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When investing in any equity market, we take a long-term view (five-to ten years), and since 2002, Asia (ex-Japan) has generated significantly higher annualised returns than Europe, the UK and Japan - yet with similar risk.
China made the headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2021, as slowing growth, defaults in the highly levered real estate sector, and an apparent move by the government to focus on social priorities above growth – including the introduction of investor-unfriendly regulations impairing certain sectors with little warning – all combined to damage investor confidence.