China explores relaxing rules to allow multi-asset ETFs

February 17, 2025-Regulator aims to achieve 'significant growth' in index-based investment
The potential moves are part of China's ongoing efforts to boost longer-term stock holdings and revive its capital markets, which in January included telling fund firms to increase their A-share holdings by at least 10 per cent annually over the next three years.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission has said in a statement that introducing multi-asset ETFs and other index products must be done "steadily and prudently", on the premise that "risks are measurable and controllable and investors are effectively protected".