Kathy Xu

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Kathy Xu
Matthews Asia
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Kathy Xu is a Portfolio Manager at Matthews and joined the firm in 2026. From September 2023 to December 2025, she was Director and Head of North Asia Equities at APG Asset Management, where she oversaw a $3 billion North Asia all-cap equity strategy. Prior to this role, she served as Senior Portfolio Manager leading APG’s China A-Share Equity Fund from February 2018 to August 2023. Earlier in her career, Kathy was a graduate trainee at Aberdeen Asset Management and joined the firm’s Asian Equities team in 2007, and advanced to the role of Investment Manager in 2012 and went on to co-manage Aberdeen’s Chinese Equity Strategy and China A-Share Strategy from 2012 to 2017. Kathy obtained her Bachelor of Economics from Fudan University in 2006 and Master of Economics from The University of Hong Kong in 2007 sponsored by Swire scholarship. She is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and Shanghainese.

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Annualised total return over 10.7 years

+7.7%

Cumulative performance (% growth)

	1 year	3 years	5 years	7 years	10 years
Kathy Xu	-	-	-	-	36.3
Peer Group Composite	-	-	-	-	47.3
Over / Under	-	-	-	-	-11.0

Total return for Kathy Xu

Discrete calendar year performance : Kathy Xu

Discrete performance

	0-12m	12-24m	24-36m	36-48m	48-60m	60-72m	72-84m	84-96m	96-108m	108-120m

Kathy Xu	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4.3	31.6
Peer Group Composite	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12.2	32.9
Over / Under	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-7.9	-1.3

Performance vs peer group composite: Kathy Xu

How a manager matches up against their peers gives you some idea of how talented they are. Very few managers perform equally well in rising and falling markets, so knowing which type of market a manager is capable of performing well within is also important.

Overall markets

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Overall markets

Underperformed peer group composite

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Rising markets

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Falling markets

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Funds currently managed

Fund	Sole/Co-managed	Sector	Periods

Matthews Pacific Tiger	Co-managed	FO Equity - Asia Pacific ex Japan	since Apr 30 2026 to present

Funds managed previously

Fund	Periods

abrdn Asia Pacific & Japan Equity	since Sep 03 2007 to Apr 16 2018
abrdn Asia Pacific Equity	since Sep 03 2007 to Apr 16 2018
abrdn Emerging Markets Equity	since Sep 03 2007 to Apr 16 2018
abrdn SICAV I - Asia Pacific Sustainable Equity	since Sep 03 2007 to Apr 16 2018
abrdn SICAV I - Emerging Markets Equity	since Sep 03 2007 to Apr 16 2018
abrdn SICAV I - All China Sustainable Equity	since Sep 30 2007 to Apr 16 2018