Matthews Asia Dividend Active ETF ADVE
$47.13+0.00 (+0.00%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.79%
- Fund size
- $9M
- 1Y return
- +25.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.13%
- Holdings
- 68
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $46.45
- 52W range
The ETF.net ADVE Grade
Score 28 of 100 sits in the D band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.FScore 23Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 37Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 25Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 30Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 39Category rank
Our read on ADVE
DA dividend fund that skips the global tour and stays in Asia: roughly 70 actively picked names run for total return with income emphasized. Launched in 2023, it's the regional specialist sitting in a cohort of go-anywhere international dividend funds.
The fund seeks total return while emphasizing current income.
Why people hold it
- Not an index sleeve. About 70 actively chosen Asian holdings, run to a stated mandate of total return with current income emphasized.
- The 0.79% fee lands right at the median for its peer group, and roughly a third of what active peer JHID charges at 2.17%.
- Straightforward plumbing: a 1940 Act fund holding stocks and paying quarterly. No leverage, no options overlay, no K-1.
Worth knowing
- Small and thinly traded, which can mean wider spreads and more price impact on size than the bigger names in the category.
- Broader, cheaper routes to international dividends live in the same cohort: VDI at 0.39%, BIDD at 0.60%. Neither is Asia-dedicated.
- It opened in 2023, so the live record is short, and on our review it sits toward the back of its peer group.
ADVE Holdings
- Stocks
- 68
- 45%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Financials30.1%
- Technology29.6%
- Industrials12.3%
- Communication8.6%
- Consumer Discr.6.5%
- Materials3.7%
- Real Estate3.5%
- Cons. Staples2.8%
- Energy1.0%
- Health Care1.0%
- Utilities0.9%
Geography
- Korea (the Republic of)24.46%
- Japan22.76%
- Taiwan (Province of China)17.04%
- China13.89%
- Hong Kong4.93%
- Australia4.66%
- Singapore3.88%
- United Kingdom3.01%
- 5.37%
Developed 39% · Emerging 61%
ADVE Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | ADVE |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +21.1% |
| 1 month | +1.8% |
| 3 months | +0.8% |
| 1 year | +25.4% |
| 3 years | +19.8% |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | ADVE |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +21.1% | |
| 2025 | +26.1% | |
| 2024 | +7.1% | |
| 2023 | +5.1% |
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ADVE Dividends
- 2.13%
- $1.01
- $0.04 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Dec 22, 2025 | $0.70 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.05 |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Dec 23, 2024 | $1.44 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Jul 1, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Mar 27, 2024 | Apr 2, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.12 |
ADVE Risk
- 12.2%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.22
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −18.3%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.67
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ADVE Cost
- The middle half of International Active Dividend Income funds
- Median 0.63%
Every other International Active Dividend Income fund charges less.