The Chinese ETF feast is in full swing, and institutional investors are scrambling to “attend.” According to reports, US quantitative trading giant Susquehanna International Group is planning to expand its office space in Hong Kong to better enter the Chinese ETF market. Meanwhile, since this year, long-term allocation of insurance funds, bank financial management, and flexible institutional funds represented by brokerage firms, second-tier private placement, and trusts have appeared intensively in the ETF market. According to statistics from the Private Equity Ranking Network, in the first half of the year, nearly 100 private equity products appeared on the list of the top ten ETF holders established during the same period. According to an analysis report published by E-Fangda Fund in June, the size of insured equity ETFs was nearly 370 billion yuan; from the end of the first quarter of 2022 to the end of the first quarter of 2026, the share of passive equity funds allocated by banks more than doubled. According to industry insiders, behind institutional competition for ETFs is a shift in ETF roles from institutional bottom position allocation to expression of opinions. This is a “two-way race” between capital requirements and market supply.

The Chinese ETF feast is in full swing, and institutional investors are scrambling to “attend.” According to reports, US quantitative trading giant Susquehanna International Group is planning to expand its office space in Hong Kong to better enter the Chinese ETF market. Meanwhile, since this year, long-term allocation of insurance funds, bank financial management, and flexible institutional funds represented by brokerage firms, second-tier private placement, and trusts have appeared intensively in the ETF market. According to statistics from the Private Equity Ranking Network, in the first half of the year, nearly 100 private equity products appeared on the list of the top ten ETF holders established during the same period. According to an analysis report published by E-Fangda Fund in June, the size of insured equity ETFs was nearly 370 billion yuan; from the end of the first quarter of 2022 to the end of the first quarter of 2026, the share of passive equity funds allocated by banks more than doubled. According to industry insiders, behind institutional competition for ETFs is a shift in ETF roles from institutional bottom position allocation to expression of opinions. This is a “two-way race” between capital requirements and market supply.