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Martin Lau

 FE fundinfo Alpha Manager
FSSA IM (First Sentier Investo, FSSA IM (First Sentier Investo, St. Jamess Place UT Group Ltd
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Manager profile
Martin Lau is a Managing Partner of FSSA Investment Managers and is based in Hong Kong. Martin has more than 20 years of investment experience and has been with the team for over 15 years, starting with the firm as Director, Greater China Equities in 2002. Martin is the lead portfolio manager for a number of funds covering Greater China and the Asia Pacific region. He is also responsible for supervising and directly managing FSSA Investment Managers’ team of research analysts and portfolio managers. Before joining the firm, Martin was a fund manager at Invesco Asia, where he was the country specialist for Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. Martin has BA and MSE degrees from the University of Cambridge and is a CFA Charterholder.
Total return for Martin Lau
Manager career performance
Rolling Alpha Quartile: Discrete three year periods
Rolling Alpha Quartile shows a manager's alpha score in quartile terms, plotting his or her risk adjusted performance against all other managers in the UT & OEICs universe. The best managers are those who are consistently ranked in the first or second quartile.
 
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53-89m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
65-101m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
77-113m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
89-125m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
101-137m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Discrete calendar year performance : Martin Lau

Manager career performance
Discrete performance
  0-12m 12-24m 24-36m 36-48m 48-60m 60-72m 72-84m 84-96m 96-108m 108-120m
Martin Lau -12.1 -0.1 -8.5 39.5 -6.1 5.1 14.7 32.7 -9.7 26.0
Peer Group Composite -6.1 -2.2 -9.8 41.3 -8.1 1.6 11.4 33.5 -7.7 27.9
Over / Under -6.0 2.1 1.3 -1.8 2.0 3.5 3.3 -0.8 -2.0 -1.9
Performance vs peer group composite: Martin Lau
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.
 
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Funds currently managed
Fund Sole/Co-managed Sector Periods
FSSA China Growth Co-managed FO Equity - China since Apr 01 2002 to present
FSSA Hong Kong Growth Co-managed FO Equity - Asia Pacific Single Country since Apr 01 2002 to present
FSSA Greater China Growth Co-managed FO Equity - Greater China since Oct 18 2002 to present
FSSA Asian Equity Plus Co-managed FO Equity - Asia Pacific ex Japan since Jul 14 2003 to present
FSSA Greater China Growth Co-managed UT China/Greater China since Dec 01 2003 to present
FSSA Japan Equity Co-managed FO Equity - Japan since Feb 02 2015 to present
FSSA Asia Focus Co-managed UT Asia Pacific Excluding Japan since Aug 24 2015 to present
FSSA Asia All Cap Co-managed UT Asia Pacific Excluding Japan since Oct 26 2015 to present
FSSA Japan Focus Co-managed UT Japan since Oct 26 2015 to present
SJP Asia Pacific Co-managed UT Asia Pacific Including Japan since Oct 10 2016 to present
FSSA Asia Focus Co-managed (deputy) FO Equity - Asia Pacific ex Japan since Oct 02 2019 to present
FSSA China A Shares Co-managed FO Equity - China since May 01 2020 to present
FSSA Asia Pacific All Cap Co-managed (deputy) FO Equity - Asia Pacific ex Japan since Jan 01 2021 to present
FSSA China Focus Co-managed FO Equity - China since Mar 01 2023 to present
Funds managed previously
Fund Periods
FSSA China Focus since Jan 30 2008 to Apr 30 2020
FSSA Asian Growth since Apr 01 2002 to Dec 31 2013
FSSA Asia Pacific All Cap since Mar 25 2013 to Dec 31 2020
Stewart Investors Asia Pcfic and Japan Sustblty since Mar 31 2007 to Aug 30 2012
FSSA Asia Focus since Jan 01 2016 to Oct 01 2019
Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust PLC since Jul 01 2015 to May 31 2017
FSSA All China since Jan 01 2019 to Jun 30 2019
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