This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed Asia Pacific ex Japan equity strategy.

The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only, but can use any investment style (e.g. growth, value, blend, small cap, large cap, all cap). In terms of geography, the fund(s) can invest in a combination of any countries in the Asia Pacific region but cannot exclusively cover the following equity markets (for which there are stand-alone categories): Greater China (including but not limited to H-shares, A-shares and Taiwan), Japan, India.