{"id":547,"date":"2014-05-07T06:43:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T06:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=547"},"modified":"2014-05-07T06:43:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T06:43:37","slug":"fund-focus-the-mg-asian-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Fund Focus: The M&#038;G Asian Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The M&amp;G Asian Fund [<a title=\"M&amp;G Asian Fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mandg.co.uk\/investor\/funds\/asian-fund\/gb0030939440\/overview.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mandg.co.uk\/investor\/funds\/asian-fund\/gb0030939440\/overview.aspx<\/a>] is a <strong>\u00a3497 million fund, started in 1973<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The top ten holdings are:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Samsung Electronics 5.1%<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Hutchison Whampoa 3.8%<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>AZ Electronic 3.8%<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Taiwan Semiconductor 3.5%<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Hyundai Motor 3.2%<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Jardine Matheson 3.0%<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>HSBC 2.6%<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Hollysys 2.6%<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Shinhan Financial 2.6%<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Energy Development 2.4%<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fund Overview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mandg.co.uk\/investor\/funds\/asian-fund\/gb0030939440\/overview.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mandg.co.uk\/investor\/funds\/asian-fund\/gb0030939440\/overview.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The top ten holdings account for 32.6% of the fund which equates to \u00a3162<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It invests in the sectors of Financials, Information technology, Industrials, Materials, Consumer discretionary, Utilities, Telecommunications, Healthcare, Energy and Consumer staples.<\/p>\n<p>A fund that gives exposure to the one of the most vibrant and dynamic parts of the world, where the growth in the middle class is creating investment and prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The M&amp;G Asian Fund [http:\/\/www.mandg.co.uk\/investor\/funds\/asian-fund\/gb0030939440\/overview.aspx] is a \u00a3497 million fund, started in 1973. The top ten holdings are: Samsung Electronics 5.1% Hutchison Whampoa 3.8% AZ Electronic 3.8% Taiwan Semiconductor 3.5% Hyundai Motor 3.2% Jardine Matheson 3.0% HSBC 2.6% Hollysys 2.6% Shinhan Financial 2.6% Energy Development 2.4% http:\/\/www.mandg.co.uk\/investor\/funds\/asian-fund\/gb0030939440\/overview.aspx The top ten holdings account for 32.6% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}