Ya Zhang

Schroder Investment Management North America, Inc. (SIMNA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Schroder US Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by Schroders Plc (LON: SDR) in Great Britain. SIMNA manages separate accounts on a discretionary basis for institutions, endowments, foundations, pension funds, government retirement plans, and insurance companies and, as sub-adviser, to registered investment companies sponsored by other advisers. The firm also acts as the investment adviser to the Schroder Funds, which are sold in the US predominantly to institutional clients. They also serve as the manager and general partner of private investment partnerships or funds.

Wilshire Advisors LLC (Wilshire) is a privately-held investment technology and advisory firm headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The firm was founded by Dennis Tito in 1972 as Wilshire Associates, Inc. Wilshire provides innovative investment solutions, consulting services and multi-asset analytics to institutional and intermediary clients worldwide.

Fullgoal Fund Management Co., Ltd. (Fullgoal Fund) is an independent Chinese fund management firm which was founded in 1999. In 2003, the firm was restructured when the Bank of Montreal took a strategic interest in them and brought international concepts and management techniques to Fullgoal Fund. Headquartered in Shanghai, Fullgoal Fund provides investment management solutions including open and closed-end mutual funds, qualified domestic institutional investor (QDII) funds, enterprise annuity funds, domestic social security funds and asset management to segregated accounts for both domestic and international clients.

HuaAn Fund Management Co., Ltd. (HuaAn Funds) is a fund management firm headquartered in Shanghai, China. The firm was founded in 1998 and is owned by Guotai Junan Securities Co., Ltd. (SHA: 601211). HuaAn Funds provides a range of investment products and advisory services for domestic and international individual and institutional clients.

Guosen Securities Co., Ltd. (Broker) (GSEC-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Guosen Securities Co., Ltd. (SHE: 002736), a financial services company headquartered in Shenzhen, China. The firm was founded in 1994 as Shenzhen SDIC Securities Co., Ltd. GSEC-Broker provides retail clients with a full range of services such as securities trading, investment consulting, margin financing, stock pledge financing, futures IB, and financial product agency sales.

Morgan Stanley Huaxin Fund Management Co. Ltd. (Morgan Stanley Huaxin Funds) is an independent Chinese fund management firm which was founded in 2003 as Jutian Fund Management Co. Ltd. through the joint venture of Morgan Stanley International Holdings, Inc. (34%), Huaxin Securities Co., Ltd. (36%), Hantang Securities Co., Ltd. (15%), China Merchants Finance Holdings Co., Ltd. (10%) and Shenzhen China Technology Industry Group Co., Ltd. (5%). In 2008, they were renamed Morgan Stanley Huaxin Fund Management Co. after Morgan Stanley became their largest shareholder. Headquartered in Shenzhen with additional offices in Beijing and Shanghai, Morgan Stanley Huaxin Funds provides asset management services and products for individual and institutional clients.

Everbright PGIM Fund Management Co. Ltd. (Everbright PGIM) is a China-based joint venture firm between Everbright Securities Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of majority shareholder, state-controlled China Everbright Group Corp. and Pramerica Investment Management, a subsidiary of US-based Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU). The firm was founded in 2004 and as Everbright Pramerica Fund Management Co., Ltd. Headquartered in Shanghai, Everbright PGIM manages mutual funds distributed to Chinese retail investors through banks and brokerage firms.

BOC International (China) Ltd. (Broker) (BOC Broker) is the brokerage division of BOC International (China) Ltd. The firm is headquartered in Shanghai and was founded in 2002. BOC Broker provides brokerage services to their clients.

China Nature Asset Management Co., Ltd. (CNAM) is the investment management subsidiary of Jilin Trust Co. Ltd. in China. The firm is headquartered in Shanghai and was founded in 2003. CNAM manages open-end mutual funds for Chinese investors.

China International Capital Corp. Ltd. (Broker) (CICC) is the brokerage division of China International Capital Corp. Ltd. which was established in 1995 as a strategic partnership between Chinese and international financial institutions and corporations. Headquartered in Beijing, CICC was the first joint venture investment bank in China. The firm's core business departments were investment banking, capital markets, sales & trading, research, fixed-income and asset management. CICC offers a range of brokerage services to international and domestic institutional and individual investors. In 2007 the firm set up a wholly-owned subsidiary specializing in private equity investments and focusing on buyout opportunities within China.

