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Risk Considerations

  1. The Fund is actively managed and invests mainly in a diversified portfolio of shares of technology development or utilization companies, with a focus on leading global technology companies.
  2. Investment in the Fund involves risks, including general investment risk, equity market risk, risks associated with depositary receipts, sector concentration risk, exclusion criteria risk, geographic concentration risk, issuer concentration 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
Global Technology Equity Fund
An actively managed, global, all-cap fund that seeks to invest in companies that can benefit from innovation in technology. We invest in around 30-80 high conviction ideas seeking to identify secular growth themes and companies positioned on the right side of change. The fund is categorised as Article 8 under Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).
ISIN LU1244139660
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Dom Rizzo,
Portfolio Manager
Dominic Rizzo is the portfolio manager of the Global Technology Equity Strategy. He is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and T. Rowe Price International Ltd.

Overview
Strategy
Fund Summary
Our fundamental company research and bottom-up analysis aims for early identification of disruptive technology trends and to identify future winners and losers of technological change. We invest in primarily mid- to large-sized companies with strong and/or increasing market share and product pipelines that appear to be strategically poised for long-term growth. 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 - , ,

While the market was less focused on bottom-up fundamentals and more focused on broad factor movements, we believe the portfolio is well positioned for medium-term outcomes and that its fundamental approach will eventually be rewarded. Our research indicates that the major trends that we invest behind remain strong. Nevertheless, we continued to look for areas where we can reduce our exposure to unpaid risk.

Software

We bought shares of companies focused on building innovative solutions to help businesses better manage the growing volume and variety of data and develop collaboration tools to increase efficiencies.

  • We bought shares in Snowflake, a cloud data warehousing platform.� We like Snowflake's cloud native architecture, adept management team, and opportunities to penetrate a large and growing market driven by increasing investments in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
  • We bought Atlassian, a leading provider workflow and collaboration software for enterprises. In our view, the company epitomizes a new breed of software developers that directly target users in marketing its products, employing a low-cost flywheel approach rather than a traditional top-down sales model. We appreciate the long growth runway of the company as it benefits from the secular tailwinds of digital transformation, cloud migration, and hybrid work.
  • At a time when many companies are interested in productivity tools, we bought shares in MongoDB, a document-oriented database solutions company with a sticky client base and fast-growing cloud business. We like the company's growth trajectory as enterprises look for new ways to scale and structure data across on-premises and cloud infrastructures.

Semiconductors

In semiconductors, we sold share of our core holdings and maintained an underweight position. Based on our research, we think this industry is late in its business cycle.

  • Seeking to reduce risk, we sold shares in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, a leading-edge process foundry, to balance risk and reward. We see this firm outgrowing competitors through incremental outsourcing from manufacturers and design houses.

Internet

Seeking to balance risk and reward, we sold share in consumer internet, especially companies facing regulatory risks or increased competition.

  • We sold shares of Sea seeking to better match risk and reward. Sea is an internet platform focused on gaming, social media, e-commerce, digital wallet, and digital finance. While we are attracted to Sea's ability to lead secular trends within fast-growing markets, we will monitor how the company evolves its growth strategy to potentially leverage new sources of cash.
  • We sold shares of Tencent Holdings, China's largest video game and social media platform, seeking to balance risk and return as the company tries to find ways to regain momentum amid rising competition and ongoing regulatory interventions. We appreciate Tencent's global position, its savvy management team, and its solid basis for long-term growth.

Media & Entertainment

Slowing growth and increased competition caused us to sell certain media and video gaming stocks.

  • We expected to see Netflix's strong slate of programming draw in more new subscribers than it did in the fourth quarter. Instead, the company missed subscriber addition estimates and guided for a sub-par first quarter, settling on a lower-than-expected revenue trajectory. We sold it in favor of other opportunities.
  • We sold shares in Roblox during the period seeking to better align risk and reward. We are attracted to the powerful social network effects Roblox utilizes in drawing in new active users and creators. This sets up a positive feedback loop and helps the platform widen its moat, expand its addressable market, and potentially deliver durable earnings.

Industrials

Supply chain problems continued to hamper electric vehicle (EV) makers' ability to meet robust demand, with some models requiring months-long delivery wait times. Adding to these woes, the war in Ukraine and associated trade conflicts caused supply shortages and rising prices for the raw materials needed in lithium batteries used to power EVs.

  • We sold shares of Tesla seeking to manage our position size. We appreciate that Tesla is the lead disruptor in the electric vehicle market, leveraging its advantages in manufacturing, software, and brand. We expect it to eventually be able to move down the cost curve and unlock new parts of the market while increasing unit margins.