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Speaker 1: Good morning, and welcome to the Bloomberg Daybreak Asia podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Doug Prisner. Here are the stories we're following today.

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Speaker 1: Joining us now is Helen ju As. She is the

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Speaker 1: chief investment Officer also a managing director at NF Trinity.

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Speaker 1: Helen joins us from our studios in Hong Kong. It's

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Speaker 1: always a pleasure to have the chance to visit with you. Helen.

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Speaker 1: Talk to me a little bit about the way in

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Speaker 1: which you understand these stimulus measures that have been unleashed

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Speaker 1: by the Chinese government and how they may have a

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Speaker 1: significant impact on growth. I mean, the market seems to

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Speaker 1: be debating the efficacy here. I mean there may have

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Speaker 1: been a little bit of enthusiasm initially, but as time

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Speaker 1: went on, the equity markets seemed to say, hmm, we're

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Speaker 1: a little skeptical. Are you skeptical?

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Speaker 2: Look, I think the market's been very skeptical for quite

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Speaker 2: a long time, and justifiably so. Right so, most of

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Speaker 2: the last year and a half it's been about deflation

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Speaker 2: and market drating and just generally speaking, vicious feedback loops

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Speaker 2: every where because of the weaker property market. As a

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Speaker 2: result of the policy tightening, property prices went down, so

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Speaker 2: wealth effect when negative consumption started to suffer, and you know,

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Speaker 2: as a result, that kind of all fed itself and

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Speaker 2: equity markets reacted accordingly. I think what the policy makers

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Speaker 2: are trying to do in this particular case is, rather

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Speaker 2: than have piecemeal little bits of policies here and there,

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Speaker 2: to actually, you know, take a whatever it takes type

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Speaker 2: bazooka in terms of policy package. You have not just

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Speaker 2: you know, rate cuts and so on, but also fiscal

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Speaker 3: You also have a.

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Speaker 2: Coin corresponding capital market stimulus where they basically have put

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Speaker 2: a floor to the overall domestic a share market. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: it's going to take time for things to reverse and

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Speaker 2: to inflect into hopefully virtus feedback loops. That's probably going

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Speaker 2: to take easily three to six months. So the market

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Speaker 2: got initially very excited and kind of went vertical. I

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Speaker 2: don't think the policy makers want that either, because that's

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Speaker 2: little bit of a retlacement is good. But I think

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Speaker 2: the policy impact starts to show through, and I think

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Speaker 1: So what's the house view at and F trinity. Do

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Speaker 1: you think this is an opportunity or are you holding

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Speaker 1: back and maybe adopting kind of a wait and see approach.

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Speaker 2: I think you have to kind of move ahead of

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Speaker 2: the market. You know, waiting and seeing doesn't really help

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Speaker 2: these days because markets respond so quickly, right So if

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Speaker 2: you do have really positive data, you could see the

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Speaker 2: ashare market, you know, practically limit up day after day.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not saying that's going to happen right away,

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Speaker 2: but we do think that after the retlacement, it's probably

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Speaker 2: a decent level to get into the domestic ashare market,

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Speaker 2: even some Hong Kong China stocks as well. We think

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Speaker 2: the risk reward is better than a lot of other

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Speaker 2: stretched as well. So relative to before, I think China

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Speaker 1: So are you focused primarily on equities when you're talking

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Speaker 1: about side here? I'm wondering whether or not there are

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Speaker 2: I think It's difficult, right, because basically, if you look

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Speaker 2: at the China tenure, we're looking at two point one percent,

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Speaker 2: which is very very low by global standard and by

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Speaker 2: That's a lot steper, and I think there's going to

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Speaker 1: Is there anything that you've identified thematically that you expect

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Speaker 2: Well, I think if the push towards stabilizing the property

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Speaker 2: And I think it's going to be more secondhand market

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Speaker 2: and so consumer stocks have debrated hugely since the beginning

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Speaker 2: So consumption and internet I think would be two very

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Speaker 2: Relatively speaking, if you look at defensives or central SOE

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Speaker 1: So when you look at the States, two things come

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Speaker 1: the FED and interest rate policy. Secondarily is the US

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Speaker 1: presidential election. Let's talk about the FED first. In your

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Speaker 1: expectations for many more rate cuts, we had a very

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Speaker 1: the market struggled to rate price FED easing this year.

