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Japan’s equity market has been overlooked for decades, but recent regime changes are reshaping its appeal. With inflation returning and corporate reforms underway, Japanese equities may offer U.S investors value.
An interesting dichotomy has developed in emerging markets (EM), between government actors and independent investors in publicly traded equities. Government ownership may lead to corporate governance issues that arise from the inherent principal-agent problem and cause operational inefficiencies and weaker levels of profitability.
By removing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) from a market capitalization-weighted universe of Chinese equities, the WisdomTree China ex-State-Owned Enterprises Fund (CXSE) offers a unique balance of many of the key characteristics investors look for in a China allocation, with one of the lowest net expense ratios.