Core Insights - The index fund market is rapidly growing, with nearly 3,000 funds and a total scale of 6.72 trillion yuan by the end of Q3 2025, alongside a record 328 new ETFs launched this year, exceeding 250 billion yuan in new issuance [1] - The industry is facing intensified competition characterized by "issuance wars, fee wars, and scale wars," leading to compressed profit margins for fund companies and decision-making challenges for investors [1] - Tianhong Fund is leveraging its internet-based approach and extensive experience to transition from "tool provision" to "comprehensive solution" offerings, highlighting its unique characteristics in the large index business [1] Differentiated Product Line - Tianhong Fund is avoiding the saturated broad-based index market by adopting a "forward-looking segmentation + comprehensive core" differentiation strategy [2] - The fund has launched products targeting "new productivity" sectors, such as the Tianhong CSI Hong Kong-Shenzhen Cloud Computing Industry Index ETF, which integrates both Hong Kong and domestic computing hardware providers [2] - As of Q3 2025, Tianhong's index products in the photovoltaic industry and other sectors have achieved significant scale, with the Tianhong CSI Photovoltaic Industry ETF nearing 10 billion yuan [2] Index Enhancement Strategy - Tianhong Fund is focusing on index enhancement as a core competitive advantage, aiming to create sustainable excess returns for investors [3] - The fund has 19 index enhancement funds with a total management scale exceeding 12.08 billion yuan, positioning it among the few "hundred billion-level index enhancement teams" in the industry [3] - Performance metrics show that Tianhong's index enhancement products have consistently outperformed industry averages, with notable excess returns over the past several years [3][4] Technology and Investor Engagement - Tianhong Fund is utilizing technology to enhance investor services, addressing common pain points such as "zombie investment" and "difficulty in profit-taking" through innovative investment plans [5] - The fund has introduced improved grid trading tools and developed an index analysis module to assist investors in comparing indices effectively [6][8] - By integrating professional education and deep insights from fund managers, Tianhong Fund has built strong user engagement, leading to a significant number of account holders in its equity index products [8] Market Positioning and Future Outlook - The shift in domestic index investment towards high-quality development emphasizes customer value creation over mere scale competition [9] - Tianhong Fund's model, centered on customer needs, technology, and solution delivery, is expected to lead the index investment sector into a new phase focused on segmentation, quality returns, and deep customer engagement [9]

1. Report Industry Investment Rating No relevant content provided. 2. Core View of the Report - As of October 31, 2025, Tianhong Fund has 18 index - enhanced products with a total management scale of 11.947 billion yuan. The product line comprehensively covers broad - based and industry indices, with a leading number of products in the market [2][5]. - Tianhong Fund's index - enhanced products have shown excellent long - term historical performance and outstanding performance this year. The company's unified quantitative system supports a high - consistency performance output ability [18][23]. - Tianhong Fund has a continuously iterative investment framework, a new paradigm of index - enhanced investment with high AI content, and is building a research - investment integrated platform TIRD to improve investment and research efficiency [30][32]. - The fund managers have rich quantitative industry and investment experience, contributing to stable excess returns [33]. 3. Summary According to the Catalog 3.1 Tianhong Fund's Index - Enhanced Product Line: Comprehensive Coverage of Broad - Based and Industry Indices, Leading in the Number of Products in the Market - **Overall Situation**: Tianhong Fund's index - enhanced business started in the second half of 2019. As of October 31, 2025, there are 18 index - enhanced products (only counting main - code funds), with a total management scale of 11.947 billion yuan. Among them, there are 12 broad - based index - enhanced products (including 2 enhanced - strategy ETFs) with a scale of about 10.7 billion yuan, and 6 industry - themed index - enhanced products with a scale of about 1.2 billion yuan [2][5]. - **Broad - Based Index Coverage**: The product line fully covers major broad - based indices in the market, spanning different market - value styles from CSI 300 to SSE 2000, covering large, medium, and small market - value dimensions. It also has multiple broad - based index - enhanced products in the main board, GEM, and STAR Market. In addition to comprehensive index coverage, Tianhong Fund has innovated in product forms, providing both off - exchange ordinary index - enhanced funds and on - exchange index - enhanced ETFs, creating an "on - and off - exchange linked, well - equipped" product ecosystem [7][9]. - **Industry Index - Enhanced Product Layout**: Tianhong Fund actively explores niche industry tracks, building a competitive industry index - enhanced product line, which is different from most peers focusing on broad - based indices. It ranks second in the market for industry index - enhanced funds, showing forward - looking product layout capabilities. It has systematically deployed index - enhanced products in five key areas: technology, consumption, medicine, advanced manufacturing, and new energy, helping investors capture structural opportunities [11][15]. 