SE Asia, Mid East instos tipped for big A-share flows

Asset owners in the Middle East and Southeast Asia have been tipped to drive a big influx of money into Chinese stocks after their partial inclusion in MSCI’s emerging market indices next month, as the index provider last night announced the first A-share constituents of its EM benchmarks (see box below). Institutional investors in Southeast Asia and the Middle East are likely to be the first to raise their A-share allocations after the inclusion, said Melody He, head of ETF and i…