Growth
Guinness Best of Asia
Overview
The Guinness Best of Asia strategy seeks capital growth and invests in high-quality companies in the Asia Pacific region.
The success of countries in Asia Pacific in focusing on industrialisation and the production of increasingly high-value goods, including some of the world's most advanced manufacturing, has brought higher wages and a growing consumer class.
With a young population and rising personal wealth, Asia is now a major marketplace not just for consumer goods, but also for healthcare and financial services. For the investor, these developments present structural themes for growth in the medium-to-long term.
The Guinness Best of Asia Fund invests in quality Asian stocks with profitable companies in Asia (excluding Japan) harnessing these themes.
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To ensure identified companies offer the potential for long-term investor returns, this growth fund investing in Asia looks for lasting competitive advantages and the ability to convert them into high returns on capital.
- Exposure to secular growth themes – In Asia Pacific's dynamic economies, secular growth themes present a good starting point to look for quality Asian growth stocks set for durable growth.
- Quality approach – Seeking high returns on capital and strong balance sheets filters out the most speculative opportunities, helping to protect against downside risk.
- Value discipline – Growth stocks can be surrounded by hype. The Fund targets Asian growth stocks with returns on capital which are more persistent than the market realises.
- High conviction – With 30 broadly equally weighted positions, the portfolio balances diversification with concentration. This structure results in a portfolio that is truly differentiated from the benchmark index.
The Guinness Best of Asia Fund can act as an Asian growth fund allocation or as a quality growth solution alongside value or high-growth allocations.
Fund Facts
- Launch Date
- 28.12.2017
- Fund Managers (start date)
- Edmund Harriss (28.12.2017)Mark Hammonds (28.12.2017)Sharukh Malik (30.06.2020)Valerie Huang (01.01.2026)
- Benchmark
- MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex Japan
- IA Sector
- IA Asia Pacific Excluding Japan
- ISIN
- IE00BF2VG076
- SEDOL
- BF2VG07
- BLOOMBERG
- GUBAYUA ID
- Underlying currency
- USD
- Pricing
- Daily, forwards
- Valuation
- 23:00 Dublin time
- Deal cut off time
- 15:00 Dublin time
- Administrator
- Waystone Administration Solutions (IE) Limited
- UK Reporting Fund Status
- Yes
- ISA Eligible
- Yes
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Commentary
March Commentary
This is a marketing communication. Please refer to the prospectus, supplement, KIDs and KIIDs for the Funds (available on this website), which contain detailed information on their characteristics and objectives and full information on the risks, before making any final investment decisions.
The March 2025 commentary reviews February, when the Fund returned 0.5% in GBP, compared with -1.1% for the MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex Japan Index, taking the first two months of 2025 to 3.0% versus 1.0%. Chinese consumer discretionary holdings Alibaba, Geely Auto and Meituan led relative gains, while technology holdings including Tech Mahindra, Tata Consultancy Services, Broadcom and Applied Materials weakened. The Fund also benefited from its overweight position in China and underweights in Australia, India and Taiwan. The report discusses China’s measured policy support, advances including DeepSeek and growing intra-regional trade, while acknowledging uncertainty from US tariffs. It concludes that momentum in China and Asia may be improving while regional valuations remain below other markets.
Read full commentary
Guinness Best of Asia Fund - March Commentary
March 2025
Performance
Portfolio
Top 10 Holdings
As at 30 Sept 2026
Source: Guinness Global Investors. Holdings and exposures may be subject to change
Top 10 Holdings
As at 30 Sept 2026
Source: Guinness Global Investors. Holdings and exposures may be subject to change
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