Mutual Fund Insights: Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX)

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See Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) performance details as of February 28, 2010

  

Last Trade: $19.51 on 3/19/2010, Change: -0.04 (-0.2%)

  

Fund Manager - Sharat Shroff

Fund Manager Tenure: 2.2 years
Fundmojo Fund Grade: A (Score: 0.78)     (What does this score mean?)

Sharat Sharat Shroff joined Matthews in 2005 and is currently a Portfolio Manager. Prior to joining Matthews as a Research Analyst, Sharat Shroff spent five years in the San Francisco office and seven months in the Hong Kong office of Morgan Stanley as an Equity Research Associate.  Get more insights on Sharat Shroff

  

 What we like about Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX)

Data for Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) as of February 28, 2010

• Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) is a new fund and has been performing well against its peers for both three-month and 1-year performance
• Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) has good short-term performance (1-year return 99.81% vs 85.24 % Pacific/Asia ex-Japan Stk category average)
• Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) has good mid-term performance (3-year return 7.25% vs 3.74 % Pacific/Asia ex-Japan Stk category average)
• Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) has good Long-term performance (5-year return 12.86% vs 12.21 % Pacific/Asia ex-Japan Stk category average)
• Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) ratio of up-years vs down years is greater than 2
• Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) has a Morningstar rating of 4 and above
• Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) has an annual stock turnover rate of 17.00% vs Pacific/Asia ex-Japan Stk average of 84.26%. It is good that Matthews Pacific Tiger management does not trade extensively for its return.
• Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) is less volatile than its peers as it has a 3-year Standard Deviation of 32.55, lower than category average of 34.6
• Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) has a lower management fee than its Pacific/Asia ex-Japan Stk average: 1.12% vs 2.01%
• Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) is a true no-load fund as it has no load and no 12b1 promotion, distributions, marketing expenses

  

 What we are cautious about Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX)

Data for Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) as of February 28, 2010

• Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) management has been with Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund for only 2.2 years, it is hard to judge manager's ability based on this fund's operation record

See Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) performance details as of February 28, 2010

  

  

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Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) Net Asset

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Date	Net Asset
02/2010	$3.50B
01/2010	$3.38B
11/2009	$3.38B

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Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX) Portfolio Allocation

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Date	Cash	Stock	Bond	Other
09/2009	0%	100%	0%	0%
06/2009	0%	100%	0%	0%
03/2009	0%	100%	0%	0%

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Most Recent Top 10 Holdings in Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund (MAPTX)

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30-Sep-09 Hang Lung Group Ltd. [2.78%] PT Bank Central Asia TBK [2.59%] LS CORP [2.56%] Swire Pacific Ltd. [2.44%] Tencent Hldgs Limi [2.28%] Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd. [2.23%] Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing [2.17%] HDFC Bank, Ltd. [2.16%] Dongfeng Motor Group Co. Ltd. [2.14%] Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd. [2.04%]

30-Jun-09 Hang Lung Group Ltd. [3.22%] China Vanke Co.,ltd. [2.73%] Swire Pacific Ltd. [2.56%] Dongfeng Motor Group Co. Ltd. [2.36%] NHN [2.34%] Tencent Hldgs Limi [2.27%] Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing [2.25%] PT Bank Central Asia [2.19%] Ctrip.com International, Ltd. [2.17%] Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd. [2.15%]

31-Mar-09 Dongfeng Motor Group Co. Ltd. [3.4%] NHN [3.21%] China Vanke Co.,ltd. [2.99%] Tencent Holdings Ltd. [2.94%] Hang Lung Group Ltd. [2.84%] NWS Holdings Ltd. [2.71%] PT Bank Central Asia [2.6%] MegaStudy [2.5%] Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing [2.46%] Ping An Insurance (group) Company Of Chi [2.42%]

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