Timefolio 'TIME KOSPI Active' ETF Achieves 79% Return Year-to-Date

Outperformed KOSPI by 14.41 Percentage Points

Timefolio Asset Management announced on May 6 that its flagship domestic investment ETF, 'TIME KOSPI Active,' has shown outstanding performance since the beginning of the year.

According to the Korea Exchange on the same day, as of May 4, the TIME KOSPI Active ETF recorded a cumulative return of 79.02% year-to-date. This figure exceeds the KOSPI Index's rise of 64.61% over the same period by 14.41 percentage points.

A representative from Timefolio Asset Management explained, "The key to this excess performance lies in our active management strategy, which proactively includes and increases the allocation of market-leading stocks." Rather than simply tracking the index based on market capitalization weightings, the company selects core stocks driving the market rally and dynamically adjusts their weightings, thereby outperforming the benchmark index.

In this product, stocks such as SK hynix, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Mirae Asset Securities, and Hyundai Motor Company led the performance. SK hynix and Samsung Electronics surged significantly due to increased investment in AI servers and rising demand for high-value memory products such as HBM. For Samsung Electro-Mechanics, expectations for component demand driven by the spread of AI and high-performance IT devices were reflected. Mirae Asset Securities benefited from increased trading volume and expectations for capital market revitalization, while Hyundai Motor Company performed strongly on the back of global competitiveness and expectations for enhanced shareholder returns.

Kim Namho, Head of ETF Management at Timefolio Asset Management, stated, "The TIME KOSPI Active ETF is based on the stability of investing in flagship indices, while maintaining an active management strategy that selects and adjusts the weighting of stocks with high potential for excess returns in a market where performance differences between sectors and stocks are widening."

He added, "Even in domestic flagship index investing, simply tracking the index is no longer sufficient to fully reflect the pace of market changes. Moving forward, we will continue to comprehensively consider earnings momentum, supply-demand trends, industrial shifts, and policy directions to proactively discover leading stocks within the KOSPI market, concentrating our management capabilities to deliver returns that exceed the index for investors."

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