Growing pains: Fund selectors urge for more EM ex China funds

Country makes up 32.1% of the MSCI EM index

The increasing influence of China has led to reams of column inches over recent months and yet the country, which is the second largest in the world in GDP terms, still sits within emerging markets when it comes to the world of investment.

Earlier this month, Invesco revealed that it would be repurposing one of its funds as the Invesco Emerging Markets ex China fund, a move that has been welcomed by fund pickers who would like to see investment houses offer more funds in this space.  JPMAM launches industry's first actively managed China equities ETF In 2020, China's GDP stood at $14.7trn, second only to the US at $20.9trn, according to the World Bank. It is no wonder then that the nation takes up such a substantial part of emerging market indices. According to the MSCI end of January factsheet, the country made up 3...