Stewart Investors Worldwide Leaders

The Fund aims to grow your investment. The Fund mainly invests in shares of large companies around the world. These companies generally have a total stock market value of at least US $3 billion. The Fund may invest in both developed and emerging market countries (countries considered to have social or business activity in the process of rapid growth). The Fund may invest in any industry.

Jonathan Asante joined First State Investments Global Emerging Markets team as Senior Analyst in November 2004 and in January 2008 was appointed Head of Global Emerging Markets. His primary area of research is the entire emerging markets universe and he acts in the capacity of Co-Manager for a number of our portfolios. Jonathan joined from Framlington where he was Global Emerging Markets Fund Manager and Group Economist. Prior to joining Framlington in 1995, he was employed by NatWest Group where he was an Assistant Researcher, analysing the UK economy and UK credit markets. Previous to this Jonathan taught classes in economics and econometrics at the London School of Economics whilst doing postgraduate research. Jonathan graduated from the London School of Economics with BSc and MSc in Economics. He is an Associate member of the UK Society of Investment Professionals.

Dominic St George is an Analyst at First State Stewart (FSS). FSS is part of First State Investments and the team manages equities in Asia Pacific, Global Emerging and other international markets. He joined FSS as a graduate in November 2010.He is responsible for providing research support to the portfolio managers, covering all relevant geographical areas and industry sectors. Dominic holds a BA in Geography from Christ's College, Cambridge.