- BlackRock Inc. and UBS Group AG turned positive on Beijing s beaten-down equities, citing investors growing comfort with China s crackdown and an improving earnings outlook.
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The upgrade to overweight by the world s biggest asset manager and UBS, which had a bearish view for 16 months, adds to the belief that the worst for the underperforming market may be over. It comes at a time when a gauge for global equities is less than 1% away from setting a new record high. Fidelity International Ltd. is also preparing to seize some deep value opportunities. We are dipping our toes back in and we think there is more room for tactical upside, Ben Powell, chief investment strategist for Asia Pacific at BlackRock Investment Institute, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. The market has a much higher degree of comfort about the level of regulatory scrutiny that is here to stay, he added.
UBS strategists, including Niall Macleod, upgraded their recommendation on Chinese equities on Wednesday, saying tighter regulations have been priced in, while corporate earnings and valuations are set to improve.
The change in their stance underscores how investor skepticism over China has receded despite negative factors such as President Xi Jinping's regulatory tightening against private enterprises, contagion risk from China Evergrande Group s debt crisis and slowing economic growth.
BlackRock is the first foreign asset manager allowed to start a wholly owned mutual fund business in China and UBS is already one of the top foreign asset managers in the Asian nation.
A rebound in October has pulled Hong Kong s Hang Seng benchmark from the throes of being the worst performing national equity gauge of this year. The index fell 0.5% on Thursday amid a regional stock selloff in Asia. A host of other technical stock indexes, including the Hang Seng Tech Index, are forming bullish patterns.
The market of course has a much better understanding of where the level of regulatory pressure is and earnings are set to improve, BlackRock s Powell said.
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