Taiwan, which is heavily focused on technology, has seen significant growth this year. Due to its strong emphasis on tech investments, the Taiwan Fund has experienced rapid appreciation.
Taiwan Fund Inc is a closed-end fund that focuses on actively managing a portfolio of stocks listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. The fund has reasonable scale with around $330 million of assets under management and a distribution is usually paid annually. The fund has a high weighting to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which has been a major contributor to its recent performance.
Nomura Asset Management's Taiwan Fund offers investors a reasonably priced, actively managed option to access Taiwanese equities. While the structural Taiwanese growth story is attractive and has yielded strong capital gains through the cycles, the near-term outlook isn't as rosy.