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Mobius: The world will not enter a global recession anytime soon
“I don't think the world is going to go into recession anytime soon simply because there's just too much going on, too much growth going on. Of course, you will have downturns from time to time, but these will be temporary. That will not be something that will …”
Chinese citizens hold 80% of assets in property, hurting domestic stocks
“Most Chinese have, I would say, 80% of their assets in property. So when property prices go down they're not going to be buying stocks.”
Mobius: Local investors, not foreign capital, drive the Chinese stock market
“A lot of people think that, you know, the Chinese market is influenced by foreign investors, but that's not the case. It's really the local investors that drive the Chinese market.”
Mobius: Emerging markets grow at double the rate of developed nations
“No, because the US is not growing at seven percent like India and like other countries. The great thing about emerging countries, emerging markets, Is that they're growing at a fast pace, double that of the US and developed countries.”
Only six emerging markets were open to foreign investors in 1987
“When we started that emerging markets fund the only markets were open at that time. Were Hong Kong, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore Thailand, and Mexico. That was it. All the other, of course, that time, China was closed. Russia was closed. Most of Latin Amer…”