China equity boom: on your marks

China’s reforms should generate a boom in its equity markets, says Michael Chiu, equities investment director for Asia Pacific at HSBC Global Asset Management. And the trend may have already begun. He delivered a robust argument for active stock picking in Chinese equities at AsianInvestor’s Southeast Asia institutional investment forum in Singapore this week. Any China equity fund manager is going to say rosy things about his or her own book. Chiu’s claims rest on reforms being…