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Hua An Fund Management Co., Ltd. was incorporated on June 4, 1998 under the Provisional Regulations on Securities Investment Fund of the PRC. It is one of the first fund management companies in Mainland China approved and licensed by the CSRC to pioneer in the fund management business. With a registered capital of RMB150 million, Hua An's main business covers fund sponsoring, fund management, and other business approved by the CSRC.
Headquartered in the Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone of Shanghai, Hua An has twelve departments including research, investment, accounting, compliance, auditing, administration, marketing, E-business, investor account registration, strategic planning, customer service, and information technology. In addition, a branch office was opened in Beijing. To date, the company has 110 employees, half of whom have Master of Ph.D. degrees, nine with overseas education background and one foreign employee. Hua An's fund managers and industry analysts are well-qualified and experienced professionals with an average industry experience of seven years.
Since its founding, Hua An has been committed to its corporate value of "business excellence through integrity, diligence, and informed decision-making." The company takes pride in being a good corporate citizen and in its full compliance with legal and governance requirements. By placing the client's interests first, Hua An achieved healthy and stable growth over the years both in terms of product offerings and total asset under management. Today, Hua An manages two open-ended funds, the Hua An Innovations and Hua An 180 Index. In addition, Hua An manages four closed-end funds, namely Anxin, Anshun, Anjiu, and Anrui, among which Anxin significantly outperforms the competition with the highest cumulative NAV and dividend distribution.
Hua An created many industry milestones in China's fund management business. In June 1999, Hua An was approved to be the first company to sponsor and manage securities investment funds, the first to qualify for the inter-bank business four months later. In February 2001, Hua An was selected by the Institutional Investor as its first mainland member. On September 21, 2001, Hua An was first approved by the CSRC to launch an open-ended fund, the Hua An Innovations. In September 2002, Hua An launched China's first open-ended Enhanced Index Investment Fund--Hua An 180 Index Fund. To date, Hua An leads the industry by having 12 billion RMB asset under management.
Hua An regards integrity and wisdom to be the cornerstones of business success. The company is committed to continuous internal process improvement and product innovations in delivering success, while at the same time searching for business models suitable in China's situation. To that end, the company takes a proactive stance in learning from best practices of global players through multiple channels of technical collaboration and exchange. The aim of Hua An is to become an international player through continuous learning and searching for excellence.
For more information, please visit Hua An Fund Management at http://www.huaan.com.cn/.
K. Wah Group was founded in Hong Kong by Dr. Lui Che Woo in 1955. The Group has developed into a diversified multinational enterprise with businesses all over Hong Kong, Mainland China, Asia Pacific region and North America. Currently, the Group has nearly 10,000 employees and its three core businesses are construction materials, properties and hotels. In 2002, Dr. Lui ventured into the gaming industry and is one of the three gaming license holders in Macau.
For more information, please visit K. Wah Group's website at http://www.kwah.com.
SINA.COM (NASDAQ: SINA) is the number one Chinese website in the United States and China. With a branded network of 15 localized web sites targeting Greater China and overseas Chinese, SINA operates three major business lines including SINA.com (online media and entertainment service), SINA Online (consumer fee-based online and wireless VAS) and SINA.net (Small and medium-sized enterprises VAS), providing an array of services including online portals, premium email, wireless short messaging, virtual ISP, search, classified information, online games, e-commerce, e-learning and enterprise e-solutions.
For more information please visit sina.com's website at http://us.sina.com.
What started as an all-American tradition, the distinctive taste and natural goodness of the cranberry now has worldwide appeal. Through Ocean Spray’s International division, a variety of our fruit juices, juice drinks and food products are available in nearly 50 countries around the world. Today, our International division is a $250 million business and the single fastest growing segment of the cooperative. Since 2002, Ocean Spray juice drinks have been packaged and marketed in China using registered brand name "°ÂÏʱ¶".
Ocean Spray is the leading brand of canned and bottled shelf stable juice drinks in North America with fiscal 2002 net sales of $1.068 billion. Formed in 1930, the cooperative is owned by cranberry growers from Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and other parts of Canada, as well as Florida grapefruit growers.
For more information please visit Ocean Spray's website at http://www.oceanspray.com/.