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concept Updated 2026-08-06 Tags: Investing, China, Hong-Kong, Equities

A/H Share 2025 Barbell

A/H share 2025 barbell is the source’s preferred China-equity structure in Vol.115 全球宏观和资本市场2025展望：短期问题不解决，就没有中期和长期了. Ricky and [[DavidWeng|大卫翁]] describe 2025 A/H equities as potentially easier than 2024 if policy transmission improves, but they split the opportunity into two different valuation logics: cash-flow-heavy Defensive Dividend Assets and future-upside New Quality Productive Forces / 新质生产力 assets.

The concept also includes a staged repair path. The first stage is policy and sentiment improving valuations. The second is leading indicators of profit repair. The third is actual PPI and earnings recovery. That staged view keeps the barbell from becoming a blanket bullish call on all A/H stocks.

Key Claims

  • The dividend side is supported by falling risk-free rates, market-value management, and better shareholder-return behavior, but still needs payout and governance checks.
  • The new-productivity side offers policy and technology upside, but much of the value depends on future success probability.
  • The source is more comfortable with ordinary investors using combinations, indexes, ETFs, or active funds than trying to chase every theme directly.
  • The A/H bullish case can be falsified if short-term fiscal support is too weak or medium-term reform direction becomes unclear again.
  • External shocks can create risk-off selloffs, but the source argues the core A/H logic remains China-centered if domestic policy transmission is intact.
  • The barbell is not a no-risk structure; it is a way to separate cash-flow anchors from option-like long-term exposure.

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