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China’s Investment Landscape: Finding New Opportunities
China’s economy is rich with opportunity. Growth still outstrips that of developed nations, and the country’s combined equity markets are the second largest in the world. Yet, until recently, they were mostly closed to foreign investors.
These markets are opening up. With stock connects to Hong Kong and London established and the weight of Chinese stocks in global equity indices increasing, the flow of foreign capital into Chinese markets is expected to increase dramatically as investors seize the opportunity to make A-shares an important part of their core portfolio allocations.
Though the current environment is clouded by uncertainty over the ongoing trade tensions between China and the US, in our view the correction in China stock markets offers an excellent opportunity, both for short-term dip-buying and long-term growth. The China-US trade dispute has mostly been priced into China shares, and we are cautiously optimistic that the world’s two largest economies will eventually strike a deal, though the process will undoubtedly be bumpy. Chinese equity fundamentals still give cause for optimism, and from a medium to long-term perspective they are one of the most appealing asset classes.
At the same time, investors are concluding that funds tracking benchmark stock indexes may not be the best way of tapping into the country’s growth story. It is well-established that Chinese stock markets, dominated as they are by retail investors, are not strongly correlated to their counterparts in developed nations. For this reason, investing in a broad China index fund made sense to global equity investors from a diversification point of view, particularly while the range of assets available to foreigners is limited.
However, correlations within the Chinese equity market are also relatively weak. Export-dependent companies are clearly going to be more affected by trade tensions than those with a domestic consumer focus. “Old economy” state-owned companies have different drivers to “new economy” consumer, technology or healthcare companies, as the government pushes ahead with efforts to rebalance the country for future growth. Even within the new economy, data shows that shares within sectors such as healthcare have a low interconnection with sectors like IT.
Thus, a fund holding a broad mix of Chinese firms whose shares move in different directions under different conditions is less likely to deliver long-term outperformance. On the other hand, this sectoral divergence creates opportunities for more active strategies, which now can be realised thanks to the liberalisation of the China A-share market.
As a result, we have seen China thematic investing growing in popularity, and that trend is likely to gather pace as international investors gain greater access to the wider ecosystem of Chinese shares. Rapid advancements in technology and changing demographics are transforming existing paradigms throughout China’s economy, and this is creating the ideal environment for investors to drill down into the opportunities presented by disruptive growth industries.
As a leading innovator in exchange-traded funds, Mirae Asset Global Investments (HK) Ltd has become the first to offer thematic ETFs in two disruptive growth sectors that until now have been the domain of venture capital and private-equity investors: the Global X China Cloud Computing ETF and the Global X China Biotech ETF.
Both funds follow Mirae’s thematic investment philosophy, focusing on a medium- to long-term horizon that doesn’t rely on market timing. First, we identify high-conviction themes that are the product of observable structural (rather than cyclical) changes in demographics, technology, social behaviour or regulatory environments. Then we find a group of publicly traded companies with high liquidity that provide exposure to that theme.
With the biotech and cloud-computing funds, Mirae offers the wider investor community the opportunity to share in the enormous potential of these two industries in the world’s second-largest economy.
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