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Asia Technology Fund

Powering the world's innovation

Asia equity fund seeking exposure to tech companies that we believe are driving the evolution or benefiting from the growing importance of Asia technology on the global stage.

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LIMITLESS POTENTIAL AHEAD

Join Portfolio Manager Yash Patodia and immerse yourself in the metaverse. Get a glimpse of the future of tech innovation and understand how it could change the way we do almost everything. The metaverse represents a step change in investment opportunity for the Asia tech sector as many of its critical enabling technologies are based in Asia.

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Asia Tech Wellcovered

Explore tech’s impact on life’s journey through the lens of WELL: Work, Experience, Life stages and Legacy.

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Work. Reimagined

Asia is home to many of the world’s leading tech companies behind today’s most innovative technologies. From software to hardware supply chains — in areas like processors, IoT, AI and 5G — Asia is fuelling the progress in precision and machine intelligence that will power the next phase of workplace innovation.

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Explore how tech can unlock possibilities in workplace innovation.

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Experience. Transformed

Asia is at the forefront of the secular trend of entertainment needs and, spurred by the leap in connectivity, is spearheading the innovation in the what and the how of the new generation of “fun”.

Tech WELLcovered | Experience Available now!

Read our new insight and explore how fun is evolving through tech’s disruption.

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Life stages. Fulfilled

With such dynamic demographics and strong spending power across Asia, tech companies are motivated to develop innovative products and services to cater to the region’s unique consumer needs at different life stages.

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Read our new insight and explore how tech is expanding your life’s potential.

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Legacy. Redefined

Asian tech companies are working hard to contribute to the security of the next generation’s future and fufill the region’s potential towards more inclusive and sustainable development.

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Read our new insight to explore how tech is moulding our definition of legacy in this generation.

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Reason to Invest

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Differentiated

In-depth exposure to tech, beyond the well-known global mega-cap stocks.

2

High-conviction

Seeks to invest in rapid innovators at an early stage of growth.

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Partnered research

Our duo of seasoned managers integrated within 15-person global technology team.

Data as of December 2020. Please refer to the investment risk section below.

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