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KSTR

SectorSingle-CountryNon-Diversified

KraneShares China Technology & Semiconductor STAR 50 Index ETF

Expense Ratio
0.89%
AUM
$382M
Inception
1/28/2021
1Y Return
+10.6%33rd %ilevs 5,640 asset-class peers
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The fund invests at least 80% of net assets in instruments from its Underlying Index, which includes the top 50 companies by free-float market capitalization listed on the STAR Market, focusing on Chinese science and technology sectors such as biotechnology and semiconductors. The Underlying Index constituents are weighted based on free-float market capitalization, with a 10% cap per issuer, and primarily consists of China A-Shares. The fund may also invest up to 20% in other China-related securities and employs representative sampling to track the Underlying Index.

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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
KSTR
KraneShares China Technology & Semiconductor STAR 50 Index ETF
10.6%10.6%43.3%0.16-31.8%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Drag on chart to select period. Sharpe Ratio uses the one-month T-bill as the risk-free rate. From 10/7/2025 to 10/7/2026.

Trailing Returns

Name
YTD1D5D1M3M6M1Y2Y3Y5YMAX
KSTR
KraneShares China Technology & Semiconductor STAR 50 Index ETF
18.7%-0.7%-0.5%-4.9%-22.6%21.2%10.6%4.2%20.2%-1.1%-2.0%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.

Annual Returns

Name
20212022202320242025YTD
KSTR
KraneShares China Technology & Semiconductor STAR 50 Index ETF
-3.4%*-37.5%-17.9%6.1%42.8%18.7%
ⓘ Methodology

* partial year — the series ran for only part of it (its first year, or the year it closed); the figure is the return over the part it did run. ETF performance based on market prices. As of 10/7/2026.

Correlation Matrix

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Factor Regression

Name
Ann. αβ MKTβ SMBβ HMLβ RMWβ CMAβ UMDβ iHMLR²Obs
KSTRDev Ex-US
KraneShares China Technology & Semiconductor STAR 50 Index ETF
32.7%0.64*-1.03*-1.21-0.59-0.480.84**-0.020.28226
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Dev Ex-US factor set. Daily OLS of excess return (fund − T-bill) on factor spread returns over the selected date range, intersected with each series' history. Bold with * |t| ≥ 1.96, ** |t| ≥ 2.58. Cell shading tracks each loading's t-stat. Betas are returns-based — compare with the holdings-based factor scores below. Factor returns are long-short spread returns (© Ken French, Dartmouth). Fama-French publishes daily factors for developed markets only, so Dev Ex-US is developed markets excluding the US and Global Dev is developed markets including it; emerging markets, a small share of world market capitalization, are not covered by the source data. From 10/7/2025 to 8/31/2026.

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Fund ProfileSectorSingle-CountryNon-Diversified

Fund Documents(opens the fund company’s site in a new tab)
Family
Registrant
Type
ETF
Asset Class
Equity
Region
Peer Group Benchmark
Prospectus Benchmark
MSCI China All Shares Index (USD) (NR)
Peer Group
Country - China & Hong Kong (47 peers)
1Y Peer Percentile
91
3Y Peer Percentile
92
Expense Ratio
0.89%
5Y Tax Drag
0.00%/yr
AUM
$382M
3Y Flow
+438.7%
Yield
0.00%
Inception
1/28/2021
Holdings (Reported)
51
Non-Diversified
Yes
Turnover
188%
Equity
100%
Derivatives
0%
Net Equity Exposure
100%
Strategy Summary

The fund invests at least 80% of net assets in instruments from its Underlying Index, which includes the top 50 companies by free-float market capitalization listed on the STAR Market, focusing on Chinese science and technology sectors such as biotechnology and semiconductors. The Underlying Index constituents are weighted based on free-float market capitalization, with a 10% cap per issuer, and primarily consists of China A-Shares. The fund may also invest up to 20% in other China-related securities and employs representative sampling to track the Underlying Index.

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio and its components from the fund's prospectus fee table; tax drag from its after-tax return table. Turnover from the SEC annual report (6/8/2026). Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 9/30/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 6/30/2026. Strategy summary from the fund's prospectus.

Composite Factors

Not scored — KSTR’s holdings don’t clear the coverage floor for composite factor scores.

Factor DetailsRef: Equity Funds

None of the selected metrics are scored for KSTR — switch the picker to All, or add metrics under Metrics (top right).

ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Solid blue dots mark the fund's position within the clean equity fund universe (5th–95th percentile scale); the shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Equity Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 9/30/2026.

