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Stripping China From Emerging Markets Is Wall Street's New Craze

After a rough 2021 for China assets, investors look for better ways to manage their exposure.

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As Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co.’s emerging-market team talked with one of their biggest clients in early 2021, a question arose: Would it be possible to take China out of an ­emerging-market stock portfolio?

It was an unusual query. Representing one-third of the MSCI Emerging Markets benchmark and half of the member companies, China is almost synonymous with emerging-market investing.

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