Core Viewpoint - The article provides a comprehensive analysis of market performance, highlighting the positive and negative returns of various factors across different stock pools and industries, indicating a mixed market sentiment and the effectiveness of specific investment strategies [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. Factor Performance - In the overall market, the profit factor achieved a positive return of 0.61%, while market capitalization and momentum factors also showed positive returns of 0.25%, 0.24%, and 0.23% respectively, indicating a large-cap style market [4]. - In the CSI 300 stock pool, the best-performing factors included quarterly ROA (1.43%) and TTM sales ratio inverse (1.39%), while the logarithmic market cap factor showed a negative return of -1.70% [5]. - In the CSI 500 stock pool, the top factors were the 5-day average turnover rate (1.68%) and the correlation between intraday volatility and trading volume (1.66%), with the logarithmic market cap factor again underperforming at -1.21% [5]. Liquidity and Industry Performance - In the liquidity 1500 stock pool, the price-to-earnings ratio factor performed well with a return of 2.13%, while the 5-day reversal factor had a negative return of -1.44% [6]. - Across industries, fundamental factors like net asset growth rate and net profit growth rate showed consistent positive returns in textiles and non-bank financial sectors, while valuation factors like EP and BP also performed well in most industries [7]. Strategy Performance - The PB-ROE-50 combination achieved positive excess returns of 0.76% in the CSI 500 stock pool and 0.21% in the CSI 800 stock pool, while the overall market stock pool had a slight negative excess return of -0.09% [8]. - Public and private fund research strategies yielded positive excess returns of 0.42% and 0.29% respectively relative to the CSI 800 [9]. - The block trading combination underperformed with an excess return of -0.16% relative to the CSI All Index [10]. - The targeted issuance combination also showed negative excess returns of -2.30% relative to the CSI All Index [11].

Group 1 - The overall holding value of northbound funds reached 2.24 trillion RMB as of March 31, 2025, an increase of approximately 25.7 billion RMB compared to the end of Q4 2024, accounting for about 5.5% of the free float market value of A-shares [1][8][11] - Long-term allocation funds from foreign banks held 1.71 trillion RMB, increasing by about 10.8 billion RMB, representing 4.2% of the free float market value, while short-term trading funds from foreign brokerages held 0.38 trillion RMB, increasing by approximately 11.2 billion RMB, accounting for 0.93% [1][8][11] Group 2 - Northbound funds showed a significant increase in allocation to momentum, liquidity, and growth styles in Q1, reversing the previous quarter's reduction in these areas [2][17][22] - The overall style preferences of northbound funds included overweight positions in market capitalization, momentum, volatility, profitability, growth, and leverage, while underweight positions were noted in beta, BP, and liquidity [2][20][25] Group 3 - The highest holding value proportion of northbound funds was in the consumer sector at 6.9%, followed by financials at 6.0%, with a slight increase in the cyclical sector [3][28][32] - Northbound funds were overweight in consumer and financial sectors compared to the overall A-share market, while they were underweight in stability, technology, and cyclical sectors [3][38][42] Group 4 - The top five industries for northbound funds in terms of holding proportion changes were automotive, retail, consumer services, machinery, and electronics, while the bottom five included utilities, financials, telecommunications, real estate, and construction [3][42][45] - Northbound funds were overweight in industries such as power equipment and new energy, food and beverage, home appliances, banking, and automotive, while underweight in computer, basic chemicals, machinery, defense, and electronics [3][51][52] Group 5 - In terms of index allocation, northbound funds showed a decrease in holding proportions for the Shanghai 50 (-0.5%), CSI 300 (-0.3%), and CSI 500 (-0.2%), while there was a slight increase for the CSI 1000 (+0.1%) [4][58][62] - Northbound funds were overweight in the Shanghai 50 and CSI 300 compared to the overall A-share market, while underweight in the CSI 500 and CSI 1000 [4][67]