You may have noted that the vast majority of popular global equity funds hold a few crowded China trades such as Tencent and Alibaba. We do not, and this is deliberate. Why is it useful for those tasked with portfolio construction to know this? Namely, for both risk management and fund blending aspects.
China
China the Dragon, or Tiger?
The type of growth that China has enjoyed had not been new globally, or even new in Asia but is simply on a far greater scale.
Introduction to Chinese political culture
Today’s Chinese economic miracle exists at the end of almost 200 years of trials for China, the first half involving their ‘century of humiliation’ and the second Marxist struggle.
China the Sleeping Giant
In many ways, the story of the Chinese economic miracle can be traced back to a speech of Bill Clinton’s on the 9th of March 2000 at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University.
Chinese blockchain comments push Bitcoin price higher
Bitcoin was up over the weekend, increasing its market cap by AUD $55 billion on comments from Chinese President Xi.
Batteries have been the missing link for renewables
Nanuk’s CIO, Tom King, believes that batteries have potential to change the world. While there is an uneasy debate in Australia between different sides of the climate debate, it is getting easier to mount a case against building anymore coal-powered electricity plants.
Which country, which will?
The Victorian case of Re Tang [2017] looked at a raft of issues that arose when the deceased had assets in both Australia and China.
China research trip confirmed investment downgrade by Australian Ethical
“Four cities, five days, 14 companies: we made the most of our trip to China and it confirmed our concerns and reaffirmed our decision to downgrade our economic assessment for the country. “We also picked up several key insights into China’s development,” said Nathan Lim who runs the international equities fund. China has settled into […]