MSCI explains next steps for China A-share inclusion

A-shares included at low weight; handful of large-caps with tiny weighting.

MSCI’s decision in June to include Chinese domestic A-shares in its biggest international and emerging market indices, albeit in modest scale, was a symbolic landmark. But attention has quickly turned to the next step: increasing the weighting of Chinese shares to represent the true size of that market.

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Chin Ping Chia,
MSCI

The inclusion of A-shares, which will take place in two instalments in May and August 2018, will be in a very limited form – just 222 large-cap stocks with a 5% weighting relative to their actual size.

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