Chinese Sector Allocation Using Growth, Valuation, Momentum, and Fund Flows

Summary

This 2020 China equity-sector note combines macroeconomic regime signals, earnings relative to valuation, trend signals, historical regime matching, and public-fund holdings to discuss sector allocation ahead of interim reports. It argues that weaker growth favors essential consumption while rising risk appetite supports technology-related sectors, and cautions against sectors whose high valuations are not matched by realized earnings. It also describes a composite trend approach using cross-sectional and time-series momentum with stop-loss rules, and a fund-flow signal based on managers’ relative overweights and changes in holdings.

The note lists sectors favored by these approaches and reports historical strategy returns for the period it covers. Those figures are time-specific and the document provides no underlying methodology, full backtest design, or independent validation. It explicitly flags model risk, policy changes, and shifts in market expectations, so the allocation conclusions should not be treated as timeless recommendations.

Key ideas

• Macro growth and risk-appetite signals are used to guide broad sector tilts.
• An earnings-to-valuation comparison seeks sectors where expected or realized performance may not be reflected in prices.
• The trend model combines cross-sectional momentum, time-series momentum, and stop-loss rules.
• Public-fund overweights and additions to holdings are treated as sector allocation signals.
• The analysis is specific to the 2020 market setting and identifies model, policy, and expectation risks.

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