Fidelity Asian Values plc (LON:FAS) monthly factsheet for March 2026.
Portfolio Manager Commentary
The Trust’s NAV rose 18.1% during the 12-month period ended 31 March 2026, underperforming its reference index which rose by 22.4%. The Trust’s share price increased by 23.5% over the same period.
Our process is driven by owning good businesses run by management we trust and owning them only when we have ample margin of safety – this often leads us to take contrarian positions as it is easier to find undervalued businesses in such areas of the market. Following this philosophy, we have exposure to select Indonesian names which detracted from performance. Elsewhere, an underweight exposure to Taiwan weighed on returns. From a sector perspective, selections within materials and energy added value.
Given this approach, stock selection was the key contributor to the company’s relative performance. Of late, investors seem to be rotating out of growth stocks and into value names in the Asian small-cap space. This trend should continue as small-cap value stocks remain at a significant discount to small-cap growth stocks in Asia.
Overall, the Trust was overweight consumer discretionary, financials, consumer staples, and energy. At a country level, it was overweight China, Indonesia, and Australia.
Fidelity Asian Values Plc (LON:FAS) provides shareholders with a differentiated equity exposure to Asian Markets. Asia is the world’s fastest-growing economic region and the trust looks to capitalise on this by finding good businesses, run by good people and buying them at a good price.
