Head To Head

HEAD-TO-HEAD: Hamon vs Schroders

FSA compares two Asian (ex-Japan) equity funds: the Hamon Asian Market Leaders Fund and the Schroder ISF Asian Opportunities Fund.

by Francis Nikolai Acosta 14 December 201810 November 2020

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Introduction

Equities markets in Asia have been in the red for most of this year. The MSCI AC Asia ex-Japan Index has returned a negative 12.34% in US dollar terms year-to-date, according to FE data.

Sentiment towards the region has turned increasingly sour amid rising trade tensions between the US and China. In addition, the appreciation of the US dollar has negatively affected emerging market equities as a whole.

However, a number of fund managers, including Blackrock, Schroders and T Rowe Price, are positive on the asset class for the year ahead, citing better earnings expectations compared with Europe and cheaper valuations compared with global equity markets.

“Asia continues to be an important part of the world, as it contributes a large part of global growth,” Luke Ng, vice president at FE Advisory Asia, said.

“It is a high-growth area with long-term growth prospects, so everyone has their eyes on the Asia economy.”

Against this backdrop, FSA asked Ng to compare two Asia (ex-Japan) equity funds: the Hamon Asian Market Leaders Fund and the Schroder ISF Asian Opportunities Fund.

	Hamon	Schroders
Size (fund level)	$6m	$5.4bn
Inception	1995	2006
Manager	Hamon team	Toby Hudson
Three-year cumulative return*	-0.63%	39.24%
Three-year annualised return*	-0.32%	11.50%
Three-year annualised alpha*	-7.29%	4.26%
Three-year annualised volatility*	18.09	15.94
Morningstar analyst rating	–	Silver
Morningstar star rating	*	*****
FE Crown fund rating	*	*****
OCF (retail share class)	4.40%	1.86%

Source: FE Analytics, Morningstar, Fund factsheets

*12 Dec 2015-07 Dec 2018

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