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Martin Currie China Fund - Launched 10 March 2010

From March 2010, UK retail investors have access to Martin Currie's market-leading China team for the first time.

The UK-domiciled Martin Currie China Fund, managed by James Chong, is a natural extension of our experience and expertise in Chinese equities. We launched our first dedicated China equity fund in 1997, and currently manage
£3.0 billion† in Greater China equities.



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China is a long-term growth story offering excellent investment opportunities. Please listen to the webcast to hear more about our views on the Chinese economy and stockmarket and why our approach is suitable to this region. ->




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GUIDE TO GREATER CHINA - 2010
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China - assessing the investment opportunity ->
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  KEY FACTS Monthly update Executive summary
• Managed by James Chong, who has 15 years investment experience in China
• Supported by Martin Currie's 12-strong China research team based in Shanghai and Edinburgh
• Additional support from specialist Asia Pacific and global sector research teams
• High conviction portfolio of 40-60 ideas
• Bottom-up, stock selection approach with a top-down overlay
• China carve-out of the Martin Currie GF - Greater China Fund outperformed the MSCI Zhong Hua index since manager's tenure*



Why Martin Currie for China? - click for more
Leading investor in China
Today, of the £11.8† billion assets we manage, over 25% is invested in China and Greater China equity portfolios. International reputation
In 1997 we had the foresight to establish a dedicated business and opened an office in Shanghai. We are currently one of the largest and most experienced international investors in the domestic equity market. Stable and deeply resourced research team based in Shanghai
We started building our Greater China research team in 1994. Today we have a team of 10 Greater China analysts led by three investment directors with almost 50 years' combined investment experience. All team members are fluent Mandarin speakers.



Performance excluding Taiwan ranks top decile in peer group**





†Source: Martin Currie, as at 31 March 2010. ** Performance period: 1 July 2006 to 31 January 2010. Source for China carve-out of the Martin Currie GF - Greater China Fund: Martin Currie. Carve-out of Martin Currie GF - Greater China Fund with 1.5% AMC included. The information relating to the China carve-out portfolio was produced by Martin Currie. There has been no independent review of this information and no guarantee, actual or implied, is given as to accuracy. The China carve-out represents the investment manager's current intentions as to the composition of a portfolio. Any portfolio ultimately constructed may differ substantially from the one included herein for illustrative purposes. The composition of any portfolio ultimately constructed will be dependent upon prices of securities and market conditions then prevailing.
Past performance is not a guide to future returns.