Quality Asian stocks may underperform, says BlackRock
Trends of quality stocks doing well and value stocks underperforming could reverse
Singapore
IN the years since the global financial crisis, investors have piled into so-called "quality" Asian stocks - dominant companies with stable earnings and pricing power.
These companies have done well in an uncertain macroeconomic environment, even as "value" stocks - companies trading at low earnings multiples or at big discounts to their book values - have underperformed.
BlackRock's head of Asian equities Andrew Swan thinks these trends might start reversing.
"You need to be careful if you're a quality investor. High-quality stocks are expensive. Low-quality stocks are cheap relative to their history ... As global growth might start to stabilise, the premium people has paid f…
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