During volatile markets, broad-based funds "attract capital," with the CSI 300 ETF Huatai-PineBridge (510300) and A500 ETF Huatai-PineBridge (563360) serving as key tools for capital to strategically position against the trend.

Recently, tensions in Iran have continued to escalate, driving a rise in risk-averse sentiment across global financial markets, and the A-share market has also been affected, with increased volatility. Against this backdrop, some capital has actively shifted toward core assets with higher certainty. A-share core broad-based indices such as the CSI 300 Index and the CSI A500 Index have once again become the focus of the market, and related ETF products have seen net inflows despite the headwinds.

Among them, the Huatai-PineBridge CSI 300 ETF (510300), which has the largest A-share market scale, and the A500ETF Huatai-PineBridge (563360), which currently ranks first in scale among ETFs tracking the CSI A500 Index across the entire market, have become important targets for fund allocations. According to Wind data, the Huatai-PineBridge CSI 300 ETF (510300) has received net capital inflows for four consecutive trading days (3/16–3/19), with cumulative net inflows of RMB 3.889 billion. It is also the only equity ETF in the entire market during the same period that has recorded cumulative net inflows exceeding RMB 2.0 billion. The A500ETF Huatai-PineBridge (563360) also achieved a net capital inflow of RMB 50 million on March 19, with same-day trading value reaching as high as RMB 7.789 billion.

As a powerful tool to help investors capture long-term allocation opportunities in A-share core assets at low cost, beyond their more obvious advantages in scale and liquidity, the Huatai-PineBridge CSI 300 ETF (510300) and the A500ETF Huatai-PineBridge (563360) are also competitive in terms of fees. Their annual management fee rate and annual custody fee rate are 0.15% and 0.05%, respectively—both representing the lowest tier fee level among equity index products in the current A-share market.

The latest regular fund reports show that, as of the end of 2025, the Huatai-PineBridge CSI 300 ETF (510300) and the A500ETF Huatai-PineBridge (563360) have generated fund profits for unitholders of RMB 143.5 billion and RMB 4.642 billion, respectively, on a cumulative basis. The former is the only equity fund in the current A-share market with cumulative profits exceeding RMB 100 billion, while the latter is the only product among all ETFs tracking the CSI A500 Index with cumulative profits exceeding RMB 4.5 billion.

As one of the first batch of ETF managers in the market, Huatai-PineBridge has been deeply involved in index investing for nearly 20 years and has built products such as the market’s first dividend-themed ETF and the first cross-market ETF, the Huatai-PineBridge CSI 300 ETF. As of the end of 2025, over the past two years, the company’s ETFs have generated cumulative profits for unitholders of more than RMB 164.0 billion, making it one of only four fund companies in the entire market with cumulative profits exceeding RMB 100 billion in the same period. In terms of fees, 77.8% of the company’s ETF products adopt the lowest tier fee structure for equity index funds currently available in the market (management fee rate 0.15%/year + custody fee rate 0.05%/year).

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