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Asian Fixed Income: Mega 30 in China Versus U.S.
Despite the lackluster performance of Chinese bonds in 2017, the market value tracked by the S&P China Bond Index continued to expand and reached CNY 56.9 trillion (USD 9 trillion) as of Feb. 26, 2018. While it is the world’s third-largest bond market and remains far from the giant U.S. bond market (valued at USD…
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Asian Fixed Income: China and the Global Bond Market
In a previous piece, we discussed that China’s lackluster performance had made it the worst-performing country in the Pan Asian bond market in 2017, and that it was the only country that closed the year in negative territory. The one-year total return of the S&P China Bond Index fell 0.29% last year (see Exhibit 1),…
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Two Interesting Facts of the Chinese Bond Market Volatility
The S&P China Bond Index is targeted to provide global investors an independent, transparent and broad-based benchmark. A study of the index returns revealed two interesting facts on the Chinese bond market volatility. 1) While the volatilities of most Asian bonds retreated in the past year, the Chinese bonds have actually become more volatile. The…
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