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Exuberance and discipline: Finding durable returns in Asia’s crowded market

While value is likely being created amid the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, increasing market concentration highlights the importance of diversification and valuation discipline.

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High-quality companies hiding in small market capitalisations

In our last update, we touched on the idea of high-quality companies hiding in small market capitalisations in ASEAN . This, in our view, is due to years of declining foreign-investor interest in the region. These companies are usually not covered in great detail or indeed at all by sell-side research analysts.
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Travelling with companies on their ESG journeys

At FSSA, we are long-term, bottom-up investors with a focus on quality. This mind-set also applies to how we engage with companies on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) matters.
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Back to reality for Asian markets?

Looking back (though it’s not like we didn’t already know), it is clear that we have been living in an increasingly distorted world. Financially, for the last decade, it has been about interest rates falling to (and staying at) zero in a world of general money printing.
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ASEAN All Cap Strategy - Fund Manager Q&A

The FSSA Singapore & Malaysia Growth strategy was renamed the FSSA ASEAN All Cap strategy in December 2021 to reflect a change in the portfolio’s mandate. The strategy is now able to invest in the broader Southeast Asia universe.
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Tapping into the rise of the Asian consumer

As Asian countries become richer, they have been transitioning towards consumption-based economies, translating higher per capita income into increased spending across goods and services.
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Riding out the turbulence with our North Star

As the world continues to lurch from Covid-surges to reflexive and localised lock-downs, everybody is now looking through to a mythical status quo ante bellum – the before-Covid-times, when the world was just hunky-dory.
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