London Stock Connect to open new doors for Chinese investors

The much-anticipated Shanghai-London Stock Connect seems to be the one bright spot amid the pall of gloom among the investor community in London over the United Kingdom's impending departure from the European Union.

Full of anticipation but also highly elusive - that is how most London investors see it for now.

On the one hand, the opportunity to connect with the world's third biggest stock market is simply too good to refuse. This is particularly so as the MSCI's inclusion of Chinese A shares into its emerging markets index this year has made most fund managers realize that buying Chinese stocks is just a question of when and not if.