Employees are seen at the reception desk of Ant Financial Services, Alibaba's financial affiliate, at its headquarters in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China January 24, 2018.
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The decision to include two more funds on its platform will allow Ant Financial, an affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba, to expand its consumer base at a time when its existing fund, managed by Tianhong Asset Management, is under heightened scrutiny by China’s regulators due to concerns of potential financial risk.
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Starting from May 4, the extra new funds, managed by Bosera Asset Management and Zhong Ou Asset Management, respectively, will be integrated into Yu’e Bao alongside the platform’s one existing Tianhong money market fund, Ant Financial said in an emailed statement late on Thursday.
The two new funds do not have any subscription caps, it said.
Yu’e Bao is an online spare cash management platform integrated with Ant Financial’s payment app Alipay, one of China’s largest digital payment platforms. It has more than 400 million users, according to Ant Financial.
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Launched in 2013, Tianhong-managed Yu’e Bao fund has become the world’s largest money market fund with 1.7 trillion yuan ($267.9 billion) in net asset as of end-March.
Tianhong has started to take measures to control the pace of growth of its Yu’e Bao fund since last year. Most recently it introduced a dynamically managed daily total subscription cap enacted on February 1, following adjustments made in 2017 to cap individual users’ daily subscriptions at 20,000 yuan and total subscriptions at 100,000 yuan.
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