On January 30th, a number of ETF products under Guotai Fund underwent ticker adjustments. This renaming initiative uniformly adopts a standardized naming pattern of "Underlying Index + ETF Guotai," providing a concise and distinctive exclusive identifier to help investors quickly pinpoint core investment targets and enhance screening and investment decision-making efficiency. Taking the gold category, which has recently experienced an epic market rally, as an example, investors seeking exposure to related assets can now directly search for "Gold ETF Guotai" to instantly access the 518800 fund, significantly improving operational convenience. This renaming covers multiple categories including broad-based, thematic, strategy, technology, consumption, commodity, and currency ETFs. Whether investors are allocating to broad market indices, exploring niche themes, or selecting cash management tools, they can now intuitively grasp core information from the product name, enabling more efficient investment decisions.
New Names Launch, Investing Made Easier In recent years, China's ETF market has continued to expand, reaching a total scale of 6.02 trillion yuan by the end of 2025, making it the world's second-largest ETF market with nearly 1,400 products. Amidst this explosive growth, issues such as naming homogeneity and unclear information have become increasingly prominent, leaving many investors facing the challenge of "fund selection blindness." The core objective of this batch renaming of Guotai Fund's first group of ETF products is to focus on optimizing the investor experience by empowering investors across three dimensions: efficiency enhancement, risk avoidance, and value recognition. First, enhancing screening efficiency and reducing time costs. By uniformly adopting the "Underlying Index + ETF Guotai" naming pattern, the asset attributes and management company identifier become immediately clear. Investors no longer need to sift through similar names one by one; they can quickly identify their target product by recognizing the unique suffix, substantially improving investment screening and decision-making efficiency. Second, clarifying product identification to avoid trading risks. By deeply linking the product's core attributes with the management entity, this move addresses the identification challenges stemming from name homogeneity at the source. It effectively helps prevent investors from making incorrect selections or erroneous operations due to name confusion, thereby building a "safety barrier" for trading activities. Third, binding professional value to aid scientific decision-making. Using "ETF Guotai" as an exclusive brand identifier deeply associates the products with Guotai Fund's over-a-decade of specialized expertise and meticulous operational capabilities in the ETF space. This allows investors to intuitively recognize the management value behind the products, providing an important reference for making scientifically sound investment choices.
Over a Decade of Dedication, Building an ETF Product Ecosystem As a leader in the sector and thematic ETF arena, Guotai Fund launched China's first stock sector ETF—the Guotai SSE 180 Financials ETF—as early as 2011, effectively inaugurating the era of sector and thematic ETF development in China and laying the groundwork for industry innovation. Over the past decade-plus, Guotai Fund has continuously deepened its commitment to the ETF field. Evolving from an industry pioneer to a leader in specific segments, the company has consistently centered its efforts on investor interests, continually enriching investment options to provide investors with comprehensive asset allocation solutions. The year 2013 marked a critical juncture for Guotai Fund's product development, achieving "three innovations in one year." The successive launches of the first batch of National Bond ETFs, Nasdaq ETF, and Gold Fund ETF in the overall market established a first-mover advantage in the broad asset allocation space, representing a significant breakthrough in the company's ETF product layout. Subsequently, Guotai Fund's ETF strategy continued to advance towards diversification and differentiation. In 2016, the company counter-cyclically launched the Securities ETF and Military Industry ETF, implementing a "differentiated competition" strategy. In 2019, it introduced the "Tech Quartet" covering chips, biopharmaceuticals, computers, and communications, precisely positioning itself in mainstream technology sectors. Further expansions included entering cyclical sectors like steel and coal in 2020, and being among the first to launch CSI A500 ETFs in 2024, continuously refining its product matrix. Today, Guotai Fund has built a multi-dimensional ETF product matrix covering broad-based, sector, cross-border, commodity, and strategy ETFs. This not only enriches investors' allocation choices but also establishes an efficient, synergistic, and diversely complementary ETF product ecosystem. As of December 31, 2025, Guotai Fund's total non-monetary ETF AUM reached 286.1 billion yuan, ranking 7th in the industry. Within this, its sector/thematic ETF scale firmly held the top position in the overall market. The sustained capital inflows serve as the most direct market recognition of its ecosystem value and operational capabilities. Accumulated dedication has ultimately borne fruit, with Guotai Fund's ETF products achieving widespread success: on the 2025 Shanghai and Shenzhen exchange ETF performance rankings, its Communication ETF (515880) claimed the top spot with an annual gain exceeding 125%, while its Mining ETF (561330) ranked third with a gain over 106%, both becoming the performance champions in their respective segments. This demonstrates the company's core capabilities in forward-looking index selection and meticulous product management.
Renewed Names, Unchanged Mission: Protecting Investor Interests with Professionalism As a seasoned participant in the ETF industry, Guotai Fund's product strategy has always revolved around investor needs. From broad asset allocation to capturing opportunities in niche segments, and from core broad-market exposure to tactical thematic allocations, it comprehensively covers the choices for investors with varying risk appetites and investment objectives. At the product management level, Guotai Fund ensures consistent market outperformance through precise position control, refined liquidity management, and active product operations, leveraging its professional expertise to safeguard and enhance investor assets. Regarding investor engagement and service, the company continuously deepens its efforts both online and offline. Through professional analysis and rational thinking, it interprets opportunities while promptly highlighting risks, avoiding excessive speculation on short-term trends, and actively promoting the principles of rational and value investing. Currently, as the ETF market enters a new phase of high-quality development, differentiation and refinement have become core keywords for industry competition. This standardized renaming of Guotai Fund's initial batch of ETFs is not only a move aligned with industry evolution but also a significant step for the company in deepening its refined operations and upgrading investor services. For investors, this innovation clarifies the logic behind investment selection. Identifying top-tier markers like "ETF Guotai," which combine brand recognition, a comprehensive product matrix, and professional operational capability, essentially means anchoring an efficient investment benchmark. This helps solidify the foundation for long-term asset allocation, enabling investment decisions to more precisely connect with professional expertise and capture the long-term value of capital markets.
Risk Disclosure Funds carry risks, and investing requires caution. The views expressed are for reference only and may change with market conditions; they do not constitute investment advice or a promise. Please refer to the legal documents for details on fees. The aforementioned products are issued and managed by Guotai Fund. Distributing institutions do not assume responsibility for the investment, redemption, or risk management of these products. The fund manager commits to managing and utilizing fund assets with principles of honesty,信用, and diligence, but does not guarantee that the fund will necessarily be profitable, nor does it guarantee a minimum return. The mentioned funds have varying risk-return profiles. Among them, the Money Market ETF Guotai is a money market securities investment fund, classified as a low-risk variety within securities investment funds, with expected risks and returns lower than those of stock funds, hybrid funds, and bond funds. The Gold ETF Guotai is a commodity fund primarily investing in gold spot contracts, with an expected risk-return profile similar to gold assets, differing from stock funds, hybrid funds, bond funds, and money market funds. The remaining funds are equity funds, which theoretically have expected returns and risk levels higher than hybrid funds, bond funds, and money market funds, belonging to the category of higher risk and higher potential return funds. Before making any investment decision, investors should carefully read the fund's "Fund Contract," "Prospectus," "Product Key Facts Statement," and other legal documents, fully understand the fund's risk-return characteristics and product features, and carefully consider their own risk tolerance based on factors such as investment objectives, time horizon, experience, and financial situation. Make rational judgments and prudent investment decisions independently, bearing investment risks independently.
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