Country Exposure

Level
100.0%
100.0%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the holdings that carry a country, not portfolio weights. Based on N-PORT domicile; ADRs list under their exchange. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Holdings

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51 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings)

#NameTickerWeight %SectorIndustryCountry
1Cambricon Technologies-
9.90
--CHN
2Montage Technology-
8.79
--CHN
3Hygon Information Technology-
8.51
--CHN
4Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc China-
7.78
--CHN
5Yuanjie Semiconductor Technology-
5.34
--CHN
6Biwin Storage Technology-
5.30
--CHN
7Piotech-
4.78
--CHN
8Verisilicon Microelectronics (Shanghai)-
4.44
--CHN
9Hua Hong Grace Semiconductor1347
3.90
TechnologySemiconductorsCHN
10Hwatsing Technology-
3.62
--CHN
ⓘ Methodology

Sector, country and factor detail need a security match; the share of weight that matched is a member figure, so the rows without one appear here with those columns blank. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

ConcentrationRef: Equity Funds

Total Holdings51
Effective Holdings20.5
Top 10 Weight62.4%
Max Position9.9%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)95%
Top Country (of Net Assets)100%
ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for definitions. Solid blue dots mark the fund: percentage rows on a 0–100% scale, holdings counts log-scaled across the clean-universe 5th–95th percentile range. The shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Equity Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 6/30/2026.

Benchmark DifferentiationRef: Equity Funds

vs EEMBroad Benchmark
Active Share99.6%
Tracking Error44.3%
Benchmark Correlation0.58
ⓘ Methodology

One sub-card per benchmark: the market primary, then the style secondary — the gap between them is the style sleeve itself. Both anchors are Sparkline-inferred (market from asset class and region, style from the holdings size-and-style map), not the fund's official prospectus benchmark. Solid blue dot marks the fund; the shaded band spans the reference set's 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median (band follows the Peer Universe selector). Active Share compares the fund's book with the benchmark's, share for share; Tracking Error is the annualized daily deviation over the trailing two years (ruler runs to just past the universe's 95th percentile, or past the fund's own figure where that is larger); Benchmark Correlation is the plain daily correlation over the trailing year. Hover the labels for full definitions.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
KSTR
KraneShares China Technology & Semiconductor STAR 50 Index ETF
Peer Group
47 funds
Peer Region
467 funds
Peer Asset Class
5,640 funds
YTD Return
18.70%-6.75%9622.33%3911.63%81
1Y Return
10.56%-13.02%9126.12%2514.46%33
3Y Return (Ann.)
20.16%9.23%9222.05%4018.47%61
5Y Return (Ann.)
-1.05%-4.97%748.04%148.64%6
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
0.89%0.75%330.79%420.74%36
ⓘ Methodology

Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (67 share classes across 47 funds). One share class shown per fund — the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class; percentile ranks and medians are computed against the same deduped set. Quartile chips fill the layer the fund's rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). Funds without a full return history rank only on the horizons they cover.

Similar Funds

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Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.

Top Similarity44
Top Overlap
Top Active Tilt
Top Return Corr
FundPeer Group
1CAF
Morgan Stanley China A Share Fund, Inc.
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
44---
2CQQQ
Invesco China Technology ETF
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
41---
3ASHS
Xtrackers Harvest CSI 500 China A-Shares Small Cap ETF
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
31---
4CNYA
iShares MSCI China A ETF
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
31---
5KBA
KraneShares Bosera MSCI China A 50 Connect Index ETF
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
31---
6NBCE
Neuberger China Equity ETF
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
31---
7TCHI
iShares MSCI China Multisector Tech ETF
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
31---
8ASHR
Xtrackers Harvest CSI 300 China A-Shares ETF
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
26---
9CHKLX
BlackRock China A Opportunities Fund
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
22---
10BGCBX
Baillie Gifford China Equities Fund
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
17---

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ⓘ Methodology

Rows are the consensus top matches (a fund must place in at least two methods' top 250 to qualify, and matches missing more than one of this fund's own methods are not ranked — a row scored on fewer methods is a noisier estimate, not a better match). Click a method column to see that method's own top matches across the whole universe instead. Gray (N) beside each method's metric is that fund's rank in the whole universe on that method. Similarity is a percentile among match-grade fund pairs, 0–100 — 87 means the pair is closer than 87% of the strongest matches in the universe, averaged across the methods — so it compares across funds: index clones tie at the top with thousands of other clone pairs, so scores top out in the high 80s to 90s, while a one-of-a-kind fund's best match can score in the 30s. Rows are ordered by the Consensus Rank — the geometric mean of those universe ranks, shown in each cell's tooltip — and the score is held down the list to the level of the closest match above it, so equal scores mean equally close and the number reads as a floor. A dash means that method has no figure for the pair at all (one of them lacks the holdings or return history it needs). Hover a column header for each method's definition. The “Top…” strips above compare against every fund's own top match across the whole universe (they deliberately don't follow the Peer Universe selector); Top Similarity is simply the best match's score, with no reference band; the Holdings and Active Tilt strips carry no reference band because computing every fund's best book overlap would require a full holdings scan per fund — the dot stands alone on its natural 0–100% scale. One share class shown per fund, and a fund's own sister share classes are excluded from its Top-match strips. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). Holdings Overlap = common-holdings weight (sum of the minimum weight across shared positions, long only). Active Tilt Overlap = the same statistic on active weights (holdings minus the fund's own default benchmark, floored at 0), which strips the benchmark ballast that dominates raw overlap. Return Correlation = correlation of market-hedged daily returns over the trailing two years (CAPM residuals), so only market-beta co-movement is removed; requires ~18 months of daily history (378 of the window's 504 trading days).