Mike Willans
Head of Equities
The Fund aims to achieve capital growth over any five-year period, after all costs and charges have been taken. The Fund’s comparator benchmark is the Bloomberg APAC ex Japan Large & Mid Cap Total Return China Capped Index.
WS Canlife Asia Pacific Fund
For further details on the objective and investment policy, visit the Literature section to view fund KIIDs and Prospectus.
How the Fund is managed
Flexible approach
The fund typically invests in ten or more countries with a different approach for each market. The managers have the freedom to invest wherever the opportunities lie without being unduly tied to benchmark weightings or specific country allocations
Active management
Asia is a highly diverse region where an investor will struggle to succeed by simply taking on passive exposure to all countries. Investing here requires in-depth knowledge of each country and their financial markets in order to unearth compelling investment opportunities
Blended performance
The investment approach combines the benefits of taking a top-down, macroeconomic view of each economy as well as a bottom-up approach to stock selection in order to achieve the best positioning for prevailing market conditions
The value of investments may fall as well as rise and investors may not get back the amount invested
Due to the underlying assets held, the price of the fund is classed as having above average to high volatility.
This page is for information only. It does not constitute a direct offer to anyone, or a solicitation by anyone, to subscribe for shares or buy units in fund(s). Subscription for shares and buying units in the fund must only be made on the basis of the latest Prospectus and the Key Investor Information Document (KIID) available in the Literature section
Head of Equities
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