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Managers

Richard Gao

Lead Portfolio Manager:

Richard Gao

Portfolio Manager

Richard Gao joined Matthews International Capital Management, LLC in 1997 as a China Analyst and is currently a Portfolio Manager. He began his career at the Bank of China in 1989, first as a loan officer, then as a FOREX Trader in the Treasury Department. In 1993, he became Assistant Manager at the Bank of China, where he was in charge of FOREX trading for import/export companies. Richard received a B.A. in Literature from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in and an M.B.A. in International Business from the Dominican University of California. He is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and Shanghainese. Richard has been a Portfolio Manager of the Pacific Tiger Fund since 2006, of the China Fund since 1999, and of the China Dividend Fund since its inception in 2009.

Lead Manager
- Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund
- Matthews China Fund

Co-Manager
- Matthews China Dividend Fund


Andrew T. Foster

Co-Portfolio Manager:

Andrew Foster

Portfolio Manager

Andrew Foster is a Portfolio Manager at Matthews International Capital Management, LLC. He began his career in 1996 in Singapore, where he worked as a management consultant in A.T. Kearney’s Financial Institutions Group. Andrew joined Matthews in 1998 as a Research Analyst and left the firm in 2001 to obtain his M.B.A. Upon returning to Matthews in 2003, Andrew led the firm’s research efforts until 2008. From January 2008 to June 2009 Andrew served as acting Chief Investment Officer. Andrew holds an A.B. in Public Policy and a secondary degree in Economics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from INSEAD in France. Andrew has been a Portfolio Manager of the Asian Growth and Income Fund since 2005, of the India Fund since the Fund’s inception in 2005, of the Asia Dividend Fund since the Fund’s inception in 2006, and of the China Fund since 2008.

Lead Manager
- Matthews Asian Growth and
  Income Fund

Co-Manager
- Matthews Asia Dividend Fund*
- Matthews China Fund
- Matthews India Fund

 


* 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.