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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Growth may have slowed down in China, but that has not stopped large asset management companies from investing in the country. As reported in an article in Bloomberg, one of the reasons for this is the massive US$ 3.66 trillion currency reserves that the dragon nation has amassed. The US Fed's decision to taper its QE program some months back had given global markets the jitters. As a result, there was an exodus of capital from emerging markets including India. For the latter, this posed a problem because it is burdened with a rising current account deficit. But China has no such problem. Some of the other factors that are in favour of investments in China include the country's intention of moving away from an investment and exports based business model. But that does not mean that there are no other problems. For quite some time now, China has been plagued by issues such as shadow banking, unregulated lending and increasing debt burden of local governments. Efforts to bring these under control have led to cash squeezes that helped drive up borrowing costs. Also, China is looking to make the Yuan fully convertible. But this may not be that easy given the opaqueness with which the currency is managed. Thus, investing in China is not without its share of risks.

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