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Speaker 1: Are you comfortable with two more twenty five basis point

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Speaker 2: Look, you know, look, the overall volatility in terms of

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Speaker 2: rates has been still pretty crazy this year, right, Expectations

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Speaker 2: volatility and the fundamental data. But certainly over the last

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Speaker 2: the latest employment numbers were blowout positive. So I would

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Speaker 1: So when you listen to the rhetoric from each of

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Speaker 1: the two campaigns in the US, the candidates running for president,

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Speaker 1: is it cause you to kind of think about what

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Speaker 1: the future may hold in terms of US policy, whether

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Speaker 1: United States. How are you thinking about the US election

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Speaker 2: Well, certainly people think that if Trump wins, that is

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Speaker 2: US domestic growth, but at the same time it's going

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Speaker 2: to bring a lot of uncertainties and tail risk to

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Speaker 2: non US markets, especially in emerging markets China, etc. If

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Speaker 2: be more fiscal austerity, but also a lot less potential

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Speaker 2: Biden administration stands on a lot of these other countries. Right,

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Speaker 2: So I would say the Harris scenario would be more

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Speaker 2: I think that Trump win has been more or less

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Speaker 2: the market's default assumption for quite some time, So even

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Speaker 2: if it happens, I don't see that the market's going

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Speaker 2: to have a huge move. But if let's say Democrats,

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Speaker 2: you know, win the White House and maybe you know,

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Speaker 2: one of the you know, basically take over part of

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Speaker 2: more of a retlacement potential for the market, because that's

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Speaker 2: not the default assumption we've had over the past few months.

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Speaker 1: Hard to believe that we're about three weeks out from

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Speaker 1: that event. I know and was there.

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Speaker 2: Okay, time has flown by.

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Speaker 1: It really has, Helen. It's always a pleasure. Thanks so much,

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Speaker 1: Helen Ju, Chief Investment Officer, also Managing director at NF Trinity.

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Speaker 1: Joining us now is pay Chian lu Asia, economist at

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Speaker 1: Fidelity International US from the Lion City of Singapore. Peychen,

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Speaker 1: thank you for making time to chat with us. Can

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Speaker 1: we talk about the way in which you understand the

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Speaker 1: policy rollout that authorities in China have been kind of

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Speaker 1: the economy. First, what do we know about how policy

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Speaker 1: is targeting the property market, which I think we can

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me today, Dog, I think before we

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Speaker 3: dive deeper into the property sector specifically, I would love

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Speaker 3: to take a step back to think about why you

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Speaker 3: have such set of policy right now and how this

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Speaker 3: policy is rolled out. I think potentially the policy trigger

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Speaker 3: lot more troubled headlines about fiscal conditions in China as

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Speaker 3: well as the unemployment issue, not mentioning the property sector

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Speaker 3: that mentioned has always been on top of investor's mind

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Speaker 3: set of policy boosts to stabilize, and that's why we

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Speaker 3: of how the policy has been delivered in the property sector,

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Speaker 3: I think that all goes back to the political pivot

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Speaker 3: where they mentioned about stopping the decline of the sector

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Speaker 3: seen a lot more policy coming out from both supply

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Speaker 3: to reduce supplies by stopping new construction and digest excessive inventories.

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Speaker 3: And on the demand side, definitely more relaxation of the

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Speaker 3: previous restrictive policies to stimulate domestic demand.

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Speaker 1: So what is your sense in terms of the time

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Speaker 1: that it's going to take. And I know some of

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Speaker 1: them have not even been rolled out yet. I mean,

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Speaker 1: but do you have a sense of how long it

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Speaker 3: Well, I think it largely depends on where we are

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Speaker 3: So some of the policy that's been delivered on the margins,

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Speaker 1: Can we start by looking at the story in China?

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Speaker 1: We've had this enormous flood of stimulus that the market

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Speaker 4: For sure? I think the reaction after kind of the

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Speaker 1: This seems to be a challenge that's going to require

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Speaker 4: In many ways? For sure, because we've had such negativity

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Speaker 4: I don't know whether or not this particular policy is

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Speaker 1: The property market problem is just one aspect of this

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Speaker 4: Look, it certainly could, right, And gold's a wonderful inflation hedge,

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Speaker 4: I'm not so sure that that's necessarily it. I think

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Speaker 4: So I don't think there's a real change there. We've

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Speaker 1: George, You're in Hong Kong and I'm sure you're taking

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Speaker 1: a lot of client meetings, and I'm wondering about the

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Speaker 4: That, Doug. There's really two issues that come up in

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 4: Obviously, people here are very concerned about the Chinese economic

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Speaker 4: going to break the malaise that is certainly am packed

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Speaker 4: if you really think about it, the Chinese equity market's

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Speaker 4: want to understand what's going to happen with the US election.

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Speaker 4: For sure, everybody's intrigued. I think the entire world is

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