Christopher Wood, Global Head of Equity Strategy at Jefferies, has nudged to increase exposure to Indian equities in his ‘GREED and Fear’ portfolio yet again due to a downward-sloping Covid-19 graph and an upward-sloping Nifty50 chart in India. Wood has increased the weightage of Indian equities by 150 basis points to 14 percent in his Asia Pacific ex-Japan relative-return portfolio, by trimming exposure to Chinese and Pakistani equity markets
Last month, Wood had raised concerns over the sharply expanding valuations of the Indian equity market, but he sounded confident that valuations will become relatively cheaper as corporate earnings growth catch up in 2021.