Not just another BRIC in the wall

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A developing economy with high growth prospects renders China an attractive market to tap through ETFs, as Emma Dunkley reports

  China is being hailed as one of the countries leading the way out of the global recession, and is at the fore of the rapidly rising emerging markets. With plenty of economic growth potential, industry players dub China as a lucrative market and an integral part of investors’ portfolios.  “China is going to experience the Japan story. Between 1950s and 1960s, Japan had tremendous performance and those who had missed it thought it was all over,” says Evercore Pan-Asset Management chief executive Christopher Aldous. However, he explains Japan then went on to produce excellent returns r...

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