The first session of “ETF lecture” organized by the SZSE (SZSE) kicked off in Shenzhen recently. Being the SZSE’s first ETF training activity oriented for the medium and small investors, the lecture has positive significance in popularizing ETF investment knowledge and enhancing ETF market development and investor education. Approximately 300 investors from member units including China Merchants Securities, Essence Securities, and Guotai Junan Securities etc.. The lecturers from the SZSE, Shenzhen Securities Information Co., Ltd. and the relevant market institutions gave detailed presentation to investors on index investment idea, features of ETF products, investment trading strategies, and the main ETF products listed on SZSE etc.. The lecture was widely welcomed by the attending investors.
ETF is one of the fastest-growing products in global financial market in recent twenty years, with ETF asset scale worldwide growing by 50% per year, totaled USD 4.75 trillion up to now. With the deepening of the reform and development of China's capital market and the accelerated progress of China's Internationalization, ETF, low-cost and transparently operated, is the best choice for medium and small investors, most of who do not have sufficient time or capacity to do research on the fundamentals of listed companies, to participate in the securities market. Therefore, helping investors to understand ETF and recognizing the idea of the index investment and asset allocation idea is of great importance in protecting the interests of medium and small investors, enriching the portfolio of institutional investors, and optimizing the structure of A-share investors etc..
According to the relevant principal of the SZSE, as an important measure to implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, SZSE recently formulated and released the Strategic Development Planning Outline of Shenzhen Stock Exchange (2018-2010) , in which it is proposed that with the vision of building an internationally competitive capital market power that match the modern and strong country, the SZSE will be dedicated in forging an international leading innovation capital formation center and building a world first class stock exchange in order to better serve the overall national economic and social development. Among these works, optimizing the product system in Shenzhen market and realizing the balanced development of stock, bond, fund and derivative product markets are not only crucial way to realize the goal of forming a leading innovation-supported market system, but also among the priority work of SZSE in the next three years. After years of development in ETF market in the SZSE, investment targets of ETF include stock, bond, gold, currency and other large category of assets, and the investment market of ETF cover major domestic and foreign investment markets. ETF is gradually becoming an important platform for investors for allocation of assets. Next, SZEX will continue to enhance its communications and cooperation with different participants in the market, build a group of superior products with distinctive characteristics and great influence like Shenzhen 100ETF, ChiNext Board ETF, and Shanghai and Shenzhen 300ETF etc. relying on the Shenzhen basic Market advantages and features; the SZSE, by matching up with the reform of state-owned enterprises, One Belt One Road, Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect and other national and capital market development strategies, will further enrich the ETF product system, optimize the trading mechanism and deepen the investor education and protection work, so as to improve the service level in a comprehensive way.
In the next three months, the SZSE will successively cooperate with the relevant securities companies nationwide, and bring “ETF Lecture” to more investors, facilitating them to understand ETF knowledge in a more comprehensive way, so as to promote the healthy development of multilayer capital market.