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Morgan Stanley Asia-Pacific Fund, Inc.

Portfolio of Investments

First Quarter Report

March 31, 2019 (unaudited)

 

 

 

Shares

 

Value
(000)

 

Common Stocks (38.3%)

 

 

 

 

 

China (27.6%)

 

 

 

 

 

Banks

 

 

 

 

 

Bank of China Ltd. H Shares (a) 

 

11,055,000

 

$

5,013

 

China Construction Bank Corp. H Shares (a) 

 

8,320,560

 

7,133

 

 

 

 

 

12,146

 

Beverages

 

 

 

 

 

China Resources Beer Holdings Co., Ltd. (a) 

 

156,000

 

657

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diversified Consumer Services

 

 

 

 

 

New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. ADR (b) 

 

24,557

 

2,212

 

TAL Education Group ADR (b) 

 

32,338

 

1,167

 

 

 

 

 

3,379

 

Diversified Telecommunication Services

 

 

 

 

 

China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd. (a) 

 

1,334,000

 

1,703

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Food Products

 

 

 

 

 

China Mengniu Dairy Co., Ltd. (a)(b) 

 

704,000

 

2,618

 

Yihai International Holding Ltd. (a) 

 

39,000

 

174

 

 

 

 

 

2,792

 

Health Care Providers & Services

 

 

 

 

 

Shanghai Pharmaceuticals Holding Co., Ltd. H Shares (a) 

 

245,900

 

536

 

Sinopharm Group Co., Ltd. H Shares (a) 

 

127,600

 

532

 

 

 

 

 

1,068

 

Independent Power & Renewable Electricity Producer

 

 

 

 

 

China Resources Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (a) 

 

412,000

 

619

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Insurance

 

 

 

 

 

China Life Insurance Co., Ltd. H Shares (a) 

 

699,000

 

1,880

 

China Pacific Insurance Group Co., Ltd. H Shares (a) 

 

553,228

 

2,171

 

 

 

 

 

4,051

 

Interactive Media & Services

 

 

 

 

 

Baidu, Inc. ADR (b) 

 

7,200

 

1,187

 

Tencent Holdings Ltd. (a) 

 

273,200

 

12,562

 

 

 

 

 

13,749

 

Internet & Direct Marketing Retail

 

 

 

 

 

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ADR (b) 

 

43,315

 

7,903

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

 

 

 

 

 

PetroChina Co., Ltd. H Shares (a) 

 

2,156,000

 

1,398

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals

 

 

 

 

 

CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. (a) 

 

752,000

 

1,398

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Real Estate Management & Development

 

 

 

 

 

China Overseas Land & Investment Ltd. (a) 

 

444,000

 

1,689

 

China Resources Land Ltd. (a) 

 

148,000

 

663

 

 

 

 

 

2,352

 

 


 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods

 

 

 

 

 

Shenzhou International Group Holdings Ltd. (a) 

 

173,600

 

2,326

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wireless Telecommunication Services

 

 

 

 

 

China Mobile Ltd. (a) 

 

339,280

 

3,469

 

 

 

 

 

59,010

 

Hong Kong (6.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

Banks

 

 

 

 

 

BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd.

 

484,500

 

2,006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Markets

 

 

 

 

 

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd.

 

67,000

 

2,335

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diversified Telecommunication Services

 

 

 

 

 

HKT Trust & HKT Ltd.

 

600,000

 

964

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

 

 

 

 

 

Link REIT

 

78,500

 

918

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Insurance

 

 

 

 

 

AIA Group Ltd.

 

436,000

 

4,340

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Real Estate Management & Development

 

 

 

 

 

New World Development Co., Ltd.

 

765,000

 

1,269

 

Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd.

 

71,000

 

1,218

 

Swire Properties Ltd.

