Matthews Pacific Tiger Active ETF ASIA
$42.58+0.00 (+0.00%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.79%
- Fund size
- $53M
- 1Y return
- +29.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.84%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $41.39
- 52W range
The ETF.net ASIA Grade
Score 27 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 24Category 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.FScore 18Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 27Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 41Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 51Category rank
Our read on ASIA
DMost international ETFs spread you across the developed world. ASIA does one job: active stock-picking across the Asia-Pacific, from region specialist Matthews, inside a plain-vanilla 1940 Act ETF wrapper.
The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through an Asia-focused active equity strategy.
Why people hold it
- One region, one job: Asia-Pacific equities chosen actively, with long-term capital appreciation as the stated objective. The highest-graded funds in its group are broad developed-international instead.
- Active by design. There's no index to shadow, so the portfolio reflects the manager's Asia growth calls rather than a benchmark's country and sector weights.
- Ordinary ETF plumbing around a specialist strategy: a registered 1940 Act fund with the usual intraday trading and creation/redemption mechanics.
Worth knowing
- Fees run 0.79% a year against a 0.60% peer-group median, and far above systematic rivals like DFIC (0.22%) and AVDE (0.23%). Hands-on Asia research carries a price tag.
- Thinly traded with a modest asset base, which can mean wider bid-ask spreads at the moment you trade.
- Launched in 2023, so the ETF's own record is short, and payouts arrive only annually or semiannually. This is a growth mandate, not an income one.
ASIA Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 49%
- 005930.KS
Sectors
- Technology48.4%
- Financials23.2%
- Consumer Discr.8.8%
- Communication6.3%
- Industrials4.8%
- Health Care4.3%
- Materials1.8%
- Real Estate1.5%
- Energy0.9%
Geography
- Taiwan31.10%
- China22.59%
- South Korea21.55%
- India11.80%
- Singapore5.94%
- United Kingdom2.84%
- Thailand1.46%
- Malaysia1.13%
- 1.58%
Developed 9% · Emerging 91%
ASIA 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 | ASIA |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +24.6% |
| 1 month | +2.8% |
| 3 months | −10.1% |
| 1 year | +29.2% |
| 3 years | +19.4% |
| 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 | ASIA |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +24.6% | |
| 2025 | +32.1% | |
| 2024 | +3.4% | |
| 2023 | +0.0% |
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ASIA Dividends
- 0.84%
- $0.36
- $0.36 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 2025 | Dec 22, 2025 | $0.36 |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Dec 23, 2024 | $0.15 |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.03 |
ASIA Risk
- 18.8%
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.
- 0.81
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.
- −23.9%
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.
- 0.92
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ASIA Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Active Equity funds
- Median 0.65%
19 of the 27 Emerging Markets Active Equity funds charge less.