Are you ready for China A shares?

Research Paper
June 29, 2017
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MSCI's recent announcement that it will add 222 China A shares to its key benchmarks raises practical questions for global and emerging market investors: How does it affect their investment policy? How can they implement these exposures (whether or not they already have China A shares in their portfolios)? While inclusion of China A shares is a year away, institutional investors may want to start planning for how this change may affect their portfolios. Longer term, if China continues to liberalize the A shares market and MSCI were to fully include them, China's weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index could rise to 40.8% from 28% currently.

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