Global equity¹ indexes provider MSCI announced Tuesday that beginning in June 2018, it will include China A-shares in the MSCI Emerging Markets (EM) Index and the MSCI ACWI (All Country World Index) Index.

 

全球股票指数提供者摩根士丹利资本国际公司周二宣布，自2018年6月起将中国A股纳入MSCI新兴市场（EM）指数和MSCI所有国家世界指数。

 

MSCI plans to add 222 China A Large Cap stocks, representing on a pro² forma basis approximately 0.73 percent of the weight of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index at a 5-percent partial Inclusion Factor, according to its 2017 market classification review released Tuesday.

 

MSCI said the decision has "broad support from international institutional investors³" with whom the company consulted, adding that it was primarily as a result of the positive impact on the accessibility of the China A market of both the Stock Connect program and the loosening by the local Chinese stock exchanges of pre-approval requirements that can restrict the creation of index-linked investment vehicles globally.

 

Since MSCI rejected the inclusion of China A-shares in 2016, Chinese authorities have taken several measures to ease international investors' concerns over the A-share market's accessibility: arbitrary trading suspensions were better regulated, restrictions⁴ on qualified⁵ foreign institutional investors were further relaxed, while the Shenzhen-Hong Kong stock connect scheme was launched to broaden channels of foreign investment in the A-share market.

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