Investment Rating - The report does not explicitly provide an investment rating for the industry or products discussed [1]. Core Insights - The total scale of the fixed income + funds market reached 23,558.32 billion, with 1,164 products, and 108 of these reached historical net value highs last week [2][20]. - The performance of various fund types showed divergence, with median returns for mixed bond funds (primary and secondary) at -0.08%, and flexible allocation funds at -0.03%, while bond FOFs and mixed FOFs had median returns of 0.26% and 0.35% respectively [2][13]. - The macro environment forecast for Q1 2026 indicates a slowdown, with the CSI 300 index and other indices showing returns of 1.65% and 0.39% respectively as of January 31, 2026 [3][23]. Summary by Sections 1. Fixed Income + Product Performance Tracking - As of January 30, 2026, the total number of fixed income + funds was 1,164, with a total scale of 23,558.32 billion [10]. - Last week, 6 new products were launched, and the median performance of various fund types was as follows: mixed bond type primary (-0.08%), secondary (-0.08%), and flexible allocation (-0.03%) [13][14]. - The conservative, stable, and aggressive fund median returns were 0.01%, -0.12%, and -0.12% respectively [13]. 2. Major Asset Allocation and Industry ETF Rotation Strategy Tracking - The macro environment forecast for Q1 2026 is a slowdown, with the CSI 300 index yielding 1.65% and the total wealth index of government bonds yielding 0.39% [3][23]. - The recommended industry ETFs for January 2026 include coal, steel, securities companies, and banking ETFs, with a combined return of 0.88% last week [3]. 3. Absolute Return Strategy Performance Tracking - The stock-bond 20/80 rebalancing strategy yielded 0.05% last week, while the stock-bond risk parity strategy yielded 0.04% [4]. - The small-cap value strategy showed the highest performance with a year-to-date return of 2.60%, while the combined strategy with macro momentum yielded a cumulative return of 3.82% [4].

- The report introduces a **macro timing model** for asset allocation, which predicts macroeconomic environments using proxy variables and selects optimal asset classes for absolute return portfolios. For Q1 2026, the model forecasts a "Slowdown" environment, with returns of 1.65% for CSI 300, 9.13% for CNI 2000, 8.61% for Nanhua Commodity Index, and 0.39% for ChinaBond Total Treasury Wealth Index[23][30] - A **macro momentum model** is constructed for monthly timing signals, considering factors such as economic growth, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, and risk sentiment. This model is used for timing equities, bonds, and other major asset classes. Additionally, a multi-cycle gold timing strategy is built using macro, position, volume-price, and sentiment factors. For January 2026, the returns are 1.65% for CSI 300, 0.39% for ChinaBond Total Treasury Wealth Index, and 19.59% for AU9999 contract[23][30] - The **industry ETF rotation strategy** is based on a multi-factor model that incorporates historical fundamentals, expected fundamentals, sentiment, volume-price technicals, and macroeconomic factors. The strategy matches ETFs with their corresponding industry indices and selects ETFs from a benchmark pool of 23 first-level industries. For January 2026, the recommended ETFs include Guotai CSI Coal ETF, Guotai CSI Steel ETF, Guotai CSI All Securities ETF, and Huabao CSI Bank ETF, each with an initial weight of 25%[24][27][28] - The **20/80 stock-bond rebalancing strategy** driven by macro timing achieved a weekly return of 0.05% and a YTD return of 0.56%. The **stock-bond risk parity strategy** achieved a weekly return of 0.04% and a YTD return of 0.47%. When combined with the industry ETF rotation strategy, the enhanced 20/80 rebalancing strategy achieved a weekly return of 0.29% and a YTD return of 0.89%, while the enhanced risk parity strategy achieved a weekly return of 0.13% and a YTD return of 0.55%[4][30][33] - The **stock-bond-gold risk parity strategy** achieved a weekly return of 0.26% and a YTD return of 1.28%, with an annualized volatility of 2.96%, a maximum drawdown of 0.49%, and a Sharpe ratio of 6.90[4][30][35] - The **quantitative fixed-income plus strategy** includes stock-bond rebalancing models with different configurations. For the 10/90 monthly rebalancing strategy, the small-cap value style achieved a YTD return of 1.38%, while the small-cap growth style achieved 1.02%. For the 20/80 monthly rebalancing strategy, the small-cap value style achieved a YTD return of 2.60%, while the small-cap growth style achieved 1.88%. When combined with macro timing, the 20/80 monthly rebalancing strategy achieved a YTD return of 3.82% for the small-cap value style and 2.73% for the small-cap growth style. The 20/80 quarterly rebalancing strategy based on counter-cyclical allocation achieved a YTD return of 1.38% for the PB earnings + small-cap value combination and 1.02% for the PB earnings + small-cap growth combination[4][37][40]

