Investors face a tough choice over China index changes
US politician-led attempts to curb equity investment into China look set to struggle in the face of index providers raising the country in their index allocations over the next two years.
China’s ongoing efforts to bring defiance in Hong Kong to heel is raising a difficult question for investors: should they stick or twist?
The US government and several senior politicians in Congress want US investors to pull back from equity investments in the country. At the same time, most index providers look set to increase the weighting of China A-shares in their global and emerging market benchmark indexes.
That means almost all passive investors, which includes major pens…
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