China's Debt Levels – Staying The Course: Matthews Asia

China’s Debt Levels – Staying The Course by Kenneth Lowe, CFA – Matthews Asia

As an investor within Asian capital markets, the years since the turn of the decade can be most aptly described as volatile. “Volatility” has certainly become one of the most utilized phrases to explain the current zeitgeist of financial markets and, frustratingly, I can empathize with its overuse. For many of us looking at emerging markets, the proclamations of a vastly growing emerging middle class and GDP growth that is superior to our home market of the United States have struggled to provide investors with meaningful returns of late, and most certainly have provided its fair share of panic inducing drops. The peaks and...