Group 1 - The report indicates that as of January 23, 2026, the total scale of fixed income + funds in the market reached 21,780.36 billion, with 1,157 products, and 824 of them achieved historical net value highs last week [2][18] - The performance median of various fund types for the week of January 19-23, 2026, showed differentiation: mixed bond type I (0.26%), II (0.47%), and other types [14][16] - The conservative, stable, and aggressive fund median returns were 0.32%, 0.47%, and 0.59% respectively [14][16] Group 2 - The macro environment forecast for Q1 2026 indicates a slowdown, with the Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 index, the total wealth index of government bonds, and the AU9999 contract yielding 1.57%, 0.36%, and 14.08% respectively [3] - The industry ETF rotation strategy for January 2026 suggests focusing on coal, steel, securities, and banking ETFs, with a weekly return of 1.77% and a cumulative return of 1.41% for the month [3][4] Group 3 - The mixed stock-bond strategy's performance showed a 0.00% return for the week, with a year-to-date return of 0.51%, while the stock-bond risk parity strategy yielded 0.13% for the week and 0.43% year-to-date [4] - The small-cap value style in the stock-bond 20/80 combination performed best with a year-to-date return of 2.95%, while the PB earnings, high dividend, and small-cap growth strategies yielded 1.08%, 0.78%, and 2.31% respectively [4][10]

Group 1 - The article examines the application of PLS model expected factor returns in factor weighting, focusing on both single-factor multi-strategy and multi-factor single-strategy dimensions [1] - In the top 100 combinations of 20 single factors, using the PLS model for the five most volatile factor combinations resulted in an annualized return increase of approximately 4.0% compared to mean-weighted returns, and 6.6% compared to equal-weighted returns [2] - The article constructs six basic combinations including one dividend selection, one growth selection, two small-cap combinations, and two relatively balanced style combinations, achieving an annualized return increase of 3.3% over excess return mean weighting and 3.9% over equal weighting for volatile combinations [2] Group 2 - In multi-factor models, using PLS expected returns to determine factor weights can improve the expected IC and performance of top 100 combinations, although this improvement is not consistent across all cross-sections [3] - The PLS weighting method is noted to be more robust overall, but may underperform compared to mean IC weighting and ICIR weighting when factor momentum is strong, as observed in 2023 [3] - A composite quantitative fixed income + strategy using PLS expected return weighted multi-factor model for the stock side and the China Bond Short-term Index for the bond side achieved an annualized return of 8.1% with a volatility of 5.6% and a maximum drawdown of 5.4% from January 2018 to November 2025 [3]

Group 1: Core Insights - The report highlights that the stock side employs a small-cap growth portfolio combined with a non-timing stock-bond monthly rebalancing strategy, projecting cumulative returns of 5.93% and 11.15% by 2025 [1][4] - As of August 15, 2025, the total market size of fixed income plus funds reached 1,784.66 billion, with 1,177 products, of which 412 achieved historical net value highs last week [2][9] - The report indicates a divergence in performance among various fund types, with median returns for mixed bond type funds being -0.07% for level one, 0.17% for level two, and 0.33% for mixed bond type funds [2][12] Group 2: Asset Allocation and ETF Rotation - The macro environment forecast for Q3 2025 suggests an inflationary trend, with the CSI 300 index, the total wealth index of government bonds, and AU9999 contracts yielding 3.11%, -0.32%, and 1.03% respectively since August [3][4] - Recommended industry ETFs for August 2025 include those focused on artificial intelligence, semiconductors, non-ferrous metals, banking, and major consumer sectors, with a weekly return of 4.01% and a cumulative return of 5.81% for the month [3][4] Group 3: Absolute Return Strategy Performance - The macro-timing driven stock-bond 20/80 rebalancing strategy yielded a return of 0.47% last week, while the stock-bond risk parity strategy returned -0.02% [4][9] - The small-cap growth style within the stock-bond 20/80 combination showed the most significant performance, with a year-to-date return of 11.15% [4][9] - The report notes that the cumulative return for the small-cap growth portfolio, when adjusted for timing strategies, reached 12.81% [4][9]