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MICDX

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Matthews China Dividend Fund

Expense Ratio
1.19%
AUM
$93M
Inception
1/2/2019
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The fund invests at least 80% of net assets in dividend-paying equity securities of companies located in China, which includes its administrative districts like Hong Kong. It may also invest in convertible debt and equity securities of any maturity and quality, including unrated or below investment grade securities. The focus is on companies with attractive dividend yields and the potential for increasing dividends, typically small or medium-sized, while allowing for investments across various sectors and the use of ETFs for cash management.

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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
MICDX
Matthews China Dividend Fund
37.8%37.8%19.5%1.67-16.6%
ⓘ 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 1/27/2025 to 1/27/2026.

Trailing Returns

Name
YTD1D5D1M3M6M1Y2Y3Y5YMAX
MICDX
Matthews China Dividend Fund
5.6%1.4%3.1%2.2%11.9%17.6%0.4%5.9%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 1/27/2026.

Annual Returns

Name
2019202020212022202320242025YTD
MICDX
Matthews China Dividend Fund
16.4%24.4%-0.5%-16.6%-20.6%15.1%29.6%5.6%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. As of 1/27/2026.

Correlation Matrix

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Factor Regression

Name
Ann. αβ MKTβ SMBβ HMLβ RMWβ CMAβ UMDβ iHMLR²Obs
MICDXDev Ex-US
Matthews China Dividend Fund
1.0%0.62**0.080.41-1.41**-0.92-0.190.100.33251
ⓘ 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 1/27/2025 to 1/27/2026.

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Fund ProfileSingle-Country

Fund Documents(opens the fund company’s site in a new tab)
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)
Expense Ratio
1.19%
AUM
$93M
3Y Flow
+42.2%
Inception
1/2/2019
Holdings (Reported)
42
Turnover
76%
Equity
100%
Derivatives
0%
Net Equity Exposure
99%
Strategy Summary

The fund invests at least 80% of net assets in dividend-paying equity securities of companies located in China, which includes its administrative districts like Hong Kong. It may also invest in convertible debt and equity securities of any maturity and quality, including unrated or below investment grade securities. The focus is on companies with attractive dividend yields and the potential for increasing dividends, typically small or medium-sized, while allowing for investments across various sectors and the use of ETFs for cash management.

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio and its components from the fund's prospectus fee table. Turnover from the SEC annual report (3/10/2025). Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 12/31/2025. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 12/31/2025. Strategy summary from the fund's prospectus.

Equity Size & Style Map

Based on equity exposure only (59% of total assets).

LargeMidSmall
20%
26%
-
11%
5%
-
15%
16%
6%
Large
ValueCoreGrowth
Size
Large
46%
Mid
17%
Small
37%
Style
Value
47%
Core
47%
Growth
6%
ⓘ Methodology

Equity size and style definitions. Size: each holding is scored against its own market's size curve — Large above $61.7B in the US and $21.4B elsewhere, Small below $10.8B worldwide — and a fund sits at the weighted average of its holdings. Style: each holding's Traditional Value score is ranked against stocks of the same region and size, and a fund sits at the weighted average of those ranks. Both are relative measures — where a holding stands among comparable stocks, not an absolute threshold. The dollar lines are recomputed from total market capitalisation each time the data is refreshed; the shares of the market they mark are what stay fixed. Cell shading and percentages: share of classified holdings weight per box. The grid and the dot are built from one set of per-holding scores — the dot is their weighted average — so they describe the same book at two levels of detail. The Size and Style bars are the grid's row and column totals. Holdings as of 12/31/2025. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Composite FactorsRef: Equity Funds

Based on equity exposure only (59% of total assets).

Intangible Value8.5
Traditional Value87.8
Small-Cap67.4
Quality36.6
Momentum3.4
ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Ranked within the clean equity fund universe, one entry per fund series (lowest: 0, highest: 100; the middle of the range is denser than the ends). Blue dots mark the fund; the shaded band spans the Equity Funds class 25th–75th percentile of scores, notched at the median. Holdings as of 12/31/2025. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Factor DetailsRef: Equity Funds

Based on equity exposure only (59% of total assets).

