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40 minutes ago, Dinar said:

What are people's favorite ideas among Chinese stocks and why?  Thank you.

 

LVMH:)? 

 

I like Tencent as a business very much and owning it via Prosus is even better I think. Maybe I would add also PDD, JD, perhaps even BABA.

 

Or maybe the simplest way is to just buy KWEB (internet stocks ETF)! which by definition would exclude banks in China. 

 

Or something like this: https://etfdb.com/etf/CXSE/#holdings

 

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1 hour ago, UK said:

 


Love the interview but still not gonna buy China - even though he is probably correct.

 

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Tepper is willing to go 25% into China on Pullback, folks! Maybe i get greedy tomorrow and open up my 3x KWEB position again xD 

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The more I think about it the more I believe that the CCP putting money in banks is more of a salvage operation than stimulus.

For stimulus the CCP needs to give money to consumers who hopefully spend it, but that’s not what we are seeing here 

 

This seem tells us that the CCP is afraid of their financial system falls apart, just like when Congress decided on TARP in 2008.

 

Not exactly bullish.

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3 minutes ago, Spekulatius said:

Not exactly bullish.

With all due respect, please look at the valuations. The stocks are trading at single-digit multiples, below commodity stocks in the US. They are growing WITHIN the highest macro stress since quite some time in the Chinese economy while buying back more stock than many US peers, expanding internationally, running very clean and lean companies with no "meta product marketing influencers," management not paying themselves ridiculous amounts of bonuses and buying their own stock...do you really think China will collapse and not be able to recover? On which stocks are you bullish in that case, and what do you own because you can't protect yourself from that scenario with most stocks? 

 

It just doesn't make sense to be constantly pessimistic while valuations are so depressed. Not even guys like Tepper can convince people to buy Chinese stocks because the hate is so huge. Who is not getting horny here with that amount of hate? Nobody wants to touch it, not retail investors, not your mom and dad (they buy Nvidia or Intel, lol), not most hedge funds, not value investors, not deep-value investors...insane!  

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A lot of the debt China owes is to themselves; they have SO much room to privatize their country if necessary to get even through the worst of the worst. On top, they are super self-sufficient with supply chains. This country won't go away any time soon, and it will take a few years until things normalize. Meanwhile, you get paid 10-15% a year to wait. LOL.

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https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinas-newest-nuclear-submarine-sank-setting-back-its-military-modernization-785b4d37

 

China’s Newest Nuclear Submarine Sank, Setting Back Its Military Modernization

Pierside accident came as Beijing attempts to expand its navy

 

China’s newest nuclear-powered attack submarine sank in the spring, a major setback for one of the country’s priority weapons programs, U.S. officials said. The episode, which Chinese authorities scrambled to cover up and hasn’t previously been disclosed, occurred at a shipyard near Wuhan in late May or early June.

 

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7 hours ago, Luke said:

Tepper is willing to go 25% into China on Pullback, folks! Maybe i get greedy tomorrow and open up my 3x KWEB position again xD 

 

Could you post a source of this? I was so dissapointed, he does not answered this question of Becky about limits for China in an interview.

 

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12 hours ago, Spekulatius said:

The more I think about it the more I believe that the CCP putting money in banks is more of a salvage operation than stimulus.

For stimulus the CCP needs to give money to consumers who hopefully spend it, but that’s not what we are seeing here 

 

This seem tells us that the CCP is afraid of their financial system falls apart, just like when Congress decided on TARP in 2008.

 

Not exactly bullish.

 

I think you may well end up being right, but I would argue, that even if buying shares in US in Autumn 2008 was somewhat premature, it worked out quite good at the end. Regarding giving away money, if there is a politicall will, as it seems, they will do or try to do whatever is necessary, as things will progress (high chances they will have opportunitues for some more experiments). It seems that CCP really changed their mind on this and so we could be past a real market bottom in China. This is very bullish in my view, because everything is still crazy cheap. The problem though, and Teper refers to limits after Becky's question on geopolitics, that until CCP has not changed its position on Russia etc or at least there is some kind of new and stable (if this possible at all) understanding between US and China, how to coexist peacefully, at least until another elections:), you will end up playing some kind of Russian roulette here (ex some economical risks, but still loaded with geopolitical bullets) and I am not sure how to estimate this or do I want to play this with substantial amount of capital. Surelly 25 percent would be still too much for me at this time. So but in one way it looks much better now, but perhaps still a basket type case for me. But my thinking may evolve on this.

