Report Investment Rating - The report gives a "★☆☆" rating to CITIC's five-style stability, indicating a slightly bullish view with limited operability in the market [5]. Core Viewpoints - In the week ending October 17, 2025, Tonglian All A (Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing), ChinaBond Composite Bond, and Nanhua Commodity Index had weekly returns of -3.39%, 0.21%, and -1.14% respectively. In the public fund market, equity long strategies retreated, pure bonds outperformed, neutral strategy products showed mixed performance, and among commodities, precious metal ETFs rose while non-ferrous metal ETFs declined, and energy chemical and soybean meal ETFs continued to weaken [5]. - Among CITIC's five styles, the financial style rose last week while others fell. The style rotation chart shows that the growth and consumption styles weakened marginally in terms of relative strength, and the financial style increased significantly in terms of indicator momentum. In the public fund pool, cyclical style funds had better excess performance in the past week, and other style funds underperformed the index on average. The product's deviation from cyclical and consumption styles increased marginally, and the overall market congestion indicator increased marginally this week, with the cyclical style currently in a historically high congestion range [5]. - In the neutral strategy, the stock index basis showed a marginal recovery trend last week. The IM contract rebounded from below the -2 standard deviation of the three - month average to within one standard deviation, and the premium rates of the corresponding spot index ETFs of IH and IF were in the top 20% quantile range of the past three months [5]. - Among Barra factors, the residual momentum factor had better performance in the past week with a weekly excess return of 2.49%, while the momentum and capital flow factors had excess drawdowns. The win - rates of the profitability and leverage factors improved. The cross - section rotation speed of factors increased significantly this week and is currently in a relatively high quantile range in the past year [5]. - According to the latest scoring results of the style timing model, the consumption and financial styles recovered marginally this week, the cyclical style declined, and the current signal favors the stable style. The return of the style timing strategy last week was 0.52%, with an excess return of 1.45% compared to the benchmark equal - weighted allocation [5]. Summary by Directory Fund Market Review - In the public fund market, equity long strategies had a drawdown in the past week, pure bonds had better returns, neutral strategy products showed mixed performance, precious metal ETFs in commodities had large increases, non - ferrous metal ETFs had a return correction, and energy chemical and soybean meal ETFs' net values continued to weaken [5]. - Among CITIC's five styles, the financial style rose last week while others fell. Cyclical style funds had better excess performance in the public fund pool, and other style funds underperformed the index on average. The product's deviation from cyclical and consumption styles increased marginally, and the overall market congestion indicator increased marginally this week, with the cyclical style in a historically high congestion range [5]. - In the neutral strategy, the stock index basis recovered marginally last week, and the premium rates of the corresponding spot index ETFs of IH and IF were in the top 20% quantile range of the past three months [5]. - Among Barra factors, the residual momentum factor had a weekly excess return of 2.49%, the momentum and capital flow factors had excess drawdowns, and the win - rates of the profitability and leverage factors improved. The factor cross - section rotation speed increased significantly and is in a relatively high quantile range in the past year [5]. - According to the style timing model, the consumption and financial styles recovered marginally this week, the cyclical style declined, and the style timing strategy had a return of 0.52% last week, with an excess return of 1.45% compared to the benchmark [5]. Recent Market Returns - The weekly, monthly, quarterly, and semi - annual returns of Tonglian All A (Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing), ChinaBond Composite Bond (net), and Nanhua Commodity are presented in the report, along with data on the establishment scale of public funds in the past year, the maximum drawdown of major public fund strategy indices in the past three months, and the weekly returns of major public fund strategy indices [7]. CITIC Style Index - The net value trends of CITIC's financial, cyclical, consumption, growth, and stable style indices are shown, as well as the relative rotation chart of these style indices, which reflects the relative strength and momentum of different styles in different time periods [8][9]. - The excess return performance of CITIC style - based fund style indices in different time periods (weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi - annual, annual) is presented, along with the congestion levels of different styles (excluding the stable style due to data limitations) [10][11]. Barra Factors - The preference levels of Barra single - factors (ranging from 0 - 1) are shown, indicating the degree of preference for different factors. The excess return performance of Barra single - factor style strategies in different time periods (weekly, monthly) is also presented, as well as the excess net value trends of Barra single - factor styles since this year [13][14][17].

