Entering 2022, market conditions will continue to fluctuate, and fund managers will change frequently.

The number of fund managers leaving office continued to increase. As the number of fund products exceeded 9,000, the fund manager group continued to expand.

  Increase in departures

  In terms of the type of change, the number of fund managers leaving the office continued to increase.

Wind data shows that as of February 14, a total of 35 fund managers have left since 2022, up from 30 in the same period in 2021 and 31 in the same period in 2020.

Specifically, 35 fund managers who resigned were distributed among 31 fund companies, of which 3 fund managers from ICBC Credit Suisse Fund and Bosera Fund left.

  On February 12, the Sino-European potential value flexible allocation hybrid securities investment fund announcement showed that the fund manager Yuan Weide left office; on February 10, China Universal Fund announced that due to work adjustment, China Universal Ji Jihong regularly opened the bond fund fund Manager Lu Wenlei resigned.

According to the announcement of Bosera Fund on February 9, Ge Chen, the fund manager, left the four funds of Bosera Healthy Growth Dual Cycle, Bosera Innovation Economy, Bosera Healthcare and Bosera Healthy Life due to “personal reasons”.

Also on February 9, Li Huasong, a 10-billion-level fund manager, no longer served as the fund manager of Ping An Ingenuity Choice and Ping An Low-Carbon Economy due to work needs. The changed fund managers are Zhang Miao and He Jie respectively.

  "Generally speaking, the end of the year and the beginning of the year are the seasons for frequent changes of fund managers, and this sign has become more apparent since 2020." Wang Hao (pseudonym), a public fundraiser in South China, told a reporter from China Securities Journal that since 2020, the market's The market situation on the track is relatively obvious, and most changes in fund managers are related to the differentiation of performance.

  Wang Hao analyzed that fund managers who bet on the new energy track in 2021 have outstanding performance. When an olive branch is thrown by external agencies, some fund managers will consider changing jobs, especially fund managers of small and medium-sized platforms.

At the same time, the performance of many fund managers who stick to the consumption and pharmaceutical tracks is not satisfactory, and there may be job changes in the context of fund company assessment.

  The group continues to expand

  In addition to leaving office, another aspect of the change of fund managers since 2022 is the expansion of the fund manager group.

  Wind data shows that, as of February 14, as of February 14, a total of 730 funds (separately counted for different shares) have ushered in new fund managers to take office, that is, fund managers "take office" changed to 730 trips.

On the whole, there are both new fund managers taking office for the first time, as well as the phenomenon of "additional recruitment" caused by the increase of management products of old fund managers.

For example, Ou Zichen, the newly hired fund manager of the 3-year closed hybrid fund under the theme of Vanjia Science and Technology Innovation, is a newcomer who has just entered the investment management position; Zhang Hong, who has taken over Bosera Healthy Life, is a fund manager with 2 years of management experience.

  A person in the public offering market in Shenzhen pointed out that in recent years, the market structure has become more obvious, the number and overall scale of public offering funds have continued to increase, and the number of fund managers has increased as a whole.

  According to the latest data from the Fund Industry Association, as of November 2021, there were 151 fund managers in the whole market, with a fund size of 25.32 trillion yuan; the number of funds reached 9,152.

Correspondingly, Wind data shows that as of February 14, 2022, the number of fund managers in the entire market reached 2,916.