Portfolio manager comments — Q4 2025
The fund delivered positive performance during the quarter, rising by just over 3% in SEK, driven by strong sentiment surrounding AI. Performance was characterized by continued AI driven investments, which particularly benefited the memory chip market.
The fund’s strongest contributors were the Korean companies SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, the world’s two leading manufacturers of memory chips. Demand for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) for AI chips is very strong. Leading manufacturers have prioritized this segment, resulting in tighter production capacity for standard memory and an improved pricing environment across all memory segments. SK Square, the parent company of SK Hynix, also contributed positively to performance.
The strong AI related trend also had a positive impact on the fund’s holdings in the Taiwanese companies TSMC, King Yuan Electronics, ASE Technology, and Delta Electronics.
A re rating of Singaporean banks also contributed positively to performance. Singapore is a politically stable country with a continuously growing wealth management market, which provides support to the sector.
The largest negative impact on fund performance came from Tencent, Alibaba, Xiaomi, and SEA Ltd. These stocks were affected by profit taking following strong share price performance earlier in the year.
The fund’s long term focus on strong companies within, among other areas, technology and digitalization remains in place heading into 2026.