Restrictions on how exchange traded funds can invest are creating distortions in Vietnam’s stock markets, according to sources in the country. Vietnam’s two stock markets, based in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, have been increasingly volatile in recent months as a run of bad news, including the devaluation of the currency, the default-induced restructuring of a big state-owned company and rising inflation have all spooked short-term investors.
Before that recent run of bad news, foreign investors had been buying into Vietnam’s markets in huge volumes thanks to the broadened access provided by new investment vehicles.
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