The two index providers announced a suite of nine ESG indices covering China fixed income.

The two index providers announced a suite of nine ESG indices covering China fixed income.
Index inclusion has sparked investor interest in China’s onshore bonds, but performance has not been impressive.
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The inclusion of China’s onshore bonds on the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index is seen as a positive development, but don’t expect a surge of capital in the short-term, managers said.
“We trimmed exposure to India and Korea as we were concerned after the run-up [in markets]. We had different instances when target prices on stocks were reached,” said Csellak in an interview with Fund Selector Asia. Volatile Korea Korea with a 20.7% weighting and India (17%) were still the top country allocations of the Manulife Asian […]
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