Investors are reconfiguring their global portfolios to give China a much greater role as the world's fastest growing economy leads the world out of the Covid crisis; 62 percent of top international institutional investors and large corporates plan to increase their China portfolio allocations by an average of 24.5 percent in the next 12 months, according to a survey by HSBC Qianhai Securities Limited (HSBC Qianhai).

Attractive yield opportunity against a global backdrop of extremely low interest rates is the key driver of increased participation by offshore investors in the Chinese market, the survey shows. This is facilitated by greater ease of access through inclusion of Chinese stocks and bonds in major global indices, and market access initiatives such as Stock and Bond Connect schemes, China Interbank Bond Market (CIBM) Direct and RMB Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (RQFII) programmes.

Justin Chan, Head of Greater China, Global Markets, HSBC, said: "International appetite for access to Chinese financial markets is at an all-time high. A steady stream of developments, from index inclusion to Stock and Bond Connect schemes, is opening this market like never before, and yield hungry investors from across the world are piling in."

Trading volumes so far this year show significant increased international investor participation in both debt and equity markets in mainland China. In the first nine months of 2020, northbound Bond Connect volumes were up 122 percent year-on-year, while northbound Shenzhen and Shanghai Stock Connect volumes were up 157 percent and 77 percent respectively .

The survey of 935 institutional investors and large corporates based in Asia- Pacific, Europe and North America also showed that the top issues affecting further participation are trust in local rating systems and controls on outward remittance of funds.

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Investors are reconfiguring their global portfolios to give China a much greater role as the world's fastest growing economy leads the world out of the Covid crisis; 62 percent of top international institutional investors and large corporates plan to increase their China portfolio allocations by an average of 24.5 percent in the next 12 months, according to a survey by HSBC Qianhai Securities Limited (HSBC Qianhai).

Attractive yield opportunity against a global backdrop of extremely low interest rates is the key driver of increased participation by offshore investors in the Chinese market, the survey shows. This is facilitated by greater ease of access through inclusion of Chinese stocks and bonds in major global indices, and market access initiatives such as Stock and Bond Connect schemes, China Interbank Bond Market (CIBM) Direct and RMB Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (RQFII) programmes.

Justin Chan, Head of Greater China, Global Markets, HSBC, said: "International appetite for access to Chinese financial markets is at an all-time high. A steady stream of developments, from index inclusion to Stock and Bond Connect schemes, is opening this market like never before, and yield hungry investors from across the world are piling in."

Trading volumes so far this year show significant increased international investor participation in both debt and equity markets in mainland China. In the first nine months of 2020, northbound Bond Connect volumes were up 122 percent year-on-year, while northbound Shenzhen and Shanghai Stock Connect volumes were up 157 percent and 77 percent respectively .

The survey of 935 institutional investors and large corporates based in Asia- Pacific, Europe and North America also showed that the top issues affecting further participation are trust in local rating systems and controls on outward remittance of funds.