Strategic Outlook: China: Valuation

  • Mutual Funds
Putting a price on China Growing demand for deals means a growing need to understand the workings of a China valuation. Z-Ben Advisors takes a methodical look at the factors influencing a fund manager’s valuation. Starting from the ground up, we assess standard metrics, the application of global considerations and also the China-specific factors not […]
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Strategic Outlook: China: Executing on control

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The 2019 play June 2019 will mark a year since majority ownership was officially codified; yet, at least for fund managers, the new landscape has not crystalized. Still, wheels are in motion, and the tracks are laid out. Now, it’s just down to who gets what. In this Strategic Outlook, we offer a framework for […]
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Strategic Outlook: China: China in 2019

  • China-in-2019, eight-trends
The eight trends to watch Onlookers will increasingly become participants as competitive pressures continue to mount in 2019. All this at a time of broad-scale changes to China’s asset management landscape. For a second year, Z-Ben Advisors outlines the eight trends to watch for the next 12 months. Whether it is the shifting wealth management […]
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Strategic Outlook: China: Funds Managers

  • Mutual Funds
Navigating 2019 If fund managers thought 2018 was a ride, 2019 will be even more so. Ever-morphing product development is in for yet another shake-up as competitive and structural changes turn on a dime. In this Strategic Outlook, we examine how such changes will guide managers’ decisions. Global managers looking to capitalize on market opening […]
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Strategic Outlook: In case you missed it – 2016 in review

To say the least, 2016 was a busy year. Starting from the opening of the bond market to majority control of a fund management company by a foreign firm, it can be easy to forget just how much happened. Themes of cross-border investment liberalization and structural maturation have now cast the Chinese financial industry in […]
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Strategic Outlook: Fund flows – Following the money trail

Z-Ben Advisors doesn’t need to tell you about the size of the Chinese asset management market – you already know that it’s big. What we can tell you is we are starting to see new sources of capital from institutional and retail investors enter the industry. These have already become a significant driver of onshore […]
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Strategic Outlook: Competitive benchmarking – The fog of war

Z-Ben Advisors has repeatedly observed some global managers taking advantage of a gap in others’ understanding the Chinese market to advance onshore further and faster – specifically those firms benchmarked against them. As the market itself becomes clearer to all global participants, internal firm dynamics are increasingly taking center stage in determining how much firms […]
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Strategic Outlook: Chinese pension reform: Defining the benefits

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Defining the benefits Z-Ben Advisors believes any manager that views anytime other than now as the ideal point to enter the Chinese pension market is in for a rude awakening. The conveyor belt of pension reform on the Mainland is bringing addressable assets to global managers at an unprecedented pace. This report maps the likely […]
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