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MCHFX

Matthews China Fund

Expense Ratio
1.25%
AUM
$388M
Inception
2/19/1998
1Y Return
-12.1%2nd %ilevs 5,640 asset-class peers
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The fund invests at least 80% of net assets in common and preferred stocks of companies located in China, including Hong Kong, and may also invest in depositary receipts. It determines a company's location based on criteria such as revenue sources, asset locations, and trading markets, while primarily benchmarking against the MSCI China Index. The focus is on companies capable of sustainable growth, typically medium to large in size, across various sectors, with the potential for significant sector concentration.

Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
MCHFX
Matthews China Fund
-12.1%-12.1%21.6%-0.74-15.4%
ⓘ 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
MCHFX
Matthews China Fund
-6.8%-1.3%-0.7%-5.6%-5.5%2.7%-12.1%-2.5%10.6%-4.2%7.9%
ⓘ Methodology

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

Annual Returns

Name
1998199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025YTD
MCHFX
Matthews China Fund
-37.2%*47.1%-6.7%20.9%-7.5%65.0%3.9%6.9%64.8%70.2%-47.7%78.3%15.8%-19.1%11.9%6.8%-4.4%2.4%-5.0%59.1%-21.2%34.6%43.1%-12.5%-24.4%-19.2%17.8%29.8%-6.8%
ⓘ 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
MCHFXDev Ex-US
Matthews China Fund
-16.8%0.68**-0.41-0.08-0.33-0.590.26*-0.150.41226
ⓘ 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 Profile

Fund Documents(opens the fund company’s site in a new tab)
Family
Registrant
Type
Mutual Fund
Asset Class
Equity
Region
Equity Size & Style
Peer Group Benchmark
Prospectus Benchmark
MSCI China Index
Peer Group
Country - China & Hong Kong (47 peers)
1Y Peer Percentile
52
3Y Peer Percentile
62
Expense Ratio
1.25%
5Y Tax Drag
1.17%/yr
AUM
$388M
3Y Flow
+12.8%
Yield
1.44%
Inception
2/19/1998
Holdings (Reported)
55
Turnover
37%
Equity
100%
Derivatives
0%
Net Equity Exposure
99%
Strategy Summary

The fund invests at least 80% of net assets in common and preferred stocks of companies located in China, including Hong Kong, and may also invest in depositary receipts. It determines a company's location based on criteria such as revenue sources, asset locations, and trading markets, while primarily benchmarking against the MSCI China Index. The focus is on companies capable of sustainable growth, typically medium to large in size, across various sectors, with the potential for significant sector concentration.

ⓘ 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 (3/6/2026). 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.

Equity Size & Style Map

Based on equity exposure only (48% of total assets).

LargeMidSmall
19%
36%
9%
7%
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-
25%
4%
-
Large
ValueCoreGrowth
Size
Large
65%
Mid
7%
Small
28%
Style
Value
50%
Core
40%
Growth
9%
ⓘ Methodology

Equity size and style definitions: Large vs. Small based on market cap, where Large > $70B, Mid $10-70B, and Small < $10B. Value vs. Growth based on percentile ranking on Traditional Value score within the fund's region and size cohort (equal thirds among its true equity-fund peers). Cell shading and percentages: share of classified holdings weight per box, from stock-level classification (size on the same $70B/$10B lines; value by Traditional Value terciles across scored stocks). The dot is the average holding ranked against other funds, so dot and weights can differ at the margin. The Size and Style bars are the grid's row and column totals. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Composite Factors

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

Factor DetailsRef: Equity Funds

Based on equity exposure only (48% of total assets).

None of the selected metrics are scored for MCHFX — 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
90.7%
89.4%
1.1%
Other0.2%
9.3%
8.1%
1.2%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the holdings that carry a country, not portfolio weights. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Sector Exposure

Level

Based on equity exposure only (48% of total assets).

