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7 Insights with Topic: 机器人

Are you ready: is China A-shares’ growth rally sustainable and where to look
insightAre you ready: is China A-shares’ growth rally sustainable and where to look

China’s A-share market is turning the corner, as investors looking past weak data and piling back into growth. Signs of rotation by domestic investors from bank deposits and safe haven assets to equity market increasingly validate investor confidence is back. Policy momentum, attractive valuations, and light foreign positioning are fueling a durable rally, echoing the 2016 supply-side reform. Leadership is shifting decisively to innovation-driven sectors — from biotech and healthcare to solar, AI, and robotics — where structural growth and global relevance are accelerating, and are expected to be important focus in China’s upcoming 15th Five Year Plan. In this article, our Partner & Co-CIO David Lai and Portfolio Manager Alex Chu discuss why, with sentiment improving and risk appetite returning, the best way to play China’s new growth cycle is through high-conviction exposure via Premia’s STAR50 ETF and CSI Caixin New Economy ETF.

Aug 25, 2025

STAR market poised for growth as robotics companies line up for IPOs
insightSTAR market poised for growth as robotics companies line up for IPOs

China's STAR Market appears poised for a major growth surge, fueled by a wave of innovative robotics companies set to launch their initial public offerings. Leading industry players, including Unitree, Zhiyuan Robot, Jaka Robotics, Fine Motion Tech, and Sichuan Tianlian Robot, are all in the IPO pipeline. In this article, we'll introduce these firms that are at the forefront of technological innovation in humanoid and industrial robotics, whose momentum is expected to accelerate, driven by ongoing industry innovation and the favorable policy tailwinds of China's upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan.

Aug 25, 2025

Embodied AI – China as the global powerhouse for industrial and humanoid robotics
insightEmbodied AI – China as the global powerhouse for industrial and humanoid robotics

Even for the prepared and informed, at the recent World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2025), China has still taken the world by surprise with the debutante of its fleet of over 150 AI-powered humanoid robots. Indeed 2025 marks the beginning of commercialization and production of these futuristic robots, now made reality. While humanoid robots have captured the imagination of the popular media, there has been a more important revolution in the broader robotics industry, where China has emerged, as the global powerhouse, just as it did in renewable energy and electric vehicles. In this article, we discuss how humanoid industrial robots have quickly been integrated in China’s production lines, filling the productivity void from the country’s aging population, while further driving down the manufacturing production costs with high degree of automation with these embodied AI applications.

Aug 06, 2025

Beyond the noise: China’s innovation-led market opportunities
insightBeyond the noise: China’s innovation-led market opportunities

China is undergoing a profound economic shift anchored in industrial upgrading and technological self-reliance. Amidst global macro uncertainties, the country's relentless focus on innovation across strategic sectors—ranging from semiconductors and artificial intelligence to robotics, green energy, and biotech—is building the foundation for sustained long-term growth. In this article, we discuss how these structural advances, often overlooked amid cyclical challenges, are already yielding tangible outcomes and positioning China at the forefront of the next wave of global industrial transformation. As policymakers are busy drafting the 15th Five Year Plan, and wrapping up the last stretch of the 14th Five Year Plan, it is also important to note how these innovation-led developments would continue to be at the forefront of the policy initiatives, and inform us of market opportunities ahead.

Jun 22, 2025

Rotation from A to H to A - 10 charts on China
insightRotation from A to H to A - 10 charts on China

It is worth noting that while the significant rally in BATJX – Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, JD.com, Xiaomi – and the offshore listed tech/internet players have dominated headlines lately, the bottoming out of the overall China market since the policy shift in late September last year started onshore, with A shares experiencing a sharper rebound first and with a more slower but sustained trend, as domestic investors were more sensitive to the reset in policy tones and significant shift in government’s commitment to reviving economic growth and capital market activities. In this article, Partner & Co-CIO David Lai discusses the factors that could drive a more sustained outperformance in onshore equity market, and why it is a good entry point to rotate from offshore to onshore companies in policy supported sectors.

Mar 20, 2025

Who are the metaverse natives in Asia?
insightWho are the metaverse natives in Asia?

Premia Asia Innovative Technology ETF (AIT) since its inception in 2018, was designed to capture the Asia leaders powering the growth of existing and emerging innovative technologies. Without a doubt, the hottest theme trending now is the Metaverse, as Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier that the company name change and sees the Metaverse as the “successor to the mobile internet”. While this is still an emerging but quickly evolving topic, there are already considerable number of Asia leaders active in the space as emerging metaverse natives. How can investors position for opportunities early in this space?

Dec 07, 2021

寻找成长赛道:驱动生产力爆发的亚洲创新科技
insight寻找成长赛道:驱动生产力爆发的亚洲创新科技

我们观察到资产配置模式在转变:在传统的地域或因子主导的基础模式上需要注入更多对新旧产业区分及大趋势发展的考量,从而在经济结构性改变中捕捉到长期超额收益。

Jan 15, 2021