Guinness Asian Equity Income fund invests in companies across the whole Asia Pacific region, including Australia. The portfolio is concentrated in just 36 equally-weighted stocks, and has a one-in, one-out policy, looking for a combination of capital and dividend growth.
Edmund Harriss, Mark Hammonds
Edmund Harriss and Mark Hammonds work as co-managers. Edmund has been running money in Asian funds since 1994 and has worked in both London & Hong Kong. He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, with a Masters in Management Studies and has a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of York. Mark joined the firm in September 2012. He trained as a Chartered Accountant, and previously worked at Ernst & Young. As well as being a CFA charterholder, he graduated from Corpus Christi, Cambridge, with a first-class degree in Management Studies.
This fund has two stand out characteristics: the well-defined and disciplined process; and the equally-weighted stock positions. Ed and Mark use their screening tools to great effect, looking for specific characteristics and taking the unusual step of not analysing dividend potential until the final stage of their process. We like their approach of focusing on companies that can sustainably grow their dividend into the future, and the fact that Guinness Asian Equity Income looks very different from the benchmark and their peers.
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