 

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Yeah I was considering a basket approach a month ago as well but wanted to wait out the BTC rally to transfer funds from there to China stocks, guess China will go up first now. 🙂 Would not feel comfortable with > 10% position here though.

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2 hours ago, UK said:

 

Could you post a source of this? I was so dissapointed, he does not answered this question of Becky about limits for China in an interview.

 

 

Found it: 

 

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3 hours ago, Paarslaars said:

Yeah I was considering a basket approach a month ago as well but wanted to wait out the BTC rally to transfer funds from there to China stocks, guess China will go up first now. 🙂 Would not feel comfortable with > 10% position here though.

 

Basically if you look at KWEBs composition, this is mostly a basket you need, so I did not owned ETFs for ages, but in this case perhaps no need to overthink, it is easy to move in or out and you do not need to deal with Hong Kong jurisdiction and any possible spin offs etc. I think the same about allocation size as of today:)

 

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Annoying that the major China indices have bounced 50% off the bottom. But there was a similar bounce after the COVID intervention and a lot of people were expecting another leg down but the stimulus kept flowing and it never happened. 

 

And you are still paying only about 12x earnings which is over half the valuation of the US stock market. And with the US stock market you're already pricing in a resilient US economy and Big Tech dominance and a favourable low tax and low interest rate environment and many other positives which may not be sustainable. 

And even after the bounce the index is still trading at levels that were seen over a decade ago. Short term outlook isn't great but there are reasons to be optimistic about the long term prospects of the Chinese economy as they've made significant technological and scientific advances and are moving into higher-margin businesses. 

 

 

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3 hours ago, mattee2264 said:

Annoying that the major China indices have bounced 50% off the bottom. But there was a similar bounce after the COVID intervention and a lot of people were expecting another leg down but the stimulus kept flowing and it never happened. 

 

And you are still paying only about 12x earnings which is over half the valuation of the US stock market. And with the US stock market you're already pricing in a resilient US economy and Big Tech dominance and a favourable low tax and low interest rate environment and many other positives which may not be sustainable. 

And even after the bounce the index is still trading at levels that were seen over a decade ago. Short term outlook isn't great but there are reasons to be optimistic about the long term prospects of the Chinese economy as they've made significant technological and scientific advances and are moving into higher-margin businesses. 

 

 

My personal view is that overall economy in China is bad. 

 

But some of the tech companies are world class companies and are growing despite the overall economic picture. 

 

Two major risks in China are government not caring about economy and war/sanctions. I think we have more clarity now on risk one and positive reflexivity in the stocks. If government is willing to actually address economic issues then who cares that the market is up 20-50% from the lows because the stocks are de-risked and prospect for growth over next 5-10 years is higher which is what we are really playing for.

 

Even better given the actual/perceived mismanagement of the economy there are a lot of levers that can be pulled to increase the attractiveness of the stock market/market for investment.

 

I know there can be disagreement but I agree with Mr. Tepper. Also believe that given the prevailing view that China is un-investable there is a long way for fund flows to go if people get FOMO. 

 

I say all of this as someone who would never have invested in Chinese equities 3 years ago. 

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Right now a lot of their actions seem geared toward helping the property sector including even buying unsold units... The problem is that there are just way too many property units in China and the people of China view real estate as their main investment vehicle over their own local stock market…China’s population cannot support so many real estate units and they are not a country with significant immigration.

 

The losses in real estate will not be easy to reverse. Boosting the stock market and corporate sector is certainly not what the CCP has prioritized lately and allowing their tech/corporate sector to flourish would be a 180 from since they purged Jack Ma.

 

Then there are other questions. Are they going to put their desire for Taiwan and all the other aggressive actions in the South China Sea on the back-burner to save their economy?

 

Tepper did well in the wake of the GFC, but China is not the U.S.A. The Chinese stock market has not historically served as the primary investment vehicle of its people and because the people lack a vested interest in it, it has been allowed to flounder. There has also been very limited progress in turning the economy into one driven by consumption.

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4 minutes ago, Dalal.Holdings said:

Right now a lot of their actions seem geared toward helping the property sector including even buying unsold units... The problem is that there are just way too many property units in China and the people of China view real estate as their main investment vehicle over their own local stock market…China’s population cannot support so many real estate units and they are not a country with significant immigration.

