From: Lipper

• Commodities funds (+1.74%) on average outperformed all other types of funds in July 2007.
• Among equity funds (+1.26%), Asia equity funds occupied the top spot.
• Bond funds overweighting government and investment-grade bonds in their portfolios outperformed all others. Details »

From: Lipper

• Consolidations continued in developed markets in July, but emerging markets recorded good performance. The Mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan surged.
• All China open-end fund categories recorded positive returns in July. The Equity, Mixed-Asset Aggressive, Mixed-Asset Flexible, and Mixed-Asset Balanced fund categories chalked up 16.32%, 14.53%, 13.98%, and 12.53%, respectively. Details »

From: Lipper

• The Hong Kong equity market staged a breakout and surged to a new record high in June.
• Equity funds on average ranked second in performance in June but outperformed all other types of funds in 1H2007. Details »

From: Lipper

• The Hong Kong equity market staged a breakout and surged to a new record high in June.
• Equity funds on average outperformed all other types of funds in June and 1H2007.
• Among equity funds, Asia ex Japan equity funds posted the highest returns in June and 1H2007.
• Bond funds posted lackluster performance in June 2007 and 1H2007.
• For mixed-asset funds those adopting aggressive strategies outperformed all others.

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China Fund Market Summany June 2007-Consolidation is Far From an End

From: Lipper

• All main global equity markets recorded gains in the first half of the year. The Asian markets had the best performance.
• In June the hot global equity markets showed signs of cooling down. Mainland China led the decrease, but the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets surged. Details »

From: Lipper

•The Taiwan market was reborn in June, and Equity Taiwan performed fabulously.
•Emerging Asia continued to surge for the year-to-date period; Equity Sector Real Estate fell behind.
•The bond market turned bearish in June, and bond funds were annihilated.
•The hot money shifted to domestic funds instead of overseas funds. Details »

From Zero2IPO Research Center

Zero2IPO Research Center, the research arm of Zero2IPO Group, announced that China VC market witnessed a skyrocketing growth in both fundraising and investment, both of which created historical high in the second quarter of 2007. According to the statistics of Zero2IPO Research Center, twelve new funds raised the total of US$2.36B; 121 enterprises received VC investment of US$693.95M.

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From: Research in china

As of June 30 2006, a total of 266 security investment funds are formally put into operation, with total net asset value of RMB 511.416 billion and total share scale of 426.909 billion units. Of these, the net asset value of 54 closed-end funds amounted to RMB 119.615 billion, accounting for 23.39%; and the share scale reached 81.7 billion units, accounting for 19.14% of the total. The net asset value of 212 open-end funds topped RMB 391.8 billion, accounting for 76.61% of the total and the share scale reached 345.209 billion units, accounting for 80.86% of the total. In the first half of 2006, stock-directed funds increased from 165 units to 189 units, and their total net value also increased from RMB 237.147 billion to RMB 338.996 billion, up by RMB 101.849 billion. The increase was mainly driven by the robust growth of A shares in China.

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Poly Source Data Institute Huang Xiang,Deng Mei
Compiler: http://www.fundcn.org

From May 30, the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock market has experienced an adjustment, the amplitude of hu Share up 21.81%. During this period, 201 partial shares open-end funds accumulated net worth of growth is, for a comparable 213 partial shares open-end funds 94.37%. In addition, as the Fund stocks boom, eye-catching performance of the pre-exponential growth in the net value of the fund has lagged behind partial shares open-end fund average.

63 fund net growth of more than 5%

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From: Shanghai Securities News
Compiler: http://www.fundcn.org

40 billion yuan

Issued fiery new fund

With the fund industry’s rapid expansion, the Foundation also general manager for the first time over-subscription to investors apologize phenomenon. Last week, King selected blue chips with Great Wall Fund issued a formal end, The Fund issued in one day nearly 40 billion set of over-subscription, Subscription force in the investment must prorated Placing, King Shun Great Wall Fund Management Ltd, said Liang Hua-dong, the company is deeply sorry, and would like to develop marketing strategies related to new model, in order to prevent similar incidents from occurring again. It thus appears that the people who base for the future market trends are still positive attitude.

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