Polaris International Securities Investment Trust, the fund manager for the recently launched Taiwan Top 50 Tracker TTT Fund - Taiwan's first exchange-traded fund - is preparing an international roadshow to market it to non-Taiwanese investors. The aim is to make the TTT, which has amassed $600 million since its launch on June 30, as big as, or bigger, than Hong Kong's HK$26.7 billion $3.4 billion Tracker Fund.
That's a tall order but Patrick Wong, Polaris' vice chairman, says over the next several years the TTT has the potential to attract a similar amount of assets. Next month Polaris will undertake visits to investors in Hong Kong, followed by Tokyo in November,...