Besides attracting prestige, membership of the FTSE 100 offers some support to a firm's share price, by attracting investment from so-called tracker funds, whose performance is designed to mirror that of the index.

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The fund, which seeks to mirror the Solactive China Consumer Index, has underperformed as of late, losing 4.6% since the beginning of the year.

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One of the broadest China-based ETFs available to US investors is the Guggenheim China Small Cap ETF ( HAO), which tries to mirror the AlphaShares China Small Cap Index.

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