In short: Passing mention — one of Ahern's KWEB AI-cloud plays (30:33), with Alibaba and Baidu.
In short: Top-10 holding in a China sleeve that is "about a third of the portfolio": founder-run, wide moat, out-of-favour valuation; he expects at least 10% earnings growth plus 5%+ a year returned as dividends and buybacks, "very comfortably" clearing his 15% owner-return hurdle.
About a third of Vinall's fund is in Chinese companies: Tencent (WeChat and games), Luckin Coffee, H World (hotels) and Yum China (KFC/Pizza Hut in China), plus a smaller stake in DiDi. He admits he doesn't speak the language, so he keeps to simple, obviously strong businesses still run by their founders.
The appeal is price. Western investors have been gloomy on China for years, so he can buy companies he expects to grow profits at least 10% a year while handing back 5% or more of their value each year in dividends and buybacks. That meets his 15% yearly target without the shares needing to get more expensive.
1:05:44But no, so I'm very conscious when I invest in China that I don't speak the language. I only go there once or twice a year, and so there's one and a half billion people on the planet who are better positioned to invest in China than I am. And the way I compensate for that is really just trying to keep it very simple.
In short: The AI bill arrives. Q2 revenue +11% Y/Y to ¥204.8B (~$30B), beating consensus and accelerating from +9% in Q1; adjusted net profit +9% to ¥68.4B. Marketing Services was the standout at +22% on AI-driven ad targeting, and domestic gaming rebounded +17% on Honor of Kings and Delta Force. But capex surged 176% Y/Y and 65% Q/Q to ¥52.8B (~$7.8B), swinging free cash flow from +¥56.7B in Q1 to an outflow of ¥13.8B. Tencent's defence is that excess AI infrastructure could be rented through Tencent Cloud if its own products fail to consume it — "Sounds familiar?" Early product proof: a native WeChat AI agent in testing (booking rides), WorkBuddy as China's most widely used office agent, Hy3 token usage up 20-fold since its April preview, Hy4 later this year — but monetization "remains early." Bottom Line: "The next test is whether WeChat's 1.4 billion-user distribution can turn that infrastructure into meaningful new revenue." A disclosed author holding.
Tencent runs WeChat — China's do-everything messaging app, with about 1.4 billion users — plus the world's largest video-game business and a cloud arm. Revenue grew 11% and, importantly, sped up from the prior quarter, with advertising up 22% (AI is making its ad targeting better) and Chinese gaming up 17%.
The headline of the section is the cost. Capital spending — the money laid out on AI chips and data centres — jumped 176% versus a year ago to about $7.8 billion in a single quarter. That flipped free cash flow (the cash left after all that spending) from a positive ¥56.7 billion to a negative ¥13.8 billion. Tencent's defence is that if its own products don't use all that computing power, it can rent the surplus out through Tencent Cloud. App Economy's two-word reaction — "Sounds familiar?" — is a nod to Amazon, Alphabet and Meta making exactly the same argument about exactly the same problem.
Why still positive: unlike a pure infrastructure bet, Tencent already owns the distribution that could pay for it. A WeChat AI agent that books your ride is being tested, WorkBuddy is China's most-used office AI agent, and usage of its Hy3 model is up twenty-fold since April. The stance rests on that distribution turning into revenue; the risk is that the bill keeps arriving before it does.
In short: Cited as strengthening FXI evidence: Tencent grew net profit 21% YoY through AI integration "across social, gaming, and enterprise platforms." One of the dominant Chinese platforms translating the AI-usage surge into reported earnings; a key FXI communication-services holding, not a standalone buy call.
Tencent runs WeChat, China's dominant super-app, plus huge gaming and enterprise-software businesses — another of FXI's largest holdings. Hay highlights that Tencent grew its net profit 21% year-over-year by weaving AI through its social, gaming and business platforms. That's a big, profitable company getting more profitable thanks to AI, which supports the case that the fund's cheap price doesn't match its improving earnings. It's mentioned as constituent evidence for FXI, not as a separate stock recommendation.
In short: Put a real price on Ubisoft's crown jewels: closed a €1.2B investment in Vantage Studios (Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Rainbow Six) in November 2025 for a 26% economic interest, valuing Vantage at a €3.8B pre-money EV — more than the market assigns all of Ubisoft (~€1.2B). Ubisoft keeps exclusive control and consolidation; Tencent's right of first refusal (plus Guillemot-family control) makes an EA-style buyout unlikely. A disclosed author holding. (Recap, not a stance call.)
Tencent is the giant Chinese tech-and-gaming company, and it's the outside expert vote of confidence in Ubisoft's assets. Rather than buy all of Ubisoft, Tencent paid €1.2 billion for a 26% slice of just Ubisoft's best studio (Vantage — home to Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six). That deal implicitly valued that one studio at €3.8 billion, which is more than the stock market currently thinks all of Ubisoft is worth. So a sophisticated buyer put real money down at a price that says the market is too gloomy. Tencent can't simply seize the rest — Ubisoft's founding family keeps control — but Tencent gets first dibs if it's ever sold. Tencent is also a stock the author holds. A recap, not a call.
In short: Buy, 12-m SOTP TP HK$700. One of the mega-cap AI players with balance-sheet strength to sustain the low-end price war; its Workbuddy agentic/coding harness is a named 2H26 signpost as model companies race to capture real-life coding data.
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In short: "10 cents [Tencent] up a lot today" — part of the cheap-relative China-AI complex he flags as both an opportunity and a threat to US AI returns.
Tencent is a Chinese internet and gaming giant, "up a lot today." It's part of the same cheap-relative China-AI group he flags as both an opportunity (very low valuations versus the U.S.) and a threat (a source of the IP copying that dilutes U.S. AI returns).
30:41look at today, look at Baba's up a lot. Um, you look at all different types of companies in China, 10 cents up a lot today. And the Chinese the China AI like the value of the companies and the value of the technology on on balance sheets of companies is is a fraction of where we are in the United States, right? Look at how many Babas can you fit into Alibabas can you fit into to to Nvidia, right? Like a thousand.
In short: Named among the ~10 Chinese companies cleared for H200 purchases — part of the China call-option set NVIDIA is not counting on.
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