BlackRock has hired Helen Zhu from Goldman Sachs as head of China equities for Andrew Swan's team.
The FTSE 100 got off to a positive start on Monday, with shares shrugging off weak data from both China and Japan to move higher.
Mark Williams, manager of the Liontrust Asia Income fund, assesses two major events in China which coincided with the fund's second anniversary last week.
Some commentators on China fear an imminent crisis, others a continuing slowdown which will depress commodity markets and make life a bit more difficult for Western exporters.