Institutional investors wary of US-Asia equities switch

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Ernest Chan

Nov 23, 2017

Even though US share valuations are stretched and Asian stock markets are on a roll, Asian institutions are still reluctant to stop overweighting Wall Street in favour of Asia.

Institutional investors in Asia remain wary of jumping wholesale into Asian shares by shifting funds out of the US, even though the market momentum and earnings growth...

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Institutional investors wary of US-Asia equities switch

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