 

289,200

 

1,244

 

 

 

 

 

3,731

 

 

 

 

 

14,294

 

India (1.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

Banks

 

 

 

 

 

HDFC Bank Ltd. ADR

 

30,500

 

3,535

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thailand (2.2%)

 

 

 

 

 

Food & Staples Retailing

 

 

 

 

 

CP ALL PCL (Foreign)

 

490,300

 

1,155

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services

 

 

 

 

 

Bangkok Dusit Medical Services PCL (Foreign)

 

1,904,900

 

1,488

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

 

 

 

 

 

PTT PCL (Foreign)

 

1,411,700

 

2,140

 

 

 

 

 

4,783

 

United Kingdom (0.1%)

 

 

 

 

 

Banks

 

 

 

 

 

HSBC Holdings PLC

 

23,200

 

189

 

Total Common Stocks (Cost $57,809)

 

 

 

81,811

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment Company (3.9%)

 

 

 

 

 

United States

 

 

 

 

 

iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (Cost $8,243)

 

136,368

 

8,312

 

 


 

Short-Term Investment (34.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

Investment Company (34.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

Morgan Stanley Institutional Liquidity Funds - Government Portfolio - Institutional Class (c) (Cost $73,982)

 

73,981,772

 

73,982

 

Total Investments (76.9%) (Cost $140,034) (d)(e)(f)

 

 

 

164,105

 

Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities (23.1%)

 

 

 

49,280

 

Net Assets (100.0%)

 

 

 

$

213,385

 

 

Country assignments and aggregations are based generally on third party vendor classifications and information, and may be different from the assignments and aggregations under the policies set forth in the Fund’s prospectus and/or statement of additional information relating to geographic classifications.

 


(a)

Security trades on the Hong Kong exchange.

(b)

Non-income producing security.

(c)

The Fund invests in the Institutional Class of the Morgan Stanley Institutional Liquidity Funds - Government Portfolio - (the “Liquidity Funds”), an open-end management investment company managed by the Adviser. Advisory fees paid by the Fund are reduced by an amount equal to its pro-rata share of the advisory and administration fees paid by the Fund due to its investment in the Liquidity Funds. For the three months ended March 31, 2019, advisory fees paid were reduced by approximately $3,000 relating to the Fund’s investment in the Liquidity Funds.

(d)

The approximate fair value and percentage of net assets, $61,024,000 and 28.6%, respectively, represent the securities that have been fair valued under the fair valuation policy for international investments as described in the Notes to the Portfolio of Investments.

(e)

The Fund is permitted to purchase and sell securities (“cross-trade”) from and to other Morgan Stanley Funds as well as other funds and client accounts for which the Adviser or an affiliate of the Adviser serves as investment adviser, pursuant to procedures approved by the Directors in compliance with Rule 17a-7 under the Act (the “Rule”). Each cross-trade is executed at the current market price in compliance with provisions of the Rule. For the three months ended March 31, 2019, the Fund did not engage in any cross-trade transactions.

(f)

At March 31, 2019, the aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes approximates the aggregate cost for book purposes. The aggregate gross unrealized appreciation is approximately $26,097,000 and the aggregate gross unrealized depreciation is approximately $1,191,000, resulting in net unrealized appreciation of approximately $24,906,000.

ADR

American Depositary Receipt.

ETF

Exchange Traded Fund.

REIT

Real Estate Investment Trust.

 

Futures Contracts:
The Fund had the following futures contracts open at March 31, 2019:

 

 

 

Number
of
Contracts

 

Expiration
Date

 

Notional Amount
(000)

 

Value
(000)

 

Unrealized
Appreciation
(000)

 

Long:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index (Hong Kong)

 

376

 

Apr-19

 

19

 

$

27,240

 

$

141

 

Hang Seng Index (Hong Kong)

 

25

 

Apr-19

 

1

 

4,630

 

49

 

MSCI Singapore Free Index (Singapore)

 

250

 

Apr-19

 

25

 

6,635

 

20

 

MSCI Taiwan Index (Singapore)

 

492

 

Apr-19

 

49

 

19,223

 

145

 

SGX NIFTY 50 (Singapore)

 

1,174

 

Apr-19

 

2

 

27,414

 

204

 

SPI 200 Index (Australia)

 

291

 

Jun-19

 

7

 

31,877

 

276

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

835

 

 

AUD

Australian Dollar

HKD

Hong Kong Dollar

SGD

Singapore Dollar

USD

United States Dollar

 


 

Portfolio Composition

 

Classification

 

Percentage of
Total Investments

 

Short-Term Investment

 

45.1

%

Other*

 

25.5

 

Banks

 

10.9

 

Interactive Media & Services

 

8.4

 

Insurance

 

5.1

 

Investment Company

 

5.0

 

Total Investments

 

100.0

%

 


*    Industries and/or investment types representing less than 5% of total investments.

