CITIC Securities Earnings Conference Transcript: Proprietary Trading Strategy Revealed, Further Expansion of High-Net-Worth Clients, New Investment Banking Initiatives

CITIC Securities Earnings Conference Transcript: Proprietary Trading Strategy Revealed, Further Expansion of High-Net-Worth Clients, New Investment Banking Initiatives

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Recently, the securities giant CSC Financial (CITIC Securities) held its Q3 performance briefing, responding to questions of concern from various investors.

The company’s core executives all attended, addressing key issues such as sources of proprietary investment income, the effectiveness of wealth management transformation, and responses to the “headwinds” in investment banking business.

Zishitang has summarized the main points of this performance meeting for readers.

Proprietary Trading Operation Details

In the first three quarters, CSC Financial achieved proprietary business income (investment gains + gains from changes in fair value - investment gains from associates) of 6.851 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 28.81%.

This was mainly due to the better performance of the A-share and Hong Kong secondary markets compared with the same period last year, with the company actively seizing market opportunities, continuously optimizing investment portfolio strategies, reasonably allocating asset structures, and achieving steady growth in proprietary business income.

Wealth Management Transformation: Number of High Net Worth Clients Hits Five-Year High

The company’s wealth management transformation has shown remarkable results, with brokerage business net fee income reaching 5.757 billion yuan in the first three quarters, a year-on-year increase of 53.8%.

As of now, the company serves more than 16 million individual clients, with the number of high net worth clients hitting a five-year high.

The company’s core competitiveness is focused on building a “headquarters-branch linkage and online-offline integrated” customer acquisition system, adhering to a customer-centric approach with a tiered client management system, and continuing to innovate organizational mechanisms.

In the future, the company will continue to improve asset allocation and buy-side services, accelerate digital transformation, and achieve high-quality development.

Investment Banking Business Strategy

With the release of the new “National Nine Rules” and a series of capital market policy documents, strong regulation, risk prevention, and the promotion of high-quality development are being advanced in an orderly manner. We have studied the policies carefully and strictly carried them out. Since the launch of the STAR Market "1+6" policy, the capital market has entered a new stage of high-quality development.

Relying on our accumulation in client resources, market reputation, and talent pool, we believe the company’s investment banking business will achieve new and better developments in the new stage. We always adhere to being customer-centric, continuously deepening our industry + region + product matrix deployment, seizing opportunities in A-shares, Hong Kong stocks, M&A restructuring, REITs, and STAR Market bonds, fully enhancing integrated client service capabilities, strengthening cross-line collaboration within the company, and promoting high-quality development of our investment banking business.

Client-Facing Derivatives Business

The competitive advantages of our derivatives business lie in comprehensive service capabilities and cross-border integrated management, which include product line diversity, research and trading abilities, system automation level, client service capability, and domestic-international integrated management and coordination.

The essence of client-facing derivatives business is to provide clients with a rich set of risk management and asset allocation tools by entering into off-market derivatives contracts, such as options and swaps, with clients.

The company supplements capital systematically, such as by maintaining high profitability, issuing subordinated and perpetual subordinated bonds to supplement tier 2 capital, and exploring possibilities for further equity capital supplementation based on actual conditions and market environments.

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