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CITIC Securities Co., Ltd. (Invt Port) (CITICS-IP) is the investment portfolio division of CITIC Securities Co., Ltd. (SHA: 600030), a Chinese full-service investment bank which provides a range of services including underwriting, research, brokerage, asset management, wealth management, and investment advisory for institutions and individual investors. Founded in 1998, CITICS-IP is headquartered in Beijing and has branch offices throughout China.

China Southern Asset Management Co., Ltd. (CSAM) is an independent Chinese fund management firm which was founded in 1998. Headquartered in Shenzhen, the firm launched China's first listed open-ended fund in 2004 and manages a range of close-ended and open-ended investment funds for institutional clients and private individuals. They are one of the investment managers selected by the Chinese government to manage an institutional mandate for the National Social Security Fund. In 2007, CSAM acquired QDII status (Qualified Domestic Institutional Investors) allowing them to invest in the overseas capital markets under the foreign exchange control system in China. They announced the launching, in cooperation with US-based Mellon Financial Corporation, of their first QDII investment fund in 2007.