By Chris Wright
It’s the final frontier of Chinese investment. Foreign retail investors can now buy a managed fund that gives them access to China’s A-share market: the stocks previously only open to mainland nationals and a handful of tightly regulated foreign institutions.
JF Asset Management, part of JPMorgan, launched the JF China Pioneer A-Share Fund on June 19 for investors in Hong Kong, making it the first A-share fund to be authorized by Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission.
The manager is doing so through the $150 million investment quota it received as a qualified foreign institutional investor (QFII), which refers to overseas banks and fund managers approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission to put foreign capital into Chinese markets under a scheme enacted in December 2002.
A-shares have a lot going for them on paper but demand an adventurous spirit from investors. Investors have by...
