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Bull market keeps fund profits rising in 2006
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-04-02 08:52
Chinese investment funds saw a new record in combined operating profits
last year at 270.8 billion yuan (US$33.9 billion) for 2006, boosted by
the country's bull stock market.
The net income of the 287 funds launched by 53 fund management firms
totaled 124.8 billion yuan, while paper profits reached about 146 billion
yuan, according to WIND, a provider of Chinese financial data.
The profits were more than 38 times greater than the seven billion yuan
earned in 2005 by all 206 funds under 46 fund management firms.
The majority of profits came from the 216 stock-leaning funds, which have
at least 60 percent of their investments in stocks. They reported total
operating profits of 261.4 billion yuan, accounting for 96.53 percent of
all fund profits.
The country experienced a fund investment boom last year as investors
shifted low-interest bank deposits into the bourses, which surged 130
percent last year after a four-year slump.
Fifteen million people have invested in funds.
The proportion of individual investors in closed-end funds rose to 74.21
percent by the end of 2006, an increase of 18.05 percentage points from
the end of the first half, according to WIND.
China raised 390 billion yuan in 90 new funds and registered 7.78 million
new accounts in 2006.
More than 300 mutual funds have sprung up in China since 1992. The funds
are valued at around one trillion yuan, accounting for 19 percent of the
present stock markets.
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