On October 16, as autumn colors began to tint the plane trees, the classroom at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University was brightly lit with every seat filled. Huaan Fund, in partnership with Shanghai Securities News, held the 2026 Huaan Fund "One Company, One Province, One University" and "Hundred Experts Investor Education Tour" university lecture event. Zhou Honghao, Fund Manager and Chief Gold Researcher at Huaan Fund, delivered a keynote speech titled "Reflections on Index Investing and Macro Outlook in the AI Era," passing frontline financial practice experience to young university students.
A Practical Finance Course Brought Together by Multiple Parties
Since 2024, Huaan Fund and Shanghai Securities News have held the "Hundred Experts Investor Education Tour" lecture event at Shanghai Jiao Tong University for three consecutive years. This event was jointly hosted by the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Securities News, and Huaan Fund, and organized by the AI and Digital Finance Professional Committee of the SAIF Alumni Association, the Quantitative Investment Club of the SAIF MBA Student Union, and the Shanghai Securities News-Shangzheng Investor Education Base. Zhou Honghao, Fund Manager and Chief Gold Researcher at Huaan Fund, and Zhang Yongjun, Editor-in-Chief of Shangzheng Investor and initiator of the "Shangzheng Cup," were invited as keynote speakers. Teacher Zhang Yage from the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chen Ya, President of the SAIF Quantitative Investment Club, and relevant heads from the Capital Market Operations Service Center of Shanghai Securities News attended the event.
Zhang Yage reviewed the success of the gold ETF-themed investor education event jointly held by the institute, Huaan Fund, and Shanghai Securities News in April of last year, and thanked the "Hundred Experts Investor Education Tour" for continuously bringing frontline experts into the campus, noting that the valuable financial practice experience shared by experts has formed an important supplement to university financial education.
Deepening Investor Education with an Unchanged Original Aspiration
During the keynote sharing session, Zhang Yongjun highlighted Shanghai Securities News's development journey of over thirty years of deep cultivation in the capital market field and iterative innovation in investor education. "From the 'Stock Investor Schools' spread across the country to today's six major brand programs including the 'Shangzheng Cup' and 'Hundred Experts Investor Education Tour' that reach deep into campuses, over thirty years Shanghai Securities News has remained true to its original aspiration of doing public welfare, conducting investor education, and helping promote the healthy development of China's capital market," she said. "To invest, first seek knowledge." Finally, Zhang Yongjun condensed her ten-minute speech into one sentence, stating that Shanghai Securities News will continue to explore professional, high-quality, and themed investor education models, and looks forward to joining hands with more financial institutions.
Independent Thinking Becomes More Valuable in the AI Era
Based on in-depth observation of current A-share market dynamics and capital flows, Zhou Honghao systematically reviewed the market's evolution over the year, and analyzed the allocation logic and investment value of major asset classes including dividend assets, technology sectors, overseas ETFs, and gold. Combining industry development trends with an objective and prudent perspective, he analyzed the evolution of index investment strategies in the AI era and provided an outlook on macro market prospects, bringing frontline investment research experience and practical observations from the public fund industry to university youth.
From the SAIF classroom to the frontline of a fund company's investment research, and back to the SAIF classroom, Zhou Honghao advised his junior schoolmates: as AI technology rapidly iterates, investment research efficiency, market pricing, and allocation logic are all changing, and retaining independent thinking ability becomes even more valuable. During the interactive exchange session, the on-site teachers and students participated with great enthusiasm, and the originally scheduled interaction time was extended multiple times. Students asked the keynote speakers questions on topics including investment return expectations in the AI era, dividend asset allocation, ETF investment methods, and macroeconomic and gold-related major asset allocation. The keynote speakers provided in-depth and practical answers.
The successful holding of this lecture fully reflects the high level of attention current university students pay to the fields of technology and finance. Huaan Fund and Shanghai Securities News will subsequently launch more high-quality investor education and companionship activities, helping cultivate high-caliber financial talent and technology talent, and contributing solid strength to building a financial powerhouse.
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