Fidelity Asian Values: attractive undervalued Asian businesses to bear fruit

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Fidelity Asian Values plc (LON:FAS) has announced its monthly summary for June 2024.

Portfolio Manager Commentary 

The Trust’s NAV rose 9.6% during the 12-month period ended 30 June 2024, underperforming its reference index which rose by 21.4%. The Trust’s share price rose 0.3% over the same period.   

Stock selection was the key contributor to the Trust’s relative performance. Our investment process leads us to take contrarian positions in undervalued businesses. We have been finding a lot of such opportunities in China, where heighted perception of risks has led to a sharp decline in stock prices. But despite attractive valuations China continues to underperform and drag down the Trust’s relative returns versus the index. A large part of the Trust’s underperformance also came from Indonesia, where we have a large bottomup driven overweight versus the index, as Indonesian market continued to underperform other Asian markets during the period. From a sector perspective, selections within information technology and utilities added value.   

Given this approach, stock selection was the key contributor to the Trust’s relative performance. Of late, investors seem to be rotating out of growth stocks and into value names in the Asian small cap space, which also aided performance. This trend should continue as small cap value stocks remain at a significant discount to small cap growth stocks in Asia.   

Overall, the Trust was overweight consumer discretionary, financials, consumer staples and energy, among others. At a country level, it was overweight China, Indonesia, and Australia, among others.

Fidelity Asian Values Plc (LON:FAS) provides shareholders with a differentiated equity exposure to Asian Markets. Asia is the world’s fastest-growing economic region and the trust looks to capitalise on this by finding good businesses, run by good people and buying them at a good price.

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