27.2%
25.7%
17.5%
14.7%
4.8%
4.1%
3.2%
2.8%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the fund's classified holdings — every position we can identify, with cash and unidentified positions excluded — not portfolio weights. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Thematic Exposure

Based on equity exposure only (48% of total assets).

Old vs New Economy

Old Economy39.9%
New Economy60.1%

China Exposure

China/HK Domiciled97.5%
Revenue & Operations1.1%
Operations Only0.0%
Revenue Only1.2%
No Material Exposure0.2%

Company Size

Mega (>$500B)24.4%
Large ($70–500B)23.3%
Mid ($10–70B)23.9%
Small ($1–10B)28.4%
Micro (<$1B)0.0%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the fund's classified equity book, renormalized so each split sums to 100% (the equity book is 100% of net assets) — they are not portfolio weights. China exposure: domiciled = incorporated in China or Hong Kong, falling back to the filing's country for holdings outside the stock model. Among the rest, revenue = ≥15% of revenue derived from China; operations = ≥3% of LinkedIn-tracked workforce in China, or ≥2 identified Chinese suppliers making up ≥12% of those identified. China revenue is estimated where segment reporting is absent. Company size bands by holding market cap: Mega >$500B, Large $70–500B, Mid $10–70B, Small $1–10B, Micro <$1B. Old vs New Economy partitions Sparkline's 48 industries: New = technology, internet platforms and entertainment, e-commerce, payments, pharma/biotech/medtech, and renewable energy; Old = everything else. Shares are of classified holdings and sum to 100%. China shares are of total equity weight. Size shares are of scored holdings weight. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Holdings

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

#NameTickerWeight %SectorIndustryCountry
1Tencent Holdings700
11.67
CommunicationInternet PlatformsKY
2Alibaba Group HoldingBABA
5.25
Consumer DiscE-CommerceKY
3Jiangsu Zhongtian Technology-
4.73
--CHN
4Kingboard Holdings148
4.68
IndustrialsDiv IndustrialsKY
5China International Capital3908
3.23
FinancialsInvest BankingCHN
6Ping AN Insurance (group) Company OF China-
2.87
--CHN
7Meituan3690
2.73
Consumer DiscE-CommerceKY
8China Merchants Securities-
2.68
--CHN
9China Life Insurance Company2628
2.61
FinancialsInsuranceCHN
10Montage Technology-
2.36
--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 Holdings55
Effective Holdings28.6
Top 10 Weight42.8%
Max Position11.7%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)51%
Top Country (of Net Assets)58%
ⓘ 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 Share91.5%
Tracking Error18.5%
Benchmark Correlation0.73
ⓘ 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
MCHFX
Matthews China Fund
Peer Group
47 funds
Peer Region
467 funds
Peer Asset Class
5,640 funds
YTD Return
-6.80%-6.75%4722.33%1211.63%4
1Y Return
-12.10%-13.02%5226.12%914.46%2
3Y Return (Ann.)
10.61%9.23%6222.05%1618.47%12
5Y Return (Ann.)
-4.19%-4.97%518.04%78.64%2
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
1.25%0.75%130.79%190.74%12
ⓘ 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 Similarity92
Top Overlap
Top Active Tilt
Top Return Corr
FundPeer Group
1MCH
Matthews China Active ETF
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
92---
2RBCIX
RBC China Equity Fund
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
72---
3CXSE
WisdomTree China ex-State-Owned Enterprises Fund
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
72---
4GSAGX
Goldman Sachs China Equity Fund
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
70---
5JCHI
JPMorgan Active China ETF
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
69---
6BGCBX
Baillie Gifford China Equities Fund
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
67---
7MCHI
iShares MSCI China ETF
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
67---
8FLCH
Franklin FTSE China ETF
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
66---
9WICGX
William Blair China Growth Fund
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
60---
10MMCFX
AMG Veritas China Fund
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
60---

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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).