Global investors snap up Chinese stocks despite market declines

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International investors are putting more money into Chinese stocks, even as local investors have remained cautious on the mainland markets.

Mainland Chinese stock funds saw net inflows of $16.6 billion in January — only the fourth time since the pandemic that monthly inflows have exceeded $10 billion, according to research firm EPFR Global. That followed nearly $11 billion in net inflows in December, the data showed.

"Investor interest in China has actually strengthened coming into the fourth quarter of last year," Cameron Brandt, director of research at EPFR, said in a phone interview last week. "The driver there I think is a perception — especially among institutional investors — that in the emerging markets space, China is, for a variety of reasons, something of a safe play this year."

The latest wave of buying is from institutions, rather than retail investors whose interest in China dropped off since early last year, Brandt said.on mainland Chinese stocks in the last several months. Analysts are betting, in part, that Beijing wants to ensure growth in a year the ruling Chinese Communist Party is set to choose its next leaders at a national congress in the fall. At the same meeting, President"Everything will need to look quite to perfection for [such] a monumental event," Jason Hsu, chairman and CIO of Rayliant Global Advisors, said in a phone interview last week.

China has also become "a good contrarian play" this year because the local market is entering a period of stimulus and easier policy, while the

 

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