Invest cost-effectively in developed Asian economies – The OP-Asia Index fund offers a straightforward and affordable means of investing outside US and European stock exchanges. The fund focuses on companies listed on stock exchanges in Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, and Singapore and complements actively managed stock and fixed income funds.
In an index fund, the fund's assets are invested to track the performance of a group of stocks, or market index. The OP-Asia Index fund tracks the MSCI Pacific Screened index and invests its assets in the largest listed companies in Southeast Asia. Index funds are a form of passive investment, which means that the portfolio manager does not select stocks independently but instead tracks the movements of the selected index. Dividends from stocks are automatically reinvested into the fund. Since the fund's assets are invested in the stocks of the largest companies by market capitalization, its investments may significantly concentrate on certain sectors, such as information technology, finance, and energy.
Our view is that companies that act sustainably hold a competitive edge in the long term. For this reason, the fund tracks an index that is committed to maintaining a 30 per cent lower carbon intensity compared to the parent index. Additionally, the index excludes companies whose revenue depends on the production of coal, tobacco, or controversial weapons, among others.