 


 

Morgan Stanley Asia-Pacific Fund, Inc.

 

Notes to the Portfolio of Investments · March 31, 2019 (unaudited)

 

In August 2018, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2018-13, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820) - Disclosures Framework - Changes to Disclosure Requirements of Fair Value Measurement (“ASU 2018-13”) which introduces new fair value disclosure requirements as well as eliminates and modifies certain existing fair value disclosure requirements. ASU 2018-13 would be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019 and for interim periods within those fiscal years; however, management has elected to early adopt ASU 2018-13 as permitted by the standard. The impact of the Fund’s adoption was limited to changes in the Fund’s financial statement disclosures regarding fair value, primarily those disclosures related to transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy and disclosure of the range and weighted average used to develop significant unobservable inputs for Level 3 fair value measurements, when applicable.

 

Security Valuation: (1) An equity portfolio security listed or traded on an exchange is valued at its latest reported sales price (or at the exchange official closing price if such exchange reports an official closing price), and if there were no sales on a given day and if there is no official exchange closing price for that day, the security is valued at the mean between the last reported bid and asked prices if such bid and asked prices are available on the relevant exchanges. Listed equity securities not traded on the valuation date with no reported bid and asked prices available on the exchange are valued at the mean between the current bid and asked prices obtained from one or more reputable brokers or dealers. In cases where a security is traded on more than one exchange, the security is valued on the exchange designated as the primary market; (2) all other equity portfolio securities for which over-the-counter (“OTC”) market quotations are readily available are valued at the latest reported sales price (or at the market official closing price if such market reports an official closing price), and if there was no trading in the security on a given day and if there is no official closing price from relevant markets for that day, the security is valued at the mean between the last reported bid and asked prices if such bid and asked prices are available on the relevant markets. An unlisted equity security that does not trade on the valuation date and for which bid and asked prices from the relevant markets are unavailable is valued at the mean between the current bid and asked prices obtained from one or more reputable brokers or dealers; (3) certain portfolio securities may be valued by an outside pricing service/vendor approved by the Fund’s Board of Directors (the “Directors”). The pricing service/vendor may employ a pricing model that takes into account, among other things, bids, yield spreads and/or other market data and specific security characteristics. Alternatively, if a valuation is not available from an outside pricing service/vendor, and the security trades on an exchange, the security may be valued at its latest reported sale price (or at the exchange official closing price if such exchange reports an official closing price), prior to the time when assets are valued. If there are no sales on a given day and if there is no official exchange closing price for that day, the security is valued at the mean between the last reported bid and asked prices if such bid and asked prices are available in the relevant exchanges; (4) when market quotations are not readily available, including circumstances under which Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. (the “Adviser”) or Morgan Stanley Investment Management Company (“MSIM Company”) (the “Sub-Adviser”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, determines that the closing price, last sale price or the mean between the last reported bid and asked prices are not reflective of a security’s market value, portfolio securities are valued at their fair value as determined in good faith under procedures established by and under the general supervision of the Directors. Occasionally, developments affecting the closing prices of securities and other assets may occur between the times at which valuations of such securities are determined (that is, close of the foreign market on which the securities trade) and the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”).  If developments occur during such periods that are expected to materially affect the value of such securities, such valuations may be adjusted to reflect the estimated fair value of such securities as of the close of the NYSE, as determined in good faith by the Directors or by the Adviser using a pricing service and/or procedures approved by the Directors; (5) quotations of foreign portfolio securities, other assets and liabilities and forward contracts stated in foreign currency are translated into U.S. dollar equivalents at the prevailing market rates prior to the close of the NYSE; and (6) investments in mutual funds, including the Morgan Stanley Institutional Liquidity Funds, are valued at the net asset value as of the close of each business day.

