Matthews Asia has rolled out a new strategic income fund that invests in both local and external currency Asian corporate and sovereign bonds.
Known as Matthews Asia Strategic Income Fund, the Luxembourg-domiciled UCITS fund will be managed by Teresa Kong, alongside portfolio managers Gerald Hwang and Satya Patel.
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The fund will invest 80% of its net assets in bonds and other debt securities of Asian corporate and sovereign issuers in both local and hard currencies.
Designed to offer investors a lower risk and lower volatility profile than our other Funds, the new strategy will invest in income-generating securities across currencies and the capital structure.
It seeks to generate total return via credit, currencies and interest rates through a bottom-up investment approach.
Kong said: "Investors’ fixed income portfolios tend to be underinvested in Asia since widely used global debt benchmarks generally allocate to the most indebted countries as opposed to the most creditworthy.
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By GlobalData"Dedicated Asian fixed income allocations enable investors to potentially create a more diversified exposure across interest rate, credit and currency while enhancing the overall risk-return profile of a fixed income portfolio," he added.
