Chinese and Global ADRs: The U.S. Investor Experience

Financial Analysts Journal, Forthcoming

26 Pages Posted: 26 Jan 2021 Last revised: 8 Apr 2021

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Hendrik Bessembinder

W.P. Carey School of Business

Te-Feng Chen

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Goeun Choi

Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business

K.C. John Wei

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Date Written: April 3, 2021

Abstract

We study outcomes to ADR investments between August 1954 and September 2020, with attention to ADRs associated with Chinese firms. Overall, ADRs improved investors’ wealth by $1.03 trillion, with more than a third of this amount attributable to ADRs associated with Chinese firms. A value-weighted portfolio of ADRs associated with Chinese firms earned 14.1% per year since the first Chinese ADR was created in 1993, as compared to 9.9% per year for the overall U.S. stock market over the same period. These data are relevant to current policy discussions focused on Chinese firms listed in the U.S.

Suggested Citation

Bessembinder, Hendrik (Hank) and Chen, Te-Feng and Choi, Goeun and Wei, Kuo-Chiang (John), Chinese and Global ADRs: The U.S. Investor Experience (April 3, 2021). Financial Analysts Journal, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3772660 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3772660

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Te-Feng Chen

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Goeun Choi

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Kuo-Chiang (John) Wei

Hong Kong Polytechnic University ( email )

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