The fund award winners were selected through both quantitative and qualitative methods. FE Fundinfo used its Crown Rating methodology to assess funds based on alpha, volatility and consistency of performance and create a shortlist for 14 asset classes.
The shortlist was given to an independent panel of professionals from Asia’s fund selector community in Singapore. Each judge selected the funds he or she thought would outperform in the next 12 months. Their aggregated choices determined the Platinum and Gold winners.
We thank the fund selector judges for their support and congratulations to all the winners.
2021 SINGAPORE FUND AWARD WINNERS
Asia Pacific Equity
PLATINUM
Matthews Asia ex Japan Dividend
GOLD
Invesco Asia Opportunities Equity
Emerging Market Bond
PLATINUM
Robeco Emerging Credits
Robeco Emerging Credits is an actively managed fund that invests in a diversified portfolio of Emerging Market corporate bonds and corporate bonds with a significant exposure to Emerging Markets. The selection of these bonds is based on fundamental analysis. In addition to the core portfolio of developed (hard) currency emerging credits, the strategy has the flexibility to invest in value opportunities beyond the index universe.
Factsheet: Download fact sheet (pdf)
GOLD
Wellington Emerging Local Debt Advanced Beta
European Equity
PLATINUM
Fidelity European Dynamic Growth
The Fund adopts a high-conviction, benchmark unconstrained, and concentrated approach, where thorough fundamental bottom-up research drives the portfolio’s underlying composition. It has a high growth and quality bias style, where the manager selects stocks which exhibit a strong and sustainable growth profile over the longer-term with high barriers to entry.
Factsheet: Download fact sheet (pdf)
GOLD
Threadneedle Pan European Focus
Global Bond
PLATINUM
H2O MultiAggregate
GOLD
JPM Global Corporate Bond
Global Emerging Market Equity
PLATINUM
JPM Emerging Markets Equity
GOLD:
Wellington Emerging Market Development
Global Equity
Platinum
Morg Stnly Global Opportunity
GOLD
Threadneedle Global Smaller Companies
Greater China/China Equity
PLATINUM
JPM China A-Share Opportunities
GOLD
UBS (HK) China Opportunity Equity (USD)
High Yield
PLATINUM
HSBC GIF Global High Income Bond
Providing a balanced level of risk while generating a steady level of high income, the fund focuses on the crossover segment of the credit markets (mainly BBB-BB issuers) as the space is one of the most attractive segments of the global credit markets given its compelling income and attractive risk-return profile.
Factsheet: Download fact sheet (pdf)
GOLD
GAM Star Cat Bond
Japanese Equity
PLATINUM
JPMorgan Japan (Yen)
GOLD
FSSA Japan Equity
The FSSA Japan Equity Fund is built company by company and from the bottom up, with little regard for index positioning. The investment team is focused on growth in an absolute return sense and constructs portfolios of high quality companies with effective management teams, long-term, sustainable growth drivers and strong financials.
Factsheet: Download fact sheet (pdf)
Mixed Asset
PLATINUM
UBS (Lux) Key Selection SICAV – China Allocation Opportunity (USD)
GOLD
DWS Premier Select Trust
Regional Bond
PLATINUM
BlackRock (BGF) China Bond Fund
The BGF China Bond Fund seeks to capture yield and growth opportunities in the development of China’s bond market. Chinese bonds bring potential yield opportunities and diversification benefits to a global portfolio by offering comparatively higher yields at lower volatility, and are less correlated to global risk assets.
Factsheet: Download fact sheet (pdf)
GOLD
Fidelity US Dollar Bond
The Fund aims to generate capital gains from a range of different environments. The philosophy is to have a clear understanding of where it has the potential to generate alpha. The strategy is unique and differentiated from its peers in that it is not exclusively focused on carry and income. Beyond coupon clipping, it looks to generate potential capital gains.
Factsheet: Download fact sheet (pdf)
Regional/Single Country Emerging Market Equity
PLATINUM
Schroder ISF Emerging Asia
GOLD
Fidelity Emerging Asia
The Fund invests in a diversified portfolio of stocks across Emerging Asia, via a bottom-up stock selection approach. It searches for names with firm structural growth opportunities trading below their intrinsic value. This can be companies with improving fundamentals not reflected in the price, names where the growth potential is not fully understood, or restructuring and turnaround opportunities. There is a strong emphasis on value, and quality.
Factsheet: Download fact sheet (pdf)
Sector Equity
PLATINUM
Partners Group Global Real Estate FCP
GOLD
RobecoSAM Smart Energy Equities
The RobecoSAM Smart Energy Equities invests in stocks of companies that provide competitive and sustainable solutions to the growing need for reliable, clean & affordable energy supply. The fund captures strong growth potential of decarbonization, electrification, and digitization within energy and the global economy.
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US Equity
PLATINUM
Morg Stnly US Growth
GOLD