Zhongtai Securities Co., Ltd. (Broker) is the brokerage division of Zhongtai Securities Co., Ltd. (SHA: 600918), which is a subsidiary of Shandong State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission in China. The firm was founded in 2001 as Qilu Securities Co., Ltd. Headquartered in Jinan, Zhongtai Securities provides securities brokerage services to institutional clients.

PineBridge Investments Asia Ltd. is the asset management and investment advisory subsidiary of PineBridge Investments Holdings (Gibraltar) No. 1 Ltd., ultimately held by Chiltonlink Ltd. in British Virgin Islands. Formerly known as AIG Global Investment Corporation (Asia) Ltd., the firm was founded in 2009 when they were spun off by American International Group. Headquartered in Hong Kong, PineBridge Investments Asia provides alternative investment, asset allocation, equity, and fixed-income strategies for institutions, insurance companies, intermediaries and individual clients.

Ping An Asset Management Co., Ltd. (PAAMC) is the wholly-owned asset management subsidiary of Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of China Ltd. (SHA: 601318, HKG: 2318). The firm was founded in 2005 and formerly known as China Ping An Insurance Co., Ltd. Headquartered in Shanghai, PAAMC primarily engages in mandate insurance funds management for Ping An Group as well as asset management and investment advisory services for a variety of the most sophisticated institutional clients including sovereign wealth funds, national funds, insurers, banks and other financial institutions.

SWS MU Fund Management Co., Ltd. (SWS MU) is the fund management subsidiary of Shenwan Hongyuan Securities Co., Ltd., ultimately held by Shenwan Hongyuan Group Co., Ltd. (SHE: 000166) in China. The firm was founded in 2004 as SYWG BNP Paribas Asset Management Co. Ltd., a joint venture between Japan-based Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corp. and Shenyin & Wanguo Securities Co. Ltd. In 2011 the firm changed their name to SWS MU Fund Management Co. Ltd. after Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corp. reached an agreement with BNP Paribas Investment Partners to buy a significant minority stake with Shenyin & Wanguo Securities Co. Ltd. retaining the remaining majority stake in the joint venture. Headquartered in Shanghai, SWS MU manages a range of open-end funds.

Haitong Securities Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Haitong Asset Management) is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Haitong Securities Co., Ltd. (SH: 600837; HK: 6837; OTC: HAITY) in China. Established in 2012, the firm is based in Shanghai and provides asset management brokerage services for institutional and individual investors.

Tebon Fund Management Co. Ltd. (Tebon FM) is the fund management subsidiary of Tebon Securities Co., Ltd., ultimately held by Yadong Guangxin Science & Technology Development Co., Ltd. in China. Founded in 2012, the firm is headquartered in Shanghai and manages assets for individual and institutional investors.

Tongtai Fund Management Co., Ltd. provides investment advice. The private company is based in Shenzhen, China. and has subsidiaries in China. The CEO of the Chinese company is Jun Sheng Ma.

Shanghai Jayson New Energy Materials Co., Ltd. was founded in 2011 and is based in Shanghai, China. The Chinese company specializes in the production of new energy materials, including nickel cobalt manga, nickel cobalt20,000 tons of tetrum oxide, and 80,000 tons of three yuan front drive. The company has a vertical industrial chain layout and a rich product portfolio that forms a highly synergistic effect between industrial and products, providing more choices for process optimization and innovation. The company has high-quality overseas resource endowment in the Congo (gold), multiple large copper-cobalt mines, and has controlled the number of nickel and manganese resources. The company has core technologies such as geological exploration, wet metallurgy, and low-quality difficulty to handle the comprehensive recycling and utilization of resources and large-scale engineering development. The company is also focused on establishing a tetraxid oxidation tritermia front-drive factory, which is equipped with upstream and downstream industries, and gradually deploying the three-yuan front-wheel drive production capacity. The company has a comprehensive layout along the "belt and road" and have 4 national trading centers, 1 middle-test base, and 8 production bases.