Valuation
Book-to-Price (NTM)79.0
Sales-to-Price (NTM)73.2
Earnings-to-Price (NTM)9.4
Innovation/IP
R&D / Mkt Cap4.7
Patents / Mkt Cap0.47
Brand
Sales & Marketing / Mkt Cap6.2
Trademarks / Mkt Cap0.02
Human Capital
PhD Employees / Mkt Cap0.41
Top University Alumni / Mkt Cap0.89
Politics
Lobbying Spend / Mkt Cap2.6
AI
AI Employees / Mkt Cap0.20
ⓘ 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 12/31/2025. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 12/31/2025.

Country Exposure

Level
85.1%
82.4%
2.7%
14.9%
11.1%
3.8%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the holdings that carry a country, not portfolio weights. Holdings as of 12/31/2025. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Sector Exposure

Level

Based on equity exposure only (59% of total assets).

30.7%
18.7%
11.5%
10.9%
10.7%
6.3%
5.7%
3.5%
1.9%
ⓘ 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 12/31/2025. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Thematic Exposure

Based on equity exposure only (59% of total assets).

AI Composition

Infrastructure24.8%
Early Adopter18.2%
Laggard56.9%

Magnificent 7

Magnificent 70.0%
Non-Magnificent 7100.0%

Old vs New Economy

Old Economy61.1%
New Economy38.9%

Globalization

Multinational23.1%
Exporter2.6%
Importer0.0%
Domestic74.3%

China Exposure

China/HK Domiciled93.5%
Revenue & Operations2.7%
Operations Only0.0%
Revenue Only0.0%
No Material Exposure3.8%

Company Size

Mega (>$500B)21.3%
Large ($70–500B)16.4%
Mid ($10–70B)28.8%
Small ($1–10B)32.5%
Micro (<$1B)0.9%
ⓘ 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 12/31/2025. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Holdings

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

#NameTickerWeight %SectorIndustryCountry
1Tencent Holdings700
12.53
CommunicationInternet PlatformsCHN
2Alibaba Group Holding-
8.76
--HKG
3Ping AN-
4.74
--CHN
4China Merchants Bank-
4.10
--CHN
5China Construction Bank939
4.01
FinancialsMultinational BanksCHN
6China EB Int'l257
3.53
IndustrialsBusiness ServicesHKG
7Anhui Expressway-
3.45
--CHN
8PetroChina857
3.36
EnergyOil MajorsCHN
9Wasion Holdings3393
3.05
IndustrialsElectrical & Power EqHKG
10Catl-
3.04
--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 12/31/2025. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

ConcentrationRef: Equity Funds

Total Holdings42
Effective Holdings23
Top 10 Weight50.6%
Max Position12.5%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)41%
Top Country (of Net Assets)73%
ⓘ 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 12/31/2025.

Benchmark DifferentiationRef: Equity Funds

vs EEMBroad Benchmark
Active Share94.1%
ⓘ 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
MICDX
Matthews China Dividend Fund
Peer Group
47 funds
Peer Region
467 funds
Peer Asset Class
5,640 funds
YTD Return
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1Y Return
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3Y Return (Ann.)
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5Y Return (Ann.)
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Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
1.19%0.75%180.79%240.74%16
ⓘ 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 Similarity50
Top Overlap
Top Active Tilt
Top Factor Match
FundPeer Group
1EVCGX
Eaton Vance China Equity Fund
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
50---
2MCHI
iShares MSCI China ETF
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
50---
3KBUF
KraneShares 90% KWEB Defined Outcome January 2027 ETF
Options - Buffer/Defined Outcome
Options - Buffer/Defined Outcome
50---
4FLCH
Franklin FTSE China ETF
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
50---
5KPRO
KraneShares 100% KWEB Defined Outcome January 2027 ETF
Options - Buffer/Defined Outcome
Options - Buffer/Defined Outcome
50---
6KWEB
KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
50---
7KLIP
KraneShares KWEB Covered Call Strategy ETF
Options - Income
Options - Income
50---
8GXC
State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) China ETF
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
50---
9LNGZX
Columbia Greater China Fund
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
48---
10FXI
iShares China Large-Cap ETF
Country - China & Hong Kong
Country - China & Hong Kong
48---

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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 12/31/2025. 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. Factor Similarity = 100 − a signature-weighted RMS gap across the composite factor scores (0–100 ranks within the clean equity fund universe), each axis weighted by how far this fund sits from the universe median of 50.