−4.6%
since Sep 1
The idea
I believe the next fifty years belong to the East, so I own the whole shift instead of betting on one winner. China is the biggest tilt, priced like it's finished while its best companies keep growing, with India as a core stake on demographics alone. Around those anchors sit Asia's tech champions, smaller connector economies riding rerouted trade, broad emerging-market funds as ballast, and a small Bitcoin position as a hedge on Western money itself.
What it owns
- Established Chinese businesses trading at deep discounts to Western peers despite ongoing earnings growth. · KraneShares CSI China Internet ETFIt holds China's major internet platforms at prices that assume Beijing's regulatory constraints will persist, creating a gap between current valuations and business earnings trajectories., Alibaba GroupStill China's biggest commerce and cloud company, trading at a fraction of Western peers despite ongoing earnings growth., PDD HoldingsThe fastest grower among China's big commerce companies, and its Temu arm exports that model worldwide., NetEaseMakes games people pay for regardless of the macro mood, throwing off cash while priced like a business in trouble.22%
- Businesses that benefit as hundreds of millions of Indians enter the formal economy and consumer class for the first time. · iShares MSCI India ETFBroad ownership of India's stock market, the cleanest way to hold the demographic story without picking individual companies., ICICI BankMakes money every time an Indian household gets its first credit card, mortgage, or business loan., InfosysIs India exporting skilled labor to the world, the services side of the demographic story., MakeMyTripOwns online travel booking in India just as hundreds of millions of Indians start flying and taking hotel trips for the first time.20%
- Dominant technology platforms and manufacturers across the region that collect tolls on broader economic growth. · Taiwan SemiconductorMakes nearly every advanced chip on earth, so it collects a toll on the whole region's tech rise through its manufacturing lead., Sea LimitedRuns the dominant online shopping and payments platforms across Southeast Asia, a region of hundreds of millions just coming online economically., CoupangBuilt the Amazon of South Korea, one of Asia's richest consumer markets, and is now expanding into Taiwan.18%
- Regional hubs and platforms that capture growth as capital and trade flows reshape across Asia. · VanEck Vietnam ETFVietnam is the clearest winner from supply chains moving out of China, and this fund owns its market broadly., iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETFSaudi Arabia is spending oil money to become a trade and capital bridge between East and West., Grab HoldingsRuns rides, food delivery, and payments across eight Southeast Asian countries, so it grows as the region's middle class does., iShares MSCI Singapore ETFSingapore is where Asian trade, banking, and wealth management get routed, so its market is a toll booth on the whole region's growth.13%
- Diversified exposure to emerging markets that owns the parts of the East story nobody predicted. · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETFThe widest possible emerging-markets holding, here as ballast to own the parts of the East story nobody predicted., iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex-China ETFEmerging markets with China stripped out, so the ballast sleeve isn't secretly doubling the China bet the portfolio already makes.10%
- Insurance against erosion of confidence in traditional currency systems. · iShares Bitcoin TrustA small Bitcoin stake as insurance against the dollar-based system losing credibility.7%
- Cash10%