 

The Directors have responsibility for determining in good faith the fair value of the investments, and the Directors may appoint others, such as the Fund’s Adviser or a valuation committee, to assist the Directors in determining fair value and to make the actual calculations pursuant to the fair valuation methodologies previously approved by the

 


 

Directors. Under procedures approved by the Directors, the Fund’s Adviser has formed a Valuation Committee whose members are approved by the Directors. The Valuation Committee provides administration and oversight of the Fund’s valuation policies and procedures, which are reviewed at least annually by the Directors. These procedures allow the Fund to utilize independent pricing services, quotations from securities and financial instrument dealers and other market sources to determine fair value.

 

Fair Value Measurement: FASB Accounting Standards CodificationTM (“ASC”) 820, “Fair Value Measurement” (“ASC 820”), defines fair value as the value that the Fund would receive to sell an investment or pay to transfer a liability in a timely transaction with an independent buyer in the principal market, or in the absence of a principal market, the most advantageous market for the investment or liability. ASC 820 establishes a three-tier hierarchy to distinguish between (1) inputs that reflect the assumptions market participants would use in valuing an asset or liability developed based on market data obtained from sources independent of the reporting entity (observable inputs) and (2) inputs that reflect the reporting entity’s own assumptions about the assumptions market participants would use in valuing an asset or liability developed based on the best information available in the circumstances (unobservable inputs) and to establish classification of fair value measurements for disclosure purposes. Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Fund’s investments. The inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:

 

· Level 1 — unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

 

· Level 2 — other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

 

· Level 3 — significant unobservable inputs including the Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments.  Factors considered in making this determination may include, but are not limited to, information obtained by contacting the issuer, analysts, or the appropriate stock exchange (for exchange-traded securities), analysis of the issuer’s financial statements or other available documents and, if necessary, available information concerning other securities in similar circumstances.

 

The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities and the determination of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires judgment and considers factors specific to each security.

 

The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Fund’s investments as of March 31, 2019:

 

Investment Type

 

Level 1
Unadjusted
quoted
prices
(000)

 

Level 2
Other
significant
observable
inputs
(000)

 

Level 3
Significant
unobservable
inputs
(000)

 

Total
(000)

 

Assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stocks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Banks

 

$

3,535

 

$

14,341

 

$

 

$

17,876

 

Beverages

 

 

657

 

 

657

 

Capital Markets

 

 

2,335

 

 

2,335

 

Diversified Consumer Services

 

3,379

 

 

 

3,379

 

Diversified Telecommunication Services

 

 

2,667

 

 

2,667

 

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

 

 

918

 

 

918

 

Food & Staples Retailing

 

 

1,155

 

 

1,155

 

Food Products

 

 

2,792

 

 

2,792

 

Health Care Providers & Services

 

 

2,556

 

 

2,556

 

Independent Power & Renewable Electricity Producers

 

 

619

 

 

619

 

Insurance

 

 

8,391

 

 

8,391

 

Interactive Media & Services

 

1,187

 

12,562

 

 

13,749

 

Internet & Direct Marketing Retail

 

7,903

 

 

 

7,903

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

 

 

3,538

 

 

3,538

 

Pharmaceuticals

 

 

1,398

 

 

1,398

 

Real Estate Management & Development

 

 

6,083

 

 

6,083

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods

 

 

2,326

 

 

2,326

 

Wireless Telecommunication Services

 

 

3,469

 

 

3,469

 

Total Common Stocks

 

16,004

 

65,807

 

 

81,811

 

Investment Company

 

8,312

 

 

 

8,312

 

Short-Term Investment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment Company

 

73,982

 

 

 

73,982

 

Futures Contracts

 

835

 

 

 

835

 

Total Assets

 

$

99,133

 

$

65,807

 

$

 

$

164,940

 

 

Transfers between investment levels may occur as the markets fluctuate and/or the availability of data used in an investment’s valuation changes.