Report Industry Investment Rating - Not provided in the report Core Viewpoints of the Report - The innovation of US ETF products continues, with the expansion of options and single - stock leverage products; the inflow of US stock ETFs has increased significantly, and the performance of mixed - allocation products is somewhat differentiated; the US ordinary public funds have different trends, with stock funds facing redemption pressure and some inflows into bond products [1] Summary by Directory 1. US ETF Innovation Products: Continuous Expansion of Options and Single - Stock Leverage Products - Last week, 32 new products were issued in the US, an increase in quantity [1][6] - BlackRock converted two over - the - counter active funds into ETFs, with an original scale of over $3 billion. The dynamic stock ETF invests in global stocks, and the disciplined volatility stock ETF focuses on low - volatility strategies, both with qualitative and quantitative features and a fee rate of about 0.4% [1][8] - The GraniteShares YieldBOOST product line continued to expand, with new products linked to Amazon and AMD. Defiance issued leveraged + option strategies and a long + end - of - day option overlay strategy product based on the Nasdaq 100 [8] - 12 single - stock leverage products were issued, all 2x leveraged, linked to various companies such as Unity Software, Goldman Sachs, etc. [8] - Dana issued 2 active ETFs, one focusing on high - concentration dividend stocks and the other on disruptive innovation technology companies [9] - Some bond products were also expanded, including high - yield bond ETFs, target - maturity bond products, and active credit bond products [9] 2. US ETF Dynamics 2.1 US ETF Funds: Increased Inflow of US Stock ETFs - Last week, the inflow of US stock ETFs approached $40 billion, a significant increase, and asset - allocation products also had obvious inflows [1][10] - iShares' S&P 500 ETF had a return, and factor - rotation ETFs, AI products, etc. had more inflows. Semiconductor leverage products continued to outflow, and ARKK outflowed over $2 billion [1][12] - Gold ETFs continued to have inflows, Vanguard's S&P 500 ETF had the largest continuous inflow, and the Russell 2000 ETF also began to have obvious inflows [13] 2.2 US ETF Performance: Differentiated Performance of Mixed - Allocation Products - Among mixed - allocation products, Pacer's timing strategy has performed poorly this year, with PTLC based on the S&P 500 having a year - to - date increase of less than 2%. Fixed - ratio products performed relatively better. WisdomTree's 1.5x leveraged NTSX had a gain close to 16%, similar to BlackRock's aggressive products [1][15] 3. Recent Fund Flows of US Ordinary Public Funds - In July 2025, the total amount of non - money public funds in the US was $22.57 trillion, a decrease of $0.12 trillion compared to June. Although the S&P 500 rose 2.17% in July, the scale of US domestic equity products decreased by 0.95%, indicating high redemption pressure [16] - From September 3rd to September 10th, US domestic equity funds outflowed about $22 billion in a single week, and have outflowed over $400 billion since the beginning of the year, while bond products had an inflow of about $4.8 billion [16]

Report Industry Investment Rating No information provided in the report. Core Viewpoints of the Report - Last week in the US, 37 new ETF products were issued, with an acceleration in issuance, including products that both increase and decrease concentration. The factor rotation ETF had inflows of over $1 billion, and Bitcoin products outperformed Ethereum products. In May 2025, the total non - money public funds in the US increased, and from July 2nd to 9th, domestic stock funds had outflows while bond products had inflows [2]. Summary According to the Table of Contents 1. US ETF Innovation Products: Products with Increased and Decreased Concentration Issued Simultaneously - 37 new products were issued last week, involving series products from multiple companies. Direxion, Leverage Shares, etc. expanded single - stock leveraged and inverse products. WEBs issued the Defined Volatility series products. Invesco and Janus Henderson issued bond products. Crossmark issued large - cap growth and value ETFs, and Defiance issued an AI and power infrastructure ETF. Roundhill expanded its weekly leveraged + dividend ETFs [5][6][7]. - Xtrackers issued an industry - diversified product, SPXD, which tracks the S&P 500 Diversified Sector Weight Index and distributes weights based on sub - industry revenues. Its first - largest weighted stock is Berkshire Hathaway, with a weight of about 3.7%, and the weights of other stocks are below 2%. Global X issued the PureCap series products to address US regulatory restrictions on ETF shareholding ratios [8][11][12]. 2. US ETF Dynamics 2.1 US ETF Funds: Factor Rotation ETF Inflows Exceeded $1 Billion - Last week, stock ETFs had inflows of over $16 billion, with similar inflows for domestic and international stocks. Bond ETFs had more domestic inflows than international ones, and Bitcoin and commodity ETFs continued to have inflows. The factor rotation products had single - week inflows of over $1 billion and their current scale has exceeded $20 billion. The top out - flowing products were mainly S&P 500 ETFs from State Street and BlackRock [13][14]. 2.2 US ETF Performance: Bitcoin Products Outperformed Ethereum - Since the beginning of this year, the cryptocurrency market has attracted attention. The total scale of relevant US ETFs has exceeded $150 billion. The BlackRock Bitcoin ETF is close to $90 billion, and the BlackRock Ethereum ETF exceeds $10 billion. Bitcoin has a year - to - date increase of about 25%, while Ethereum products have an increase of less than 10%, and BlackRock's products have relatively good performance [17]. 3. Recent Capital Flows of US Ordinary Public Funds - In May 2025, the total non - money public funds in the US were $21.91 trillion, an increase of $0.85 trillion from April 2025. The S&P 500 rose 6.15% in May, and the scale of domestic US equity products increased by 5.49%, slightly lower than the stock increase. From July 2nd to 9th, domestic US stock funds had total outflows of about $7.5 billion, and bond product inflows expanded to $7.58 billion [21].