Global brokerage firm CLSA has reversed its early tactical shift from Indian equities to Chinese stocks, and has decided to raise India allocation while cutting exposure to China.
In its report titled 'Pouncing Tiger, Prevaricating Dragon', CLSA cited challenges facing Chinese markets in the aftermath of Donald Trump's victory in the US elections as the reason for the move.
"Misfortune can happen in threes. So it has played out for Chinese equities over the past week. Trump 2.0 heralds a trade war escalation just as exports become the largest contributor to China's growth," the brokerage said.
Stating that it was sceptical on the endurance of the China equity melt up from the outset, CLSA said yet it committed a little more at the start of October by tactically deploying some of its over exposure to India towards China.
It had reduced its Indian overweight to 10 per cent from 20 per cent and raising our China allocation to a 5 per cent overweight from the benchmark.
"We now revers