M&G publishes on its website:
M&G today announces the launch of the M&G (Lux) Japan Large Cap Opportunities Fund (the Fund), an actively managed equity strategy that offers investors access to the structural trends that underpin the long-term growth of Japan’s largest companies. Building on the success of M&G’s strong and long-standing capabilities in investing in Japan, the fund complements M&G’s award-winning range of Japanese equity funds, including the M&G Japan and M&G Japan Smaller Companies strategies, with a new building block solution that focuses on generating alpha from large-cap companies in Japan. This fund will allow investors to access the long-term growth of the Japanese corporate sector and aims to benefit from the pricing inefficiencies even at the most liquid end of the market.
Aiming to achieve a total return (through both capital appreciation and income) that exceeds the S&P/Topix 150 Net Return Index over any five-year period, while incorporating ESG criteria, the Fund will be managed by Citywire AA-rated Carl Vine. Carl brings extensive experience and a proven track record in managing M&G’s successful Japanese equity strategies and will be supported by the M&G Asia Pacific Equity Team, which manages more than $23 billion in assets across the region. Japan’s corporate sector is on a path of structural growth, fueled by an improving macroeconomic environment, the end of deflation, and significant business culture transformations which presents substantial long-term opportunities for investors. Applying a bottom-up stock picking approach, the team will select stocks and actively seek opportunities where significant discrepancies exist between a company’s price and the risk of ownership. In addition, the fund will incorporate the team’s Value-added Shareholdership approach, where they engage with investee companies to help them unlock their potential for long-term sustainable growth and value creation to the benefit of the shareholders and our clients.
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