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Fund Reports

English translation of the original VNote “Fund Reports”, preserving its structure with only necessary small corrections.

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This is a historical learning note and may contain outdated or incomplete understanding.

Note: The original VNote structure and historical views are preserved. Product rules, returns, policies, and specific assets are time-sensitive; only clear errors or changed institutional rules are corrected minimally. This is not investment advice.

1. What It Is

  • Generally, a fund’s periodic reports include quarterly, semiannual, and annual reports.
    • Quarterly report: within fifteen working days after the end of each quarter in the historical rule recorded here.
    • Semiannual report: within sixty days after the end of the first half-year.
    • Annual report: within ninety days after the end of each year.
  • Focus on the fund’s historical performance, fund-manager profile, fund-manager views, fund holdings, and information about fund-unit holders.

2. Why

Periodic fund reports help reduce information asymmetry. Their ultimate purpose is to help investors make decisions and promote more rational allocation of resources. Fund disclosure particularly emphasizes protection of fund-unit holders’ interests.

3. How to Read Them

3.1. Fund Overview

  • Fund product description
    • Investment strategy
    • Performance benchmark

3.2. Major Financial Indicators and NAV Performance

  • Fund NAV performance
    • Key point 1: whether ①-③ is positive, indicating NAV outperformed the benchmark and produced excess return.
    • Key point 2: whether ②-④ is negative, indicating whether the index fund’s volatility was lower than the benchmark’s.

3.3. Manager’s Report

  • Fund-manager profile
    • Check whether the manager changed.
  • Manager’s explanation of investment strategy and performance during the reporting period
    • Active fund managers may explain their views on markets and industries in detail.
  • Manager’s brief outlook for the macro economy, securities market, and industry trends
    • Same idea as above.

3.4. Portfolio Report

  • Fund-asset composition at period end
    • Stock/bond allocation.
  • Equity portfolio classified by industry at period end
    • Main industries.
  • All stock investments ranked by fair value as a percentage of fund NAV
    • Major stock holdings.
  • Top five bond investments ranked by fair value as a percentage of fund NAV
    • Major bond holdings.

3.5. Fund-Unit Holder Information

  • Number and structure of fund-unit holders at period end
    • Look at institutional ownership percentage.
  • Holdings of the fund by employees of the fund manager
    • Employee ownership may strengthen alignment between the manager and investors.

3.6. Other Important Information Affecting Investor Decisions

  • Cases where a single investor held 20% or more of fund units during the reporting period
    • The original note preferred no holder exceeding 20%.

4. References