{"id":123540,"date":"2026-09-01T07:46:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T07:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/123540\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T07:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T07:46:33","slug":"foreign-investors-expected-to-eye-more-china-a-shares-but-pace-set-to-ease-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/123540\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign investors expected to eye more China A shares \u2013 but pace set to ease: analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foreign investors<\/a> are expected to keep adding to their China A-share holdings, though the pace of buying is likely to slow from the surge in the first half of the year, according to a UBS analyst.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still expect net inflows in the second half, but the pace will be somewhat slower than in the first half,\u201d said Meng Lei, China equity strategist at UBS Securities, at UBS\u2019s annual China A-share strategy conference in Shenzhen on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Foreign appetite for A shares \u2013 domestic shares of mainland companies denominated and traded in yuan \u2013 hit a record in the first half. Overseas holdings reached more than 4.4 trillion yuan (US$654 billion) by the second quarter, the highest level on record, according to Meng.<\/p>\n

Global fund managers aggressively expanded positions, with holdings under qualified foreign institutional investor scheme surging 87 per cent in value to 272.8 billion yuan by the end of June as buyers piled into companies tied to the artificial intelligence supply chain<\/a> and green energy<\/a>, according to financial data provider Wind.The tech narrative and A shares\u2019 unique, self-sufficient industrial chain are very attractive to global investorsMeng Lei, UBS Securities<\/p>\n

However, analysts said several macroeconomic headwinds were tempering foreign capital inflows into onshore bourses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign investors are expected to keep adding to their China A-share holdings, though the pace of buying is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[129],"tags":[34915,28189,351,60434,34916,733,60435,17457,223,38253,4424,3423,49410],"class_list":["post-123540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ubs","tag-a-shares","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-china-a-share","tag-foreign-investors","tag-green-energy","tag-property-sector","tag-shenzhen","tag-ubs","tag-ubs-securities","tag-us-treasury","tag-wind","tag-yuan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117194678742259703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}