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The HSBC Hang Seng TECH UCITS ETF has been designed to harness China’s technological revolution by following the performance of the Hang Seng TECH Index.
China – the making of a global technology leader
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Leveraging China’s growth potential
China’s economy is on a steady path to recovery, as seen by the normalisation of economic data. China is the only major economy to have positive economic growth in 2020, despite the impacts of COVID-19.
China GDP growth vs. rest of the world
Source: IMF, Bloomberg as of September 2020.
The pace of China’s market liberalisation has picked up over the past few years, and this has prompted major index providers to include Chinese assets in their indices.
China remains under-represented in global equity indices
Source: Bloomberg, MSCI, as of 31 July 2020. Equity index used: MSCI All-Country World Index.
Technological innovation, as well as high quality growth and domestic demand, were featured in China’s latest Five-Year Plan (2021-2025). The pursuit of self-reliance in innovation and technology will be a pillar strategy for national development in the next five to 15 years.
China investments in technology 2020-2025
Source: China Centre for Information Industry Development, as of May 2020
Chinese equities have relatively low correlations with their global counterparts, potentially improving returns and lowering the volatility of global portfolios.
Chinese equities have relatively low correlation to global equities
Source Bloomberg. Correlation calculated with MSCI indexes in base currency, for the period from 30 October 2010 to 30 October 2020.
Our expertise
1. Source: China Banking News, as of April 2020
2. Source: Statista, as of June 2020
3. Source: Hurun Research Institute, as of August 2020. A unicorn company is a start-up with a valuation over USD 1bn
4. Source: China emerges as global tech innovation leader, CIO Journal, Deloitte, 30 October 2019
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