Solactive is pleased to announce its collaboration with KraneShares on the KraneShares Asia AI Technology ETF, which tracks the Solactive Asia AI Technology USD Index. The ETF seeks to provide exposure to Asian companies positioned across the AI technology value chain, with a particular focus on the infrastructure and industrial capabilities supporting AI development and deployment.
As artificial intelligence adoption continues to expand, demand for technologies enabling AI systems has increased across semiconductors, memory, data center infrastructure, networking equipment, AI server manufacturing, and semiconductor capital equipment. Against this backdrop, the strategy is intended to capture companies with measurable business exposure to the AI ecosystem in Asia, reflecting the region's role in the global supply chain supporting AI innovation.
The Solactive Asia AI Technology USD Index selects constituents from the Solactive GBS Global Markets All Cap USD Index that satisfy regional, size, and liquidity requirements. Eligible companies are headquartered, located, or primarily listed in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, or Macao. Constituents are selected based on their Thematic Relevance Score, which reflects their exposure to the AI technology ecosystem across advanced semiconductor foundry and packaging services, high-bandwidth memory, optical communications and AI networking hardware, data center power, thermal and electrical infrastructure, AI server original design manufacturing and systems integration, semiconductor capital equipment and test systems, and AI semiconductor materials and specialty chemicals. The weighting approach combines free-float market capitalization with thematic relevance, allocating 20% to company size and 80% to thematic relevance. Individual constituent weights are capped at 8%, while the combined weight of constituents exceeding 5% is limited to 45%. The index is rebalanced quarterly.
The ETF was listed on 19 August 2026 on the NYSE with the ticker code KAIT.
Timo Pfeiffer, Chief Markets Officer at Solactive, commented: "We are pleased to collaborate with KraneShares on this launch. At Solactive, we focus on delivering innovative and relevant index solutions for our clients. This index reflects Asia's important role in the global AI value chain and demonstrates our ability to translate specific client needs into targeted and transparent product solutions."
“We believe Asia plays a foundational role in enabling the global AI buildout, with leadership across many of the most capacity-constrained and technologically complex segments of the value chain,” said Jonathan Krane, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of KraneShares. “Working with Solactive as our index provider, we are launching KAIT to provide investors with targeted access to the companies and regions we believe will drive the next phase of AI-driven growth.”
