Vanguard Scraps China Mutual Fund Plan And Pivots to Ant Tie-Up
- Fund giant focuses on robo advisory deal for China market
- China shift adds to retreat from Hong Kong, Japan markets
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For years, global money managers have been clamoring for a chance to run their own businesses in China, unshackled from local partners to gain a bigger slice of the $13 trillion investment market. Vanguard Group Inc. is going the other way.
In a surprise about face, the U.S. giant dropped its bid to set up a wholly-owned mutual fund company in China, scrapping months of planning for what a former executive said could be a $5 trillion business one day.