Best Performance

 

Mirae Asset Global Investments announced that its Asia Fund received the 2015 Best-in-Class Lipper Award Over 3 Years in the Pacific Ex-Japan Category from Lipper. 

This is the only product from Asian investment managers among funds that won the 2015 Lipper Fund Awards. 

Lipper is a global leader in fund ratings, and supplies fund information in 60 countries worldwide. 

The Best-in-Class Lipper Award is given every year to the best fund by type in consideration of performance, safety, and risk factors. 

The Mirae Asset Asia Fund is a public offering fund, which was set up in Sept. 2010 for the first time in the domestic investment managers. The fund invests in firms deemed by Mirae Asset to be “Sector Leaders” in the Asian region, which have existing advantages such as market share, and brand recognition as well as a steady growth model. 

The fund is being sold in 13 countries, including the U.S., Europe, and Korea, under the name of the Mirae Asset Asia Sector Leader Fund. Its earnings rate reached 15.39 percent for one year and 45.43 percent for three years as of April 2. Based on its excellent results, it surpassed 600 billion won (US$548.35 million) in the total amount of trust.  

The Mirae Asset Asia Fund received a five-star Morningstar rating, which is given to the top 10 percent of blue-chip funds that were managed for more than three years.

Along with the fund, a total of 15 Mirae Asset funds set up overseas are recording five star ratings, including the Asia Great Consumer Fund and Emerging Great Consumer Fund.

Meanwhile, Mirae Asset Global Investments has established 12 overseas networks since 2013, including in Hong Kong, India, the U.K., the U.S., and Brazil, and has constructed a system that directly manages, sets up, and sells its overseas funds in the region. Currently, the company is considered a global investment manager and its amount of trust in foreign branches totals 17 trillion won (US$15.54 billion).

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