3.2 Long - Term Historical Performance is Outstanding, and Product Performance is Comprehensive and Prominent - **High - Consistency Systematized Ability**: As of October 31, 2025, 4 broad - based index - enhanced products of Tianhong Fund have been in operation for more than three years. In the past three years, these four products have shown excellent and highly consistent excess - return capabilities in the same - type benchmark index - enhanced funds, with their excess - return rankings all in the top 40% and an average ranking percentile of 31.89%. They also show a scientific return - risk allocation level, with their information - ratio rankings all in the top 40% and an average ranking percentile of 28.57%. All products' information - ratio rankings are not inferior to their excess - return rankings, indicating reasonable risk control [18][19]. - **Outstanding Long - Term Historical Performance - A Replicable and Expandable Investment Paradigm**: Tianhong Fund's operation mode for long - term stable excess performance can be replicated and expanded in industry index - enhanced products. Five index - enhanced fund products were established between 2020 - 2022, and their excess - return rates compared to the benchmark since their establishment range from 3% to 28%, showing better performance than the benchmark, especially in elastic industries such as advanced manufacturing and technology TMT [21]. - **Excellent Performance This Year**: As of October 31, 2025, Tianhong Fund's index - enhanced products have shown excellent performance in the overall upward market this year. Three products, including the SSE 2000 Index - Enhanced, CSI 1000 Enhanced Strategy ETF, and CSI 1000 Index - Enhanced, have an excess - return rate of more than 10% compared to the benchmark. Except for the SSE STAR Market 100 Index - Enhanced, which slightly underperformed the benchmark, the rest of the products achieved varying degrees of excess returns. Most of the index - enhanced products achieved an excess return of more than 5% compared to the benchmark this year [23][26]. 3.3 Continuously Iterative Investment Framework, a New Paradigm of Index - Enhanced Investment with High AI Content - **Investment Strategy Framework**: Tianhong's index - enhanced product series aims to obtain stable excess returns. It relies on a rich Alpha - factor system, a complete risk - control system, and diversified portfolio - construction strategies. The company has deep - rooted in the traditional fundamental multi - factor system and actively deployed AI technology in recent years, introducing machine - learning methods. It has developed and applied multiple algorithm models in real - time, using diverse feature factors constructed from mixed - frequency data [30]. - **Research - Investment Integrated Platform TIRD**: To address the problems in the traditional public - fund research - investment platform, Tianhong Fund is building the TIRD platform. This platform can ensure the accumulation and clarity of research, quantifiable assessment, iterative strategy accumulation, and interpretable performance evaluation. It transforms from a distributed platform to a collaborative one, achieving complete knowledge retention, timely sharing, smooth strategy generation, and clear team incentives [32]. 3.4 Team Members - Rich Quantitative Industry and Investment Experience - Fund manager Yang Chao has a master's degree in mathematics and financial computing from the University of Wales, Swansea. He has 15 years of securities industry experience and 10 years of index - enhanced and quantitative fund management experience. He has a mature index - enhanced investment strategy and has contributed stable excess returns. He has worked in multiple fund companies and is currently the general manager of the Index and Quantitative Investment Department at Tianhong Fund, managing multiple index - enhanced products [33].

Core Insights - Tianhong Fund has established a strong presence in the index-enhanced quantitative fund sector, launching its first product in August 2019 and expanding its offerings steadily, with a significant growth phase expected in 2025 [2][10] - As of the end of Q3 2025, Tianhong Fund's index-enhanced quantitative funds reached 19 products with a total management scale exceeding 12.084 billion yuan, positioning it among the few teams in the industry to surpass the "100 billion" mark [12][10] - The fund has developed a comprehensive product matrix that provides investors with a complete set of quantitative tools for precise asset allocation across different market environments [2][10] Group 1: Performance and Risk Management - Tianhong Fund's broad-based index-enhanced quantitative products have consistently outperformed their peers, achieving excess returns that surpass the average of similar funds over both short-term and long-term periods [3][16] - The quantitative team emphasizes risk management throughout the investment process, effectively controlling drawdowns and demonstrating strong risk-adjusted performance [18][22] - As of October 31, 2025, the maximum drawdowns for Tianhong's major products ranked in the top 15% of the industry, showcasing the team's ability to manage risk while pursuing excess returns [18][22] Group 2: Industry-Specific Strategies - Tianhong Fund's industry-specific index-enhanced quantitative products cover major sectors such as technology, consumer goods, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and new energy, with many products outperforming similar actively managed funds [4][23] - Over the past three years, products like Tianhong's High-end Equipment Manufacturing and Consumer 100 Index Enhanced funds have shown a significant advantage, outperforming their peers by over 25% [4][23] Group 3: Quantitative Research and Technology Integration - The fund has built a complete closed-loop system from signal mining to performance evaluation, integrating advanced AI technologies into its investment processes to enhance its quantitative research capabilities [5][31] - The quantitative team employs a variety of AI models and has developed a robust feature engineering framework, which supports the models with diverse and substantial input data [32][31] - The risk model has been customized to better fit the characteristics of the A-share market, allowing for more precise risk assessment and control [35][36] Group 4: Team Structure and Stability - The quantitative team at Tianhong Fund consists of 8 members, including 4 fund managers and 4 researchers, all with strong backgrounds in finance, statistics, and computer science [6][48] - The team has maintained a high level of stability, with an average tenure of over 6 years, ensuring continuity in investment philosophy and strategy development [48]