China Still Surging !!!!

wombat42_2

jamesd wrote: »

wombat42, Artemis Global Growth may appear conventional but it actually takes significant punts into emerging markets to generate growth and stay competitive.

The pair does seem like a good combination for you.

Both have a bit of an "edge" to them.

Yes Artemis is overweight in Emerging markets (about 15%) but generally the country allocations are roughly according to their natural proportions. Neptune Global Equities is actually about 35% Emerging markets of one sort or another. But the allocations are not set in stone, The fund managers constantly review allocations which is better than if you created your own mix of regional portfolios as practically you can only switch so often.

I hope to just stay with them for the next 10 years.

Still miffed about pulling out of China. The signals looked bad on the day I pulled out but if i just stayed in another 10 days I wold have made another 15%.

nrsql

Wouldn't call what the funds do rebalancing (at least I hope not). More monitoring against exposure and expectations. I think of rebalancing as a more passive task - something that doesn't require thought or expertise.

As to China - you'll probably be happier if it drops 20% next week unless it drags your new funds down as well. Don't dwell on past decisions, especially in that sort of timescale. You wanted to protect your gains and I suspect that has worked.
I'll bet those who got out of tech shares a few days before the crash weren't happy at missing out on the gains towards the end - I stopped monitoring things because they were gettnig silly.

munk

Still miffed about pulling out of China. The signals looked bad on the day I pulled out but if i just stayed in another 10 days I wold have made another 15%.

If it's any consolation the china market took a knock the other day as news was released about locals being allowed to invest in the Hong Kong market instead of just in the local Chinese market. Apparently the prices on the China market were thought to have been overinflated by as much as 40% compared to their equivalent prices on the Hang Seng / HK market and there are worries now that if locals can instead invest in the lower, more realistically valued HK market, they will do and the China markets may take a fall.

The threadneedle china fund dropped a little in the last week, although it's still not bad with a maybe 0.25% increase over the week.

wombat42_2

munk wrote: »

If it's any consolation the china market took a knock the other day as news was released about locals being allowed to invest in the Hong Kong market instead of just in the local Chinese market. Apparently the prices on the China market were thought to have been overinflated by as much as 40% compared to their equivalent prices on the Hang Seng / HK market and there are worries now that if locals can instead invest in the lower, more realistically valued HK market, they will do and the China markets may take a fall.

The threadneedle china fund dropped a little in the last week, although it's still not bad with a maybe 0.25% increase over the week.

Yes but the China funds actually invest in Hong Kong not China. It could be that the China market falls as the Chinese all pile into Hong Kong.