exposures and manage business issues. This enables our investors to focus on finding the best opportunities for our clients.

8

Team members

14

Average years of experience

Broad research resources

The portfolio management teams also leverage the expertise of more than 800 investors across fixed income, commodities, currency and other investment disciplines.

800+

Investment professionals

17

Average years of experience

Asia Tech FinTech Global Innovation
Asia Technology Fund >

Anita Killian, CFA, Tokyo
33 years of experience

4 Team members

Yash Patodia, Singapore
13 years of experience

21Average years of experience
All figures as of December 2020
FinTech Fund >

Bruce Glazer, Boston
28 years of experience

5 Team members
19Average years of experience
All figures as of December 2020
Global Innovation Fund >

Michael Masdea, Boston
23 years of experience

2 Team members

Brian Barbetta, Boston
13 years of experience

19Average years of experience
All figures as of December 2020
Asia Tech
Asia Technology Fund >

Anita Killian, CFA, Tokyo
33 years of experience

Yash Patodia, Singapore
13 years of experience

4 Team
members
21Average years
of experience
All figures as of December 2020
FinTech
FinTech Fund >

Bruce Glazer, Boston
28 years of experience

5 Team members
19Average years
of experience
All figures as of December 2020
Global Innovation
Global Innovation Fund >

Michael Masdea, Boston
23 years of experience

Brian Barbetta, Boston
13 years of experience

2 Team members
19Average years
of experience
All figures as of December 2020

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