Fund of the week: The way of the dragon

This investment trust boasts impressive returns for investors looking for exposure to Asian equities.

China may be coming off the boil, but given its size and importance it's still worth having exposure to Asia. The trick is to pick a high-quality, reliable fund manager.

Not only has the Edinburgh Dragon Trust (LSE: EFM), part of the Aberdeen Asset Management stable, "massively outperformed its benchmark, MSCI AC Asia ex Japan, index, both in terms of share price and net asset value over one, three and five years", says Investors Chronicle, but it has also beaten "most of the trusts in the Asia Pacific ex-Japan investment trust sector over these periods". The trust, worth £484.8m, has delivered returns of 13.5% over one year, 48.2% over three and 72.3% over five years, says Trustnet.com.

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