Overview

Investment Objective

Total return with an emphasis on providing current income.

Strategy

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its total net assets in income-paying publicly traded common stocks, preferred stocks, and other equity-related instruments of companies located in the Asia region. The Asia region includes China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

Distributions

The Matthews Asia Dividend Fund intends to distribute its dividends quarterly. Second Quarter 2010 dividend distributions were paid on June 24, 2010 to shareholders of record as of June 23, 2010. Distributions are now available »

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Portfolio Managers

Lead Manager:
Jesper Madsen, CFA

Co-Manager:
Andrew T. Foster

Fees and Expenses

Gross Expense Ratios:¹
Fiscal Year 2009: 1.27%
     After Fee Waiver, Reimbursement and Recoupment: 1.30%²

Portfolio Turnover:³
Fiscal Year 2009: 32.41%

¹ Matthews Asia Funds does not charge 12b-1 fees.

² The Advisor has contractually agreed to waive Matthews Asia Dividend Fund’s fees and reimburse expenses until at least August 31, 2010 to the extent needed to limit total annual operating expenses to 1.50%.

³ The lesser of fiscal year 2009 long-term purchase costs or sales proceeds divided by the average monthly market value of long-term securities.

Risks of Investment

Learn about the principal risks of investing in the Funds as well as the regional and country risks.

There is no guarantee that the Fund or the companies in its portfolio will pay or continue to pay dividends.

* To better reflect its investment strategy, the Fund’s name changed from Matthews Asia Pacific Equity Income Fund to Matthews Asia Dividend Fund on November 30, 2009.