Matthews Launches Five New Active ETFs to Provide Greater Customization in Emerging Markets
September 22 2023 - 10:00AM
Matthews further enhanced its Emerging Markets leadership in Active
ETFs today with the launch of five new actively managed
exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the New York Stock Exchange.
Following the launch of its Active ETFs platform last year, this
will bring the firm’s suite of Emerging Market and Asia-focused
ETFs to 10.
“At Matthews, we are pragmatic, skeptical, risk-aware, and
fact-based in our analysis of investment opportunities.
Sophisticated investors have long sought Emerging Market exposure,
for returns and diversification,” said Cooper Abbott, CEO of
Matthews. “After a period of under-allocation, institutions and
professional investors are increasingly seeking greater control by
adding more customized Emerging Market exposures to their
portfolios. We believe these new Active ETFs provide sophisticated
investors with the power of choice to selectively express their
investment views—both strategically and tactically. Investors can
directly invest in our new range of ETFs that seek to give them
exposure to entrepreneurial businesses benefiting from structural
growth drivers in India, or leading innovative champions in Japan,
or companies that are making a positive environmental, social and
economic impact in a broader Emerging Markets portfolio.”
Matthews’ full suite of transparent Active ETF strategies will
be substantially similar to our existing mutual funds. We believe
investors can benefit from the firm’s 30+ years of experience in
Asia and Emerging Markets as we utilize the same fundamental
research and macro-aware process used to build highly
differentiated portfolios that aim to generate above-index returns
by investing in companies not typically found in most broad
international strategies. The five new ETFs are:
- ASIA - Matthews Pacific Tiger Active ETF: A
core regional fund that seeks to invest in high quality growth
companies in Asia (ex Japan)
- INDE - Matthews India Active ETF: Single
country all-cap fund that seeks to invest in innovative and
entrepreneurial businesses across sectors and themes which we
believe will benefit from the country’s long-term structural growth
drivers
- JPAN - Matthews Japan Active ETF: Single
country all-cap high conviction fund that seeks to invest in
companies that are domestic, regional and global leaders in their
sectors
- ADVE - Matthews Asia Dividend Active ETF: A
core regional fund that seeks to invest in growth companies in Asia
Pacific with lower volatility
- EMSF - Matthews Emerging Markets Sustainable
Future Active ETF: Unconstrained, high conviction all-cap fund that
seeks to invest in companies we believe are focused on making
positive environmental, social and economic impact within global
Emerging Markets
“The launch of these new Active ETFs underscores our commitment
to building a high-quality ETF platform that enables our clients to
tailor their allocations within global Emerging Markets,” added
Mike Barrer, Head of ETF Capital Markets. “In a little over a year,
we believe we have built a platform of attractively priced ETFs
that were designed to allow investment professionals to benefit
from transparency, liquidity, and tax efficiency.”
The full Matthews Active ETF platform consists of: Emerging
Markets:
- Matthews Emerging Markets Equity Active ETF (NYSE Arca:
MEM)
- Matthews Emerging Markets ex China Active ETF (NYSE Arca:
MEMX)
- Matthews Emerging Markets Sustainable Future Active ETF (NYSE
Arca: EMSF)
Asia Growth:
- Matthews Asia Innovators Active ETF (NYSE Arca: MINV)
- Matthews Pacific Tiger Active ETF (NYSE Arca: ASIA)
Asia Growth and Income:
- Matthews Asia Dividend Active ETF (NYSE Arca: ADVE)
Country Specific:
- Matthews China Active ETF (NYSE Arca: MCH)
- Matthews Korea Active ETF (NYSE Arca: MKOR)
- Matthews India Active ETF (NYSE Arca: INDE)
- Matthews Japan Active ETF (NYSE Arca: JPAN)
About Matthews:
Matthews is an independent, privately owned investment manager
founded in 1991 on a belief that Global Emerging Markets offer
exceptional long-term growth potential. As a trusted and
experienced guide, Matthews takes a long-term, active, fundamental
investment approach to construct highly differentiated portfolios
that focus on Emerging Markets, Asia and China. The firm manages
assets on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors
globally in vehicles that include SMAs, mutual funds and active
ETFs. For more information about Matthews, please visit
www.matthewsasia.com.
You should carefully consider the investment objectives, risks,
charges and expenses of the Matthews Asia Funds before making an
investment decision. A prospectus with this and other information
about the Funds may be obtained by visiting matthewsasia.com.
Please read the prospectus carefully before investing.
The value of an investment in the Fund can go down as well as up
and possible loss of principal is a risk of investing. Investments
in international, emerging and frontier markets involve risks such
as economic, social and political instability, market illiquidity,
currency fluctuations, high levels of volatility, and limited
regulation. Additionally, investing in emerging and frontier
securities involves greater risks than investing in securities of
developed markets, as issuers in these countries generally disclose
less financial and other information publicly or restrict access to
certain information from review by non-domestic authorities.
Emerging and frontier markets tend to have less stringent and less
uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards,
limited regulatory or governmental oversight, and limited investor
protection or rights to take action against issuers, resulting in
potential material risks to investors. Investing in Chinese
securities involve risks. Heightened risks related to the
regulatory environment and the potential actions by the Chinese
government could negatively impact performance. In addition,
single-country and sector funds may be subject to a higher degree
of market risk than diversified funds because of concentration in a
specific industry, sector or geographic location. Pandemics and
other public health emergencies can result in market volatility and
disruption.
ETFs may trade at a premium or discount to NAV. Shares of any
ETF are bought and sold at market price (not NAV) and are not
individually redeemed from the Fund. Brokerage commissions will
reduce returns.
Matthews Asia Funds are distributed in the U.S. by Foreside
Distributors LLC and in Latin America by Picton, S.A.
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