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Sitting out China's summer rout pays off

Some hedge funds made strategic purchases on brief upswings prompted by government intervention in July.

Beijing

CHINA'S summer market selloff wasn't a total rout if you were one of the country's top-performing hedge funds that gained an average 70 per cent as almost 1,300 other funds were wiped out.

The country's top 10 performers, run by Ze Quan Investment, Sunrise Investment, Zexi Investment and Yingyang Asset Management, found gains in the June-August period by heeding a famous maxim: Markets are ruled by fear and greed.

"I was scared," said Jiao Ji, chairman of Sunrise, based in northeastern China's Jilin province, who dumped all his stock holdings in May, sat out the post-June 12 crash, and then made strategic purchases on brief upswings prompted by government intervention in July. Chasing gains...

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