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Three straight years of losses from Chinese markets and anti-Beijing rhetoric from Washington have not deterred some U.S. asset managers from introducing products they hope will thrive if Chinese stocks rebound. China's markets have been hit by a long-lasting property crisis, slowing growth and geopolitical tension. The Institute of International Finance estimates $80 billion of outflows from Chinese portfolios last year, and the bellwether blue-chip CSI 300 Index has fallen 43% from its ...

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Matthews Asia launched three active exchange traded funds on the New York Stock Exchange today that focus on global emerging markets, Asia, and China.

Former WisdomTree executive Michael Barrer has joined Matthews Asia as vice president, head of ETF capital markets. In this new role, Barrer serves as the primary relationship manager for all capital markets relationships and partners with the firm’s portfolio management, portfolio strategy, operations and distribution teams to support the firm’s ETF initiatives.

Michael Barrer has been hired by Matthews Asia as vice president and head of ETF capital markets.

It’s good when the unemployment rate is low, right? Of course it is. The problem is that super-low unemployment often comes at the end of the good times, not the beginning.

China will be a headline in the U.S. for the coming decades, as its top strategic competitor. Let’s detangle various aspects of this competition.

In what was expected to be a relatively uneventful Fed meeting a few short days ago, the June FOMC gathering turned into a headline-making event instead.

Since the end of 2019, S&P 600 price returns have been a respectable 21%—or 8.2% annualized. This return hasn’t come close to matching 87% EPS growth, which has meant the P/E ratio of the index has contracted from 20.2 times to 13.1 times.

The drawdown in many stocks focused on cloud computing software has been, in a word, unbelievable. In basically one month’s time, from April 11 through May 11, the BVP Nasdaq Emerging Cloud Index (EMCLOUD)—a group of cloud-oriented companies—has lost roughly 30% of its value.