A donation message made Magic Square, a leading quantitative private equity company, popular at the end of the year and the beginning of the year.
On the evening of January 9, Magic Square Quantitative announced that in 2022, Magic Square Quantitative will donate a total of 221.38 million yuan to charities.
In addition, the company employee "An Ordinary Pig" personally donated 138 million yuan to charity organizations.
The above-mentioned total of 359.38 million yuan has been transferred, and will support 23 public welfare projects of 15 charitable organizations.
"In the past few years, Magic Square Quantification and its employees have donated a considerable part of their income to charity every year to give back to the society, with a cumulative donation of more than 580 million yuan." Magic Square Quantification said in the announcement.
"All are voluntary donations." A magic square quantified insider told reporters.
What is the level of donations of 359.38 million yuan?
Flush iFinD data shows that in the first half of 2022, among the 4,901 A-share listed companies, 2,892 companies made external donations, with a total donation of 5.476 billion yuan. From the perspective of listed companies, the donation amount of Yangtze Power in the first half of 2022 was 271 million yuan. Yuan topped the list, followed by Baofeng Energy with 250 million yuan, and Yili Stock ranked third with a donation of 217 million yuan.
After the above news was released, many netizens were very curious about the true identity of "an ordinary little pig".
An industry insider speculated that "it may be the boss or the shareholder" who can donate so much money at one time.
Magic Square did not respond to this.
We must know that in the first half of 2022, the non-bank financial industry has donated a total of 165 million yuan, and the amount of personal donations of Magic Square's quantified employees "an ordinary little pig" is only 27 million yuan.
In fact, in addition to Magic Square Quantification, there are many quantitative institutions that also invest heavily in charity.
For example, Mingshi Fund has funded the upgrading of computer equipment for 300 teachers and students in Jujia Town Central Primary School, Changwu County, Shaanxi Province, supported the skills education of more than 60 disabled children in Shanghai Guangci Welfare Institute for Disabled Children, and the Mathematical Finance Laboratory of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. construction and nurturing of talents in mathematics and science.
However, many people in the industry are still surprised by the amount of donations quantified by Magic Square. "Where does the money come from" has become the focus of everyone's attention.
According to insiders of Magic Square Quantification mentioned above, the current quantitative scale of Magic Square is about 60 billion yuan. According to calculations by people in the industry, if the annual management fee is between 1% and 2%, the annual income will be between 600 million and 1.2 billion yuan. small income".
According to data from the private equity ranking network, Magic Square Quantitative’s income in the past year has been 12.26%, and the annualized income so far has been 18.05%.
It has a total of 502 funds.
In recent years, some subjective long-term private equity companies have also actively participated in public welfare undertakings.
In the Orient Harbor 2022 Online Investment Strategy Report Meeting on January 18, 2022, company officials stated that as of the current point of time, Orient Harbor has donated more than RMB 130 million to charities and various places.