china growth slows in fourth quarter
China’s fourth quarter GDP figures showed growth slowing slightly, but they remained ahead of market expectations.
China’s fourth quarter GDP figures showed growth slowing slightly, but they remained ahead of market expectations.
Emerging markets specialist East Capital has launched the Luxembourg registered China A-Shares Fund, to be managed out of its Stockholm HQ and Hong Kong.
Asia expert Diego Mauro has joined the emerging markets team at Hermes.
With the launch of two new ETFs‚ European investors are now able to buy shares in smaller‚ faster-growing Chinese companies.
Numbers we get from China indicating the return of economic momentum last year have ominously turned south at the start of this year.
Deutsche Bank was the only leading European ETF provider to see net outflows in 2013 so has high hopes on its new physically-backed China ETF.
The net effect of growth in the US and Europe and a structural slowdown in China is that global economic growth should accelerate in 2014.
Investors have upped their allocation to both equities and bonds in spite of a majority belief that equities are overvalued, a view not held since March 2004.
China’s debt has has alomost trebled in the past five years, to $23trn, leading to a dangerous financial burden that could bring about its very own credit crunch.
There is no other country on the planet better than China to implement deep, broad, and long-term structural reforms, writes Jan Dehn, head of research at emerging markets manager Ashmore.
For all the talk of a global information age, obtaining clear facts about Chinese state policy is akin to using Google on a stone stele from the Tang dynasty.
As China slowly moves its main source of economic growth from exports to domestic consumption there are twin universes appearing of state-dominated sectors such as energy, telecom, and banking alongside more nimble service and consumer sectors.