Two exchange-traded funds are on the lookout for income in China with two completely different methods.
Whereas the Rayliant Quantamental China Fairness ETF dives into particular areas, the newly launched Roundhill China Dragons ETF buys the nation’s largest shares.
“[It’s] focused just on nine companies, and these companies are the companies that we identified as having similar characteristics to magnitude in the U.S.,” Roundhill Investments CEO Dave Mazza instructed CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week.
Since its inception on Oct. 3, the Roundhill China Dragon ETF is down nearly 5% as of Friday’s shut.
In the meantime, Jason Hsu of Rayliant International Advisors is behind the hyper-local Rayliant Quantamental China Fairness ETF. It has been round since 2020.
“These are local shares, local names that you would have to be a local Chinese person to buy easily,” the agency’s chairman and chief funding officer instructed CNBC. “It paints a very different picture because China is sort of a different part of its growth curve.”
Hsu needs to offer entry to names which might be much less acquainted to U.S. buyers, however can ship huge positive factors on par with latest Massive Tech shares.
“Technology is important, but a lot of the higher growth stocks are actually people who sell water [and] people who run restaurant chains. So, often they actually have a higher growth than even many of the tech names,” he mentioned. “There’s very little research, at least outside of China, and they may represent what is more of a thematic in the moment trade inside China.”
As of Friday’s shut, the Rayliant Quantamental China Fairness ETF is up greater than 24% to this point this 12 months.
