About the speaker

Sophie is an investment manager in the China Equities Team. She is a decision maker on our China Equities Strategy, which she has managed since 2014, and on our China A Share Strategy since its inception in 2019. Sophie also provides China insight to International All Cap Portfolio Construction Group. She is a CFA Charterholder and graduated MA in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh in 2008 and MPhil in Eighteenth Century and Romantic Literature from the University of Cambridge in 2009.
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The China Fund aims to outperform (after deduction of costs) the MSCI China All Shares Index, as stated in sterling, by at least 2 per cent per annum over rolling five-year periods.
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