Investors are piling into emerging market funds that exclude China despite a recent blistering rally in Chinese stocks, amid concerns over escalating tensions between Beijing and the west. Investment firms told the Financial Times that clients increasingly see the world’s second-biggest economy as too large or risky to manage alongside other developing economies such as India, leading to one of the biggest shifts in emerging markets investing in decades.
” So-called “ex China” equity funds have received $10bn of net inflows so far this year, according to JPMorgan — outstripping the total amount of money that has gone into broader emerging market equity funds. The number of such funds globally has nearly doubled to 70 in the last two years, according to Morningstar data.