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🔔 BlackRock Says 'Invest in China'
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So, BlackRock say that the world's second largest economy is no longer an emerging market.
Therefore, investors should 2x or 3x allocations to China... 👇👇
What could their motivations be?
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What did Wei Li, chief investment strategist at the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII) have to say?
“China is under-represented in global investors’ portfolios but also, in our view, in global benchmarks,”
“It has the second-largest equity market, the second-largest bond market. It should be represented more in portfolios.”
Second largest economy too, yet China isn't the second largest weighting in most investment portfolios...
Harder to get investment when nobody trusts your accounting...
Back to Wei Li:
On Chinese bonds, benchmark weightings should be ratcheted up “a bit more” than the two to three times multiple for equities, “in certain investor cases”.
“The starting point is so low. The direction of travel for China to be represented in global benchmarks is clear,”
There's a fund for that...
This point is hard to argue against... 👇👇👇
“The spheres of influence between the two superpowers are moving apart. In the near term that can lead to market volatility. In the longer term, if you want to get China you have to go to China,”
And this is especially true now.
US regulators have been cracking down on accounting practices, disclosures, and the Cayman-listed Chinese shell companies that offered US investors an easy 'in' for China exposure...
Now they'll have to look to China more directly, and BlackRock will provide a large gateway.
Valuations are tricky... 👇👇👇
The BII said in its mid-year outlook published in July that it was “time to treat [China] as an investment destination separate from emerging and developed markets. China’s economy has come through the Covid-19 shock stronger than global peers, just as it did after the global financial crisis.”
The jury is still very much out on this.
On a broader theme, it's yet to be confirmed if China can actually create an environment that's good for investors...
🔹 China says will protect legal income, rationally adjust excessively high incomes -state media— PiQ (@PriapusIQ) August 17, 2021
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An ageing population is deflationary, we've mentioned it a few times before... Demographics matter, and we've argued that you only need to look at Japan to see what the future holds...
However, some recent research had suggested that an ageing population could actually be inflationary:
...an influential hypothesis argues, based on the dis-saving of the elderly, that ageing will eventually push savings rates down and interest rates back up. This argument... was recently revived under the name “great demographic reversal” (Goodhart and Pradhan 2020).
This is the key chart: yes, #ageing reduces savings, but reduces growth more, => lower #rates. Stock analysis of asset demand leads to the same conclusion. pic.twitter.com/89IEFPxIui— Christian Odendahl (@COdendahl) August 16, 2021
In this paper, we refute the great demographic reversal and show that, instead, demographics will continue to push strongly in the same direction, leading to falling rates of return and rising wealth-to-GDP ratios.
We find that the key force is the compositional effect of an ageing population
Everyone loves a chart for illustration...
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