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Managers

Andrew T. Foster

Lead Portfolio Manager:

Andrew T. Foster
Acting Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Manager

Andrew Foster is acting Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager at Matthews. As acting Chief Investment Officer, Andrew oversees the firm’s investment process and investment professionals. Andrew first joined Matthews in 1998 as a Research Analyst and left the firm in 2001 to attend graduate school. Upon completion of his M.B.A. in 2002, Andrew returned to Matthews in 2003. Prior to Matthews, he worked as a management consultant with A.T. Kearney’s Financial Institutions Group in Singapore from 1996 to 1998. Andrew received 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 Pacific Equity Income Fund since the Fund’s inception in 2006, and of the China Fund since 2008.

Lead Manager
- Matthews Asian Growth and
  Income Fund

- Matthews India Fund

Co-Manager
- Matthews Asia Pacific Equity
  Income Fund

- Matthews China Fund


Sharat Shroff

Co-Portfolio Manager:

Sharat Shroff, CFA
Portfolio Manager

Sharat Shroff, CFA, joined Matthews in 2005 and is currently a Portfolio Manager. Prior to joining Matthews as a Research Analyst, Sharat spent five years in the San Francisco office and seven months in the Hong Kong office of Morgan Stanley as an Equity Research Associate. Sharat received a Bachelor of Technology from the Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India and an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, in Calcutta, India. He is fluent in Hindi and Bengali. Sharat has been a Portfolio Manager of the Pacific Tiger Fund since 2008, of the Asia Pacific Fund since 2007, and of the India Fund since 2006.

Lead Manager
- Pacific Tiger Fund

Co-Manager
- Matthews India Fund
- Matthews Asia Pacific Fund