MSCI has decided to quadruple the weighting of Chinese stocks included in its flagship Emerging Markets Index. Investors shouldn’t take this as an invitation to pile into China without thinking. The index industry giant’s original 2017 move to include some so-called A-shares came with plenty of fanfare. In practice, emerging markets investors who benchmark their performance against MSCI’s index were safely able to ignore the move. Initial weightings meant Chinese shares made up less than 1% of the EM index, slightly below...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 01, 2019 01:18 UTC