 

The losses in real estate will not be easy to reverse. Boosting the stock market and corporate sector is certainly not what the CCP has prioritized lately and allowing their tech/corporate sector to flourish would be a 180 from since they purged Jack Ma.

 

Then there are other questions. Are they going to put their desire for Taiwan and all the other aggressive actions in the South China Sea on the back-burner to save their economy?

 

Tepper did well in the wake of the GFC, but China is not the U.S.A. The Chinese stock market has not historically served as the primary investment vehicle of its people and because the people lack a vested interest in it, it has been allowed to flounder. There has also been very limited progress in turning the economy into one driven by consumption.

i think tepper answered all your points pretty well in his interview. It doesn't matter. hard for us fundamental value investors to get our heads around it but he's just using the common sense he has - Xi created buyers and no one is going to sell into that. 

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And this is ultimately what make a market^^^

 

I ultimately believe that governments act based on the constraints that they are under. Bailouts weren't popular in the US during the GFC and ultimately didn't get passed until the market made the politicians pass the bailout measures. 

 

Looking back it's funny to think about how much talk there was about moral hazard back then. Fast forward to covid and we basically told everyone who managed a business prudently that they were an idiot and it is better to run your business in an incredibly fragile manner because you will get an automatic bailout. I digress.

 

Over time we've seen governments take actions they would have never taken before when faced with a terrible economic environment whether that is going off the gold standard, breaking a currency peg, creating new lending programs or sending folks cash in the mail. In many of these situations the governments fought against taking action but ultimately acquiesced.

 

I'm young and can stomach the risk I have if this doesn't pan out. My belief based on bottoms up and top down investment analysis is that the outlook for US stocks seems just okay from a real returns basis. Chinese stocks are absurdly cheap. 

 

To me it seems easy to have a visceral reaction to all of the risks presented by Chinese investment. Not as easy to have the same reaction to a future world where those risks don't materialize. That to me is what creates this opportunity. Agree with you that there is no guarantee Tepper is right, but this type of investing is where the guy excels and his track record shows it. My sense is he has an ego around being known as an all time great for investing in situations like this and isn't just pumping his book - his track record shows that isn't his MO (again just my belief). He called to get on CNBC and talk about it. Not something he really does. Now if this was General Ackman I'd be scared lol.

Posted (edited)
19 hours ago, Spekulatius said:

The more I think about it the more I believe that the CCP putting money in banks is more of a salvage operation than stimulus.

For stimulus the CCP needs to give money to consumers who hopefully spend it, but that’s not what we are seeing here 

 

This seem tells us that the CCP is afraid of their financial system falls apart, just like when Congress decided on TARP in 2008.

 

Not exactly bullish.

https://www.newsweek.com/china-news-hands-out-poverty-payments-1960190

"China is rolling out a subsidy for impoverished citizens[...]"

https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/china-issue-284-bln-sovereign-debt-this-year-help-revive-economy-sources-say-2024-09-26/

"China to issue 1 trillion yuan of special bonds mainly to stimulate consumption-sources"

"In addition to the special sovereign debt issuance to support consumption, Chinese authorities also plan to ramp up financial support for small and medium-sized enterprises in phases, such as employment subsidies and tax and fee relief, to reduce their operating costs, the second source said."

 

The effort looks more broad than the one reported by Bloomberg.

 

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https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3280295/china-tries-rally-risk-averse-officials-ignite-economy-promising-tolerate-mistakes

"China’s leaders are again seeking to rally risk-averse cadres to the cause of decisive economic action by stressing the need to “get things done” and its tolerance of mistakes in a policy known as the “three exempts”."

"The three exempts policy differentiates between “mistakes” made during reforms, suggesting leniency for those stemming from inexperience rather than deliberate violations of discipline; those made in exploration; and those made unintentionally to promote development rather than for personal gain."

 

From the CCP mouth piece newspaper, so calibrate accordingly.  It seems like they realize they've gone top-down too much and are trying to swing it back.  Hopefully they can place more clear policies for the business in China to operate as well.

Posted
3 hours ago, Dalal.Holdings said:

Are they going to put their desire for Taiwan and all the other aggressive actions in the South China Sea on the back-burner to save their economy?

 

China is not going to destroy their economy attempting to conquer Taiwan.

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