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T. Rowe Price Hong Kong / All Funds / Emerging Markets Discovery Equity Fund
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Risk Considerations

  1. The Fund is actively managed and invests mainly in a widely diversified portfolio of shares of emerging market companies.
  2. Investment in the Fund involves risks, including general investment risk, equity market risk, risks associated with depositary receipts, emerging markets risk, exclusion criteria risk, risk associated with high volatility of equity markets in emerging countries, risk associated with regulatory/exchanges requirements of the equity markets in emerging countries, geographic concentration risk, small and mid-capitalisation shares risk and currency risk which may result in loss of a part or the entire amount of your investment.  
  3. The Fund may use derivatives for hedging and efficient portfolio management and is subject to derivatives risk. Exposure to derivatives may lead to a risk of significant loss by the Fund.
  4. The value of the Fund can be volatile and could go down substantially.
  5. Investors should not invest in the Fund solely based on this website.

Investment involves risk. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of current or future results and should not be the sole factor of consideration when selecting a product or strategy.

SICAV
Emerging Markets Discovery Equity Fund
A focused, yet well-diversified, actively managed all-cap fund of typically 50-80 emerging markets companies. We seek to identify "forgotten" stocks that are under-owned and under-researched by mainstream investors, and which we believe are positioned to benefit from a fundamental re-rating. The fund is categorised as Article 8 under Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).
ISIN LU1244138183
FACTSHEET
KFS
SFDR DISCLOSURE
Ernest Yeung,
Portfolio Manager
Ernest Yeung is a portfolio manager for the Emerging Markets Discovery Equity Strategy at T. Rowe Price. He was the co-portfolio manager for the International Small-Cap Equity Strategies from 2009 to 2014. He is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and T. Rowe Price Hong Kong Limited.

Overview
Strategy
Fund Summary
We look for signs of positive fundamental change among stable, but unloved, businesses that we believe are facing unwarranted scepticism from investors. Meeting company management is central to our approach, as we aim to identify quality teams with strategic vision, a roadmap for success and the ability to execute. The promotion of environmental and/or social characteristics is achieved through the fund's commitment to maintain at least 10% of the value of its portfolio invested in Sustainable Investments, as defined by the SFDR. Additionally, we apply a proprietary responsible screen (exclusion list). The manager is not constrained by the fund’s benchmark, which is used for performance comparison purposes only.
Performance - Net of Fees

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.

31-Mar-2022 - Ernest Yeung, Portfolio Manager,

Our positions reflected our focus on self-help stories, our re-opening thesis, and traditional economy stocks benefiting from the higher capital expenditure that corporates have been under-invested in the last few years. It also benefits from the transition to a greener world mapped out at last November's COP26 climate summit.

We believe our research has helped us identify good investment opportunities among EM companies whose managements have become proactive in restructuring in the wake of the pandemic. These self-help measures include initiatives like cutting costs, selling assets, shifting capacity, and changing product mix.�

In our view, there are ample opportunities for us to identify pockets of "forgotten" EM stocks. For example, we were positioned in a cyclical commodity play in the first stage of the pandemic recovery in 2020. Then we rotated to the next stage and added to financials as the rate hike cycle started. Now, we believe the recovery is entering yet another stage and portfolio positioning has shifted back towards the core end of value.

China �

We took advantage of the recent market weakness as we believe that regulatory crackdowns are cyclical in nature.

  • We found a compelling entry point into online travel agent Trip.com on our economic re-opening thesis and on valuation grounds. The company's Q4 2021 earnings beat expectations and we believe the company will maintain its dominant market share in the online travel agency business thanks to its competitive advantages. In our view, it is well positioned to enjoy the long-term growth of Chinese outbound travel, which generates faster revenue growth and higher operating margins than domestic business.
  • We bought shares of Tingyi, one of the largest food and beverages companies in China by revenue with market-leading positions in most of its segments in noodles and beverages.

Russia �

The Russian market was a relatively small part of our portfolio, but risks increased meaningfully after the sanctions by Western nations significantly impacted the financial sector and its ability to settle U.S. dollar transactions. We quickly reduced our risk and exposure to Russia during the quarter.

Mexico

We added to our positions in Mexico because we felt stocks were trading at attractive valuations and the economy was set to benefit from the uptrend in commodity prices.�

  • We bought shares in Grupo Mexico, which we think is a sum-of-the-parts story offering a resilient dividend clip on copper in the medium term and unique organic growth optionality in the longer term.

Consumer Discretionary

We cut our exposure to the sector as a result of reduced holdings in certain segments.

  • We trimmed Prosus, a Dutch multinational conglomerate company, which holds Naspers' global internet business. It holds shares in Tencent, which faced regulatory headwinds. The company also had to write off a sizeable stake in one of Russia's largest internet companies, VK Group, as a consequence of sanctions on the group's CEO amidst the conflict in Ukraine.
  • Huayu Automotive is one of China's biggest auto parts suppliers. We sold shares as we see mounting pressure for Huayu's major customers, Volkswagen and General Motors, from local brands. The company itself faces competition from local suppliers in many of the emerging areas such as electrification and advanced driver assistance systems.

Brazil

We found some opportunities in Brazil, where we think valuations are attractive in an economy benefiting from strong commodity prices.

  • We bought shares of packaging company Klabin, which is an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) friendly business and in our view is undervalued by mainstream investors. It is a low-cost producer adding capacity at the low-end of the cost curve in a commodity with attractive medium-term fundamentals. As an integrated paper and packaging producer, we believe it is likely to benefit from strong secular trends such as increasing e-commerce penetration, plastic-to-paper substitution, and increasing interest in negative emission businesses and technologies.
  • BTG Pactual is one of the largest investment banks in Latin America. We bought shares as the bank is diversifying into asset and wealth management businesses, which we think have more predictable earnings and deserve a higher multiple than the firm's sales, trading, and investment banking businesses.