Sleeping dragon! China's stock market gave 0 returns in 18 years even as GDP

Thoughts on this? Possible reasons why this could happen. I understand that growth and markets cannot be really co-related but this is unusual @nithin

China has an unusual problem. The actions of its government are uncertain, so you can’t reliably invest in a company. This uncertainty is the reason for the underperformance.

Also, the country is experiencing massive issues regarding the real estate market breaking down.

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Also, this aspect of China’s stock market was recently discussed in this topic-thread
Here’s a snapshot of the summary:

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Moral of the story.
Dont put everything into equities. Partially sell equities and take ur capital off.
Believe in FD

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Thanks for the insights @nithin and everyone else. :slight_smile: