OREANDA-NEWS. April 25, 2011. With the "Chinese Fund Industry Golden Bull Award" unveiled on April 10, Bank of China Investment Management Co., Ltd.(BOCIM) was awarded the "2010 Top Golden Bull Fund Company", with its bond fund "BOC Profit Increase Fund" elected as the "2010 Golden Bull Bond Fund" and allocation fund "BOC China Select Balanced Fund" as the "2010 Golden Bull Three-year Balanced Fund", reported the press-centre of Bank of China.

The year 2010 witnessed a fast growth of the BOCIM asset management scale. According to the Wind data, as of December 31, 2010, the total volume of new funds issued by BOCIM reached up to RMB 15.807 billion, ranking the third in the industry. Of all the new funds, the IPO amount of these two balanced funds advanced into the top 10 stock-type funds while the IPO scale of BOCIM bond funds ranked the second in the industry. As of the end of December, 2010, compared with the average growth rate of assets managed at -5.91% in the whole fund industry, the rate of BOCIM was up to 34.94%.

In recent years, BOCIM presented a steady overall performance, with its subordinate funds ranking higher than other similar ones. According to statistics, by the end of 2010, its stock-type fund, the "BOC China Select Balanced Fund" had a yearly net value growth rate at 12.89%; and during past three years, this fund remained the annualized yield rate of 5.52%, ranking the third among 87 comparable aggressive allocation funds, with the total dividend up to RMB 0.54 per fund unit. As a bond fund set up in November 2008, the "BOC Profit Increase Fund", with an annual return rate of 9.04%, topped all peers in 2010.

As a fund management company co-invested by the world's two leading financial brands, Bank of China and BlackRock, BOCIM has been adhering to the conservative business philosophy as well as such values "client focus" and "excellence" since its founding. Always focusing on clients interests, it has been committed to providing investors with full range of investment products and professional investment management services based on the global experience, expertise and resources of its shareholders.