Anomalies in Chinese A-Shares
Find out which factors strategies have worked and which have not over the last two decades since the opening of China’s stock markets.
Find out which factors strategies have worked and which have not over the last two decades since the opening of China’s stock markets.
Investment manager selection methodology commonly employed by industry practitioners turns out, in fact, to be a detriment to performance.
When smart beta ETFs are actively traded, mutual fund flows become “smarter”, with a higher sensitivity to alphas from multi-factor models.
Not every factor profits investors when implemented through a passive strategy. Size and quality show weak robustness, and liquidity-demanding factors, such as illiquidity and momentum, are associated with high trading costs. Investors may be better off accessing these factors through active management rather than indexation.
Contrary to the belief of many casual central bank watchers, there is a striking parallel between China’s quantitative easing and that of Japan, U.S. and Europe. Just as the Fed expands its balance sheet to bankroll the U.S. government, so does the Chinese central bank – through its state-owned banking satellites – expand its balance sheet to lend to SOEs to promote employment and growth.
Cornell and Hsu assert that the standard consumption-based model has failed to explain the cross-section of expected returns because its assumption that security prices are set by end investors, who wish to maximize their intertemporal consumption, is counterfactual.
Complexity can dampen investor understanding, leading to poor investment decision making and ultimately derailing long-term financial goals—yet the bias toward investment complexity persists, reinforced by explanations that are behavioral in nature.
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Substantial evidence supports cyclicality in factor returns. Evidence also indicates most investors don’t fully benefit from this insight due to behavioral biases—but contrarian investors do.
The rapid rise and sharp decline of the A-shares market represents a massive redistribution of wealth, especially painful to uninformed investors who bought hot stocks near the peak. What should the Chinese government do now?
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