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Barclays launches structured fund for China bulls

Investors will get one-for-one returns from the H-share index in a flat or falling market and super-charged returns when the market soars.

By Nick Ferguson

June 12, 2007

Barclays is hoping to capture the imagination of China bulls with its latest Hong Kong structured product. The China Accelerated Growth Fund is basically an H-share index tracker that gives added returns in a strong bull market, which results in an overall return to investors that is consistently better than the index itself.

That is quite an achievement given that the index has risen by about 500% from five years ago. This product is suitable for investors who believe in China's economic growth story, says Wendy Kwan, director of investor solutions, Hong Kong retail sales, at Barclays Capital. It offers investors extra return in a bullish market environment and one-on-one exposure to the H-share index's...

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