China’s property sector is down 8% this year, and Aviva is making highly selective decisions according to company and city, said Tim Jagger, senior vice president and portfolio manager for fixed income in Asia.
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Real estate underpins China products
What China’s domestic investors assume are a local bank’s time deposit products are often real estate investments and loans, according to Anthony Doyle, head of investment specialists team, M&G Investments.
Real reforms rolling out in EM
Serious reforms in key emerging markets are ramping up and going largely unnoticed, according to Mike Sell, head of Asian investments at Alquity Investment Management.
Stock Connect deadline missed
Hong Kong and China shares declined today after the Hong Kong Exchange said there was no firm date to implement the Stock Connect programme, which was widely expected to go live in October.
Chinese equity markets mini big bang
Just as October 1986 ushered in an era of deregulation for London’s financial markets, so 28 years later Chinese equity markets face their own mini Big Bang with the launch of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Connect.
Funds start buying into Alibaba
About one month after Alibaba’s $25bn IPO on the NYSE, the largest in history, five funds registered for sale in Asia have made the Chinese ecommerce giant a top ten holding.
BlackRock sees sweeping changes
Emerging markets will have sharply different characteristics in the next ten years than they had in the last, and investment strategies will be reshaped in the context of “divergence”, according to Jeff Shen, BlackRock’s head of emerging markets.
Hong Kong trading suspensions
Several Hong Kong authorised funds have companies in their top ten holdings that have been under trading suspensions imposed by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Chinese asset managers
Regulatory factors are making mainland fund houses evaluate plans for launching RMB products overseas, though the challenges are tough, said David Li, managing director of CACEIS.
Hong Kong protests build
Massive pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have reached the fourth day, but the financial industry in the special administrative region remains largely unaffected.
