Last spring, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that trade wars are easy to win. Last Friday, however, he tweeted the U.S. and China have really been in a trade war for the past three decades. Either way, tensions don’t seem about to diminish any time soon. So what do the latest skirmishes mean for institutional […]
At the start of April, the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index started including Chinese bonds. “Adding China to a benchmark global bond index – with two more global indexes likely to follow suit – will attract many investors to China’s domestic bond market, some for the first time,” said Kenneth Ho, managing director and head of Asia credit strategy […]
FTSE Russell has built a series of customizable multi-asset indexes. The FTSE Multi-Asset Composite Index series will focus on measuring cross-asset market performance over a number of regions including the U.S., Europe, China as well as other emerging markets. The series was built in response to demand from clients for methods to measure multi-asset performance with more accuracy […]
China’s debt situation appears dramatic, but worries about it shouldn’t necessarily deter institutions looking at investing in the country, says Andy Rothman, investment strategist at Matthews Asia. The majority of the debt stems from measures taken by the Chinese government to stimulate its economy after the global financial crisis, prior to which the country’s overall […]
Over the past years, the MSCI emerging markets equity index has formed weighting biases and shortcomings, says David Dali, portfolio strategist at Matthews Asia, who recently published a piece on six sources of alpha within emerging markets. Yet opportunities are available in emerging markets for investors to capitalize on, he says, highlighting the importance of […]
Many investors believe the end of the current economic cycle is coming, according to Invesco’s latest global fixed income survey. While 49 per cent of respondents said they expect the current cycle to last one or two more years, a slim majority (52 per cent) of North American investors said it will end earlier. Investors in […]
Private capital allocations to emerging markets hit unprecedented levels in 2018, totalling US$90 billion raised in private capital vehicles during the year and $US70 billion in disclosed capital invested according to the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association’s latest data. The capital raised represents a 39 per cent increase and the disclosed invested capital represents a […]
MSCI Inc. will be increasing the weight of China A-shares in its indexes by upping the inclusion factor from five to 20 per cent in three steps. “Stock Connect has proven to be a robust channel to access A-shares,” said Remy Briand, MSCI’s managing director and chairman of the MSCI Index Policy Committee, in a […]
Economic deceleration in China in the fourth quarter of 2018 wasn’t significantly sharper than expected and a hard landing for China still isn’t on the horizon, said Andy Rothman, investment strategist at Matthews Asia in a recent Sinology report. Rothman explained many investors were worried due to the perception that in the fourth quarter of 2018 China’s growth slowed more […]
Rewind to 2017. It was a very unusual year, with global growth receiving a boost from a combination of ultra-supportive financial conditions, a temporary boom in the global trade cycle and the absence of any adverse political or financial shocks, said Darren Williams, senior vice-president and director of global economic research at AllianceBernstein, speaking at […]